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We sit down with Reezy Resales to talk about making real income outside YouTube AdSense by using Amazon’s on-site video commissions and brand programs. We break down what’s working right now, why it’s surprisingly simple to start, and how to turn product reviews into recurring revenue without losing your voice. 
• Reezy’s origin story from reselling used books to building a YouTube business 
• Why AdSense is unstable across niches, seasons, and demonetisation risk 
• How the Amazon Influencer Program works with shoppable product videos 
• Creator Connections explained, including product requests and bonus commissions 
• Real-world numbers, time investment, and what “recurring” actually means 
• How to choose products using revenue and video carousel competition 
• Why authenticity beats polished brand videos on product pages 
• Starting fast by reviewing items you already own around the house 
• Repurposing Amazon videos to YouTube with SEO titles and affiliate links 
• How Amazon affiliate cookies can pay on bigger carts 
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The Big Money Claim

SPEAKER_00

And I'm telling you, it is the easiest way to make money I've ever seen on the internet in 20 years plus. If I did nothing for the next 30 days, I guarantee I would make it at least another 6,000. You might have just changed my life.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, welcome back to the only podcast that helps you make money in ways other than AdSense. I'm here always. Every week, I'm Travis, I'm your host, and today we have a great guest that's going to help you understand more about how to make money so that you can make more content that you're passionate about. Uh, and my friend Reezy Resales is here to help you do that. Reezy, say hello to everybody.

SPEAKER_00

Hey, what's up, guys? So happy to be here. Um, I love vid IQ. I use vidIQ every day, and um, nice to finally meet Travis face to face. We've connected on Twitter over the years, but this is uh our first time face to face, so that's always nice.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it's gonna be lots of fun as we uh kind of brainstorm different ways to make money, and we're gonna talk about your journey as well. But if you're new here, we're here to help you grow your YouTube channels and in this particular episode, grow your business. A lot of people don't think of their YouTube channel as a business, but it is because ultimately you want to get paid. So if you're new here, you can hit that subscribe button. If you're listening to the audio podcast, all the notes will be in the show notes below, of course, on the YouTube channel in the description. All right, let's start with you. Tell us about who you are, and then we'll start. Uh actually, before we even talk about that, let's talk a little bit about you, but tell us what you were doing before YouTube, like before you even jumped on YouTube or anything like that.

