- Affiliate marketing is definitely one of the best ways
to make money online because the good news is,
you don't have to have your own product or service
to get into affiliate marketing.
You actually can benefit
by selling something for someone else.
There are a lot of people who like to think
that affiliate marketing is somehow a scam
or that's scummy, but the reality is,
that if you already work at a business,
you're selling a product and service,
but are you getting commission for it?
Are you getting your fair share of that sale
that you brought in?
Affiliate marketing is a way to do that digitally
so that you get the benefit and the value,
but you're not on your feet all day
trying to close those sales.
You can set up systems and content to do it for you.
Today I'm gonna be talking about Amazon affiliate marketing.
I'm gonna give you some of my tips
for actually making money on Amazon.
In my heyday, I was doing about $1,000 a month
with the Amazon Associates Program.
I'm now on the new Amazon Influencer Program,
yeah, 'cause I'm a YouTuber.
And I'm gonna talk to you a little bit
about the differences between the two
and tell you how you can start making money online
'cause this is a great way to make passive income.
Hey, everybody this is Roberto Blake,
helping you create something awesome today.
Welcome back to the channel.
Today we're gonna be talking
about Amazon affiliate marketing.
I'm going to tell you some things
that you probably didn't understand
about how the Amazon affiliate marketing program works.
The general idea is that if you share a link
from your Amazon affiliate program,
you'll get a commission of the sale,
but a lot of people don't realize
that there are different categories in Amazon
and they all have different percentages assigned to them.
If you sell Amazon-branded products
like Amazon's fashion and clothing, the Echo devices,
things like that, you get the largest commission
by selling those Amazon products
because Amazon gets the margin on those.
So, this means you can get up to 10% of the commission
on those products.
So, if you sell something like the Amazon Echo,
which is over $100, you have a better chance
of getting at $10 or $14 commission on something like that
than if you sold other electronics
which might only get you maybe a 4% commission.
The category that I tend to do best in,
when it comes to my commission sales,
is usually camera gear and laptops.
Part of the reason because of the fact
that I have an expertise in video editing,
photography, video production.
So, there's a lot of content on the channel that,
when I was primarily doing the Amazon Associates Program,
I was able to get those commissions.
But even with just doing a few sales,
you can make hundreds of dollars.
Primary example, on a camera body and a camera lens,
I think I got about roughly $80 a piece
on just these two items in a very short period of time.
By being able to make referral lists, recommendations,
product reviews, I'm able to generate sales for Amazon,
and I'm able to take that larger affiliate commission
of a high ticket item
'cause cameras and lenses are expensive, like $1,000.
Now there are a lot of you who are gonna say,
"I don't have an audience, Roberto.
"So, I can't generate hundreds of dollars with Amazon.
"I can't generate thousands of dollars with Amazon."
But building an audience is part of wanting to do
anything in terms of online money-making.
If you want to do passive income online,
at some point you're gonna have to build an audience.
Now the good news is, you don't have to be a YouTuber
and you don't have to get
thousands upon thousands of followers.
You could just do something like a blog
that is a resource for people like you
reviewing actual products that you already own,
and this is a great way to make money with Amazon.
If someone like you is on the fence about buying,
and they read a good and detailed review
that makes it easier for them to confirm that decision
or gives them an alternative that might either cost
a little bit more but provide more value,
or saves the money, it costs less and it's equivalent value,
then that's helpful.
So, by being helpful and being a resource,
you can actually make a lot of good money
on Amazon this way.
If you already have a website or blog,
I recommend that you put together a resource list
of everything that you already use in your business
that can be purchased on Amazon
and use your affiliate links.
I also recommend you do this for other affiliate programs.
I do this for web hosting, and I make on average,
on a bad month about $1,500
by recommending different web hosting providers
that I've used, and I've used almost everybody.
But I really prefer Bluehost if you want to do web hosting
that has WordPress associated with it for a blog.
Or if you don't like coding and WordPress
and those complicated things, I recommend wix.com.
So, I'm gonna link to those down in the description
in addition to all the Amazon affiliate links
that I use for the things I use for this YouTube channel,
my camera, my microphones, my lighting equipment
because that is a great way for you to make affiliate sales.
If you do a YouTube channel, a podcast, or a business,
and you list the things that you use in your business
either in the description of that content
or in a resources page,
that is so easy for you to get commission sales from.
But here is the other very attractive thing
about affiliate marketing with Amazon,
whether you're using the Associates Program
and the Influencer program and like I said,
I will tell you a little about the difference
between the two.
But one of the things I really love,
is that if somebody decides to click
on your Amazon affiliate link
and they decide not to buy that product,
but they buy something else on Amazon within 24 hours,
you get credit for that sale.
So, if you've ever wondered why there are people who say
that they make a living through Amazon's affiliate program,
this is the reason why.
When you have people that are in your community
or in your audience that are buyers
and they buy a lot on Amazon anyway,
if you can get to a point to where they're using your link
as their gateway to how they're getting to Amazon
before they make a purchase that day or the next day,
then you're going to get credit for that sale.
You're going to facilitate that sale
because you got them onto the website.
So, that is something that I think a lot more of you
could take advantage of.
And I think the more content you make,
at least this has been my experience
with resource lists, buyer's guides,
top 10 lists, comparisons,
these are things that put you in a great position
to continue to make those sales.
One of the best categories for this
that I've seen people pull off successfully
is comparing headphones.
I think these are about roughly a 6% commission.
As you know, wireless headphones are becoming more
and more expensive.
A lot of these start at a couple hundred dollars.
