hello James Greaney here from internet bizuni.com and in this video I'm going to
be showing you all about review groups this is a question that I've got asked
numerous times over the last few weeks so I just want to go into detail and
show you actually inside a review group and explain what goes on inside review
groups what they're there for what they're good for why you should join
them why you shouldn't join them basically everything that you need to
know about Amazon review groups so on that note there's no point wasting any
more time talking to you about it here I'm just gonna jump in and show you
exactly what I'm on about on my computer now okay so there are a few different
types of Amazon review groups out there some are just simple websites that you
can sign up to and give your products away for a highly discounted price or
even free and get a ton of reviews back and you pay two you services like this
this is known as like viral launch and is armed blast and there is a load of
other services just like that but then there are free review groups that you
can simply join on Facebook now now just typed in Amazon review group into the
search bar up here around Facebook so I'm logged in to my Facebook and I've
just typed it in and you can see here under groups the different groups that
you can join so if you don't see it you can just go over and click on groups and
you will see a list of all the Amazon review groups there are so what I have
done I have requested to join these top three and one of them has responded and
accepted my request again it can take up to a few days to get accepted for these
types of groups but I just wanted to show you what's inside them so this one
group that I've been accepted for already I'm just gonna click in and show
you what's on the inside oh basically these are just free groups
that anyone can join whether you're an Amazon seller looking to get reviews on
your product or if you're just a regular customer looking to get some highly
discounted products or even free products then you can join review groups
like this on Facebook and I'm just gonna scroll down so we see a couple of the
posts here just so you can see what people post but as you can see up first
is just a group rules and then people start posting about their products
obviously pictures like this is going to a lot of attention onto your product and
as you can see this seller has just wrote us PayPal refund only so what that
refers to is you will purchase the product from them on Amazon they will
give you a refund for the product via PayPal then you will be expected to
leave a review on this product this is strictly against Amazon's Terms of
Service as it's clearly incentivizing and review for the product because the
seller is saying that he is gonna pay you he or she is going to pay you via
PayPal a refund when you purchase the product so again
strictly against Amazon's Terms of Service just kind of scroll down and see
if I see other ones you can see all different types of products here again
this is PayPal they will refund just a plastic cup holder or something like
that this again is some gym equipment they
showed the different Amazon America places that they're for so this is de
for Germany Spain France Italy these are the different products that they are
running promotions on so what you can use these review groups for is to simply
advertise your products but again anyone who purchased through these groups are
expecting your product at a deep deep discount like 90% off or for free that
is why these review groups simply don't help you're going to have to either
refund someone who purchases your product or give it to them at 90 percent
off and again this isn't ideal because the members of this review group are
likely to be either blacklisted or going to be blacklisted in the future on
Amazon because they're going to be purchasing a lot of products like this
and again you can scroll down and it will be a lot of the same people
interested in a lot of these different products and if the same reviewers are
leaving a lot of low-quality reviews on Amazon then they're going to be
blacklisted by Amazon and when they leave a review on your product Amazon
are gonna come along and delete the review or the review might stay for a
while but in time after then review a few more products and leave low quality
reviews are all ninety percent off coupon codes for
the reviews that they leave then Amazon again are going to come along and delete
their review in the future so won't stay for a long time and that is the big
issue with using these review groups to get reviews on your products what some
resellers do to make money which is actually pretty smart is they join these
groups and they get these products for free or for 90% off and flip these
products back on eBay for a profit and if you go over to eBay and you look for
a lot of these products that are advertised in these groups especially
the ones of higher value nuff tough times you will find products worth 40 50
60 dollars in these review groups giving them away offering a refund like we've
seen earlier on PayPal or simply giving them away with a ninety percent off
coupon code and resellers are simply coming along getting these products
getting the refund and then flipping them on eBay for a profit so if you are
a buyer then I see what these groups offer to you I see the value in these
groups for you but if you are a seller they have very limited value for you and
you're much better off building your own list growing your own customer list
building your audience around your brand around the type of products you sell and
giving away your products to these customers and not simply giving them
away having sale for your product so having
like a 50% off sale if you don't have a big list whereas if you have a big list
you can simply have like a 10% off sale and give your customers this value your
customers will like you for giving them this value they will be happy to be on
your list if you are given them will say 10% or 20% or 30% or as much as 50% off