Starting YouTube And Finding A Lane

SPEAKER_00

So in 2004, I started selling on Amazon at the time I worked at a skateboard shop. This was, I think it was the first year that Amazon FBA came out, or the first year that they allowed third-party sellers to utilize Amazon FBA. And I was selling used books at the time. So uh before it's still a pretty lucrative uh route for physical products on Amazon. But as a young kid, I was, you know, that kid selling candy at school. I was I used to sell on Yahoo auctions. I don't know if anybody listening even knows about that. Um but then eventually in eBay, and you know, I learned how to get banned essentially because I broke the rules a little too much and got my mom's eBay account banned for life. Um, but through the process, you know, I learned I learned stuff, you know, and uh I grew up in a not the best situation, and so I didn't have money a lot of times, but what I did have was I I gained the ability to recognize opportunity. And um, since I also had no money, I would always share those findings with my friends. Just simple stuff. Like, you know, one day I realized that that buy one, get one free whopper coupon that's in the free newspaper every day, that you could just go to Burger King and then talk to someone in line and be like, hey, I'll give you two coupons if you use this one to get a free burger for me. And that's how I would eat. And I could go home and maybe there was food there, but my dad and my dad is like an alcoholic, drugs, like maybe I'll get my butt whooped, maybe he'll just say, Oh, you gotta stay in for the rest of the day. So I didn't want to go home, so I had to figure it out, and that's kind of the genesis of still what I'm doing today, because I learned how to make money and then I would share it with people. It's except it's on the internet now. So 2004, I start selling on Amazon used books. I work at the skate shop, I put a hundred thousand in the bank in the first year of selling used books on Amazon. And this is like buying them for a quarter or a dollar, selling them for 10, 15, 20, etc. etc. There's a nuance to it, like you have software, now it's on your phone. Back then it was on a PDA, and uh you have barcode scanners, you scan the barcode, you download the database from Amazon, like there's a whole lot going into it, shipping products to customers, like etc. etc. So that's what I was doing from 2004 until 2016. And I always wanted to be famous. Like, I remember being a kid and learning about famous people in history and being like, yo, how do I get my name in those books? You know, like I want to do something worth remembering. And so, um, and I'm a skateboarder, so I've always been messing with video cameras since uh VHSC days, since I was in eighth grade or something, and um, so have experience with cameras basically. And I saw Casey Nice that video one day, and I was like, that's pretty cool. But then I like realized how famous he was, and I was tripping. I was like, wait, like this is cool, but it just feels like a skate video to me, the way he edits, you know, like very fast-paced, a lot of jump cuts, but with an artistic flavor. And I had seen that in skateboarding, and I was like, wow, and then I seen like people are like chasing him, like he's the Beatles. And I was like, wait, what? People are this jacked off of video editors? Like it's blowing my mind. And so at the time, I I mean, I still have a good friend of mine, Garrett Jenner, who is a YouTuber um for way longer than me. I think he probably started when like 2012, or I don't know. But, anyways, he does skateboarding, um, and now like fabrication, welding, car racing stuff or whatever. But he's a good friend of mine. And in skateboarding, everyone's like really open with each other. It's like a real authentic no BS culture. And so I just was like, hey, seen him at the park one day, and I was like, Garrett, I was thinking about doing this YouTube thing. Like, what's up? Like, is it real? And he was like, Yeah, bro, it's real. And he pulls his phone out and shows me his bank account app with a$20,000 deposit from AdSense. Wow, and this was before Adpocalypse. So he was like the peak of his career. Now he's probably not making anything off that, even like four channels at once. But it was enough for me to just be like, Okay, that's it, send it. And that week I actually just like an act of God, I happened to find a copy of Crush It by Gary Vee. And uh I scanned it. It I could buy it for 10 cents. It wasn't worth selling, but I kept it because I part of being a bookseller was I read a lot of books too. Like I would come across a book and it'd be worth a hundred bucks, and I'd be like, This old thing, why? I have to know why. So I would just read it, even if it wasn't my, you know, my subject or whatever. So I read this crush it book in one evening by a guy I never knew, heard of called Gary V. And it's called like the subtitle is like how to use social media to cash in on your passion, and it's literally top of mind for me. And I was like, wow. And so I read the whole thing and it changed my whole mind because I thought I was gonna be like Casey Neistat. I thought I was gonna be a vlogger, I thought I was gonna be editing or whatever. And then what I realized was I was like, oh, I had this unlocked knowledge in my head about how to make money, and all I have to do is share this with people and they'll love me. Like it's even easier. I won't have to be creative, you know what I mean? And I was like, that's what I like doing, anyways. And so that night I started basically Reezy Resales. I came up with the name, you know, my last name is Rezendes, my actual name's Mike, but everyone always called me Reezy forever since high school. And so uh Reezy Resales, it was, and I went on that website that lets you check every, you know, social media platform at once, and it wasn't taken, and I bought the domain, Facebook group, etc. etc. And uh just started making really terrible YouTube videos. But I mean, telling people what I'm doing, but honestly, people to this day still tell me like my first 50 videos were some of my best content, which kind of blows my mind because at the time Snapchat was still really popular, and I was I'm a I'm a big efficiency lunatic, and uh Snapchat was going good. I was still in the like growth phase, and so I was doing things like video replies to every message I got because I it feels more intimate, but also weirdly, it's faster than typing, you know what I mean? And so, but what I started doing was I started vlogging basically with Snapchat horizontally, not vertically, horizontally. I just told everyone I was like, hey, if you want to watch me, like I'm sorry, but I'm doing this sideways because I'm gonna put it on YouTube after, and that's it. And because I have a background of not like filmmaking, but like making movies for skateboarding, and I've been in various video productions class since sixth grade. And uh I was like, oh, okay, I'm gonna make the movie in Snapchat, in the can, basically. If you don't know what in the can means, it's like you're editing in the camera, so like in the which is how we had to do it when I was in sixth grade because non-linear editing hadn't even came out yet, right? Right, yeah. So film Snapchat, export it, rotate it, put it on YouTube, and I called them Snapisodes, and I did like 50 or whatever. But peep but that was what really got me taken off on YouTube. And um, anyways, I had this long-term goal of like, hey, I won't someday I want to meet Gary V and like shake his hand and tell him thank you, because he literally changed my life, and like and now I'm changing other people's lives, and like I'm getting to the point where I've been doing it for like a year, and like I remember one time I ran into this couple in Disneyland, and the wife just starts crying and was like, Reezy. And she's just like telling me how her husband had a job for 10 years, hurt his back, they canned him, no workers comp. And because they found my content on YouTube, because they searched how to make money online, literally, which is one of the keywords I target heavily, uh, which is wild because it's a broad search, you know? They found me, did it, whatever I provide, they believed me, and and it worked, and now they're good. And and like the the wife got to come home from work too, and now they're both at home and they're making more and they're with the kids. And so I was like, oh my god, like I I grew up in like a selfish family that wasn't religious, and so I never believed it was better to give than to receive. But now I'm I'm I I can't deny it. I'm feeling it, you know what I mean? You can't buy that feeling, and so even more so hammered that journey to go see Gary Vee. And I did a lot of strategic stuff to make it happen. And eventually I was on uh his podcast, and then I got him to be guest number 100 for my podcast, which was filmed in his office, of course, because he doesn't go anywhere. But uh yeah, that's kind of what I that's kind of the journey of how like Reezy Resells started and some of the reasons why people might know me.

CPM Reality And Niche Economics

SPEAKER_01

That's so crazy. I love that. Um, and it's more the cool thing about this is the journey is about breaking people free uh financially to be their own boss in a way. Now, not everyone wants to be their own boss, but I think most people want to have some sort of freedom, right?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Um and you're so it is sorry, I just want to add one thing real quick. That what you just said is is so true, and specifically with me, because there's a lot of people in the make money space. There's a lot of people in the make Amazon space, but a lot of those people, people like me, would never believe them because I would turn on your video, you're wearing a suit, you know what I mean? Your house looks like you have 10 maids, you have two Lamborghinis, you know. Yeah, it just doesn't seem real to me. Like maybe it is real, but like you hustled so hard, I'm just like, yo, that's rented, that's rented. It just doesn't connect with me because I come from literally nothing. And so I think that's what resonates more with me is I'm not the guy that's like, hey, you could get a Lambo. I'm the guy that's like, hey, I know you probably don't like your job. Here's another way you could make money in less time and then have more free time to control your life. So I'm not saying like, here's how you get the Lambo, here's how you become a millionaire. I'm saying here's how you own your time. And once you own your time, the upside is unlimited. And who knows, you know, where you're gonna go after that. You might you might be teaching me next year, which might be the case.

