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Pass what is going on everyone.
Welcome back to another episode of creating daily.
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I'm your host, Billy Thorpe.
If you've been here before, welcome
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back, welcome back. If you've
not been here, than you are in
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for a treat. This is gonna
be, I anticipate, one of my
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favorite episodes. I anticipate one of
your favorite episodes, and Rafael de Fioria,
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that's already in the chat, is
saying it's gonna be one of his
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favorite episodes. He's looking forward to
the conversation. So Am I. I'm
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gonna Have Dan curier on in just
a little bit, just a few minutes
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here, after I shout out some
sponsor relationships and make sure that we are
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moving in the right direction that way. But we're gonna BE TALKING ABOUT UPLOAD
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Revenue. Now that's not my term. That's actually Dan's term, and I
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just steal stuff from other people,
especially Dan, because I've been chasing around
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the Internet, I mean copying off
his page, and I've been having some
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great success doing it when it comes
to uploading content and making money, and
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particularly on Amazon live, which we're
gonna talk about. So, speaking of
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amazonline live, I already see some
people in the chat saying hey, look
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at that fancy new Mike. You
can get this mic for a limited time
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over on my Amazon live page,
Billy Thorpe dot live, and you can
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check it out. It is limbs
it edition, brought to you by Suret,
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and this is white, new are
Um color and it's the same as
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the M v seven, the black
one, just in white. So I'm
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using it this week until whenever.
I don't know how long, but I
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have an SM seven B. It
is looking at me. It's give me
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the side. I so I might
have to bring it back into the mix
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sooner than later. But before we
started, want to shout out to ritual
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motion. Uh, they are a
sponsor the spots, the only sponsor of
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the show, Um, official sponsor
of the show, and so we really
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appreciate those guys. You can go
check out my channel over there. It's
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ritual motion dot Com and they got
an n f t drop in called Block
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bots. I'll jump over here real
quick. Um, I don't know what's
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dropping I think this month sometime it
got a little bit delay, but you
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get a black bots dot io and
it's B L O C K B O
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t z dot io. And if
you're into the N F T, space,
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web three, all that fun stuff, you can go over there and
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check those guys out. See Chris
P Giles hanging out in the chat with
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Chris. Good to see a man. Thanks for joining. And if you
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know anybody that is into Amazon live
that wants to make money as a content
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creator, didn't hit do me a
favor and just freaking hit that share button,
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because Dan and I are are gonna
break it. I'm not gonna break
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it down, I'm gonna I'm gonna
break stuff like I just did, but
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he's gonna break it down, we're
gonna talk about it and I'm gonna ask
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all the questions that I've just been
thinking about for months as I look at
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his page and follow his newsletter and
getting Dy, gearing up. Just sent
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my Wifa Um message and say hey, can I go to people a video
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in in September? Like I'm just
chasing this dude around. Maybe a little
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bit obsessed, but whatever, it's
okay. So, anyway, I don't
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think I have any more other than
that. I just want to say things
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to ritual motion and you can check
it out on their the channel and you
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can come over there and be a
part of the the conversation as well.
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If you want to be a chat
or you can come on stage similar to
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clubhouse. Um. So that is
that, and now I'm gonna shut up.
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Bring on, Dan Courier. Dan, what is going on, my
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man? How's it going? I'm
doing well. How about yourself? I've
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had one too many energy drinks or
one too many coffees, but I'm pretty
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excited to have you on and thanks
for making this happen. Man, I
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know my original schedule wasn't in your
in your schedule, but we made it
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work and I really appreciate you taking
time after a long day of work to
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come on and be on the show. I really appreciate that. Happy to
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be here. Awesome, man.
Well do let's get let's get into this
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thing and we could talk about,
you know, we could go into the
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history of Dan and how you became
a creator and all that fun stuff,
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or we can talk about what we're
both obsessed with, which is making money
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with video. You're pick though,
I'll let you pick. Uh. You
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know what, we might as well
talk about making money. That's uh,
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you know, uh. That's what
upload revenue is all about, is trying
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to find effective ways to trade less
time for more money. That's certainly my
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goal with all of this. Is
Uh, you know, a lot of
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people will call it passive income.
Um, it's uh, you know,
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working smarter rather than harder. And
and not that I'm all about uh or
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I have nothing against hustle, but
I think the the UH, the better
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we are at finding ways to be
more efficient in making that money. It
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really frees us up to do a
lot of other things, be more creative
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or just find other ways to generate
revenues. So, Um, that's definitely
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a passion of mine, Um,
and that's what I've been trying to do
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in the past five plus years,
since I started on Youtube and and have
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really started exploring the different ways,
uh, that we can all make money
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as video creators. Yeah, man, I love it and you get and
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you're definitely paving the way for,
you know, for guys like me who
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I've spent a decent amount of time
behind a camera producing other people's content early
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on in my you know, my
twenties or whatever, and then the passion
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was always to come back and work
in the media space, but I never
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could figure out how do I make
money doing that? Like I can never
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figure it out unless I went and
work for someone else. And now,
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you know, this opportunity, or
multiple opportunities really, and we're gonna mostly
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focus on Amazon live, but there's, you know, a lot more opportunities
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now to to really make a living
and do this thing, you know,
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quote unquote, full time, Um, and not have to go punch a
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time card. Not that there's anything
wrong with it. I know you still
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are like yeah, dude, that
I would still love doing that. So,
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Um, so we can talk about
that balance as well. Do.
