- So you're publishing on KDP,
and you already know you're gonna get paid royalties
for every sale of your book,
but Amazon wants to incentivize you
to bring more people to the party,
to drive more traffic to your books
rather than just leaving up the books
and having Amazon sell it for you,
enter the Amazon Associates Program.
It's legally, double-dipping, sure.
Normally you sell a book and you're gonna get, right,
35% to 70% of every sale and then Amazon keeps the rest.
However with Amazon Associates, you sell a book
with a special link, you'll get the 35 to 70% royalty
plus an additional percentage of each sale.
And here's the beauty of it,
even if they don't buy your book or they buy anything else
outside of your book,
you are gonna get a percentage of each one of those sales,
(bell chiming) not bad, right?
This is affiliate marketing,
and essentially it works like this,
if you like a brand, service or product
and you wanna go ahead and promote it,
they will reward you for that
in an affiliate marketing program.
Customers get what they want, you get what they want
and Amazon's pretty darn happy that you brought some people
to the party.
Where do you set up an Amazon Associates account?
Okay, so you're gonna need to focus on your native region.
So whether you're in the U.S., the UK, Canada,
just go ahead and just Google it up.
Amazon Associates plus the region that you're in
and you're gonna need to go ahead and do
the application process.
It takes roughly about 15 minutes or so,
to fill out the full applications and it can take upwards
of about a week, two full weeks
before they actually gave you a full approval,
but the nice thing is, they're gonna grant you
temporary access until they have actually approved you.
So you're gonna go on over to Amazon
and you're gonna see at the very top,
(bell chiming) is what's called SiteStripe.
It's a gray bar, and it actually will give you all
of the product links that you can use for sharing.
You don't wanna use any of the other links,
like inside the URL bar,
you're gonna wanna use what they have.
Search your product, select any link,
whether Text, Image, Text and Image and Custom.
No, the embed options are intended for your website.
We'll select Text.
Make sure it's set to Short Link, not Full Link,
it just looks too messy.
And then just go ahead and share away.
Speaking of sharing,
there's actually two social media share features in Twitter
and Facebook inside SiteStripe.
But that's not all, I'm gonna get you to click the link
in the top left access your dashboard,
hover over view Reports,
and then select Earnings Report.
Under Commissions, see what customers purchase
through your link.
And Bounties, now Bounties are like this,
you get flat bonuses for sending people over
to a specific offer that they have on there,
and it's always revolving,
you have things like the Kindle Unlimited membership,
Audible memberships, Amazon Prime memberships,
things like that.
And it's significantly more
that you're gonna end up getting paid,
again, a flat fee that they give to you.
Hover over Promotion, then select Amazon Bounty Program.
Then See all Bounties.
Now keep in mind, these are time-sensitive deals
and specials, so you're gonna wanna make sure
that you browse through and get familiar
with some of those things.
If you're in KDP Select, might I recommend
that you send your readers over to get set up
with Kindle Unlimited with their free 30 day trial
and sometimes a free 60 day trial.
And the current Bounty for sending new subscribers
to Kindle Unlimited is three bucks, not bad.
They get a free month of reading your content
and you get paid a Bounty.
And here's the beauty of it,
if they've checked it out in Kindle Unlimited,
you're getting paid per page read.
But hey, you can actually have multiple accounts
in different regions.
So, you can go and get U.S., you can set up UK,
you can do Canada and as long as you're getting sales
then leave those things open, but you have all these links,
what do you do with them?
We're gonna put them all together
with what I like to call Genius Link.
Genius Link, I actually got a 1010% return on investment.
Find out more inside this video, I'll see you there.