 I'm Jim from the side hustle shuffle. Welcome to Amazon. How you doing? All right, calm down, that's enough. Okay, so we're going live, we're on Amazon, we're on YouTube, we're on Facebook, we're on Twitter, we're on LinkedIn, we're going live, we're using Restream to go live in all of these places. Great software to go live everywhere. You can get out there on everything. Now, come on over to Amazon because that's where I'm gonna be doing my carousel, the products I'm talking about are gonna be in the carousel on Amazon. And you can click there and go through and check them out and see what you like. A lot of them, some of the stuff I bought for myself, some of the stuff was sent to me for free to review. And I'll give you my honest review on what that is. But the first item I have in there is the Death Wish Coffee, my favorite beverage, Death Wish Coffee. I love it, I drink it all the time, I'm drinking it right now. What are you drinking? What's your favorite beverage? What are you drinking right now? Let me know in the comments, let me know what you're drinking. It's the world's strongest coffee, Death Wish, okay? But it's smooth, no bitterness. You always get those strong coffees with the caffeine and they have that kick to it, they have that strong bitter taste to it. Death Wish is so smooth, I love this coffee, it's great. It's absolutely great. Matter of fact, we just went to a concert at SPAC or here in upstate New York and they have a truck there. And I'm gonna show you a picture. This is us at the truck, they have a truck and they give away free samples and the world's strongest coffee, Death Wish Coffee Company, a pretty good place. And they gave me a free pair of sunglasses as well. Nice company, local company. This is what happened to them. Back in 2015, they won a contest for a Super Bowl ad. They got a Super Bowl ad for free. Now a Super Bowl ad, you know, is like a million dollar ad, right? So they got a Super Bowl ad for free, obviously being played during a Super Bowl. So being a local person, you always have a Super Bowl party and you always watch what you do. You watch the ads, right? It's the commercials are the big part of the Super Bowl. People who don't watch football watch the ads, right? And so it was a local company, Death Wish Coffee, and it was really exciting and here they are taking control of the coffee industry across the United States. And they're on Amazon and you can buy them, you can get it shipped straight to your house. I use the K-Cups. I have the box up here, K-Cups. You can't see it, can you? Bring it down. So there's the K-Cups, right? And the thing with the K-Cups that I like is that it's the perfect measurement, perfect serving size for a cup of coffee. You don't have to worry about putting too much water in, not enough water in, not too many coffee grinds. And so the K-Cups are the best, you get the best brewed coffee, I think, that's my opinion. What do you think? What's the best way? Do you like your coffee? Well, I like it with the K-Cups. So we're gonna talk about the secrets of affiliate marketing. We're gonna touch on affiliate marketing. What is affiliate marketing, right? Affiliate marketing is very simply promoting other people's products for a profit, for a commission. So just like a car salesman sells a car and he gets a commission or just like the Best Buy or they sell you electronics and they're gonna get a commission or the real estate agent's gonna sell your house, they're gonna get a commission. It's the same thing. You're gonna promote a product and you're gonna make a sale and when you generate the sale, you're gonna get a percentage and it could be anywhere from one to 2% all the way up to 50% and higher. It really can get crazy with affiliate marketing. And you find yourself a good product. You find yourself a good product with a good backing, with everything in place and I'll show you all of that stuff if you stick around. And it's all a numbers game and it's about driving traffic to these offers. You drive traffic and it's a numbers game because they convert, let's say they convert at 1% then you send 100 people there one person's gonna buy. So you send 1,000 people, they're 10 people gonna buy at 1% and it's a numbers game. You just have to send the volume of customers, the volume of traffic. Now, Amazon, people come to Amazon ready to buy. People come to Amazon very comfortable. They come in there to shop. That's what they come to Amazon to do. So when you come to Amazon, then you see, hey, that's where it's coffee. I'm gonna check it out. Jim said it's good coffee. It's a great coffee, by the way. It's better than good. It's great. And so Amazon, the traffic's already, what's they call warm. You don't have to warm them up. Affiliate marketing is about warming up the traffic and getting them to buy. And I'm gonna show you some numbers in a little while. We're gonna go through some stuff, but we're gonna run through a bunch of Father's Day type gifts in my carousel. And this first couple of, the next couple of items was sent to me by a company called Megawise. Megawise is a company on Amazon and they have good products and they sent me these things for free, the next few things. This is the back massager. Everybody is trying to sell a back massager online, right? Listen to this, solid. This thing is solid, okay? Look at the