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So let's let's go to let's talk
about Amazon live. In from your perspective,
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I don't see you going live on
Amazon. I literally just see you
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uploading videos. So can you talk
to me a little bit about the reason
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behind that? Yeah, so,
when I first started at Amazon, Um,
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I never, uh, and I
still don't, look at Amazon as
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a way to further my brand.
Um, there's the term out there that
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that they use on Youtube and other
places, uh, and it's it's called
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cash cow, which is kind of
a totally different approach to making content.
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It. You'll see that there's you
know, you you'll recognize the youtube channels
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that kind of take that approach where
it's faceless. They just do fun,
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light videos with maybe, you know, pretty pictures and words over them.
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Um, you know, I think
bright is one of the ones on Youtube
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that does it. Uh. And
when I first started on Amazon, it
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was actually my brother who brought it
to my attention. He's like, wow,
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this is super easy. You just
got to get at the time it
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was ten videos you had to get
approved. Do Quick, you know,
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thirty second, one minute videos on
products. You get them approved and then
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your videos start appearing on the product
pages. I'm like, well, that
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sounds like a pretty good deal.
Uh, let's give it a try.
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So, Um, that's how we
started. We were doing, we weren't
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talking. It was just music and, you know, a demonstration. Uh,
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the way that I like to refer
to it as just showing people the
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product out in the wild. Uh, you're not trying to throw them a
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sales pitch. These are people who, thank you Amazon, have already gone
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through most of the Bryan by process. They've decided they want something, that
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they've searched for the product, they've
landed on the final page where they can,
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you know, push the buy now
button or added to their cart and
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you get to slide in there with
your video and show them a sixty second
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video that may answer some last minute
questions, and then you're gonna get rewarded
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with a two to four percent commission
just for doing that. I mean how
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perfect of a situation is that they're
generating all the traffic and you just get
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to use the skills that you've developed
on some other platform, whether it be
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youtube or other video platforms, instagram, facebook, what have you, and
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you get to apply those two do
kind of the least amount of work in
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terms. We already know how to
make videos. All of us that are
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in content creation have probably become really
familiar with buying stuff on Amazon, so
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everything else is natural. It's just, Hey, what products do I have
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available? Let me make a video
about them and uh, let me,
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let me squeeze is right into the
almost before the last step of that process
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and get a commission for our effort. Yeah, man, you know it
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kind of felt when Monty and Chris
and I started following you and Dil caster's
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Chris Stone and and Jim. I
was like, how is this? This
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feels weird, like even the first
time I ever made a shoppable video,
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which is a short form video for
people who are like what does that mean?
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What? You will kind of get
into it. But and then I
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started the next day Saul revenue being
made off of that. I was like,
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okay, this feels weird and I
come from the background of sales.
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So it's almost like somebody stepped in
front of you like Hey, let me
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go ahead and grab a piece of
that. You know, like wait,
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wait, wait, what is happening? This doesn't make any sense to me.
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Um. So so yeah, yeah, go ahead. I was gonna
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say when you start. So I've
had Amazon affiliates for probably seven years now
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through my RV channel and my youtube
channel related to to Youtube. Um,
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and you know, maybe maybe on
a good month, that was a hundred,
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maybe a couple of hundred dollars.
And then I started doing these videos
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and as soon as the product page
Um placement started up, it was like
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five ten dollars a day. I
was like okay, that's something, and
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then kept putting up videos and then
it was a hundred dollars a day and
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and you know, it grew from
there. So it's just a matter of
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uh, seeing that opportunity and realizing
it's like nothing else we've done as content
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creators, at least myself up to
this point. That, yeah, I
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was all in. I'm like,
we got to create a course. My
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brother was like, no, you
can't create a course. We don't want
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to tell anybody about this, like
Amazon is some big secret Um and,
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you know, just to a certain
degree, I I kind of agreed to
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with him, but I'm like this
is, you know, there's it's two,
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because there's a street. Three strikes
in your out rules. So you
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need to get your videos approved to
show up on the product page and if
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they don't and you try three times
as far as youtube's guidelines now or Amazon's
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guidelines, you don't get to try
again, so you're out. So I'm
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like there's a space here for a
video or for a course to put people
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on the right path, make sure
they get approved Um and then send them
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on their way to to making as
much money as they possibly can on a
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monthly basis, which has just been
huge for a lot of creators. Yeah,
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men, I follow a lot of
people in this space and and through
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different facebook groups, and some people, you know, like just share numbers
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and I'm like what, I'm like
so blown away by it, you know,
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and being an entrepreneur, being a
business owner of many years and understanding
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the work that it takes to make
a transaction, to make a sale,
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to build a relationship, to do
all these things, and then I'm like,
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wait a second, I can share
literally my opinion about a product or
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whatnot. So so you said you
started going hand like uploading video. How
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many videos have you uploaded? Do
you imagine? Do You keep counting or
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you just keep dropping them on there? Um, I I certainly know people
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who have blown away my total.
I'm probably somewhere between maybe like three videos
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at this point, UM, but
I I've heard stories of people that dropped
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like hundreds of videos a month.