SPEAKER_01

You never know, right? And that's what I like about this, is because it is more reasonable. And the thing is, um, putting all your all your ducks in the boat of YouTube AdSense is kind of a slippery slope for a number of reasons. Number one, every niche that you're in pays differently. So you might go, oh, this person gets this much money, but if you're not in that niche, it's not necessarily going to be the same. Number two, there's the occasional time where you get a bunch of bombed videos in a row, and all of a sudden that money goes down. Number three, everything's seasonal. So that's another thing you really can't control. And probably the biggest thing is what happens if you get demonetized for some weird reason, like the AI goes crazy on YouTube, and now you're demonetized. Now what? You have something that you are are working on that has that allows you to do the content you want to on YouTube and have fun and have a passion, but also make money so that you don't have to worry about paying your bills. I love that.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that's a that's a huge part of it. And oftentimes, I mean, I'm not really religious, but I do believe in like fate and karma. And so, like, I guess I'm spiritual and uh it's just so many things lined up for me, for me to fall into that, like video experience in my life, sales experience, like et cetera, et cetera. And then I think about like what you just said about how certain niches pay more. I just accidentally fell into the highest paying niche possible. Do you know what I mean? Like you couldn't, you couldn't sit back for a month and select a niche, maybe one or two niches. I don't know. Maybe sports betting or something is higher, you know. I don't know. But it's insane. Sometimes I get, you know, like a$50, a$20 CPM is low for me. A$50 CPM is low for me. I've had over$200 CPMs before. It's ridiculous, but it's not, you know what I mean? It's it's just completely accidental. And it's like my friend who I was speaking about earlier, the skateboarder, I was showing him my CPM, and he has like over a million subscribers, and I probably only had a hundred thousand at the time, and he was blown away because his CPM was like seven dollars.

SPEAKER_01

Right. And that's more common. So for people who don't know, CPM is cost per milli, which is kind of a around the best way to understand how much you would get paid is RPM, which they came out with uh a couple of years ago, which tells you about how much money you're making per thousand views. And to be clear, it's not like a perfect thing, it's not like you're getting paid this exact number every thousand views, it's kind of an estimate. Um, and what Reese's talking about here is that there's certain niches that pay better because of the subject matter that you're covering, so that when advertisers add uh advertise against those videos, their their return on investment is usually higher.

SPEAKER_00

Let me expound on that real quick, just in an easy way to explain it to people. So the way the value of the CPM goes up is because people compete with each other to buy the ads on your channel, right? So if my friend Garrett, his channel is skateboarding, most of the people watching are, you know, children or young adults who don't have a lot of money or maybe don't even have a bank account. And so the advertisers on there are like Carl Jr., McDonald's, you know, Fortnite. And you have to understand why it's low. It's not necessarily because they don't have good monetization options, it's because they have to convince a kid who then has to convince an adult to buy it for them. Right? So there's a lot more friction. And then on my channel, the advertisements are from scammers essentially trying to sell you$3,000 courses. So they compete because everyone that clicks on their$3,000 course, if they sell one out of a hundred, it's just math for them. They'll keep running that ad. It's profitable.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and your your particular niche about reselling are people that are business minded and maybe have a little bit of money to spend and certainly to invest in things that's going to make them money. So they they will pay more for that advertisement because the audience you have is actually who they really want to get a hold of.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, and and B2B is is a lot easier than B2C because B2B is like businesses buy things because it saves them time or it makes them money, so it essentially pays for itself.

Why Amazon FBA Gets Harder

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, business to business or business to consumer. So yeah, those are those are those are niches that can make really good money. Now, it doesn't mean you shouldn't do your passion for content. What we're about to dive into is the ability to free yourself in a lot of ways in your life, which could include things like content creation. I've actually talked about this in a previous episode where some people will have a secondary channel um that's specifically made to be monetized so that the passion channel can be what it is. Because sometimes a passion channel doesn't perform as well as like, oh, I can do this faceless channel that just uploads these things that I know are going to go viral, but I don't care about them. Well, you have that pay for you know your passion channel, which might be sewing or gardening or gaming or whatever. So let's start talking about that. When did you kind of figure so again, uh, where we were in your story, um, you were selling in uh fulfillment by Amazon FBA, which is basically you send products to Amazon to sell on their website, and you get uh, you know, obviously your your profit from that. Um, but Amazon takes big fees and there's a lot of ins and outs and that believe it or not, I actually used to work at Amazon Corporate and I know about FBA because I used to work with that team. So I know the ins and outs of that. And it's while it can be very profitable and very uh lucrative, there's a lot that goes into it, and you need to invest a lot to get a lot. So the thing is you have to have money to get money, and if you don't have money to begin with, it can be very difficult. So talk about your journey there. You're an FBA, you're doing pretty good, and then what happened?