handle on this. This is the difference between those other ones. This one is not cordless. It's got a cord, full power all time, never runs out of battery, never dies. The attachments screw on real easy. They unscrew and they screw on. It comes with like five or six different attachments, the fingers and the ball and all that kind of stuff. It's got all the normal settings, the pulsating one, the running one, and all that kind of stuff, fast, slow and all that, has all that. But what it is, to me, is the ergonomic handle. Because I can get my own back with this. I can get my own side. I can run all the way down this back. To me, the other one, you can't do that with. My thighs, and I've been using this since I got it for my shoulders, my thighs. When I get home from work at the end of the day. I find myself to be less sore. Are we live? Beyond? All right, I got six people watching. We just had like a blackout a little bit. So I'm not sure, I'm hoping we're still live. I'm gonna run with it. We got seven people in the carousel over there. We got seven people over here. Anybody in the chat over here, not yet. Unmutant follow is always the way to go. Unmutant follow on Amazon. If we were talking about affiliate marketing, we were talking about, actually, we were talking about the megawise handheld massager that we were going through in the carousel that I was saying is a really good massager because it's got the ergonomic handle. You can reach around back. You can reach around the side. Not these ones you see in all the other streams with the pulsating with the, you know, it's cordless, it's cordless. Well, guess what? It dies, you know, this thing, you know, you get back from the gym, you get back from work, it's plugged in. What do you need a cordless one for? I don't know. Are you running around the neighborhood with a cordless massager? I don't know. But, you know, me, the cordless one, the corded one that I have from megawise never runs out of power. It's always full power and never gets weak. Has all the same attachments, has all the same settings. But do you see the handle on it? It's just, it's just, that's the deal breaker for me. I can, you know, go all the way down the back, you know, and really loosen up and need those muscles. The thing with these things that is good is you're getting the oxygen out of the muscles. You're needing the muscles so that you're not going to be sore and you're not going to cramp up later. It really does a job, really does a really good job. Father's Day, you know, Father's Day massager. Get the massager for Father's Day. Megawise, good company. Again, it's not cheap. That's heavy duty plastic. It's not a cheap little piece of crap that you would get, you know, who knows where. You know, but, you know, I use the thing every day. Like, again, they sent them to me for free, but I use it every day and I love it. It's great. It's a great massager. Megawise also has a couple of other things and I'm going to go through. This is the jump starter. This is a good thing to give you for Father's Day, for Christmas, for Father's Day. Comes in a nice little pouch like this. You can leave this in the trunk, okay? Now, you know, dad's always leaving the radio running or leaving the lights on in the car and a car dies, the battery dies. He needs a jump. This thing is in the box. It's got the jumper cables right here. You don't need another car. You don't have to go up to the creepy guy in the parking lot. Hey, can you jump my car? You know, you have jumper cables. You have this right in your car. Perfect, perfect Father's Day gift. Perfect Father's Day gift. Megawise is a great company. Another good thing about this, you keep this in your trunk. It's got USB jacks on here so that you could run your speaker or whatever you want to do. You're at the beach, you're at the park, you're wherever, having a party, barbecue. You can use this as a power source to power all that stuff. So, again, Megawise, good company and we're going to go through a couple of things. Now, affiliate marketing, all right? So what people do is they find themselves a product. They find themselves a product and they're gonna promote it. They're gonna promote it by either using some kind of social media edge, whether it's Facebook or YouTube or Google or some kind of edge. Or they're gonna use organic traffic like YouTube videos or organic traffic. You know, Facebook posts and stuff like that are organic traffic. But most people use an edge on affiliate marketing to drive the most amount of traffic in the least amount of time. And we're gonna run through some things here. I'm gonna share my screen. Okay, this is a place called DigiStore, DigiStore 24. All right? And it's basically, it's a marketplace where people put their products and they're gonna give you a commission. Over here on the left are what they call niches, all the different subjects, okay? Animals and pets, bedding systems. So we're gonna go to business and investments. We're gonna check that out. And we're gonna look at the crypto quantum leap, 50% commission. Now, this is a heavy duty product. It's a $2,000 product. You're gonna make almost $400 a sale in this product. But I'm just gonna use it as an example to show you how they do this. Now, if I pull up my calculator, can you see that? No, I'm gonna have to share the calculator. I don't