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How much commission can you make with Amazon associates links in your YouTube description?

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See, when you watch any beginner affiliate marketing tutorial on YouTube, there's one thing that they

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all suggest that's similar.

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Amazon Associates.

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And it makes sense.

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It's really easy to join the program.

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It's really beginner friendly and it's easy to grab the links, whether they're text links, banners

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for your Web site or even clickable buttons.

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Furthermore, Amazon has the largest catalog of products online.

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That means that no matter what you're searching for, as long as it's relevant to your niche or your

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subject matter and your audience, chances are there's a link to it.

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And if that wasn't already enough to sell you, there's also the cookie factor.

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Okay.

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No, no, no.

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And not those kind of cookies.

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See, when someone goes through the Amazon associates link and lands on the product listing that you've

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suggested for them.

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You don't just get a commission when they buy that.

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You also get a commission for anything else that they add to their cart and then buy.

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And even if for whatever reason, they don't decide to purchase the product that you suggested, but

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for whatever reason, they come back within a 24 hour period and buy something completely different

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or anything else.

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You also get a commission for that.

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That is, unless you create a special link that automatically adds that product to their cart when they

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click through the link.

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In that case, you get up to 90 days to get a commission.

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Now, that's absolutely wild, in my opinion.

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And most people that use an Amazon associates don't actually know that little trick.

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And all of that together combined makes for the perfect recipe for affiliate marketing when you're just

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getting into it as a beginner, hence why everyone suggests it across the board.

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But just like any good entrepreneur, I feel like I have to question the validity of these statements.

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We're not just going to take them on surface level and for surface value, we're actually going to test

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it out.

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After all, if it were that easy for new affiliate marketers and new people getting to the Amazon Associates

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program to make great money, well, then a lot less people would be watching those tutorial videos

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concept.

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So enough speculation.

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Today, we're actually going to finally answer the question once and for all, how much can you really

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make with affiliate marketing by simply linking in your YouTube description?

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So I've been testing us out for about three months now, really since the beginning of 2019.

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And basically what I've been doing is I've been putting affiliate links, Amazon associate links in

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my YouTube description in literally all my videos.

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I went back and added them to all of my videos.

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Now, there's some insights that I want to share with you before I share the numbers and things, you

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know, that I've learned along the way that are really gonna help you make more commission, not just.

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I know that this video specifically is answering the question of Amazon associates and you know how

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much you can link, how much you can make linking those, especially in your YouTube description.

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But I want to touch on the fact of not just Amazon associates, but affiliate marketing in general and

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how you can make more money with it just, you know, overall on your YouTube channel.

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So, like I said, the last three months.

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So it's it's been about three months.

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I've been just linking in the bottoms my YouTube description, not really promoting it to too much at

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once in a while.

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Throw in a little like clause here.

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It's like and if you're interested, you know, I recommend my camera down in the description, something

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simple like that.

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I'm not pushing it really at all whatsoever.

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Like I said, I might have mentioned it two or three times in the span of those three months.

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So what I basically link is all link my YouTube setup, which is basically high end products, lifetime

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or higher end products compared to what I'm about to talk about.

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And I don't ever really recommend this.

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Like I said, now these are other affiliate links right here to, you know, places that I invest down

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in my description.

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And then obviously the top 10 bucks for success meant for success, excuse me, and entrepreneurs that

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I recommend as well.

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I feel like that's very relevant to the channel and aspiring entrepreneurs.

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And realistically, I believe wholeheartedly in every one of these books.

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So I don't mind the small commission that I'm getting just to recommend them because I would recommend

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them for free.

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I know that they can make a difference in, you know, the people that watch this channel overall.

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That said, there hasn't been that much success in linking any of these in the YouTube description.

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The reason that I make a thousand dollars a month with affiliate marketing has zero did to do literally

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with Amazon associates for a good two months there.

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I was maybe making one hundred bucks a month or a little bit under and I just rounded up to a hundred

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because that's an even number that you can basically say nobody likes to say, like I'm making eighty

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three dollars a month with Amazon associates.

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Now you're going around up to a hundred dollars and embellish a little bit.

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Just makes sense.

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It's how you market.

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But I really hadn't been making that much now recently.

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It's only been about forty dollars a month with Amazon associates.

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And like I said, I'm only promoting these links right here and I'm only promoting these links right

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here.

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So if we go back and we try to look for another video where you can find a good example of, you know,

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other links that I'm promoting, the few things that I've learned along this, you know, three month

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process is really just you're not going to make that much money linking random stuff at the bottom of

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videos if you're a smaller channel.

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Now, if you drive a lot of traffic and you're a big channel, you have over 100000 subscribers or a

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couple hundred thousand or even a million, then by all means the traffic that you get.

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And I've heard Ryan Scribner talk about this on his channel.

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I hope I'm saying that right.

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Maybe shrimper Scribner.

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I'm not one cent sure, but he's got a great channel.

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It's like personal finance and other stuff like this.

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And he actually talked about Amazon associate links and all his forms of passive income.

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And he has a big channel.

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It's almost like 300000, if not over 300000 now, too.

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And he's still only makes a couple hundred a month with Amazon associates.

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So I know it's not just me.

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I know it's not just the traffic as the problem.

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It's not that great of a conversion rate with YouTube videos, with Amazon associates.

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In my personal experience, that said, you can make a lot of money with both Amazon associates and

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you can make a lot of money linking YouTube description, if that makes sense.

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So the reason and that way that you can basically do that is you want to stop linking or trying to link

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so many things.

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I'm proudly going to re-evaluate this, you know, in the coming days and weeks if I want to continue

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to add these or remove them from my videos specifically.

