Amazon is not only a great place to spend money,
but also a fantastic place to make money as well.
So today we're talking about six ways that you can make money
on Amazon, and many of them are available no matter where you live.
So let's dove in.
OK, so the first one that I want to talk about is Amazon
affiliate program, and this one is called Amazon Associates.
So if you have an audience that you think you've reached the point of monetization
and that could be TikTok following YouTube channel and Instagram following,
and they actually have an influencer program
for that, a Facebook group or Facebook page, a blog.
So a type of audience that you will have gathered, or maybe you
want to start gathering an audience now and you have an idea
and you want to create content to gather that audience?
Well, Amazon
affiliate program would be a great way for you to start monetizing that audience.
Now, I'm not going to talk about when is the right time
to monetize an audience and how to do that.
That's not the point of this video.
I've actually talked about it in other previous videos,
which I can link down below if they're of interest.
Essentially, if you have that audience, then you can very easily tap
into the opportunity of Amazon's affiliate program.
What it means is that you would be recommending products
that your audience could purchase on Amazon.
Obviously, they should be products
that your audience would appreciate that your audience would find value in.
And you can create those links
once you become part of the Amazon Associates program.
And in order to do that, you would need to go and sign up.
You would need to go and fill in a bunch of information, including your
tax information, your bank account and all the other details,
including the link to the page or the YouTube channel or the blog
where your audience can be found so that Amazon knows
where is the audience that is going to see those affiliate links.
Once you submit your application, it's going to take a few days
for them to review the application and hopefully approve it.
Once you get approved, then you can start creating your links
and you can do that either just with text or with an image, or with both
whatever resonates better with your audience.
You want to see how they look.
It's actually super easy.
You can look down below in my description box because I also use Amazon
affiliates to recommend products that I use myself to work remotely
and that I genuinely believe that anyone who's looking for work
from home job or a remote job would find helpful as well.
So if you want to see how those affiliate links look like,
you can go and check out in the description box below.
Now what happens is when you use an affiliate link
and somebody in your audience uses that link
in order to go and make a purchase on Amazon.
No matter if it's the product you recommend it or something else,
you will get a commission.
Now, don't imagine that you're going to make a lot of money
because the commission is probably between five,
maybe three to five, sometimes up to 10%, depending on the category of product
that you're recommending.
And you won't get the commission only for the product you recommended,
but for the entire purchase
that the individual using your link to go to Amazon will make.
So you can make some pretty nice income if you have a sizable audience
and if you recommend products that are actually relevant to them in order for you
to become part of the program, Amazon see that you need to be based
in one of the 17 countries where they have the program available,
and they are the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Mexico,
some countries in Europe, some countries in Middle East,
some in APACS or Asia Pacific and Australia.
Now I know for a fact that you can become part of the Amazon affiliate program,
even if you are not based in one of those countries.
I'm based in Switzerland and you can still be part of the affiliate program.
What happens,
though, is you will not get the money directly into your bank account.
You will either get gift vouchers so you can spend that
if you make your own purchases on Amazon or you will get a check.
And for the check,
you are going to have to
wait sometimes a few weeks until you get to buy a mail from Amazon
and then you need to go to your bank and cash that in.
All in all, it's a pretty straightforward, pretty easy process.
And if you already have the audience, I think it's worth checking this out.
Up next on the list is Amazon's CDP, which stands for Kindle Direct Publishing.
And essentially, what it means is that if you've ever wanted to publish a book
or if you were thinking of publishing a little content book,
which we're going to talk about in a second,
then this is the perfect opportunity for you to do that.
Because what Amazon CDP offers you is the opportunity to sell your gold
in a self-publishing method so you don't have to worry about anything
you just created and you uploaded onto Amazon's CDP portal.
And then they will take care of selling it, either as a digital product
that goes directly into people's Kindle or as a.
Physical product, and they will print it and send it for
you on your behalf, to whoever orders it on Amazon.
So as I said, you can write a book, novel
or self-development book or whatever theme you choose.
Or you could go for a low content book.
There is a huge trend nowadays about low content books,
which essentially means any type of notebook or coloring
book or calendar or to do list or any type of printed
or digital document that essentially only has a few lines,
then that could be something that you could consider.
And as I mentioned in one of my previous videos,
my son is getting into this whole enterprise, Nouriel Spirit,
and he's designed a bunch of mazes and he's not only selling them on Etsy,
but he wants to put them together in a book.
So we're using a tool that is called Book Vault
to create his book that he will be selling on Amazon.
Football is super, super easy.
I mean, and not even seven year old can use it.
It will be super easy for you to design the content,
so whatever goes inside your little content book
either aligns or you can choose from a bunch of templates.
You can customize that and it'll help you design the cover as well.
And the interface looks a little bit like canvas.
So if you're familiar with Canva, it's going to be super easy for you to design
the the cover of your low content book as well.
I've partnered with Walt for this video, so there is an affiliate link down below,
and if you want to check them out, if you want to consider coming out
with your low content, book or books, then definitely go take a look at football.
They have a really, really good offer for you.
You will get a 20% discount on the subscription that you choose to use.
And as you know, I'm very honest you can just go check them out,
see if it's worth it.
If you really consider coming out with your Kindle books,
the low content books that we've talked about,
then maybe sign up for a month, see if it's worth for you.
If it's not, then you can cancel.
I'm doing this for you.
So if you find it useful,
if you think it's something for you, then go check them out.
If not, that's totally fine as well.
Go take a look at Amazon KDP. There is a whole, whole
big market out
there, a lot of people looking for planners
and to do lists and notebooks that you could very easily tap into.