So that blows my mind. I can't
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even imagine, Um, what that
effort looks like. But uh, it's,
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you know, some of it is
is quantity, some of it is,
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you know, Um, what I
would probably call a little more advanced
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strategy of really thinking about and of
course, Amazon handicaps is because they don't
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give us, Um, the analytics
that we really need to make informed decisions.
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So it's a lot of trial and
error and trying to see, you
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know, what's actually producing for us. But Um, you know, it's
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just a matter of trying different things, trying to understand how to if you're
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only getting two to four percent,
you have to know that. The you
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know, if you're selling five dollar
products, you're not going to make a
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lot of money. But if you
start to get into the one products,
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then there's some opportunity to make some
much bigger commissions. At the same time,
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there's more risk in that, especially
if you're going to go out and
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buy a product like that. So
you really need to do your research and
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try to make informed decisions on the
products that you buy, uh, so
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you don't take a bath and just
end up with some product that you may
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or may not have wanted. Um. But you have you have to be
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able to get that revenue back and
the first time we did that, uh,
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it was for a kitchen item and
it was three fifty dollars. My
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wife and I did the research on
it and then I keep I kept track
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of how long it would take to
earn that three fifty dollars back. I
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think it took like twenty days to
get that money back, and that the
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that video had gone on to earn
like two so it's like, you know,
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I wish every single product could be
that good. But you know,
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we certainly tried our best to to
see what was going to be popular and,
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Um, you know, what was
going to potentially drive us the best
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revenue, and I think that,
as a tip, the three dollar range
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is kind of like a nice place
to be because it's not so expensive that
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it's a rare purchase for people.
So the volume is going to be a
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little bit better than something that's maybe
a thousand or fifteen hundred dollars. But
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also at three hundred dollars you're getting
a fairly decent Um, you're getting a
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fairly decent commission on it. So
if you pick that three product in a
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four percent category, then you're really
going to maximize the potential there. You
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know, you get a good day
or they promote that product and you sell
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ten or fifteen of them in a
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to have a really good day.
So so, man, when you guys
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were strategizing, and I love that
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I had a product, a guitar, actually, a guitar that was sitting
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behind me before I put the screen
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One day I was like Oh,
I should just make a video about
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it, because I traded or I
sold a really expensive guitar I had for
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many years and then I just bought
like a cheaper guitar because I was going
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to travel with it or whatever.
and Um, and I made a video
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about it it, dude, not, I'm not even kidding you, like
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the next day it was just like
Ding Ding, like I was in there,
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like what the heck, and so
that's really what got me thinking the
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same thing, because I was making
videos about and I still do, man,
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I'll make a video about my flip
flops or about whatever. I don't
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care, like I'll just like if
I'm sitting here, I got a pretty
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good system of creating quick videos,
and so I'll just be like, okay,
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let'ten, just make it and go. But it did get me thinking
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I'm in the beginning stages. So you're
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like a year a half, maybe
year and a half ahead of me,
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two years. I don't know how
you've been on Um, but I've just
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started to focus on it in the
last thirty days and so now I've burned
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insurance through all these products and doing
some brand deals and and kind of getting
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my toes wet in some areas.
But I've noticed the percentages of different categories
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and now and I've also noticed that
one particular item has like been half of
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my revenue for the last thirty days
and I'm like, holy smokes, and
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it's nothing that I even know Jack
About, but I use in my yard
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every week in the summertime. You
know. It's like a weed eater or
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a leaf blower, and I'm like, my mind is blown, dude.
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I'm like, I'm thinking this microphone
or whatever is gonna pay the bills,
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and it's those stupid weed eater that
I complained about four years ago about buying
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is now doing the trick and I'm
like, all right, man, I
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get it, I see what's what's
happening. So are you, now that
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you've gotten hundreds of videos up,
are you now slowing down a little bit
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and analyzing those more and more and
more, or you still just burn and
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churn and making product videos about anything
and everything? The slowdown part is probably
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more so on the purchase than it
is on the videos. We basically have
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a rule that anything we buy from
Amazon now gets a video. Um,
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you know. So that's that's just
how it works. Um, sometimes I'll
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prioritize based on I mean there's like
some things I buy that it almost doesn't
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make sense to make a video because
the you know, the commission is going
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to be like five or ten cents
and I'm never gonna sell enough of those
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to worry about it. But Um, but yeah, there's definitely a a
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focus and an understanding every time we
buy a product, whether it's, you
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know, for specific to make a
video or just because it's something that we
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need. Um, when we're buying
something like that, we will look at
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some of the the the traffic on
that product to be like Hey, well,
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let's make a good video. So
if you have the option to buy
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two different versions of something and one
has like fifteen thousand reviews on it,
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we're probably going to jump on that
one versus the one that had seems to
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have less traffic. Um, just
for the idea that we want to get
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in front of as many people with
that video and try to recoup some of
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that money. Yeah, man,
that's a that's a great strategy and I've
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started doing that a little bit in
the last couple of weeks to like really
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paying attention to, you know,
different brands, but especially if a brand
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wants to offer me a product,
I'll go look at their listing first and
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I'm like, all right, man, you're not doing anything and this is
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and you want to pay me four
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Um. So when you yeah the
well go ahead, go for it.
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I was just gonna say the vast
majority of products that people reach out to
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you and want you to to make
videos on typically don't perform very well.
