Amazon

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Amazon is one of the first .com businesses, and one of the most successful. They survived the .com crash and have become a global brand to send shivers down the spines of any high street retailer, and with Amazon’s move into new areas such as groceries, furniture and basically anything you can legally buy in this world of ours; all high street retailers should be scared.
The great thing about Amazon though is that you can earn commission on anything anyone buys from your website. If you own a website about book reviews you can add direct purchase links to products on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk (they’re different schemes, so you need to sign up twice) and you’ll earn money as soon as anyone clicks through to buy the product.
Amazon used to pay out at the end of every Quarter, but had just moved to monthly pay-outs. You need to reach the minimum payout amount before any cheque is issued however. Amazon.co.uk do direct deposit into your account, but UK residents have to receive cheques from Amazon.com – which is annoying if you’ve ever had to pay a foreign cheque into your bank.