💵 Rolling in Dough with Amazon Shoppable Videos 🎥

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SELLERS & CREATORS MAKING BANK with SHOPPABLE VIDEOS

The Amazon Creator hub, specifically Shoppable Videos, is generating huge profits and conversions for a lot of sellers and creators, aka influencers. The best part: video creators do not need to drive traffic or promote on social media!

The Amazon Influencer program is an offshoot of the associates (affiliate) program and is specifically designed to utilize UGC (user generated content) on Amazon to help shoppers make more confident buying decisions.

Content creators who are approved for the Amazon Influencer Program create product specific content, and Amazon places it in various onsite placements.

Commissions range from 1-4%, and product research is critical for success.

There is also a huge opportunity for brands to work with influencers in the program. A major advantage is you can talk to the influencer and guide them (unlike Vine Voices).

The influencers help shoppers make more confident buying decisions by answering questions about your product and showcasing features. It’s a win-win-win-win. You sell more, Amazon makes more, the influencer makes commission and the shopper feels good about their purchase.

Early data shows that shippable video influencer content can increase conversion rates and kickstart the sales flywheel, and help keyword ranking.

Ten percent of the folks in a mastermind group called Anonymous Influencers are making more than $10,000 in commission per month. Typically they have created around 1,000 videos to get to that level of earnings.

The average shoppable video influencer who is serious about creating with intent can make about $1,500-$3,000 per month - not bad for a housewife, college student or a musician waiting for his or her next paying gig.

One creator I know in Austin has made over $50,000 in passive income by creating just 200 shoppable videos - last year.

Another creator I know walks around her house and friends’ homes shooting items, then uploads them to Amazon. She also sometimes buys products to review. She makes about $1,700 in monthly commissions. She says it takes about 5 hours to make 50 videos, and AI video tools help speed the process.

The most successful creators purchase products to review with intent or work with sellers directly to create for them.

Liz Saunders, the creator of FluencerFruit has personally netted $5,000 off a single video she made explaining how to assemble a tent.

She worked directly for Jungle Scout founder Greg Mercer for six years before branching out on her own in May 2023 to create FluencerFruit.

It’s the X-Ray of product research for video creators.

Fluencer Fruit is a Chrome extension that allows you to find the best products to create videos for. It shows if the product is eligible, the commission rate, how many videos are already in the carousel, and estimated monthly unit sales using Jungle Scout data.

It also scores the product - a score of 70 or more is a golden opportunity.

For a shoppable video to be eligible to appear on a product listing, the listing must first have a video uploaded by the brand or seller.

Creators and influencers who are approved into the program create product review or instructional videos that Amazon’s algorithm places in the video carousel on that creators’ Amazon homepage, on qualified seller listings, Inspire and Discover feeds, and other mobile and desktop spots.

The video carousel appears in image spot #7 on an Amazon listing, and can contain up to six videos. If a shopper clicks to purchase the product after watching the creator’s video, the creator makes a commission.

The fewer the number of videos for a tagged products, the more likely the creator/influencer’s video will show and lead to a commission.

To be approved to be an Amazon Influencer, you’ll need a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or Facebook account with 1,000 or more followers and good engagement on your posts. If a product is for a child under 13 or features a child, an adult must also appear in the video (ideally with their face visible).

Amazon will sometimes approve influencers with less than 1,000 followers if the engagement is strong. The type of engagement they look for, in order, is: shares, saves, comments, likes.

If you are trying to get approved, make sure you are doing call to actions (CTAs) in your posts for shares and saves rather than just asking for likes and comments.

Creators can tag up to 3 ASINs in one video, which make them great or cross selling (as long as in the same category) other accessories or complementary products (ex: replacement hose for a power washer), or comparing one seller’s product to a competitive product and potentially redirecting some sales to a seller from a competitor.

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Liz has an excellent training course she created with Toni Herrbach on how to get started. If you want to try FluencerFruit, code BDSN501 will get you 50% off the annual plan for life since you are a newsletter subscriber.

Sellers looking to be connected with top notch influencers to create on-Amazon shoppable review videos can DM Liz directly to discuss working with her agency, Fluencer Fruit Connect.

Tools like Be.Live can also help simplify the entire video creation process for influencers.

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MADE IN CHINA, SOLD ON AMAZON

American sellers on Amazon now constitute less than 50% of the market, with a record low of 48% of top third-party sellers being U.S. businesses, according to Marketplace Pulse research.

This decline from a recent high of 55% in March 2022 was influenced by factors like lockdowns, supply chain disruptions, and Amazon's policies. On the other hand, Chinese sellers, who predominantly use Amazon's Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) service, have been expanding their market share.

Despite a brief setback between November 2020 and March 2022, largely due to Amazon's suspension of numerous top Chinese sellers, the trend of "Made in China, Sold on Amazon" persists as the dominant narrative.

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SOME CATEGORIES CAN ADD 3D CONTENT to LISTINGS

Amazon has introduced the ability for Brand Registered sellers to upload 3D content to their listings to help educate customers about the product and get them excited about the brand.

It’s not available in all categories yet, but if you sell in categories such as home, furniture, consumer electronics, shoes and eye-wear, Amazon is supporting it.

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