My Amazon.com aStore

I've been an Amazon.com Associate for just about as long as they've had the program going. I thought the whole concept was brilliant the first time I heard about it. Not because I thought I could make a big pile of money from it (a good thing I didn't, or my dreams would've been cruelly shattered), but because I liked the idea that I could get a small reward if I helped make a sale.

As it turned out, being an Associate wasn't easy. At least not if you wanted to be a successful Associate. And over the years, it seems like it got harder, not easier. I don't mean that it got harder making sales, I mean that the whole process of being an Associate got more complicated.

But it seems like Amazon has decided to try to make things easier by letting Associates build aStores. aStore lets Associates build an Amazon-powered storefront like the FreeCashSpace Bookstore as quickly as they can add products.

Dave Taylor has written some great step-by-step instructions for building your aStore, and it really is as easy as he describes. Within 10 to 15 minutes, you can have your aStore up and running, and you can add more products at any time. I've started with a few of my favourite books, and I'll be adding plenty more over the next few days.