So, these might be worth anywhere from $10 to $20 a sale
just depending on what brand it is.
So, I think that that is a great example
of how lucrative this can be for you.
Obviously with cameras and camera lenses,
that becomes even more valuable.
Now obviously books and book recommendations
are a huge part of Amazon and you may not think
that there's a lot of money in these book sales.
But like I said, if someone uses your Amazon link
for any of their Amazon shopping within 24 hours,
then you're gonna get credit for that sale.
And books are a great gateway to Amazon shopping
and there's impulse buying that happens after the fact.
So, this is your opportunity to grow your Amazon sales.
In fact, I'm gonna do a whole dedicated video
on 10 ways to make more money
with Amazon affiliate marketing
and give you some real strategies for this.
I'm also gonna put together a step-by-step tutorial.
I've signed up another Amazon account.
I think it was an Amazon Canada account
because I figured out that I can make more money
linking international accounts together under one account.
Another hack. (laughs)
But anyway the point is,
that there are so many opportunities
to make money in Amazon.
I'm gonna give you a step-by-step tutorial,
and I'm gonna give you my top 10 tips
for making more money with Amazon.
If that's something you're interested
and you want to make more money online,
make more passive income,
you'll want to subscribe, you'll want to hit notifications.
I've already got a lot of great content here on the channel
around those topics.
Earlier, I mentioned that I'm part
of the Amazon Influencer Program.
This is a newer program that started a while ago
I think maybe as much of a year or so back.
But I just decide to move over to this program.
There are few other benefits that I get from this.
I get to have my own customized branded Amazon shop.
So, I picked amazon.com/shop/creatorgearguide.
That's because there's a brand that I'm building.
There's a new YouTube channel that I'm building
that's specifically gonna focus
on gear for content creators.
So, I'm gonna be doing stuff around gear you need
for podcasting, gear you need to start a YouTube channel
at any budget, what you need as far as gear
to be a graphic designer.
These are things that I'm gonna cover.
I mean, I'm gonna list all my lights, all my microphones.
I've already linked up those list.
So, you can actually find that
in the description down below.
But by making a dedicated YouTube channel
that specifically is gonna focus
on gear for content creators, I already know
that this is gonna be very lucrative for me
with regard to Amazon.
I also know that somebody who specializes
in doing book reviews can do the same thing
if that's their niche.
And the margins on the books aren't really that bad.
It's still something like anywhere from four to 6% on books
if I'm not mistaken.
On physical books, I think it's 5%.
But I'll talk about this more in some other videos.
Now to qualify for the Amazon Influencer Program,
I'm gonna link to that in the description down below
for you as well, but you actually need 2,500 followers
in a social media platform.
So, that could be Instagram, YouTube, whatever.
And then like all Amazon programs,
you obviously need to make a sale
within those first 30 days, a significant sale of some kind.
So, make sure that once you do this,
you're ready to start hustling
and you're ready to start getting those affiliate sales.
Now this doesn't just apply to people
who have tech and electronics.
Like I said, the fashion category
has a very high commission percentage in it
but also home improvement and power tools
have a high commission associated with them as well.
So, there's a ton of opportunity.
In the US, PC part components are actually
on the lower scale.
They're actually less than the normal 4%.
It's about 2.5% if I'm not mistaken.
I think that laptops, regardless of their price,
have a maximum threshold of $25 per sale on the payout,
which is why I really like the camera gear
and the musical instruments category
in terms of microphones and things like that
because it's just more profitable.
So, that's something you might want to research.
You might want to look at what in your niche
aligns to sales in terms of products on Amazon
that have the highest overall commission
and the best price that your audience will buy at.
Now in terms of how you get paid,
you have to make at least $100 in the US
if I'm not mistaken, and that's probably the better payout.
I mean you could take it at a lower payout,
but at $100, I think that's where it becomes worth it
to actually go ahead and get that money.
And you can decide whether you want that added
to your Amazon account balance,
you can get it as a check,
or you can get it as a direct deposit.
So, you have options in terms of how you want to be paid.
You cannot have it done through PayPal unfortunately.
I know there's a lot of you who would prefer that,
but that's not how it works.
So, you have to meet a minimum threshold
depending on what country you are for the payout.
I think it's $25 Canadian.
I think it might be 50 pounds in the UK,
something like that.
But just depending on where you live,
once you meet that payroll threshold,
they get you your money usually about the first week or so
in the month, first couple of days in a month.
That's just something that you want to look at
in terms of if you're making money on this,
you need to look at, well, am I meeting the threshold
to get paid out.
Just like if you were doing YouTube,
you have to get over $100 in AdSense
before you can get paid.
There you go.
That is how you make money
with the Amazon affiliate program.
I think I've given you a couple of tips and strategies.
I think I've also educated you about why
this is such a great opportunity
for you to make passive income online.
The more content you make that's a resource for people
that helps them with their buying decision,
with their shopping, the more you're going to be able
to generate revenue with the Amazon affiliate
or the Amazon Associate Program.
That's something that I think you guys
really should be a part of.
I'm gonna link to it in the description below.
Like I said, if you want any of the gear
that I use to make my YouTube videos,
anything that I'm using in terms of audio, lighting,
all those good things,
they're linked in the description down below.
Question of the day: what are your thoughts
about the Amazon affiliate program?
Do you still have questions about that?
Drop me your questions.
I'll try and answer them in the comments.
But also, what's your experience?
Are you somebody who's made money on Amazon before
as an affiliate?
If you have, has it been very successful for you?
What tips would you offer people in the community?
I'd love to have this conversation going,
so we can help as many people as possible.
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