656: $5k/mo Reviewing Products Part-Time: An Amazon Influencer Update

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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I called the Amazon Influencer Program the easiest money I'd ever made online. I made $100 in my first month, over $1200 in my first year, and last year, still made over $700 doing almost nothing. Set it and forget it. The basic premise with this branch of Amazon Associates is to create short product review videos, and earn a small commission when your review convinces someone to buy. You do need some level of social following and engagement to get accepted, but after that, you really don't need to drive your own traffic. Amazon posts your review videos on the relevant product pages. In this episode, we check in with Tyler Christensen from TylerChristensen.com — a serial side hustler, teacher, and dad of four who's lately been earning around $5k a month on the side from his product reviews. Tune in to Episode 656 the Side Hustle Show interview to hear: how to get accepted into the Amazon Influencer Program Tyler’s best practices for review videos The multiple revenue streams you can have as a product reviewer Full Show Notes: $5k/mo Reviewing Products Part-Time: An Amazon Influencer Update New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Airbnb — Discover how much your home could be worth and find a professional co-host today! Mint Mobile — Cut your wireless bill to $15 a month! Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! OpenPhone — Get 20% off of your first 6 months! Gusto — Get 3 months free of the leading payroll, benefits, and HR provider for modern small businesses!

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0:00.0	I call this the easiest online side hustle ever, but it's still a viable path to extra income.
0:06.9	We're about to find out what's new with the Amazon influencer program since we first covered it a couple years ago on the show.
0:13.5	This is the program that allows you to upload short product review videos and earn a small commission when somebody buys the thing on Amazon after watching
0:22.1	your video. At that time, pretty low production quality, relatively low competition,
0:28.1	and the best part, you didn't need to drive any of your own traffic. You just kind of sat
0:32.3	there on the product pages, and if somebody watched it, you earned a little commission.
0:36.2	Very much said it and forget it, probably as close to passive income on the internet as you can get.
0:41.0	To date, I've earned over $2,000 as an Amazon influencer.
0:46.2	Very, very part-time, very passive, which is great.
0:49.7	But that pales in comparison to today's guest who's earned over $130,000 as a product reviewer,
0:56.6	lately around $5,000 a month on the side from his day job, which I think is pretty cool,
1:01.7	from creator side income. Tyler Christensen, welcome back to the side hustle show. Thanks. Great to be
1:07.8	back. A lot has changed since we last chatted a couple years ago. So it's fun to be back talking about Amazon.
1:13.9	Yes. So catch us up. Now, whenever the proverbial fruit is as low hanging as this, it tends to get picked over.
1:21.2	At least that's the trend that we've seen over the last 10, 12 years of the show. But catch us up. What's been going on in the Amazon influencer world for you?
1:27.9	Well, so the Amazon influencer program is largely the same as it was two years ago. The idea
1:33.0	that you can just film a video on your phone of some product and upload it to Amazon, like you
1:39.0	mentioned, very low-hanging fruit, you can, at least in theory, do that in two or three minutes,
1:44.7	take a one-minute video, upload it, tag it, and you're done, which means if you work really
1:50.7	hard, you could do hundreds a month. Two years ago, hundreds of videos a month would result in
1:56.8	thousands of dollars a month in earnings for the influencer. That is no longer the case.
2:02.1	However, I agree with you that it's still the easiest side hustle that's out there. No startup
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