759: Zero to $20k/mo with the Amazon Influencer Program

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This is zero to 20 grand a month with the Amazon Influencer Program. I've said it before, I'll say it again. The easiest money I've ever made online was part of the Amazon Influencer Program. Upload a short product review video, and if that helps convince someone to buy the product, Amazon gives you a little commission. Now, that program has changed quite a bit since we first started covering it, but my guest is proving in a big way there's still plenty of juice left to squeeze. From Hustle Buddies, Nate Jackson. Welcome back to the Side Hustle Show.

All right. Thanks, Nick. Yeah, thanks for having me back. It's been a while since our last session.

It's been 360-something episodes. Absolutely. So in this one, we're talking Nate's product selection and production strategy. tons of creative ways he finds stuff to make videos about. That was kind of the bottleneck that I ran into. And how you can get started to stack some extra income of your own. Now, Nate, you were kind of late, quote unquote, late to the game with the influencer program. You were focused on the e-com side, the FBA stuff. And so people said, look, influencer program, it's too late. It's too saturated. It's too competitive. But you were kind of like, let me see for myself. What do I have to lose here?

Yeah, if there's anything that like the Amazon selling space taught me, it's to stop listening to what people say about the space that you're in. Just try things out for yourself and just kind of dive in and do it. Do I wish I would have started this four or five years ago when it was just insanely easy and everybody was making... Fistfuls of cash? Yeah, I do. But I don't have a time machine. Can I start now? Yeah, I can. And is it still working very, very well now? Yeah. And is it highly saturated? I actually strongly disagree with that point. As someone who's coming from the Amazon seller space, I'm used to there being hundreds of thousands of people who are doing what I'm doing. I'm used to walking into a Walmart and seeing somebody...