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So we were actually chatting about this
before we started, and the idea is
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that Um, at least from my
perspective, if it's something that is that
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has a high it's like a high
ticket item, and it's something that that
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actually interests you, then maybe you
would exchange that product for Um just for
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making the video. But understand that
for the the vast majority of those,
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you're not going to make your money
back on commission. So that's when you
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start to think about, hey,
I need to start charging for my time.
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What does that look like? How
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How does my price change based on
how much input the seller wants? You
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know, if they're just like here, make a video the way you make
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a video. That's one price.
But if they are, Hey, uh,
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cover these ten bullet points. Okay. Well, now you're giving feedback.
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That's going to change my workflow.
You'RE gonna pay more for that,
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that kind of thing. So,
uh, there's definitely some some opportunities there
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to kind of reel that in to
make sure that you're not over whelmed with
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a bunch of free products that you
promised to make videos on. Yeah,
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I I learned that the hard way. Like the first week I was like,
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yeah, I'll take anything and everything
to send it. Well, probably,
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you know, primarily because I'm trying
to Figu out my workflow. I
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didn't even have a workflow because I
just moved back from Puerto Rico, and
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so I was like, okay,
well, I getta I gotta make.
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I don't have products and I'll buy
a bunch of stuff because I don't even
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know if this is going to be, you know, viable. So when
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you're making these videos, and I
know you come from Youtube World, where
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in my in my like you know, viewing stuff, like your youtube videos
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are like super well polished, they're
super well done. You're sitting there and
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you're set most of the time.
UH, any B roll stuff is like
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really well done and then over on
Amazon it's a little bit more role.
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Can you talk about the differences of
what Amazon wants versus what Youtube wants?
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So this is speculation, Um,
just because, again, Amazon has not
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given us the analytics to really be
able to to see what's going on,
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because we can't see conversions based on
specific videos. You can kind of do
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a correlation if you've only made aid
one video and it's a specific product,
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but if you've put out multiple videos
on a given product, you can't see
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which one is performing better. So, Um, my approach going into this
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is that, again, going back
to that, people want to see this
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out in the wild. They want
to see real people using the product.
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And if you're, at least in
my opinion, if your video looks too
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polished and looks too Um, like
a like a brand spot, then like,
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what do we what do we think
when we see those videos that are
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made by the brand? Anybody who's
bought anything through the course of their life
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knows there's a little bit of bias
in those. You know what I mean.
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So all the claims that they make
in terms of what it can do,
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what it can't do, uh,
you don't really want to emulate that.
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You want, Hey, my name's
Dan, I've got this product.
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You know, it's bigger smaller than
I thought it's it's a lot more sturdy
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than I thought. They want somebody, you know, a real person,
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to kind of give some feedback on, you know, what they there their
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first oppressions and what their experience has
been with the product. And a lot
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of times it can be as simple
as hey, they just want to see,
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um, the product in hand,
because I you know, we've probably
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all seen, or have all seen, like the thing that comes to mind
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me always are the swimming pools they
sell on on Amazon, where they'll superimpose
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an entire family of six in this
pool and, you get it, it's
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like three FT wide, Um,
you know. So those are the kind
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of things that that you're helping those, Um, those shoppers figure out before
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they actually make the purchase, and
that's where I think the most power comes
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in terms of what you're providing.
So, yeah, it's I have the
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ability to make a polished video,
um, but I think it's the exact
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opposite of what you don't. You
don't want it to be sloppy, you
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don't want poor audio. Um,
you don't want low lighting, but aside
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from that, you definitely wanted to
feel more organic. Yeah, yeah,
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I've noticed that too, man.
I've seen the people I see doing that
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process. And once again, if
you will go watch my videos, they're
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probably a little bit more polished,
just because I'm shooting in studio and I
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have all this gear, because I'm
like just the gear nerds. I'm like,
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I'm gonna use it. Sorry if
it looks a little you know,
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maybe I should turn my lights off
and like like rip my shirt or something
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a little like just cut the top, like put some dirt on my face
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and talked. But Um, but
you know, when the one thing that
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I noticed with your videos, and
because you know, when I started,
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you know, subscribe to your newsletter, Upload Revenue. I'm sitting here like
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okay, this guy is like really
doing it, like this is real money,
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this is real income, and you
know you're very generous with that newsletter
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and you share a lot of insights, and so success leaves clues, and
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so I was like, well,
I'm gonna go see what he's doing.
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And then at the time, I
think I reached out to you. At
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the time, you know, I
had a business partner in this thing and
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we were, you know, debating
like do we take a course? Do
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we not take a course? Do
we do a workshop? Do we not?
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You know, what do we do? and Um, and so,
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anyway, I was like well,
dude, we couldn't make a decisions.
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I'm like, I'm just gonna keep
following Dan around the Internet and try to
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figure it out. and Um and
man, I don't know that I've figured
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I definitely have figured out what you've
figured out, but I've seen a growth
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just by kind of doing that.
You know, rall live to drive.
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Like, let me just share my
thoughts. This is billy having a beer,
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sharing it with a buddy Dan about
this you know whatever, like the
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solar power generator. Like I'm not
really talking about the science of the generator,
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I'm just talking about my experience with
the generator, and I think that
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might be what I see on Youtube
is a little bit more polished. We
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want to keep people longer, we
want them to settle in, grab a
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cup of tea, watch this video, because we just put more ad revenue
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in front of them. All that
kind of stuff, versus Amazon's like get
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to the point so they can hit
the buy now button. Is that fair
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assessment? For the most part,
yeah, you're you're simply trying to push
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them over the edge. But since
you you mentioned youtube, there is one
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kind of insider, insider tip on
this that that I highly recommend everybody does,
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and that is get in the habit
create a you tube channel Um,
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specifically to upload your Amazon shoppable videos
to after you load them to Amazon.
