FYI: You cannot shop from your own Amazon links, neither can your friends of family. Somehow Amazon knows who they are (weird, but anyway)
To get yourself off the ground and get some sales before your account expires, share your links in this special facebook group. This is a public group, in alignment with the Amazon Affiliate policies.
Post your amazon affiliate links here in this facebook group, share it with friends.
How this is going to work: We're going to share in this Facebook group. If anyone knows they need something from Amazon, for example, some Sharpies, make a post in the group and say something like: "I need to buy some Sharpies, share your links please"
Then wait for other members to share their links.
Choose one of the links to use for your purchase.
What happens here is, you get your Sharpies, and someone else gets paid a small commission just because you used their link.
Now this works on Give and Take.
You can also share your beautiful Pinterest pins as a post to the group with all your affiliate links in the comment section.
The more eyes on the offer, the better the chance of a commission coming your way.