Amazon is making and saving me money
July 6, 2011 How do/did, WAH job reviews
No updates since February 14. Get your butt in gear, me!
I have been making a few bucks through Amazon, through the affiliate program, selling books I wrote, and the “Mechanical Turk” thing. The affiliate program is pretty good, and has a high turn over rate if you manage to make relevant referrals around the net. I managed to make $70 one week when there was a Kindle sale and I told interested people.
My books are selling well, and I really need to get some more written (I have hundreds of books in my head, and just need to get them out). Whenever a website asks, I’m listing my occupation as “writer” now. With the blogging, freelance article writing, and the ebook writing I do, I think that’s what I can call myself.
The Mechanical Turk thing, however, sucks. Even if you do the work exactly as they say they want it, the person offering the work chooses to pay you or not. So you could do an hour of work expecting to be paid $12, which is pretty good for an hour of work, but only get $2, which is pretty crappy. You could even get $0. And you have no way to know if they actually use the work you did despite not paying. Also, the majority of jobs on there pay only pennies and aren’t worth the time it takes to read the job description. I think Amazon’s Mechanical Turk was a good idea with horrible execution.
Amazon has also been helping me save money. They already have great prices on many things that I buy regularly, and their new Subscribe and Save option allows me to save even more. So I’m getting things like toiletpaper, coffee, etc. etc. with great savings, and without having to worry about going to the store or even remembering to order online!
Also, Amazon prime is saving me tons of money on shipping with the things that aren’t Subscribe And Save. And it’s giving me tons of free streaming tv shows and movies, which is great since a few months ago we dropped cable and got a Roku. We now have a lot more to watch at a fraction of the price.
There’s also the App Store for Android, which offers a different paid app for free every day, and the Cloud Drive, which offers 5GB of space for free, and allows you to store any MP3s bought from Amazon without counting toward that 5GB (the Cloud Drive saves me money because it means that I no longer have to buy SD cards for my phone!).
Yeah, I’m in love with Amazon now.
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