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Uh, go in there, put
your affiliate link in the description and just
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make it a habit of uploading them
to both places. And this does a
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couple of things for you. We've
certainly seen that those videos can in fact
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get traction and can start to generate
some some serious traffic. But it also
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gets them on Youtube so somebody else
doesn't steal them off of Amazon and upload
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them to Youtube because you're first up
there. It protects your copyright. It
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shows on a youtube that you own
that content. So it uh, it
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kind of will eliminate or reduce that, because that's a really big thing.
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People are going out thinking they can
steal somebody's content off of Amazon and then
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profit from it on Youtube. So
if you take care of that yourself as
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you're making these videos Um, then
you not only can protect yourself on the
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copyright side of things, but you
can and will get to point potentially where
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you can monetize that channel above and
beyond the Um the potential sales you might
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make off of your affiliate links,
which are going to be less than what
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you're getting on Amazon, but hey, it's one more revenue stream to help
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add to the pile. Yeah,
man, that that's what I'm talking about,
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Dan. All these streams of revenue
keep the boat floating. If one
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dies or drops off, it's like, okay, we're not gonna sink.
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I learned that the hard way in
the last business that we talked about pre
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show. Uh So, man,
on that Youtube Channel doesn't have to be
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published shows, because I do upload
all mine to a channel, but in
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full transparency, they're on draft mode. I haven't gotten I haven't taken the
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time to get back in there and
publish and clean them up and all that
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kind of stuff. But does have
to be published? I well, no,
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they wouldn't have to be published.
I don't think to to protect on
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the copyright. But Um, if
you're doing it on a separate channel,
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I wouldn't even worry about cleaning them
up or polishing them. I would simply
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publish them, just just send them. I mean, nobody's gonna Stumble across
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this and go, yeah, I
can't watch billy anymore, this is trash,
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you know. So it's just better
to uh, it's better to put
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him out there and see what happens. Um Right. Yeah, I think,
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I think there's there's value there to
just just just send them out there
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and see what happens. Just send
it, man, I love it.
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Well, we get a question here
in the chat, so I will I'll
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go over the rich Graham says.
Do you make Oh, do you make
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it separate from your active channel,
which I think you just may be?
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Answer absolutely. Yeah, yes,
definitely, I would definitely. Well,
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for me, of course, because
these are, you know, it's like
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a toaster one day and, you
know, a tractor part the next day.
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and My channel is about, uh, you know, revenue streams.
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So that's kind of a disconnect for
me. But Um, I actually just
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did for mine. I just made
a youtube channel that that Um hinted at
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being Amazon theme, Um, you
know. So it can be like a
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great deals you know, I don't
know if you want to say great deals
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on Amazon for for you know,
trade mark violation and all that, but
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something that gives people an idea of
what the videos are about. Not that
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it really matters because the you know, the branding is not really what you're
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looking for. Um, but yeah, I get those videos up there and
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see what happens. Yeah, I
mean I think you know, I saw
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somebody on instagram kind of doing this, uh, and maybe she's an Amazon
422
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influencer now, I don't know,
but I know she was on instagram and
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she literally just started off by saying, Hey, like, here's a deal
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I found on Amazon. What did? She wasn't even associate or anything.
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She was just making content about deals
that she found on Amazon. And she
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started doing that because she was like
sharing with all her friends or her family
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and they're all like, dude,
just leave us alone, like we don't
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care, and then she's like wow, I'm just gonna start my own channel
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and then, I think now she
like crushes it with that. So,
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Um, that is a really good
deal to kind of take that mentality and
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put it on Youtube, because it
is still the biggest, large, third
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largest, second largest search engine in
the world or something. I don't even
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know, but it's a huge number
two to google to Google. Okay,
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Gotcha. I didn't know if to
talk was still knocking on its door,
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knocked it off the podium or not. I don't know. I don't know
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if tiktok would be would qualify as
a search engine. Um, and that's
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the other unique thing about youtube is
that it is a search engine. So,
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Um, you know, there's a
lot of people that go there to,
439
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uh, to solve problems and look
for answers. So that makes it
440
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kind of unique. So there's a
lot of opportunity on Youtube to approach it
441
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that way. If you, Um, you know, just want to pick
442
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a general problem and be the person
who answers questions people have. There's a
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lot of opportunity there to to grow
and you don build a brand for yourself.
