Amazon FBA is a fast-moving, ever-changing selling platform with aggressive competition. But what, exactly, do the numbers tell us? Amazon Prime has over 200 million subscribers. About 147 million of them are located in the U.S. Amazon does north of $400 billion a year in revenue these days, making it the third largest company in the world. There’s approximately 350 million products being sold on Amazon.com currently. And Amazon only sells 12 million of those.
Affiliate marketing’s awesome. It really is. But while there’s more opportunity for affiliates than ever before, there’s also never been more competition. And no, don’t worry, I’m not about to tell you affiliate marketing is dead. It isn’t. And it probably never will be, at least in our lifetime. But, what I wanna talk about today is, like where’s a beginner even start? Blogging? SEO? Facebook ads? Launch a YouTube channel? Try your luck with TikTok ads?
Low content publishing will be impacted by a recent KDP change. Amazon basically said they were no longer gonna provide free ISBNs to low content book publishers. Which leaves ya with two options. One, you can publish your low content books with no ISBN. Or, two, you can always buy your own ISBN for each low content book. This applies to notebooks, planners, journals, and other similar works that have repetitive pages designed to be filled in by the user.
Sophie Howard has a Kindle Publishing Income course where she teaches people how to start an automated income business on Amazon that doesn’t involve physical products. Instead, you get eBooks ghostwritten for you and then sell ’em through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform. It’s funny though, she used to brand herself as “The Amazon Selling Queen” and tell everyone there was no better business than selling physical products on Amazon. Hmm.
Rob Kosberg is the CEO of Best Seller Publishing, a training company that helps you publish, promote, and profit from your own best-selling book. “Could self-publishing one book make someone the most famous expert in their market?” he says in a YouTube ad. “Where they also create a legacy of over $100 million all before they turn the age of 40? I’m talking about Russell Brunson. Before Dot Com Secrets, I knew him as a genius marketer working hard to become who he is today.”
Jeff Lerner thinks, if you want real success, you gotta get extreme. There’s so many people, so many businesses. And quite frankly, there’s not enough room for everyone to be millionaires. So it’s gonna be a small percentage of people that achieve extraordinary results, right? “And those are gonna be the ones that are the most extreme,” Jeff says. “And the most intense. And the most driven. And the most direct. And the most assertive. And the most confident.”
FBA Masterclass is Tom Wang’s “how to make money on Amazon” course, which, even he says you don’t need to buy. “You do not need to purchase any courses in order for you to be successful in anything,” Tom confesses. “Nowadays, information is a commodity. You can access any sort of information from the comfort of your own home, on your iPhone, which I’m assuming you have. The most important part of starting any business? Is to simply get started.”
Liz Herrera, aka Hurricane Liz, is a former poker player turned ecom entrepreneur. She started out, years ago, doing retail arbitrage on Amazon. Which basically means she went thrift shopping, marked the items up, and resold them for a small profit on Amazon. Eventually she graduated to wholesaling, partnering with someone who already had the hook up on brand name products. With this, yeah, your margins are even thinner, but it’s more sustainable.
Here are the basics. First, can you really make passive income with Kindle publishing? If you’re writing the ebooks yourself, obviously, no, you’re gonna have your work cut out for ya. But what if you use a ghostwriter? Then you can just sit back and collect checks, right? Back in the day, maybe, but not today. It’s too competitive. So even if you outsource the actual writing of the books and the cover art, you still gotta market it, advertise, optimize, get reviews, and so on.
Are dropshipping challenges genuine and helpful for aspiring dropshippers? Or are they more like bait to get you to buy some YouTuber’s course? Who, when it’s all said and done, doesn’t actually profit anything from dropshipping itself? For example, there’s this dude, Ac Hampton. Calls himself a CEO and 8-figure marketer (LOL). Makes all kinds of YouTube videos catering to beginners. Portrays Shopify dropshipping as fun, fast and easy, right?
Surplus Fund founder Spencer J. Vann says it’s not about seeking more information; it’s about getting the right information and putting it in the right sequence. “I’ve spent thousands of hours studying this stuff,” he says. “Probably tens of thousands of hours. It’s not an exaggeration. Like I’ve read hundreds of books. I’ve had the opportunity to meet a lot of really amazing people. People that are next level. And I’ve also been around people who are the opposite, right?”
Tai Lopez has spent the last decade trying to research, study, and experiment his way to the good life. And money’s a big part of that, right? It’s interesting, Tai says, the 10 richest people are now worth more than the bottom 3 billion people combined. How’s that fair? It’s not. And yet, that trend’s only gonna get worse. The rich are only gonna get richer. So we can either cry about it and stay poor or we can educate ourselves and join them.
Robb Bailey set out to build a business that was not only highly profitable, but produced what he calls holistic ROI. Which is basically profitability plus time freedom. He and his partner, Ryan Moore, help other digital marketers achieve this same business bliss inside their SWAS Agency coaching program. And it all starts with creating the right offer. You wanna sell money; a return on investment. Not web design or SEO or social media marketing. But money.
Launch My Agency founder Jason Wardrop says there’s five simple steps any beginner can follow to go from zero to $30,000 per month as a digital marketer. He launched his agency about seven years ago and grew it to more than 15,000 paying clients before a successful exit. Now he spends the majority of his time making content to share what he learned along the way. Scroll down and read on for an overview of Jason’s digital agency training.
Publishing Life founders Rasmus and Christian Mikkelsen, more commonly known as the Mikkelsen twins, have outsourced most of the coaching inside their flagship program, Audiobook Income Academy. Nick Morrison and Cody Smith are two of the main coaches now. In a recent video they discussed a mostly free way for self-publishers to make more sales. Influencer marketing, basically. But how do you do it? Is it really free? And does it even work? Read on.