The Amazon Influencer Breakthrough

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so my lifetime of sales on Amazon from 2004 till 2020 is over 10 million uh gross sales, but it's not like I'm rich, you know what I mean? It's like it there's so much fees associated with that. To put that into perspective, when I first started, I could sell an item for$4 and then the payout would be a dollar thirty-five. Now you have to sell an item for, I believe, like$8.75 to get a dollar thirty-five payout. So the fees have increased dramatically. The prices have gone up a little bit, but not in line with the fees on Amazon, and people just assume things are cheap and readily available. And so then there's also um you have to jump through hoops and deal with all of Amazon's BS, and part of that's AI, and part of that's like you got banned for no reason, and you have to get a lawyer and you got to stay on top of it. And oh, tomorrow they just say uh you can't sell Yeti anymore, but you just bought 40,000 Yeti cups because you could sell them yesterday, but now Yeti is pressing Amazon to restrict sellers more because of under the guise of counterfeits, which sometimes I think these brands make the counterfeit problems themselves so that they can then pressure the law the lawyers to pressure Amazon, like whatever. Anyways, there is so much you have to deal with that to put it into perspective, everybody I know that is doing extremely well on Amazon to where they have employees, et cetera, like five employees plus, they have multiple Amazon accounts because you can't just be like, sorry, you can't come to work. Amazon banned our account. You have to have redundancy in your system. You know, it's just part accounts without Amazon's permission, right? So I sold on Amazon for over 20 years, and I actually completely stopped selling physical products about nine months ago on Amazon. The reason is not because I couldn't continue to do it, I was at the time making far more money off of teaching other people how to do it and YouTube, and that actually kind of happened within two years of doing YouTube, and so I became less and less interested in chasing the money because I'm making more helping others, right? And at one eventually it kind of made me start to feel like imposter syndrome took over, right? Because it's like, look, I'm teaching people how to be successful, and sure some of them are, but I'm not in the trenches anymore. And so I just felt uh, I guess, disenfranchised to what I was actually talking about. And so I shut it all down and I go to a conference in Miami, Miami Sellers Conference, and I meet uh a couple guys who have a software company, and they start telling me about the Amazon influencer program. And I had heard about it before. Um, and in fact, I did sign up and I made a couple hundred videos the year before for the Amazon Influencer program. And these are very simple, they call it shoppable content. So a lot of people call them reviews, but they don't have to be reviews. They could be reviews, they could be an unboxing, it could be me just showing it to you, it could be me just throwing a football around, and that's a shoppable video for a football. And so when I started a couple years ago, I made a couple hundred videos and I made it was a mind-blowing, like 500, 800 a month recurring off of uh a one off of a 40-hour effort to make a couple hundred videos. I did a long push for one week and then just watched the money come in. After about three or four months, though, something changed on Amazon and that six, eight hundred, nine hundred a month from those 40 hours of effort suddenly became 100 or 200 a month. And I have a lot of uh hooks in different pawns, you know, and so it wasn't as interesting to me anymore. And I don't have a lot of time to like keep my finger on the pulse of everything. I rely on people I know that have their finger on the pulse in different niches. And so I kind of like faded off, but then I met these software bros um for viral view, and they start telling me about the creator connections program. So maybe about 10 or 11 months ago, Amazon introduced something called the Creator Connections program on Amazon Influencer. And what that does is it allows brands to put a higher bonus on a commission for their item. But most importantly, it it gives you this messaging platform where you can request brands to send you products from inside of Amazon. So in July, I start sending a hundred messages a day to brands asking I'm using software to accomplish this. So it takes like 30 minutes to an hour. And Products start showing up at my house like a ton, a ton of products. I'm talking like no less than 10 a day, like 10 to 30 a day. And I've been sending these hundred messages since July. And so now I'm opening the boxes, reviewing the products, selling the products on Facebook if I don't want to keep them. And then the videos make me recurring revenue as long as I'm ranking on the product page and the products are in stock, etc. And so much of the knowledge I learned from being an Amazon seller and a content creator, it goes into this perfectly. And I'm telling you, Travis, it is the easiest way to make money I've ever seen on the internet in 20 years plus. All you do is just you request stuff, they send it to you, you make 60 second, 90 second videos. They don't have to be very well. Most of my videos are one take. You know, like if anyone wants to see my videos, uh just Google Reezy Reviews Amazon and you'll see my storefront page and you can see all the videos. It's not high production. You know, sometimes I do b-roll and then just put that over the main talking clip or whatever. But first month, I made 700 net profit. And this is all of this is working only like 15 hours a week maximum. First month,$700 net profit. Second month I did$2,200, third month$3,100, fourth month$4,400. And now I'm just finishing my eighth month and I'm at$6,000 a month recurring revenue. So if I did nothing for the next 30 days, I guarantee I would make it at least another$6,000, if not more, because that$0000 is my rolling$30. And some of those videos have only been up for a week or two. They haven't even lived for 30 days. And on top of that, brands will pay you to make videos too. So if I request, hey, I'd love to review this product, I drink coffee all the time, it'll be a knockout of the ballpark. So they send me this Yeti cup, right? And then next week they're like, oh, we loved your video. Can you do these products too? Now I say, sure, I charge$50 a product, right? We might settle on 30. But to get paid 30 to make this video that took me 90 seconds, these are the type of this is the type of deal where like people, I saw OMG Adrian posted something on Threads today. He was like, Man, can you believe the audacity of these brands? They want to pay me a thousand bucks a month to make 150 videos. And I'm like, Well, they reached out to the wrong creator because that guy's like winning shorties. You know what I mean? Like they need to reach out to Amazon influencers. I'm sure that's who that was supposed to go to, or like TikTok shop affiliate creators. Because I will make 150 videos in a month for a thousand, you know, depending on like the product. If I look at the product and think, man, that's gonna be really difficult to make a thousand videos. But let's say it was like or a hundred videos or whatever, and I was like, Oh, it's a protein powder. I make a protein smoothie every day. That's simple.

SPEAKER_01

Boom.