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So so, man, what do
you see like when you see people
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getting into this space, like new
Amazon creators, and I know you're working
446
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with a lot of creators through your
program and through, you know, coaching
447
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and doing different things? What's like
the one mistake that you see people make
448
00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:52.480
over and over and over that you're
just like, dude, if you stop
449
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doing this one thing, you would
just kind of take off. or I
450
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mean, I don't know if there's
one thing, but like what's the biggest
451
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mistake? I guess I'll simplify Um. Yeah, I mean that's hard to
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say. I mean probably that when
it comes to to Amazon, Um,
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the biggest mistake that people, that
I've seen people made, because it's kind
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of, uh, it's kind of
a critical one, is not really understanding
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what the videos have to be before
trying to get approved. Because, like
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I said, it's three strikes and
you're out. So if you don't have
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an understanding of, Um, exactly
what to make those videos and you just
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try blindly three times by yourself,
without asking anybody else, you know,
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how they got approved, then you
certainly run the risk of locking yourself out
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of the opportunity. Um, and
then, yeah, and I do think
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to a certain degree, and some
of this kind of there are certain rules
462
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on Amazon you can't do like screen
prints of Amazon and things. So people
463
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who try to polish their videos a
little too much Um and think they're making
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them look more professional by throwing in
graphics and other things, they potentially could
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run the risk of of Um,
kind of messing something up that works just
466
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fine if it's, you know,
in its most simplest form. So,
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UH, once we get more analytics
will know whether or not the Polish ads
468
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or hinders when it comes to conversions, but for now it's it's kind of
469
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all speculation and just trying to do
what we think feels right and what generates
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sales. Yeah, Gotcha, man, and I think that's I think that's
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pretty true for the thumbnails portion of
it as well. I've tried. I've
472
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been testing a little bit but,
like you said, I can't. There's
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no real good analytics. So it's
not like I'm I'm like, yeah,
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I know this video is crushing because
my thumbnail was good, so I just
475
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gave up on him. I'm like
screenshot and the best part of the video
476
00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:44.599
and sometimes my face is like like
holding the product. So what's your strategy?
477
00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:48.240
There? And the same thing.
The title is the same. It's
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the same thing. We can't we
don't have enough information to make an intelligent
479
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assessment of what's best. What I
my personal approach is to just provide the
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clearest Um, you know, the
clearest image of the product or you know
481
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in whether I'm demonstrating it or whatever
the case. Uh, and nothing else.
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I don't put I typically I have
a few videos where I've tried some
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graphics, you know, some light
graphics or words on the thumbnails, but
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generally speaking I just do Um,
a screenshot from the video. Um,
485
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maybe I will edit it a little
bit too kind of Um, you know,
486
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tweak the saturation, make it pop
a little bit more than everything else
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that's in the carousel. Uh.
And then for the title, I go
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is much on in line with the
product name as possible, because Amazon will
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in fact show your videos on other
related products. So if you are on
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a specific product and you're trying to
go down to the carousel and scroll through
491
00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:52.079
real quick and you want to know
something specific about the product that you're on,
492
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you know, the top five toasters
as a title is not necessarily going
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to let you know that this video, know that you're about to click on,
494
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is for the toaster you're actually looking
at. But if you you know,
495
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if it's like, you know,
the toaster one thousand is in your
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title, then people know that this
video is specifically what they're looking for.
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It's going to give them answers about
the product that they're on right now.
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Uh. And that is why I
have tried to I've approached this very much
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from a Um, you know,
being as ascinct as possible, trying to
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give them the information they need as
quickly and straight to the point, without
501
00:33:29.079 --> 00:33:31.200
a lot of fluff Um. That's
how I approached the whole thing. So
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00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:37.400
it's title, thumbnail content is just
get them the information, show them at
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out in the wild and, uh, hopefully that's enough to get them to
504
00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:45.039
buy the buy the product. Yeah, man, well, I love that
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strategy. Like I said, I've
I've chased around the Internet for a year
506
00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:52.720
trying to like pick up the chromes
and figure out the pieces. And so
507
00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:55.279
I know for some people listening they
don't have my personality. They're not they
508
00:33:55.279 --> 00:33:59.480
don't have the tenacity to chase Dan
around for a year and put, you
509
00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:01.599
know, like pick up all these
little clues. And you have created a
510
00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:06.559
way for them to get direct access
to you and to the your course,
511
00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:12.719
the influencer one hundred times, where
you're literally saying I want to help creators
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00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:15.800
one hundred times their earnings on Amazon. So tell me a little bit about
513
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:19.679
that program and for somebody listening,
and maybe they're new and they don't want
514
00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:22.400
to spend a year chasing around,
which I don't blame them. They just
515
00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:24.960
want to spend some money, get
in your world and learn what you know.
