How to Start an Amazon Deals Account From Scratch

If you want to start an Amazon deals account, here is the good news that nobody quite tells beginners: you do not need a following, a niche reputation, or a fancy camera. You need a way to find genuinely good discounts and a habit of posting them where people are looking to save money. That is the whole engine. A deals account can earn from the very first week because the value you offer (real savings) is something people actively want, today, with their wallets out.

The catch is in the setup. Plenty of new deals accounts stall in month one, not because the idea is bad but because the foundation is wobbly. So let's walk through how to start an Amazon deals account the right way, step by step, so the thing actually earns instead of just existing.

What a deals account really is

A deals account is simple at its core. You find products on Amazon that are discounted (sometimes lightly, sometimes dramatically), you wrap your affiliate link around them, and you share them with an audience that came to you specifically to hear about good prices. When someone buys through your link, you earn a commission. Post a few solid deals a day, build an audience that trusts your finds, and the commissions add up.

What makes deals different from a normal influencer storefront is the relationship. Your followers are not there for your personality or your aesthetic. They are there because you save them money. That is a clean, honest deal: you do the hunting, they get the prices, you get a small cut. Keep that promise and the account grows. Break it by posting fake or stale discounts and it dies fast.

Step 1: Lock in your affiliate links

Before you post a single deal, get the boring infrastructure sorted, because this is where commissions actually live.

You need to be enrolled in the Amazon Associates or Amazon Influencer Program so that every product link carries your tracking tag. A deal post without your affiliate link is just free advertising for Amazon. Double-check that:

• Your tracking ID is active and attached to every link you create.
• You are using the correct regional tag if your audience spans countries.
• Your links actually resolve to the live product page (broken links are pure lost income).

This sounds obvious, but the single most common beginner mistake is posting deals with un-tagged or mis-tagged links for the first two weeks and earning nothing on traffic that would have converted. Sort it first.

Step 2: Pick where you will post

Your deals only earn where your audience hangs out, so decide your home base before you start hunting. Most new deal accounts pick one or two of these:

• A Telegram or Facebook group built around savings, which rewards volume and speed.
• An Instagram account where you post deal cards to stories and a feed grid.
• A simple broadcast channel people opt into specifically for your finds.

You do not need all of them on day one. Pick the one platform where you can realistically post a few times a day without it feeling like a second job, build an audience there, and expand later. A focused account on one channel beats a thin presence spread across five. For a fuller tour of channels and how each one pays, our guide on deal-posting as a business breaks it down.

Step 3: Find deals worth posting

Here is where the actual work lives, and where most beginners burn out. To post three to five strong deals a day, you have to find three to five strong deals a day, every day. That means scrolling Amazon's deal pages, checking price history so you are not posting a fake markdown, and verifying that the discount is real against the product's true baseline.

The deals that perform best tend to be:

• Steep and real. A 15% trim on a phone case gets ignored. A genuine 50% off a product people already want gets shared.
• Broadly appealing. Kitchen, home, beauty, and tech basics move because almost everyone needs them.
• In stock and stable. A deal that sells out in ten minutes frustrates more people than it delights.

The honest truth about deal accounts: the posting is easy, the finding is the grind. Whoever finds the best discounts fastest, and verifies they are real, wins.

The rarest and most valuable finds are pricing errors and near-99% discounts, the ones that genuinely go viral. Those are also the hardest to catch by hand because they appear and vanish in minutes. Our guide on how to catch Amazon price drops and glitches digs into exactly how those moments work and why being first is everything.

Step 4: Build a repeatable posting format

Once you have a deal, you need to present it so people act. A scattered, inconsistent feed reads as untrustworthy. A clean, predictable format reads as a reliable source. Settle on a simple template early:

1. The product, in plain words (what it is and who it is for).
2. The old price and the new price, side by side, so the savings are obvious.
3. A short reason it is worth it (one honest line).
4. Your affiliate link.
5. A light nudge of urgency if the deal is genuinely time-limited.

Reuse this every time. Consistency is what turns a random feed into a destination people check daily.

Step 5: Make the daily grind sustainable

This is the part that decides whether your account survives past month two. Finding, verifying, formatting, and posting several deals a day, every single day, is genuinely a lot of repetitive work. Most beginners start strong, fade by week three, and quietly let the account go dark.

That is exactly the problem Influencer Butler was built to take off your plate. It is an all-in-one command center built by Amazon influencers for Amazon influencers, and its Pricecrash Butler scans Amazon on a schedule for steep discounts and pricing errors, then hands the catches to Deals Influencer Butler so you can draft and schedule your daily deal posts instead of starting from a blank page every morning. You still pick what to post and how to phrase it. The software just spares you the hours of manual scrolling and verification that wear new deal posters out.

The point is not to remove you from the loop. It is to make sure a slow morning or a busy week does not mean an empty feed and a stalled account.

Your first-week checklist

To recap the start, here is the sequence to run in your first week:

• Enroll in Amazon Associates or the Influencer Program and confirm your tracking tag works.
• Pick one channel and set up your account there.
• Find and post three to five verified, genuinely good deals a day.
• Lock in a clean, repeatable post format.
• Build a system (manual or automated) so the daily finding does not crush you.

Do that consistently and a brand-new deals account can start earning within its first couple of weeks. The model is forgiving to beginners precisely because the value (real savings) is so easy for people to say yes to.

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