Amazon Christmas orders

[davesplace1]

I'm starting to see a sharp upturn in Amazon.com orders, must be Christmas time :). How is everybodys Christmas shaping up? It's still early but so far so good for my sites with Amazon ads.

[Chris]

I'll tell you after I'm done shipping the 50 or so orders that need to go out today ;)

[James]

Wow glad to see you guys are doing well (Though with Chris, it's predictable ;)) :D

I currently am in need of some traffic to my solitary AWS site, Buy Video Games (http://buy-video-games.net). But I'm sure if I just post enough with it in my signature at a few gaming forums which I'll start frequenting again, I should be able to turn up a few orders. And if I make enough money for a domain name, I may start up another AWS site, or two, or three, or a beastly large amount like you have, Chris.

[Emancipator]

you can definitely tell its christmas. My conversion rate was reading 1025% for a few days as people popped in to buy 10 or 20 things through one click through.

[chromate]

I'll tell you after I'm done shipping the 50 or so orders that need to go out today ;)

Wow. From what you can tell, is it looking better than last year? Sounds like it's gonna be amazing.

[Chris]

I don't know. Last year I did 120k in sales in december. Right now I'm looking to hit more like $90k in sales. But I don't think it has peaked quite yet, so you never know.

[Emancipator]

lol.. crikeys that is insane. I would love to even come close to touching that number. But im just using amazon associates, so i will live and dream.

[James]

I wish I could come close to getting a check, at this rate.. ;)

[moonshield]

120k... gross right? What does that net? Just curious.

[s2kinteg916]

it nets millions.....

[Chris]

I'm not sure what the net is exactly, but its probably around 25%

I had a pretty good day today, 7.3k in sales. So I might beat last year after all.

[Emancipator]

My current goal is to get up to the next tier before the boxing day sales slow things down and I go back down to regular sales with amazon.

[SWD]

chris, how much you get out of 120K in sales? from amazon?

[incka]

I'm pretty sure if earlier on in the year if you had have spent your time developing other content sites rather than AWS you would have made more, and so would I for that matter. AWS may have made me some money but content sites have made me far more. I'm going to continue to do affiliate shopping sites, but on a system like Chris has developed where he can make a new site in about fifteen minutes.

[Emancipator]

who was your comment for incka?

[Chris]

chris, how much you get out of 120K in sales? from amazon?
Thats my sword site I was talking about.

Affiliate sites.... there was one month where I had over 1 million in sales (last September, back to school). I haven't been back to that level since though.

[Nintendo]

Any one get good numbers yesterday with Amazon crashed half the day??!!!

[Emancipator]

yeah nintendo i had great numbers yesterday. Best day ive had since i started.

[James]

Several times throughout the day, Nintendo. It was up on-and-off.

[ASP-Hosting.ca]

I had a pretty good day today, 7.3k in sales. So I might beat last year after all.

Does the sword site take a lot of your time? 7K in sales sounds like some serious shipping work...

[Chris]

This time of year it does. With my wife helping ship it goes a little faster but still, We must have been shipping for 4 hours yesterday, probably sent out 80 boxes.

[Emancipator]

7.3k in sales for swords is one big lot of sales.

[Kyle]

November was the biggest month I've ever had since starting as a commercial webmaster in 1999.

Sold over $100,000 in Zappos merchandise alone.

[moonshield]

very nice Icebane. Survive Outdoors?

[Kyle]

very nice Icebane. Survive Outdoors?

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[paulfitz]

I'm continuing to try developing content cross AWS sites. Not paying off yet, but they are increasing.
Created www.roleplayinggamer.com yesterday, but it took me longer than 15 minutes! More like 5 hours all up.

[Kyle]

RolePlayingGamer looks real nice.

World of Warcraft is awesome, I've been playing it quite a bit lately... :)

[Emancipator]

good to hear things are coming along paul. I am still focusing on my main site and trying to get my 2nd one wrapped up. :)

[paulfitz]

Thanks Emancipator, I'm keen to see your new site btw :)

Yes I've been playing FAR too much world of warcraft! The game is super addictive and great fun - cruising around a virtual world with buddies.

My amazon sales are pitiful compared to most around here - I am yet to crack the $100 mark for this quarter. However I am sure I have used decent SEO and am seeing a steady increase in traffic :) I might create 15 AWS sites in total and then move on to other types of sites. Hopefully those 15 will be sustaining themselves in 3 months and profitable in 6.

NINTENDO - I hope your server is ok, a few of your sites are gone?

[James]

Ah yes, I remember Chris (I believe it was Chris, anyways) talking about carrying all of the swords up the stairs--lots of fun.


My amazon sales are pitiful compared to most around here
I've gotten 13 cents after a few years. Of course I hardly use Amazon, and I should have launched my site earlier, but whatever.

[Nintendo]

NINTENDO - I hope your server is ok, a few of your sites are gone?

Due to about three weeks of hacking (http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=214833), I did a server restore.

[Chris Choi]

Well being an amazon consumer, I had to wait like 2 extra
weeks to get something shipped to me since it was nearing
Christmas time. :(

[Nintendo]

It depends on what you buy. If it has overnight or two day shipping, use it! I ordered two items Wednesday night. They shipped yesterday (Thursday), and I got the overnight item today (Friday), and the two day item should show up Monday.