516
00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:30.960
Talk to us about that a little
bit. Absolutely. So. The
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00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:36.599
course is called influencer one x and
the site is influencer one x, the
518
00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:42.599
number one hundred x course dot com. Uh, and it covers everything from
519
00:34:42.599 --> 00:34:45.000
getting approved for the Amazon influencer program, which you need to do, and
520
00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:50.960
what the requirements are, uh,
in terms of having something established following on
521
00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:54.800
another platform. Um. And then
it goes into exactly what you need to
522
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do to get approved. So the
there's a process involving first three videos and
523
00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:05.280
what that process looks like in terms
of what to put in your videos to
524
00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:08.920
give them the best possible chance to
get approved, because those first three videos
525
00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:15.239
are a little more, Um,
uh critiqued than the rest of your content,
526
00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:19.320
which I think is more automated,
where those first three videos might have
527
00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:23.559
some manual intervention which leaves a little
bit of subjectivity in their analysis. So
528
00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:27.760
you don't want to give them any
reason to failure. Um. And then
529
00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:30.039
it starts. And then it goes
into the process of trying to find ideas
530
00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:36.920
for products and how to pull your
lifetime, you know, Amazon Order Report
531
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:42.239
for inspiration in terms of UH products
that you might already have around your house
532
00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:45.440
to make videos. Uh. And
then it talks a little bit about what
533
00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:50.039
to look for, Um, in
in what kind of products to to make
534
00:35:50.119 --> 00:35:53.599
videos. And we're also working on
a kind of an advanced strategy that we're
535
00:35:53.599 --> 00:35:57.880
going to add to the course to
anybody who purchases the course. Um,
536
00:35:57.960 --> 00:36:00.400
they will have continued access to that. So the advanced strategies come out,
537
00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:05.960
they will automatically have access to that
additional information as well, where we're gonna
538
00:36:06.039 --> 00:36:08.639
kind of dive into a little bit
of case study on some of the things
539
00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:14.960
that we've done to to generate more
revenue, uh and talk about some different
540
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:20.639
ways to to raise your monthly revenue. Um. So if you've hit a
541
00:36:20.639 --> 00:36:23.559
plateau or you're not seeing the growth
that's maybe some other people have seen,
542
00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:29.199
uh, this will hopefully give you
some ideas to Um, start to scale
543
00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:35.239
and uh kind of invest in the
whole process to to get a more Um,
544
00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:38.519
a larger number as a monthly recurring
revenue for for Your Business. Yeah,
545
00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:42.039
man, I love it, Dude. I think it's awesome. I
546
00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:44.880
need to look at it again because
I'm sure there's more stuff that I have
547
00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:47.239
not unveiled about you, Dan,
that I can't, that I can't,
548
00:36:47.480 --> 00:36:51.760
I can't just fine on the Internet. But but so, man, I
549
00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:54.639
really appreciate you, you know,
being here talking about your your course,
550
00:36:54.760 --> 00:36:59.519
talking about how people because it literally
has changed my life, like it literally
551
00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:01.760
there was some stuff that I was
trying to do in the content creative space
552
00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:06.920
that just didn't make any sense for
me and my personality, and then I
553
00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:12.199
found Amazon live influencer and it was
people like you and Monty and deal casters
554
00:37:12.199 --> 00:37:16.039
that were posting the opportunity that kept
it right here instead of down the road
555
00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:21.239
or later when I get back or
whatever, and so it's literally been a
556
00:37:21.239 --> 00:37:23.480
game changer, you know, in
my life. So I really appreciate you.
557
00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:28.679
You're putting these events together, you're
putting together this course, and also
558
00:37:28.840 --> 00:37:31.360
right behind you as people of video
coming up in September, and I know
559
00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:35.480
I'm asking you to promote two big
things right in a row, but I
560
00:37:35.480 --> 00:37:37.400
want to, I want to kind
of you know, I'm not that just
561
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:39.440
like give back, you know,
but I do want to give you opportunity
562
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:44.599
on my show because you have been
such an inspiration. So, Um man,
563
00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:46.519
tell us about people of video,
tell us how we can get involved
564
00:37:46.599 --> 00:37:51.360
and why we need to book our
flights right now to Albany New York for
565
00:37:51.480 --> 00:37:58.880
September. Absolutely so, people of
video, is a concept that, um
566
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is near and dear to me,
and that is bringing the video community to
567
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the East Coast. We're here in
Albany New York and it's all about giving
568
00:38:05.679 --> 00:38:09.920
you the tools from the people that
you followed for years on Youtube and other
569
00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:15.159
platforms who have taught you from afar
about how to do things like growing your
570
00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:21.719
your influence and your following and and
making more money and actually generating a business
571
00:38:21.719 --> 00:38:25.079
and revenue around your content. We're
super excited. This is our second live
572
00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:30.920
in person event. Our first one
got the old Kabash on it from from
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00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:34.599
covid but, uh, we're super
excited. This year we're sponsored by e
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Cam. Uh that it's a great
relationship. That's you know what this live
575
00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:42.400
streams running on right now. They're
fantastic, um. But more importantly,
576
00:38:42.599 --> 00:38:47.519
we are talking all things video and
business and how to grow your revenue around
577
00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:52.159
that business. And we're also going
to continue to increase our focus on Amazon
578
00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:57.519
video and Amazon live and we're going
to have tracks, uh, and you
579
00:38:57.519 --> 00:39:00.280
you will probably see some people that
you're from, mimiliar with in the Amazon
580
00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:05.679
space. Speaking from the stage this
year we are thrilled to be able to
581
00:39:05.679 --> 00:39:09.480
bring everybody in and share their expertise
and get more exposure to Amazon for for
582
00:39:09.679 --> 00:39:13.599
video creators as a whole. So
you can grab your tickets at people of
583
00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:16.000
video dot com. Uh and yeah, we want to get everybody here in
584
00:39:16.039 --> 00:39:21.519
Albany, New York at September ninete
and it's gonna be a party. We
585
00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:23.599
already have a lot of amazing people
that we saw last year. They'll be
586
00:39:23.639 --> 00:39:27.599
coming back. We have a bunch
of New People that have signed up and,
587
00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:30.360
like I said, that relationship with
e Cam just makes it great.
588
00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:34.639
It's an awesome, awesome live streaming
community over there and we can't wait for
589
00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:37.920
everybody to get together in Albany.