Up next is merch by Amazon, so what this is about is a print
on demand service, something like print ify or Redbubble, if you're familiar with.
If not, then essentially what this is is you would create a design
that you can very easily have printed
on anything from cups to T-shirts to hoodies
to notebooks to water bottles and everything in between.
There are people who have been making tons of money with this approach.
So if you are part of an audience,
you are an accountant or if you like dogs,
or if you like a certain genre of music
or a certain type of dance style, then you can very easily
create a design or either a text or visual.
You can use something like Canva to design it pretty, pretty easily,
and it's going to be done in only a few minutes.
And then you export that and you go onto merch by Amazon and you upload your design
and they will printed on whatever gets sold.
You do not have any inventory, you just upload your design.
Amazon will create how that design will look printed onto a T-shirt, for example.
And then when somebody purchases that T-shirt,
Amazon will actually print your design on the T-shirt
and will ship it using Amazon Prime to that customer.
You will get a percentage of the price that the customer has paid
for the T-shirt with your design,
and tons of people are doing this, you can very easily do that, too.
You could use a design on multiple platforms so you can try
using print, DeFi and Redbubble and merch
by Amazon as well if this is a business that you want to get into.
Again, you might not make a ton of money from one product,
but you can always create a whole series of products with the same design.
Or you can create multiple designs that are connected
and are targeting the same audience, the same category
of people with the same passion or background like yourself.
And then you can sell them more products, not just one.
So you can definitely make a nice site income
or maybe even a full time income if you do this right.
So check out merch by Amazon.
Coming up next is Amazon's FBA, and essentially that stands for full.
Filled by Amazon, so if you have come across that term
drop shipping, then this is exactly what Amazon's FBA is about.
If you've heard of Shopify, then again, this is the same principle as for Shopify.
If this is new to you, essentially what this is is
you would be working with a supplier that will be creating
a product based on your design and your configuration.
They will produce that product and they will
have it shipped for you into one of Amazon's facilities.
Then Amazon will take account of that inventory
and they will be able to sell it on your behalf, which is why
FBA stands for fulfilled by Amazon, and they will pick up the inventory
and they will ship it whenever somebody orders your product.
The difference between this and merch by Amazon is that here
you do have inventory
that you would need to worry about, and you do need to have an investment
that you need to make initially, because the first batch of products
you would need to finance or fund with your own money.
Now, it won't be a whole lot of money and you don't need to spend
producing thousands and thousands and thousands of products
before you will have tested if they actually sell.
I would not recommend you do that, but you would still need
to produce a decent amount so that you can sell
enough and be able to test
if you can really make that into a sustainable income stream.
You can very easily do that using platforms like AliExpress or Alibaba.
So it's not hard to find ways to produce something, but figuring out
the product that you want to sell is something that will not be super easy.
There are tools that you can use, like jungle's counters, bunch of them,
no affiliation this time that you could use to research
and figure out what kind of product you would be
or you should sell and where there is demand.
But there is not enough supply or there is something that you can do
about the product that would make it incrementally
or increasingly better than anything else that is out there in the market.
Once you've identified that niche, you can go ahead,
find a bunch of suppliers on AliExpress or Alibaba.
Get it produced,
get it shipped to Amazon's facilities and then you can get started.
Amazon FBA is a business that many of my friends have been working in.
They actually are making billions selling products on Amazon.
Some use FBA, so they produce stuff in China, and they have it shipped.
Others actually sell through FBA, but use other means
of getting their product created and shipped to Amazon.
All in all, if you are passionate about retail and selling stuff
and you have an idea, then check out Amazon FBA.
It could be something that you might want to do,
and it will give you an opportunity to make more money
that you would make with merch by Amazon, for example.
OK, so I know that many of these examples that I've given
are more business ideas than online jobs.
So let's talk about what kind of online jobs you could get with Amazon.
first of all, an option with Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
And essentially, what this is is giving you an opportunity to work
as part of a crowdsourcing project where companies offer
certain types of projects where they need to have a number of people working on.
And that could be answering surveys or categorizing data
or categorizing images, or writing the description of images
or taking a look over certain documents and so forth.
Here we're talking about data entry type of online jobs
that you would be able to access if you become part of Amazon's
Mechanical Turk.
This is an option that is available to you no matter where you live.
You can go and create a worker
account with Amazon Mechanical Turk,
and you can be able to receive
tasks from them and start making money.
You will not make a ton of money because the pay per hour will not be super high.
We're talking about minimum wage, but if you are looking for something
to do on the side and maybe generate some pocket money, or if you have
something in mind that you want to buy and you would like to make some extra cash
so you can put that towards whatever you want to purchase,
then look into Amazon Mechanical Turk and you should be able
to start making some side money pretty easily and quickly.
And here's another great opportunity, which is actually getting a job
and working for Amazon, and they have tons of open positions.
All the.
Time, be that full time or part time or seasonal work.
They have remote work or in-person work, depending on what you're looking for.
You have opportunities if you are specialized in something like software
development, for example, or marketing or strategy or anything like that.
Or you could go for, let's say, less experienced type jobs,
lower barrier to entry, something like customer support, for example.
They have actually announced recently
that a lot of their jobs are going to be remote jobs.
They will allow work from home indefinitely for their employees, wherever
that is appropriate and where the job can be performed in a remote environment.
So definitely check them out.
I will not go into a lot of details because I've created a whole entire video
talking about Amazon jobs and how to get a work from home job with Amazon.
So if you want, you can check that next.
I'm going to link it here
so you can go and find all the details about how to get a job with Amazon.
All right.
I hope you enjoyed today's video. Thank you so, so much for watching.
I'll see you next time. Bye.