This week I was shown a video on TikTok of a guy talking about another video that was circulating on the same video sharing social media platform.
The video I watched was using the video of a woman using a newly designed bagel slicer which she bought from Amazon, as an example for affiliate marketing.
The video of the woman using the bagel slicer had been watched 40 million times, possibly more by now.
This guy was talking about how the woman was missing out on a potential £680,000 in Amazon affiliate commissions because she was not an Amazon affiliate and had not shared a link to Amazon.
He speculated that had she been an Amazon affiliate, she could have generated £680,000 in commissions from that one video alone!
I can’t remember the details but he said out of that huge 40 million views, if just a small percentage of people (possibly 0.5%) bought the £16.99 bagel slicer and Amazon paid her a commission for each sale, she would be making a lot of money.
He worked it out to be somewhere around £680,000. I don’t know how accurate that is, but it is a decent figure for a video which was no more than ten seconds long!
This had me thinking.
TikTok videos get a lot of views. Those videos can send a lot of people to specific websites and pages.
TikTok videos are mostly short in length, as are ‘Reels’ and ‘Stories’ on Facebook & Instagram, and YouTube ‘Shorts’.
You can get a lot of eyes on a lot of easy-to-create short content… that doesn’t actually involve any selling.
This could be a fantastic way for people to make money as an affiliate by signing up to Amazon, purchasing cool new products and recording a short video of them in action then sharing those videos to all of the platforms mentioned above along with affiliate links to those products.
The worst thing that could happen is that you earn enough over the year to pay for all of the purchases leaving you with a load of free tools and toys to enjoy… which you could sell on eBay to make more money.
The best thing that could happen is that several videos capture people’s attention and go viral and are seen by hundreds of thousands or even millions of people resulting in you earning thousands of pounds in affiliate commissions.
The videos do not need to be long and you don’t need to stand there and talk about the product like a shopping channel presenter.
You can if you want, but a lot of videos simply show the product being used by a person with text which appears over the video saying something like:
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‘Found this awesome bagel slicer on Amazon. It is incredible! I don’t know how I managed before without it. It makes slicing the bagel so easy. Click the link to learn more.’
You could do videos for so many new fantastic inventions such as the battery operated motion sensor LED lights that you can place around your house which allow you to walk around at night without having to turn lights on.
These lights come on automatically as soon as you approach them. Not only are these good for night time visits to the bathroom when you don’t want ‘big’ lights on, they could be good for saving money during the current cost-of-living crisis.
I don’t know how much it costs to charge the lights up but they come on when they detect movement, they go off after a short period of time and are made of energy efficient LED bulbs.
I’m sure these lights would save money in the long run and people who want to cut down on bills would love to have them.
Videos showing products which can help people save money or do something easier than how they were previously doing it, is going to attract a lot of attention and potentially a lot of buyers which can mean a lot of commissions.
It appears to be a relatively simple and easy to do business model. One which I believe has a lot of potential.
For this you need a decent smartphone, a tripod, possibly a light to prevent videos being too dark, and a free (or cheap) video editor to add text to the videos.
Platforms such as Instagram allow you to add text so you may not need an editor.
Videos that look as if they were created by amateurs can often have better results than those that are professionally created as they appear to be made by ‘ordinary’ people who are genuinely happy with the tool/product and so video viewers feel an affinity to them.
With that in mind, you don’t want to make videos too professional looking which is great news for people like us who can only manage to point, shoot and add a few lines of text… nothing else is required.
Does this sound like something you could do?
Kind regards
John Harrison
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Once you have this up and running correctly, it can reward you with an automated passive income for many years.