think I can share the calculator too. Oh my goodness. So I go to here. I can only share one thing at a time. So I can't share you my calculator, but I'm gonna run through the calculations while I'm here. So over here, you got car conversions. So we're gonna send 1,000 people, okay? Let's say we're gonna send 1,000 people to this offer. So what a car conversion is, you're gonna send 1,000 people and you're gonna times that by 0.01 and that's gonna be 10 sales. You're gonna make 10 sales. But here it says cancellation rates. So people are gonna cancel, people are gonna return it, almost 4%. So the 10 people, four people out of the 10 are gonna cancel. So that means you're gonna make six sales, right? So you made six sales. Six sales times 395. Let me see what that was. 395 times six. That's $2,300, okay? Now, Facebook ads are on average. Facebook ads, Facebook, it's about 30 cents a click, okay? So it costs you about 30 cents every time you wanna make a click. So if you're gonna get 1,000 clicks and you're gonna times that by 30 cents, and you're talking about $300. So you're spending $300 on ads, okay? And in order to make $2,700. So is it worth it? You know, it is worth it. It is worth it. But here's the thing, what people don't wanna tell you because you'll see all these gurus on YouTube and they'll give you that scenario where you drive the traffic and everything and they'll even show you the cancellations that there is gonna be cancellations and returns. And so you understand it's legitimate, right? And it's a numbers game. If it converts it 3%, it converts it 3%, all you gotta do is send people there, right? But it's not that simple because you need what's called a landing page. You need the ad itself. Now the ad has different aspects to the ad. The ad has a title to the ad, you know, headline, right? It has the graphic of the ad, whether it's a video or an image, right? And it has a body of the ad, what's called copywriting, which is supposed to entice you to go to the next step, click the button, make the sale, you know, click onto the next step in the funnel, okay? All of those things have to click and work for you to drive those thousand clicks over to the offer. And they test these things, what's called split testing. So they'll take five or six different headlines, five or six different images or videos, five or six different copyrighted bodies, ad body, and they'll see which ones work and then they'll put it all together. The best ones of everything they put together make a killer ad and then they'll throw all their money behind that ad on the offer and that's how they're making money. So, you know, it's you need a lot of money to test to make the perfect ad, all right? That's why affiliate marketing, a lot of people get into affiliate marketing and they say, you hear $5 a day ads and people go, yeah, I'm gonna do a $5 a day ad and they go on Facebook and they pay a $5 a day ad and they put an ad out and it doesn't work and they go, this doesn't work. But they didn't do any testing. They didn't see if the headline was any good, if the graphic was any good, if the body was any good, if the sales was any good, you know, nothing. They just threw it against the wall, see if it worked and then said it didn't work. That's not how it is. Affiliate marketing works, it just takes money for it to work. It takes money and testing and time and when you find an ad that works, then you throw all your money behind that ad and then you recoup all that money that you spent, right? And that's how affiliate marketing works, okay? So, if you have any questions about affiliate marketing, affiliate marketing is promoting other people's products and we went on DigiStore24, right? And I can show you other products we can go through, let's say, let's go to dating, dating love, okay? His secret obsession is the same thing. So, they're saying the car conversions at 12%. So, you're gonna send traffic here and at 12%, it's gonna convert at 12%. But 14% is gonna cancel. Now, you're gonna say that's a bigger number but it doesn't work out that way. Let me pull up the calculator, I know you can't see it. But so, let's say you send a thousand clicks and it's gonna convert at 12%. So, that's 12,000, oh, yeah, I can't be right. Oh, that's point, that's right. Okay, it's 120 sales. Now, out of that 120, 14% are gonna cancel. So, you're gonna times that by 0.14, all right? So, 16 people are gonna cancel. So, you're still making how many sales? I lost track of what I was saying. So, you're still making the difference in sales and what you're making is $31 a sale. So, then you gotta do the math on is it worth spending the money on the clicks, Facebook or Google or wherever you're getting your traffic from? And again, like I'm saying, 30 cents is the average click but that's not necessarily true. You can get seven cents a click. It all depends on the niche, the subject. Certain niches are more expensive than others and that's just the nature of marketing, right? We're gonna go to the next item in the carousel is gonna be this shaver, this head shaver thing. It was sent to me for free. I haven't tried it because I don't have a bald head but works pretty good as far as, you know, it's got the round part, so it fits on the head nice and it's got all the nice head, all the razor heads on here, pretty cool. Father's Day