sales and you can run these sales on Amazon by simply reducing your products
price so that everyone on Amazon can benefit and not simply just posting it
in these review groups because if you are using these review groups like we've
seen some of the reviews earlier offering a refund when a customer
purchases your product then you're more than likely going to get in trouble
somewhere down the road by Amazon because it's clearly incentivizing
reviews for your product and this is strictly against Amazon Stern's a
service so just be careful how you're running your giveaways and that's the
whole point here so I'm just gonna jump over to Amazon now and I'm gonna show
you exactly how you can run your sale for your products so that you're not
giving away tons of discount codes or anything like that so no I'm just over
on Amazon and I've just typed in a foam roller into the Amazon search bar it's a
fairly common product that is private labeled but I'm just gonna scroll down
here and have a look for one that's doing it and as we can see this one you
can see here on the product listing the product is at $19.99 and that price is
stroked-out and it's on sale for $13.99 so you can go ahead and run your
promotion just like this one you can have your product set at one price like
$19.99 and just have a discounted for $13.99 $13.99 it's still a low price for
this product so now that their product is shown on front amazon's customers at
this price they're going to be making a lot more sales than they would when it
was at $19.99 or again they could even list it at $9.99 for for the sale and
let their lists know let their customers know that the product is on sale on
Amazon at this price and give them a link to purchase the product at this
price and this is way better than going to review groups because again when
someone purchases your product at this $13.99 and then you follow up which
you'll be well able to do when you have the customer on your list or you've
contacted the customer prior to them purchasing your product then they are
more than likely going to leave a review when you ask them because they have
purchased the product at a sale you will get a lot more reviews this way and it
is not in any way suspicious because you have not given out discount codes you
have not broke Amazon's Terms of Service by incentivizing
reviews or offering a refund to them by a paypal or anything like that but the
reason a lot of people go into the review groups is simply because it's
faster if they don't have their own list built up I totally get it you know but
you are better off building up your list building your
audience getting customers bought into your brand so that when you launch your
next product so for this example their next product could be yoga mat or yoga
towel or something like that then again they can launch it to the same list this
customer will have already purchased their first product or maybe they didn't
purchase their first product but seeing it on sale and then when they see their
next product on sale they'll go ahead and buy it because what you're gonna do
is you're gonna list your product on sale for maybe two or three days and
then put your price back up to its regular price and customers will get
used to this the more product launches you do the more times you have these
sales and you will be able to have these sales for each of your product launches
and follow up with the customers each time asking them for a review and you
are not breaking any of Amazon's Terms of Service or risking getting these
reviews deleted and I have a video showing you exactly how you can create a
highly targeted list off your customers for an extremely low cost today and if
you use this pricing strategy you will be able to get a ton of reviews and
sales from the start so I will leave a link in the description to this YouTube
video showing you exactly how I use Instagram influencers to build a highly
targeted list today so that's pretty much it that's how you've run your sale
on Amazon I'm just gonna jump back now to Facebook back into the review group
and Facebook groups are amazing you know they're a great way to connect with
customers to connect with your target customers to connect with other sellers
I'm a big fan our Facebook groups and the value that they hold but just be
careful in some of these review groups just see the type of posts that are
already in it and see what's expected by the people in these groups because if
you join a group and everyone's given PayPal refunds then it's going to be
very hard to get legitimate customers to purchase your products in these groups
they're going to be used of getting deep discounts or even free products in these
groups so I hope that has cleared up a lot of your questions in regards to
review groups are getting initial reviews on your products on Amazon
and I have another video that I have created explaining the pros and cons of
getting reviews in different ways and I go you know falling into detail off the
different methods that you can use to get reviews on your products you know
ways that are actually working ways that your product will actually stick your
reviews with stick on your product listings on Amazon in 2018 and going
into the future and again I will link up that video here but in today's video I
really just wanted you know to clear up Facebook groups and review groups in
general and give you a clearer understanding of what they're all about
so I hope that I have done that if you haven't started your own private label
brand if this is something that you're looking to do then you can check out the
unique private label course this course is open and again I have the link down
in the description below so you can check that out and I'm still working on
the advanced private label course so if you want to add your name to that list
so that I'll notify you when that opens the advanced private label course I'll
leave a link down in the description so that you can check that one out as well
hope that you have enjoyed this video and I look forward to speaking to you
again soon right