SPEAKER_00

You know, like 150 smoothies. Wow, easy, you know. So, but it's unbelievable. It's it's so easy. Anyone could do it, like, even if you don't, you don't have to be on camera, you can just show your hands. You could use AI to write scripts, and because you're talking about products from Amazon, all the data's there already. And like people are like, Well, you know, you gotta really do this and do that. Like, you don't have to make a cake in a cake pan to make a video about a cake pan. Do you know what I mean? I I might just I might just like try and flex it and punch it really hard and be like, look how sturdy this thing is. You know, obviously, if I've used it and I can then say, hey, I've had this for three months, I've made several cakes, there's no residue in it, it's still like that's a different kind of value, and that's good too. I'll make that video later down the line, too. Yeah, but it's it's a readily available opportunity for I was just looking at my my uh ATM Mini Black Magic. I sold two of those yesterday, and though they're like 550 bucks. So the commission on that is uh it was three percent, so it's like over fifteen dollars for each unit, you know. So it's like way I tell people is like, what if your blender could make you fifty dollars a month? You know, would that be cool?

How To Pick Products That Pay

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. So what so let's let's break it down because people are like probably listening, going, Oh my god, wait, what is this? So on Amazon, when you look at any product you're going to buy, you will nine times out of ten see these little videos there. And if you click on the video, watch part of it, and then buy the product, that um that video, uh the creator for that video actually gets a percentage. So that's what we're talking about here. We're talking about making videos that end up on the main page of uh the different products for Amazon. So the question I'm sure a lot of people are wondering, and and it isn't even signing up, because you can Google that and find out how to sign up, is how do you pick what products to make videos for? Now you talked about reaching out to companies, getting free things, but if you're just starting out and you're not getting these free products sent to you, how do you figure out what to make videos on?

SPEAKER_00

Uh, great question. Before we get to that, real quick, let me touch on the the comparison. I think that'll be easier for most people because they think of Amazon and they're like, what do you mean? And I'm like, okay, well, think about TikTok and TikTok shop affiliate. People are much more familiar with that because TikTok rams the shop affiliate stuff down your throat when you're on TikTok. On Amazon, it's different because on TikTok, you have to go viral and then people see it and maybe buy it. But on Amazon, we're putting our videos on product pages that are essentially already viral because they have existing organic traffic. And that to me is like, oh, such a relief. I don't have to be creative. I don't have to do like a viral hook. You know, like I don't have to say, hey, we're gonna review this tape measure today. You know you're about to look at a tape measure. You know what I mean? So I can look at it and pull it out and be like, only five inches, hold up, you know, like whatever. Um, so the uh the way I select products is it's all over the place. I'll do almost anything. Like I'm not gonna try and like I'm bald based. Me and you we're in the same club, right? But I review hair dryers sometimes, right? And so it's like I would look I would prefer to have my wife do it, but she doesn't want to be involved with what what I'm doing. And so I just do it my bald self and I talk about what I can talk about, you know. I'm like, oh, it's it heats up fast, like it feels quality in your hand. It's nice and heavy, but not too heavy, you know, like whatever. Um, but on a like on a more like data point, I try to choose products that have over$10,000 a month of revenue on Amazon because I get paid based on you know clicks, but interest matters and not all clicks turn into sales. And so I want to have an item that's getting a lot of clicks, right? It's already making sales. And on Amazon, you can just go to the page and see it says 100 sold in the last month, 200 sold in the last month. And if you multiply that number by the buy box price, the current price on Amazon, where it says if you buy it, then you you get a good estimate of the 30-day revenue. And obviously, these software tools help you do that as well. So that's one of the metrics. Uh, the other metric that I like to look at, and it's none of these are like super static. I will slide any of them, I'll break any of my own rules if any of the other rules look really, really good above average. Another one is currently Amazon only allows six videos on the top carousel. That means if the brand themselves has one video and they have to have at least one for the top carousel to be activated for the influencers, only five influencer videos can go there. So I'm looking for videos that have over 10,000 revenue, but less than six total videos on the top carousel. That being said, I will make content and request products for products that have like a hundred videos on the carousel, if maybe the revenue is 150,000 a month. Or if I looked at the top carousel and I thought at least one or two of the videos just sucked. You know what I mean? I'm like, oh, they're vertical videos. Horizontal works better on Amazon for whatever reason. And over 65% of my purchases are on desktop. And so whenever I see vertical videos, I go, because they have black bars on desktop. And I'm like, oh, okay, cool, I'll get a spot there. You know, or or if it's just like if someone's just doing an unboxing and it's a video, it's a product where I where I go, oh, that's uh you're just taking the easy way out. You know, like a lot of people do a real disrespect to the brands and the whole platform because they just they don't do anything but unboxings. Products come, they open them, it's top-down shot, they talk about it. That's it. And that might be valuable for certain stuff, but like it's not, you know, if I'm unboxing a phone charger. What? Like, you know what I mean? Like the way I would do a phone charger or a battery is again, I don't have to plug it into a phone or use it to show what I'm gonna show you is the size, the quality, how many milliamps is it? I might even throw some education in there to teach the viewer what that even means because most people don't know. And then I want to talk about the wattage, which is the real hammer jammer on the battery, and then how much faster it will charge compared to, you know, what your is it a chi one or a chi two wireless charger? Are we talking 25 watts? Are we talking 75 watts or whatever, you know? So um, but it's not it's not rocket science, you know. I'll do uh I just found out today I reviewed some perfume that I guess was uh uh bootleg Versace perfume or whatever. I didn't know. I just ordered some cologne and they sent me a three-pack, and one of them looks exactly like a Versace thing, but it's not labeled Versace on Amazon. You know what I mean? But I mean, and I I'm not a cologne dude, so like my review is like, hey, I'm not a cologne dude, I'm an average dude, but I think there's value in that perspective because I'm gonna tell you what I think it smells like. You know what I mean? And and I smelled it and I'm like, well, smells clean, smells like fresh linen or something, like whatever. Yeah, you know, kind of like how Gary V would did wine library, right? Because he he would say stuff tasted like a baseball bat handle or whatever, stuff people would not normally say, you know? Right. And I think the real important part is being authentic on the video, right? Because the reason people watch these videos is because the brand's video is like Yeti cup, you know, it's not even a real video, it's a CGI thing, it's way too perfect. And the other video is like a real dude who has this cup and he has four stickers on it, he's clearly had it for a while, you know, like, and you're just talking about the product. Like if you go too salesy, you're hurting yourself.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I agree. It's so interesting because it it almost sounds too good to be true, but um, Reese's the kind of guy who's been doing this stuff for so long, you just kind of have to believe it. I mean, you the the proof is in the pudding. The fact that you had a successful business selling physical products and you were like, I don't even need to do that anymore. And as a matter of fact, you wouldn't even recommend people do that anymore.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I can't ethically really interesting. I can't ethically recommend it anymore. So it's like now, and yes, I do, I did have a program teaching physical sales. Now I have a program teaching what I'm doing now, and I have to create two versions of funnels for this because one is like, oh, hey, you're here for this, here's what it is. And the other one is like, I know you're here to learn about selling physical products, but that's not the move anymore. You know, like we can always sell physical products, it's not going anywhere. You know what I mean? Like these people that are still hammering physical products and doing great, they're not gonna be doing like crazy great five years from now. They'll be maybe doing the same they're doing or a little more or whatever, but you could catch them starting from zero in a couple years if you bust your butt, and that's not going anywhere. But this opportunity right now is crazy. It definitely is like a spidey sense type moment where you're like, stop everything, and you know, this is what people must have felt like with like you know, Google ad words for like a penny or whatever back in the day. When, like, does it not anyone know about this? You know, like, are you serious?

