Maybe you've read before in Amazon comments where it says, "I received this product "either for free or for a discount." That's why that disclaimer is there. Now recently, there's kind of been a change in the industry where Amazon doesn't really allow that anymore, and so you always gotta do your due diligence and your research. What it is now is these sites still exist, but you get the free stuff and you're not required to review it, right, but you can.
They still send you the stuff, and then it's optional. If you're building your brand as a reviewer, of course, you know, you are going to review it. I've heard lately that you actually don't even need the disclaimers anymore. Anyway, do your due diligence, of course. I'm not a lawyer. I'll link up the latest resources in the description below, but I want to share with you my five-step process for how I actually apply this to YouTube and earning income. Step number one is to just sign up for an account at AMZ Review Trader, right? What's kind of cool is they have an auto-responder email that helps you start learning the process so you can get approved for free stuff.
Number two, you want to optimize your Amazon profile. Think about it. You're actually kinda making an impression on brands, so if you have a theme. On my profile, I say that I'm all about doing tech stuff as well as lifestyle stuff, which is really my thing. I kinda put that in my bio. I try to have a good picture and a description. You know, you just want to make an impression. If someone's gonna send you something, you know, what kind of impression are you giving off? Optimize your profile 100% on Amazon. Number three is before you even request any products, start reviewing things that you've already purchased on Amazon.
That kind of builds up your library. Maybe you've never written a review before, and make sure that it's quality. They actually score you so they'll say based on your word count. They'll say you have a D- on your review scores. Try to put quality reviews out. It helps if you get up votes, you know, on your reviews. Also, pictures and even video clips help even more. Again, that's gonna show brands, you know, that they want to send you free stuff because you built a reputation and you have a history of doing quality reviews. Then number four is go into the shopping area and apply to review free products. You can pick, you know, all these different categories. Literally there's everything. Now of course they're not, as far as I've noticed, giving away 4K HD TV's, right? There is a lot of different cool stuff and sometimes you gotta dig around, but you just go shopping and then just apply for anything that you would be interested in.
Then once approved, they'll send it to you and then what you do is you do a text review, right, on Amazon. Here's where it gets really cool and where I take it another step so then you can actually earn money off of the stuff that you got for free. What then I recommend is that you create a YouTube video. Now at this point, you're done with your responsibility, you know, for AMZ Review Trader and those companies. Now you have some free product and you've tested it out, right? What I recommend is you make a review video on your YouTube channel, and then you do what's called affiliate marketing.
That's where you can sign up for Amazon Associates, and then what happens is if you put a link to that product that you just reviewed and someone clicks on it and purchases it, you get a commission. To recap, right, super cool. You're already applying for things that you're passionate about and maybe that your YouTube channel is based on. Maybe you haven't even started a YouTube channel.
It's a great time to do it because product reviews can really help you build some side and even part-time. It's actually how I built a full-time income. Go through the whole process of the text review on Amazon, but then take it onto YouTube and then actually monetize those product reviews. If you do this in a very strategic way, it can actually be something that really builds your income over time. Those are my five best tips. Hey, if you're actually interested in learning more about how to profit from doing simple product review videos on YouTube, I put together a free training with some case studies, some tips, showing you how to set this up.
That's actually available at createawesomereviews.com. If you want to get access to that, I'll put it on the YouTube card in the description below or you can just go to that URL. Question of the Day: Do you have any cool ways of getting free or discounted products from Amazon or from any site? Let me know about it in the YouTube comments below. Remember that actually some of the best tips and advice come from others doing the same as you.
Definitely connect with everybody in the comment section. Thanks so much for checking out this video. Definitely subscribe for more videos just like this. Hey, do you know someone who's trying to build their influence and income online? If so, would you share this video with them? That would be super awesome. Hit the "Like" button. I actually put together a playlist of the product review series, how to get free products, ways to set these things up, all of my best tips on a YouTube playlist so you can check that out. I'll link it up on the YouTube card as well as in the description below. Keep crushing it, and we will talk soon. ♫ Short and sweet is better ♫ Question of the Day (beatboxing and snapping) (rhythmic sounds) Cut. Keep crushing it, and we will talk soon. The weird pointy finger. What's he about?
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