Dude, Heck Yeah, man, I'm
590
00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:40.760
excited. I put the request into
the old wifee so we'll see what she
591
00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:45.920
tells me. Oh Man. So
well then. I know I could probably
592
00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:50.480
ask you a million more questions,
but I just wanted to give people kind
593
00:39:50.519 --> 00:39:52.599
of like a little, just a
little taste of the icing on the cake
594
00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:55.960
here and and I want to encourage
them to dive deep with you and and
595
00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:00.480
take the course and show up to
people of video and really dive into it,
596
00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:04.000
because it is huge, live selling, and not just on Amazon but
597
00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:07.519
as more you know, companies roll
it out in more opportunities. I know
598
00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:09.159
you're going to be in the front
lines figuring it out and saying hey,
599
00:40:09.320 --> 00:40:12.960
check this out, do this.
So, Um, the more you guys
600
00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:15.400
can get involved with Dan, do
that sooner than later. Um. But
601
00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:17.800
man, any closing thoughts? Anything
I didn't set you up to say that
602
00:40:17.800 --> 00:40:22.679
you'd like to to mention or or
whatnot, and I'll promote your newsletter because
603
00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:25.000
I'm a huge fan of it.
So I won't make I won't make you
604
00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:30.440
promote a third thing. I'll promote
it at the end for you. Yeah,
605
00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:34.039
right now our focus is people of
video and trying to make it the
606
00:40:34.079 --> 00:40:37.880
absolute best conference we can. We're
excited to uh get it all planned out,
607
00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:40.480
where it's coming up, where I
think we're like six weeks away now.
608
00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:44.480
So we are pumped and we want
as many people there as possible.
609
00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:46.360
So if you have never been to
a conference and you're on the fence,
610
00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:51.199
I remember when I went to my
first first conference, I had a conversation
611
00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:55.320
with my wife very much like billy's
referring to and and so I surprise she's
612
00:40:55.320 --> 00:41:00.320
like go for it, and it
really did change the trajectory of what I
613
00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:01.880
was doing as a video creator,
because when you get in a room like
614
00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:07.800
that, it is it's just transformative
because you're surrounded by like minded people.
615
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:09.960
It's not you trying to tell somebody
in your family about video and they just
616
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roll their eyes and don't really get
it. It's very uh. There's the
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synergy that's created by surrounding yourself with
people who get it and can share what
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they've done to be successful. Is
really powerful and it will totally change the
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path that you're on and and help
you get closer to your goals. Yeah,
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man, well, Dan Uh,
if you haven't figured it out,
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I'm a fan boy. So I
really appreciate you being on the show.
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Man. It's a huge honor to
have you and hopefully I will see you,
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meet you in person Um in Albany. Hopefully that that'll be a real
624
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reality for me and man, so
high five, long existence. Thanks for
625
00:41:44.519 --> 00:41:46.599
being on the show and uh,
and we'll catch it again. Well,
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you know what bring you back on
and as this thing develops and as you
627
00:41:50.639 --> 00:41:52.360
are for running it and figuring it
out for us. We can bring you
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on and do some updates about m
anytime. So yeah, man, I
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really appreciate you. Thank you so
much. Alright, yes, thanks.
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Yeah, man, absolutely. And
that is it for creating daily today.
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If you didn't get something out of
that, and once again it wasn't like
632
00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:09.159
having to bring him on and do
a step by step, but it was
633
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just talking about the possibilities, a
little bit of ticks, tricks, tips,
634
00:42:14.719 --> 00:42:16.480
strategies, all that kind of fun
stuff. But if you want to
635
00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:21.639
get into Dan's world, go head
over to Um. The link that I
636
00:42:21.679 --> 00:42:25.760
put in the in the description here
is a link to like a his link
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00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:30.719
page that shows always linked. He's
got the people of video on there,
638
00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:34.960
he's got his latest youtube videos on
there and he's got the upload revenue,
639
00:42:35.079 --> 00:42:38.360
which is the weekly newsletter. Now
he's been busy with people of videos,
640
00:42:38.440 --> 00:42:42.280
so it might not be weekly,
you know, until after that events over,
641
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:45.079
but jump in there because there's gonna
be stuff you pull from that email
642
00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:50.320
that's going to just take you to
the next level of your Creator Journey,
643
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:54.480
either on Amazon, on Youtube or
other platforms where he's helping you monetize and
644
00:42:54.519 --> 00:43:00.280
create revenue into your Creator Business,
and be sure to join me on Thursday.
645
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We're gonna be a regular time,
four PM on Thursday. Uh,
646
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we're gonna be with Zach Mitchem.
We're gonna WE'RE gonna talk about gear,
647
00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:09.400
we're gonna nerd out a little bit. I asked him to be on the
648
00:43:09.440 --> 00:43:14.800
show. He's another Amazon Creator and
Youtuber and I asked him to be on
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the show and immediately our conversation went
to gear and I was like, well,
650
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I guess I know what we're talking
about. So if you're interested in,
651
00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:22.599
you know, podcast gear, livestream
gear, what can you do?
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00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:28.199
What little tweaks can you do to
make your video pop um while you're making
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00:43:28.239 --> 00:43:34.239
these videos for Amazon or you're making
videos for Youtube or Tiktok or instagram or
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00:43:34.239 --> 00:43:37.599
wherever you're creating video, there's gonna
be some tools that are gonna help you
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out. So be back here Thursday
at four PM. And once again I
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missed the Oh no, there's the
end screen. All right, we'll see
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guys then.