Start With What You Own

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and I mean, listen, not everything is perfect, but the thing is if you can get into the program um and you add this on top of whatever you make on YouTube, whether it be your passion project or the sidehouse or whatever you're doing, this instantly becomes a game changer because it doesn't have to be super successful to be successful in your life. If think about it this way: if you look at your budget for a month, and let's say your budget for a month uh that you need to pay like your rent, your mortgage, whatever, and it comes to like three or four thousand dollars a month, maybe that's what everything is. It's it's it's all the food you do, it's the it's the cars, the insurance, it's the phone bill, it's all that stuff, maybe three to four thousand dollars a month, and this thing pays you five hundred dollars a month, that is not insignificant. And if that's just the first month and it continues to grow, like if you continue to do it and then it becomes two thousand dollars a month, that is more than significant. Like it starts to change your life very, very fast.

SPEAKER_00

This is a great point, Travis. And I think that a lot of people look at traditional business opportunities as I'm not a business person, I can't do that, I don't know how to do a business, that's hard. And I think society and culture has trained the average person to not be very good at delaying gratification. And if you can delay gratification just 30 days, I promise you that you will see the writing on the wall with this without investing a penny. Nothing. Just watch the free YouTube videos I've made, sign up, get approved, get approved for on-site commission, which is a second level, and you have to do it, and then review everything you own in your house. Like I'm talking about don't spend any time learning anything, don't get any software, just go through your house and review everything, starting with the things that are most expensive or you know are most popular. And these videos should be so quick to make that if when you go to post them on Amazon, you find out that product's not listed on Amazon, who cares? Because it would have taken you longer to find out if the product was listed on Amazon than it did for you to make the video, right? The things you have, everybody in America has probably 500, if not 5,000 products in their home. I mean, God forbid you are a woman and you start reviewing the beauty products in your bathroom. Do you know what I mean? Like every single product. People aren't, I'm talking about every spice in your cabinet, every book you own, every cookbook, every every cream, every brush, every anything. There is so many things. And if you happen to have expensive stuff because you're into niche hobbies that have expensive stuff, that is crazy. So, like obviously, I'm a creator. So some of the first stuff I reviewed is all the stuff I'm looking at, like my Elgato Stream Deck or my Black Magic or my Rodcaster or this SM7B. And I do make sales off those items. But guess who also made videos for those products? Every other creator, and that's like a no barrier to entry for a creator to get into a different kind of creating. But I know people that are like, oh, I do in-home care for my mother, and she has all these elderly products that are expensive. Things I never heard of, like a motorized recliner that like comes down lower for elderly people to get into easily and then takes them back. That's expensive. A chair lift that goes upstairs and bends the corner, that's expensive. And not only is it expensive, people probably aren't sending them as samples, and other people like me aren't even thinking about those products. We don't have access to it.

SPEAKER_01

But but what go ahead, go ahead. What you just said actually spurned an idea too. And I think it's something we talked about off camera a couple days ago. You can then uh you can repurpose these videos. It's not like you're just shooting it for Amazon. Yeah, you literally could then start a new channel, put all of those reviews on there, put SEO titles. You wouldn't have to do browse titles, SEO titles, for example, like this is the best uh you know uh baking pan you can ever buy, right? And then you have your affiliate links in there, and that's another link to get people to buy and get more money that way as well. And this again isn't your passion channel, it's a channel that you're repurposing the content you're already making for Amazon, putting it on a new YouTube channel. It doesn't have to get a million dollars.

