You go, you reach out to an influencer on social media, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, wherever,

and you say, hey, would you be willing to promote my product? And then obviously there's negotiations.

Yeah, I can do a feed post, three stories, and a link in my bio for $900. And that's up front.

Like, you don't even know if they're going to even get you a sale. The thing I like about affiliate

marketing is you don't have to pay up front. So this great. know if they're going to even get you a sale. The thing I like about affiliate marketing

is you don't have to pay up front. So this greatly reduces the risk.

What's up guys? You're listening to another episode of Selling on Amazon with Andy Isam.

In this episode, I'm going to talk about Amazon's new built-in influencer marketing program.

Amazon Associates has been around for years.

This is Amazon's affiliate marketing program where pretty much anyone actually can sign up for an Amazon

Associates account. You can get your own custom links for any product on Amazon, literally any

product. You just go to Amazon.com. When you have your Amazon Associates account, you'll get a little

custom link. You can share it anywhere with anyone

and earn commissions off sales. Let me just give you an example of how Amazon Associates work.

Once you are accepted into the Amazon Associates program and you log into Amazon.com,

you'll see this little bar show up at the top. And it just

automatically shows up right here. It's this little gray bar here at the top of the screen.

And again, I can literally go to any product on Amazon, anything. And once I'm on the actual

product listing, like let's say, okay, here's some selfie stick thing and I use it or I want to

make a video for my Instagram about

it and I want to share it with my followers. You come to their page and they will auto generate,

again, notice these get link buttons right up here at the top. It will auto generate some different

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