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Thank you for this encouraging info. You’re an angel. More on reddit.com

One major question I have is, how much of a 'following' do I need to show in order to be accepted? It used to be you had to generate 3 sales from affiliate links within 90 days or something like that. Maybe it's still like that. Should I go ahead and make a new account, and start purchasing everything via that account? Yes, create a business email address. Something not associated by your personal Amazon account & sign up for Amazon's affiliate program. Or can this wait until I actually have a following? Yes, wait until you have traffic to your site. If not sales within their specific time window, then you get rejected. Do I even need to purchase items from the account that will be the affiliate? No, fake sales = perma ban. Buying stuff from your own affiliate links = perma ban. More on reddit.com

I do about $200-300 a month from Amazon affiliates. But one day I decided to start taking the items that were high converting and sell them direct to my audience. I'm looking at about $80,000 this month in revenues for those affiliates with a 40-50% average margin. Far more difficult to do that, but I'm not fighting for 3% anymore. More on reddit.com