SPEAKER_00

Think about what just happened. If you immediately made yourself available to B2B promotion transactions, right? Because now you are the B2C, right? You're advertising products to consumers, but the businesses want you to advertise their products and you get more like these businesses. If they're on Amazon, they know you're there, they see it. But if they're not in there, it's like you don't exist. So having YouTube, and so the software that I use, ViralView, has all this cross-posting stuff for YouTube. It makes it very easy. And it's not just YouTube, there's also Amazon Canada, Amazon UK, and Amazon Australia that you need to get your videos over to. So I have 1,600 videos on Amazon, and on YouTube right now, I have like 350 videos, and they're not anything new. They're the same videos just moved over there with a deep link to the Amazon link in the description, SEO titles, and that's making me 150 a month right now. So I doing nothing new.

SPEAKER_01

That's the same stuff you're already doing.

Repurpose To YouTube With SEO

SPEAKER_00

Nothing new. So I believe that once I get all 1,600 over there, that channel will be making me closer to a thousand a month, and it's also gonna get monetized. It already has 150 subscribers in the first 45 days, but it's so weird, Travis, because I realize right away no one's no one wants to be alerted for these videos. So I'm posting like 10 videos a day because I'm trying to catch up on my back catalog, it's still gonna take four months, but I turn off alerts for everything because why would I want if if I get a subscriber, I really don't want to bother them, right? You know, and I don't know why people subs would be subscribing to my review channel, and I do who knows how many different types of products, it's not like I do EDC only, I'm not crazy Russian hacker guy. You know what I mean? But and that guy was like the original UGC guy. I just realized that. But um, I use vidIQ so much for this because once the video gets to YouTube, now I have to do SEO titles on Amazon. No one's searching for your videos. They go to a product, they see five videos or six, and they click on one, probably the one on the top, but your title is like psychological in your thumbnail, right? On YouTube, it's search intent, 100% search intent. And it's people who are looking for this tape measure already, they want to know your experience, you know? And so it's you know, blah blah blah. Is this tape measure worth it? Uh blue point 25 foot review or whatever, you know, is this tool worth anyways? And it's uh you vidIQ makes the thumbnails, helps me with the titles, with the descriptions, like and even talking to the coach in there, which I I had to up, I got this for my review channel. Then I had to upgrade to Max and add my main channel, and now I'm I'm like talking to the coach in there, and the coach gave me some really good ideas. One of the ideas it gave me was hey, you don't have any playlists on your channel. Create playlists, treat it like a department store and organize everything like that. And that will train the viewers and we'll get more watch time. But more importantly, we'll train the algorithm because since it's a fresh channel uploading 10 videos a day, the algorithm doesn't have a clue what I'm doing, right? And it's hard for it to to pinpoint it. And then another idea it gave me was uh if you review multiple versions of products, let's say you do 10 RC cars or 10 flashlights, you could then make a video that says the top 10 flashlights on Amazon and then mash all 10 together, record a new intro, maybe not even a new outro, and maybe not even no narration or segment pieces or anything. And now you have a video that reaches a much broader audience because this person's looking for a flashlight but doesn't quite know which one they want yet.

SPEAKER_01

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00

Which is, I mean, and I just can't believe I literally just asked it, hey, how could I make more money on this channel? And that's what it told me. And that's like, yeah, that's what we're all trying to do, right? And it's like, I feel this must be how grandparents feel when they first get, you know, an Apple device, and they're like, wow, I could use the internet now, you know. All of us, I got my aunt, I got her an iPad mini maybe like six years ago. And before then, she was like, I I can't do the internet. Give her the iPad mini for Mother's Day, and now she's on Craigslist, Facebook, you know, sending me stuff, commenting on like my Reezy Resell stuff. I'm like, thanks, Auntie. Like, but that's you know, that's how I feel right now.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I think it's super important just to understand that again, not all content you have to put out uh on YouTube has to be, you know, the 20,000, 30,000 view video. I want you to just consider what we just talked about as we're landing the plane here. If you made a video that, by the way, you were already making for Amazon and you just put it on YouTube, use a couple of things from VidIQ, get it up there, and it maybe gets a hundred views. But 20 of those, because almost 100% of the 100 views are people that were actually looking for this product. So they actually had intent, as Reezy said, very important. And 20 of them, only 20 of them, clicked in and were like, yes, I'm gonna buy this because you convinced me. You've now added potential revenue. If then do that like 30 or 40 videos, and only 20 people a month press it, which is 100% possible. You can get 20 people to buy something over the course of a month. But if you have like a hundred videos doing that, that's an enormous amount of money to do nothing but just re-upload something you've already made to YouTube.

SPEAKER_00

It's crazy. It really changes your perspective because especially us creators, you've had some success. It's so common to just be like, oh, this only got like 5,000 views, you know, on my main channel. And then for the review channel, I'd be like, dude, this video's been up for 10 days and it has 13 views. God, or like three views or whatever. But then I remind myself that that same video on Amazon, which was probably up. Loaded the day before has less views. So, not like obviously those people are more likely to buy because they're on Amazon buying, but 14 views is not nothing to be sneezed at because one of those could convert and that could make you five bucks. And that five bucks is far a thousand times more than YouTube was ever going to pay you for 14 views.