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But one of the ways that you can get YouTube description, affiliate links to really drive a lot of

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traffic and make a lot of conversions and get money for you is really to, you know, have a relevant

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affiliate link.

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So if we go back to this video really fast, my my investment strategy of 1019, what I basically used

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to do is I throw in all my affiliate links.

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My general approach was if I have more affiliate links that can potentially earn me more money, why

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would I not put them in the description so that I can collect that possible affiliate commission?

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If for whatever reason, somebody is watching this video and they scroll down, they decide, hey,

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I need a YouTube secret weapon, why would I not collect the affiliate commission on that?

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If they scroll down and they say, hey, you know, I want to try Shopify job shopping, why would I

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not collect an affiliate commission on that, too?

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Right.

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The problem with that is twofold.

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The first problem that I've noticed with that, this kind of clogs up your YouTube description.

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So it's going to confuse and kind of, you know, just it basically takes away from the relevant links

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that you want them to see.

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If I want to push a majority of my traffic to, you know, my social or to my consulting wording to

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all my email, or if he drops himan course, you know, I'm going to get a lot less traffic and a lot

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less conversions on that.

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If there were only, say, four or five links, my YouTube description, then all these other links

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because somebody is going.

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Open up a description and see all these links.

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And they're not going to drive there eye traffic.

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If that makes sense there, it's not going to drive their views to just a few potential links that you're

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trying to drive the most traffic to.

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Instead, you're going to confuse them.

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They're going to be overwhelmed with all the links and they're not going to click any of them, which

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is not what you want.

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Secondly, and probably more relevant to the actual overall earning with this, it's not related.

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Somebody comes here and they watch an investment strategy.

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And half of these links in here are not related to this actual video.

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Amazon product research not related.

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Get two free months of Skillshare, not really related YouTube secret weapon not related at all.

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So you get the picture.

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It jumbles people's views and kind of distracts them from clicking the links that you actually want

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to drive traffic to the links that are actually relevant.

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So the key there is you want to link relevant YouTube sorry, relevant affiliate links in the description.

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This is a perfect example of a video that drives a lot of traffic that I've I to an affiliate link.

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Literally as the first link to Buddy.

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And it makes me a good commission every single month.

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It fluctuates every single month for me because they pay me a recurring commission with two buddy.

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But realistically speaking, it's been anywhere from like 300 bucks a month with two buddy to another

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hundred bucks a month if it goes down.

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So it can be like 300 to one hundred roughly.

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But it's always within those parameters.

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So 100 to 300 ish.

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Now, that said, maybe saying, oh, that's not that much more than, you know, the 40 or 100 bucks

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affiliate commission that you're getting from Amazon Associates.

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One hundred percent true.

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That's it's only like 200 bucks.

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Potentially more.

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250 bucks, potentially more.

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The thing here is this is 100 cent relevant to this video.

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So it drives a lot more traffic to that link and it drives a lot more commissions because people come

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to this and they're looking for how to buy YouTube subscribers.

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Clearly, they're interested in growing a YouTube channel.

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Therefore, they're much, much, much more inclined to click my to body affiliate link, especially

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if you promote it in the actual video and mention, hey, there's an affiliate link in the description

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for to buddy.

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A lot more people are going to go there.

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And that's what I've seen.

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And I've done that countless times across the board.

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This is just a good example.

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So, you know, you can just make a video and then a one relevant, relevant affiliate link in that

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actual video is going to cover a lot more than a bunch of other relevant Amazon associates links.

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And that's the main problem I've seen with that.

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Now, that's not to say you can't make money with Amazon associates.

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You totally can.

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I have, however, had good success with it, making linking them in courses, because the way that

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I view it is you're taking somebody through an entire funnel, through the entire course.

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They're investing their time and their sweat equity to essentially learn all the information.

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And at the end of it, if you're linking a bunch of relevant affiliate links, they're much more inclined

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to do it because they've spent all the time invested in the course.

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So a great way that I've been able to put that into practice is just another example right here, how

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to build muscle and lose fat.

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And basically, at the very end of this course, if I were to pull up the content right here, my fitness,

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a new nutrition recommendations at the end of the course.

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So I recommend so different things.

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I recommend supplements.

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I recommend a like an add bell.

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I recommend a lot of different things.

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And this is probably the most the primary driver of all my affiliate revenue with Amazon associates.

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So even that 40 dollars a month or that hundred dollars a month depending on the month.

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I would venture to assume that a majority of that traffic and those conversions come from this actual

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course and not YouTube video.

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To know that for sure, I'd have to look at the analytics, but that would be my overall guess.

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Another great example of how I do that without Amazon associates.

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If we search for Shopify really fast, I have an entire shop, of course, on Udemy as well.

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Right here, it's called Shopify Dropship Mastery.

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And you can see here almost 30000 people have enrolled in this.

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Well, what do you think?

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I promote another affiliate link.

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Well, someone's going to invest the day to potentially learn a shop by course.

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You better believe that they're going to go for a free trial of an affiliate to Shopify.

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Right.

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So I can learn a lot more people through this than I ever, ever do.

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Just throwing it in a YouTube description.

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The things you have to remember about that is a like I said, they have to be relevant to the video.

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You're going to drive a lot more traffic and a lot more conversions.

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And B, you don't want to confuse the potential viewer.

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That does go down and click your description, because let's say a hundred people, you know, watch

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your video, for example, and maybe only 20 of them click down on YouTube description if it's jumbled

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and there's, you know, 30 links in there.

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Obviously, the likelihood that those people are going to convert on any one of those links is a lot

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less, even if that's counterintuitive, because it would seem like there's more chances.

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It's a lot less because you're going to confuse them.

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You're going to overwhelm them.

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And that's not the objective.

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This has been my experience and what's worked for me.