gift, Father's like razors, right? And you can't beat it. You can't beat it. It's on sale, you know, you can use it in the shower while you're getting wet and pretty cool. It's got different heads on here. You can change this for a beer trimmer and this is of course rechargeable. So you recharge it and you can take this anywhere. You know, like I said, you could be in the shower doing it, whatever, Father's Day gifts. This is what we're going, Father's Day gifts. So this was sent to me for free to review and again, I told them I wasn't bald but they sent it to me anyway. But again, if your father is bald or he's going bald maybe he needs one of these things. And you know, sometimes you're gonna tell him in a gift, right? Dad shave your head, it looks ridiculous. You know, some guys when they're losing their hair they wanna hold on to it, they wanna be in denial and not shave it. You know, I don't know, I'd probably shave it if I was losing it more than I am already. It's just receding a little bit. Used to go straight across like this now it's receding a little bit. The next item in the carousel, oh man, is a microphone by toner. Toner sent me these three microphones to test, okay? Now the first one is the, what's the number? The first one is the TC777. I'm gonna play a little clip of me using the TC777. So you can see what it sounds like if you're into, you know, if you need a microphone and you're into a budget, this is on sale. This is under $26 for a USB microphone plug and play. You plug this right into your computer, right? And it works, right? You don't have to use, download any software or anything. So this is me using it quickly. Okay, today we're talking budget microphones. We're reviewing a couple of budget microphones. Toner sent me a couple of budget microphones to review. They sent them to me for free. So full disclosure, this one is the TC777. We're using it right now, we're recording with it right now, came with a desk stand, a tripod stand, the microphone, a shock mount and a pop filter all pretty much assembled. Comes with a two year warranty right there on the box, two year warranty. And, you know, how does this sound? How's the audio sound? There's no adjustments on the microphone. There's no, you know, cough button or mute button. There's no volume control. There's no gain control. So you're pretty much, you know, stuck with what you got. And as far as the cord goes, it's not that very long and it doesn't unplug from the microphone base, you know. So if the cord frays or bends or, you know, goes bad, the whole microphone is bad. You can't get a new cord, all right. But other than that, what do you think about that? I'm gonna pick it up. So this is us talking into it. Now this is me getting close to it, right? We'll do the pop filter, all right. Now there you can see on the side pretty nice little microphone, right? Pretty nice little microphone. USB plug and play. You don't need any software to use it. It just plugs in. But you're at the mercy of the settings because there's no adjustments to it. So you got, this is it. This is what you get. So that's the 777 that you get what you get. It's a budget microphone under $26 on sale. Plug and play microphone, pretty cool. If you need a budget microphone and you want a budget and you want to get started doing stuff, you need it for either a podcast or voiceover work or, you know, YouTube videos or whatever you're doing. You know, TikTok videos, you need a microphone. This is a good microphone for that to get started. The next one up is, what is this one now? This is the T30, the TC30. Now this is a step up from the other one. Actually it's cheaper than the other one. So I don't know why I think it's a step up. But this one's under $25 also on sale. USB microphone plug and play. You can't beat it. You don't need any software, no sound board, no mixing, no nothing. You plug it right into your computer and it works. This is me using it. Here we go. Okay, today we're talking budget microphones, okay? We're talking about the Toner TC30 USB condenser microphone. The plug and play microphone doesn't take any software. It's got a two year warranty coming with it right here. Two year warranty. Comes in a nice box. Comes with a tripod, a shock mount, a pop filter and the microphone and of course the wire. Comes with a good length of wire. And we're listening to it right now, okay? So that's the Toner microphone TC30. Budget microphone quality. There's no mute button on there. No cough button, no gain control, no gain knob, nothing like that. There's no button on off switch on it. There's no volume control. It's just a straight microphone. I don't know, what do you think? I'm gonna pull it up and show you. You've been listening to it right now. So there it is, the Toner TC30. Let's pull the cord out. Now there, that's how it sounds from the back of the microphone. This is how it sounds from the side of the microphone. And this is how it sounds from the front of the microphone. Now this is a top microphone. It picks up from the top, not the side, like the Blue Yeti will pick it up from the side. Okay, so that was the TC30. It had a good sound to it when you're talking right into it for under $25. It's on sale right now in the carousel. So you can't really beat that. You can't go wrong on the $25. Sounds pretty good if you're doing voiceovers