Affiliate Cookies And Cart Bonus

SPEAKER_01

Actually, let's talk one before we finish. Let's talk about one aspect about uh Amazon affiliates and stuff that's actually really interesting. First of all, affiliates is when you have a link that um marks that you have sent traffic to Amazon. What's important about this is A, it doesn't cost the buyer any more money. So that's something that's you know, when I didn't understand what affiliates meant, and it sounds like a scam. It's not a scam, it's a link that goes to Amazon and it just marks it so with a cookie so that Amazon knows that you sent the person there. And if they buy the product, then you get um a percentage of it. Now, here's what's really interesting about Amazon. It's not just that product. If they happen to go Amazon and buy the product you had, or even didn't even do that, but they go, Oh, I gotta buy groceries, or I gotta buy this other thing, or heck, I had to buy a Sony camera. Um, you get percentage of that, even though you didn't make a video about that. If they go to Amazon and buy other things while they're there, and I think it's I don't think it's 24 hours, yeah. 24 hours, which is crazy.

SPEAKER_00

Let's put that into perspective with some real data from the channel. So if you're watching this and you have something in your cart right now, comment cart because I just want to see how many people are watching have something in their cart because you you when you go to comment this, you'll see the other comments that are already there, and that illustrates the point. Because yes, I might have got you to purchase this Yeti, but then you check out the next day a 60-inch freaking O L E D TV that's been in your cart, and that is 12, you know, that's what 2,000 bucks or something. And so even though commission standard commission is only three percent, that's a lot.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah. And all you have to do that is a couple times. I have cart things in my cart all the time. And if I just happen to have clicked this one thing, I'm like, oh, I gotta buy these scissors, and okay, I've I just found a review, I've found the scissors, I'm gonna click it real quick. Okay, add to my cart. My cart already has things in it. And if I check out, like I have like$500 in my cart and I check out, you get credit for all of that. Hello, what is going on? Yeah, it's incredible.

Sharing Links Ethically For Sales

SPEAKER_00

And like, let's reiterate it, it doesn't come out of your pocket, it comes out of it, doesn't even come out of the seller's pocket, it comes out of Amazon's pocket, right? And so I know affiliate marketing gets a bad rap, but I think that ethical affiliate marketing is is one of the best ways to make money. So if you are someone, even if you're not a content creator, if you're someone that knows a lot about stuff to where people ask you about stuff regularly, like my neighbor who has every tool in the world, I know I can borrow it. I know he has it. I don't even he has it, and he'll be more than happy to teach me how to use it for 30 minutes and let me borrow it. You know what I mean? That guy should be making content or or at least saying, Oh, you like it? Like, let me DM you the affiliate link, you know, or commenting on Facebook. So, like the other day, I'm on Twitter and it's just about mindset and like making sure you be more aware of it. So on X, Twitter, whatever, I'm really just like my normal self. I'm pretty bad at like pushing my brand or whatever. I'm just having conversations with people, but uh talking to someone about selling stuff, and he's talking about how he lives in a rural community with a lot of uh Hispanic speaking people, and it's hard for him. And I was like, dude, I live in a rural Hispanic community, and I have this device, which was again, it was a sample from a brand, it's a$300 AI translator. But you just hold the button, it has 150 languages offline. You just hold the button and talk, and when you release it, it says it out loud in the other language. And when they talk, you hold the button and release it. And I was like, dude, this thing crushes. And I just filmed a video for him real quick, just out of like a hey, this will help you out. And then in the last second, I was like, wait, add affiliate link. And then I did, and then he bought one, and that's a$300 product, but the creator connection commission on that was sixty dollars, so I think that's 20%. So I got the three percent from Amazon, but the brand has an additional 20%, so I also made 60 bucks, and that's just one one one time. Do you know what I mean? And so yes, you can get clicks and convert through organic traffic or whatever, but you can also proactively the one thing you have to make sure is that wherever you put a link, it's a public place that Amazon can backtrack too. Because if they backtrack your link and they can't get there, you won't get paid. So Twitter accounts because those are there forever, right? Um, your blog, etc. Facebook posts, like it's it's just insane. There's so much opportunity, and I I really want people to not be afraid to share affiliate links, or at the very least, like if you're listening to this, next time you go on Amazon, look at those videos. Go past the photos to the videos. You'll see says earns commission. Watch the video and ask yourself, could I make this video? Like, is there any reason why this person's getting this money and it can't be me? Click on their storefront, look how many videos they have, look what type of products they're doing. You know, I really believe this is the best opportunity, and it can change anyone's life who pursues it seriously for like 90 days straight. You could quit your job, you could have more time with your kids, you could travel more, you could start saving more, you could pay off your debt, you could start a second business, a passion business, a passion channel. Like you suddenly have your life back and can do what you want, not just what you have to do.

Where To Find Reezy And Close

SPEAKER_01

I love that. If you're listening to the audio podcast, there will be links in the description. Uh, and of course, on the YouTube channel, you can click the links in the description as well. Thank you, Reezy, for coming through and helping educate so many creators about the thinking outside the box on monetizing, because so many people think that it's all about getting monetized on YouTube when in reality you can make more money before you get monetized on YouTube in other ways by still doing the same content. So cool. So definitely make sure you check out Reezy. Uh, he is very passionate about that. And tell him uh we said you said hi. Tell him you came from the Bid IQ channel just to let him know that this was worth his time. And I think it was. I think we're gonna feel some people in the comments in an email saying, I I you might have just changed my life.

SPEAKER_00

Incredible. Love it. Thank you, thank you, Travis. I I hope that the the viewers and listeners, you know, take the information to heart because there's nothing more painful than um me like genuinely trying to help people and and telling them the sauce. You know, I'm leading them to the water and they told me they were thirsty, but when they get there, they just look at it and they don't drink it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, right. Exactly. Well, everyone here is thirsty. We know about that. And if you're watching on YouTube, I have another video right here. So you should make sure to check that out, and we'll see y'all in the next one. Peace.