Can you imagine starting a website and doing 60k a month in business in your first month selling books no less, of course with all that convertible traffic it's easy to grow your business and become an empire, nowadays you're lucky to get one sale in your first year and then watch your keywords and traffic fall off as your busting your a** trying to make your site amazing so that Etsy and Amazon can steal all of your keywords with products they dont even have, bravo for the downfall of the startup, long live free enterprise..
How Did Amazon Get So Much Traffic When It First Started
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That is the power of this forum for which some people worked together for years.
Alexion
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You're making it sound like that's all he did, put a bunch of books up for sale on his website, and boom, billionaire.
99% of success you see comes from hard work, nobody seems to mention the 120 working hours weeks people like him pulled off.
Amazon didn't become rich because of selling books. It became big because of commodity offered. That's what they sell, commodity. It's the exact analogy of Tesla not being a car selling company, but a data analytic company.
what is hard work, in the context of selling books, tangibly, what I see, is they sold books during a time when others were not, and they had equity investors at major tech companies that made money if they succeeded, the Internet was also not a caste system as it is now, only for the ultra-rich to succeed, lets say I work 120 hour weeks so why don't my or anyone else's e-commerce sites start off the bat making 60k a month with no links no authority, no updates, no throttles or anything else, selling books no less, quantify it, 120 hour weeks doing what...."working"...give me a break...
GNews
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Use the News ....................
That's my method.
If you know the right group son sites like Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr
And how to tap into those groups with great news, you can easily become a success in your first month
When I launched my smart watch company some years ago, some major Internet Entrepreneurs didn't believe I could rank my web domain for the targeted keyword (something I trademarked as soon as it got popular), within 2 weeks. I made the case study and proof public.
So, once I ranked it, everyone was shocked. I proved the masses wrong.
REAL NEWS happens at any moment and if it's a great story, it can go viral and have 1000 sites link back to you b/c of it . Tons of traffic and views.
Just have to know how to work news about yourself into your target audience.
And yes, this takes years to learn and master, but easily possible.
You can also buy ads I guess and Scale up.
That's my method.
If you know the right group son sites like Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr
And how to tap into those groups with great news, you can easily become a success in your first month
When I launched my smart watch company some years ago, some major Internet Entrepreneurs didn't believe I could rank my web domain for the targeted keyword (something I trademarked as soon as it got popular), within 2 weeks. I made the case study and proof public.
So, once I ranked it, everyone was shocked. I proved the masses wrong.
REAL NEWS happens at any moment and if it's a great story, it can go viral and have 1000 sites link back to you b/c of it . Tons of traffic and views.
Just have to know how to work news about yourself into your target audience.
And yes, this takes years to learn and master, but easily possible.
You can also buy ads I guess and Scale up.
Soucha
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What does any of this have to do with "How Did Amazon Get So Much Traffic When It First Started" ?
Are you saying Jeff Bezos used Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumbler before they came out, or are you just trying to promote yourself, services, and banner link?
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Back then the internet was basically the wild west and there was nothing like them before
It was a lot easier to get known if you knew what you were doing, I am sure every single news outlet back then wrote about "the place to buy books on the internet"
Also be aware that the biggest earner for Amazon is not their marketplace, but their servers
I am not sure if they had these servers back in the day, but if they did, it would be something like if Godaddy sold videogames in the 90s
It was a lot easier to get known if you knew what you were doing, I am sure every single news outlet back then wrote about "the place to buy books on the internet"
Also be aware that the biggest earner for Amazon is not their marketplace, but their servers
I am not sure if they had these servers back in the day, but if they did, it would be something like if Godaddy sold videogames in the 90s
GNews
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I misunderstood the question perhaps
I thought you were saying imagine, in today's world, how could one do that.
Back in his time.. was easy as ever to take keywords over. What do you even mean?
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I started my online publishing career after I got laid off from a funded .com company.
When you were in that world prior to the .com bust, you become aware of how big brands during that time became big.
And I know for sure that Amazon got a lot of traffic when they first started because of their press exposure.
You have to understand that back then, anything that had to do with the internet was made for hot media coverage.
Amazon hired a publicist that basically kept them top of mind as far as the mass media was concerned.
The more they got mentioned on the news, both online and traditional media, the more traffic they got because people kept getting branded "Amazon, Amazon, Amazon."
So it came to the point that people just automatically think of Amazon when they want to buy
something and they just put .com at the end.
This, of course, is not the case when it comes to a small anonymous blog that just launched or blogs focused on certain niches.
A lot of Amazon's initial appeal also revolve around the fact that they are an online bookstore.
This has a wider appeal than other types of sites.
When you were in that world prior to the .com bust, you become aware of how big brands during that time became big.
And I know for sure that Amazon got a lot of traffic when they first started because of their press exposure.
You have to understand that back then, anything that had to do with the internet was made for hot media coverage.
Amazon hired a publicist that basically kept them top of mind as far as the mass media was concerned.
The more they got mentioned on the news, both online and traditional media, the more traffic they got because people kept getting branded "Amazon, Amazon, Amazon."
So it came to the point that people just automatically think of Amazon when they want to buy
something and they just put .com at the end.
This, of course, is not the case when it comes to a small anonymous blog that just launched or blogs focused on certain niches.
A lot of Amazon's initial appeal also revolve around the fact that they are an online bookstore.
This has a wider appeal than other types of sites.
Time Saver
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Amazon is so competetive with its consumers a broader product assortment, greater convenience, highly competitive pricing. So, it has positioned itself as a market leader for retail products for the last 15 years.
Ashk881
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Amazon was the first company who did that. There was literally no one else who was selling book online with the inventory Amazon planned of.
Also they spent several months on marketing it prior to launch. Word of mouth spread it quick and it was an innovative model.
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Amazon Sponsered Ads, Social media marketing, having influencers market your product, or create your own website!
Real Human?
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When Amazon published there wasn't as much competition as today, it was revolutionary to sell things on the internet back then. The idea itself is what made Amazon what it is today.
Create your own website? you know what a graveyard that has become