The Amazon Influencer Program: Is It Still Profitable in 2025? Kathleen Kobel Interview
YouTube Creators Hub
Dusty Porter
4.7 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Dusty chats with Amazon expert Kathleen Kobel about turning Amazon Influencer content into a full-time career in 2025. They dive into tips for getting started, finding winning products, balancing content quality, and building long-term income as a creator.
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Kathleen Kobel is an expert in eCommerce and the Amazon Influencer Program. She has helped launch and grow over 1,000 brands on Amazon for multimillion-dollar companies and now teaches entrepreneurs and content creators how to build profitable, sustainable income streams. As the author of The Unconventional Business Model and creator of the Influence & Earn program, Kathleen empowers others to break free from the 9-to-5, maximize their earnings, and create a business that fits their lifestyle.
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| 0:00.0 | So I usually ask people, what is your goal? |
| 0:02.7 | Do you want to make an extra $1,000 a month or do you want to make $10,000 a month and be |
| 0:08.7 | able to leave your job? |
| 0:10.1 | And that really starts with, that gives us a good indicator of the strategy that we |
| 0:15.4 | can move forward with. |
| 0:16.8 | If somebody wants to quit their job, then we say, buy the tool, go full force. |
| 0:21.3 | Welcome to this week's episode of the YouTube Creators Hub podcast where I sit down with a wonderful creator each and every week and I break down their success on YouTube. |
| 0:29.6 | We talk about their processes, the different tools they use, deep dives into their failures, and so much more. |
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| 1:29.9 | and that is just a behind-the-scenes look of what I'm doing in my business. It's free. I'm not pitching or selling you anything. It's just a way to connect with me. See what I'm doing in my business. So if you're trying to grow a brand, a business, YouTube channel, whatever it may be, the Entrepreneurs Minute is a great weekly, not spammy email newsletter that I think can be a good companion piece for you. So with all that said, let's go ahead and jump into this week's conversation. |
| 1:34.8 | Hello everyone and welcome to this week's conversation on the YouTube Creators Hub podcast. I am joined |
| 1:39.5 | today by Kathleen Kobel and Kathleen is an expert in e-commerce and the Amazon Influencer Program. |
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