or podcasts or interviews or anything like that. That's, you know, you need extra microphone or you just need a starter microphone. This is perfect for you, perfect starter microphone. And Toner sent me these three microphones. This is the third one coming up next. They sent it to me for free to test. I was having some sound issues with my live stream and they sent it to me to test which really helped me out at the time because I was trying to figure out if it was my microphone on my computer or what was going on. But the next one is gonna be the Q9, I think it is, or yeah, I think it's the Q9. Yep, Q9. And this one comes with the scissor arm that you can put on the desk. And it also comes with the pop filter and the wind guard and all that stuff. And this one is pretty good microphone. This is me using that one, the Q9. Okay, today we're talking about budget microphones. Okay, we're talking about, you're gonna get started as a content creator. You wanna start a podcast or a YouTube channel or you're doing Zoom calls and you need a microphone. So you start looking around and you're saying, I don't wanna spend 150 dollars on a microphone. So you start looking at the cheaper microphones, the less expensive microphones. And you're saying, oh, they're really worth it. I'm using this microphone right now. This one, Toner sent me this one for free to review. Toner's a good company and this is the Q9, okay. The Q9 comes in a box, nice size big box. It comes with the whole cabang in here. Comes with the condenser microphone, a boom arm set, a shock mount and a pop filter and the windscreen that slips over the top as well. And I'm using it right now where it's got a volume control button on it, up and down. And if you long press the volume control, either the up or the down, it's a mute button, okay. So, but there's no LED indicator to let you know that you're muted or that you're unmuted or what level the volume is at. So I don't really know what level the volume is at right now. Well, we don't need to know the whole video but that was the Q9, which is a decent microphone. You got the boom arm, you got everything going on for you and it's got the volume control and it does have a co-off button on there. But like I said, the LED button, knowing whether it's on or off, because like the Blueye that I use, if I put the co-off button on, it blinks while the co-off button's on then it's solid while the microphone's working. But we're gonna talk some more about affiliate marketing. What is affiliate marketing? I told you affiliate marketing is selling other people's products, promoting other people's products for a commission, just like any other salesman does. It's nothing crazy, but you're doing it online. You're driving traffic, either free traffic or paid traffic, right. You can use ads, Facebook ads, Google ads, any social media has ads nowadays, or you can use your YouTube channel or your Facebook channel or your TikTok or your Instagram and drive free traffic, right. It all depends on your niche and your following basically. And depending on your niche is how much your cost is gonna be for clicks and you're sending clicks and it's all a numbers game. We went through the numbers. So if a product converts at 12% and you send a thousand people there and the converts at 12%, you're gonna make 12 sales up on a thousand people, right. Now, some of those people are gonna cancel and return some of the people aren't, but you're gonna make, some of those people are gonna buy. So out of the 12, let's say a seven or eight are gonna buy and keep it, right. And then so that's your profit. So you just have to figure out your profit as opposed to how much the ads cost you to for those thousand clicks, right. And then once you find the winning ad, again, you need a good headline. You need a good image. You need a good or a video and you need a good sales copy, which is copywriting, which is words that are meant to entice people to go to the next step of the funnel to make curiosity happen, make them want to know more, make them want the product and to find out more. That's very, it's a skill. Copywriting is a skill and trying to find the right combination, a winning combination of all of those things is what makes affiliate marketing hard, right. Anybody can do, you see, oh, $5 a day ads, check out my Facebook strategy, $5 a day ad. And it is $5 a day, but it's $5 a day per testing ad. So you might put out 10 tests a day at $5 each, right. So it's not $5 a day. And then, but then you find out the one that works and then you throw money behind that one and you make your money back. The problem is that might not happen for a while. You may be a lot in the whole thousands of dollars before you find the right ad. And most people are gonna quit before they hit, before they make it. Most people are gonna say it's hard. Most people are gonna say it doesn't work. I call it a 90 day wonder. People try something for 90 days, say it doesn't work and quit, right. And that's pretty much the American way, right. If it doesn't work for 90 days, I'm gonna work out. I don't see the results I need in 90 days, I quit. I'm gonna go on a diet. If I don't see the results I need in 90 days, I'm gonna quit. I'm gonna work hard in school. If I didn't get the good grades in 90, I'm gonna quit. I'm gonna give up. I'm gonna do this. I'm not gonna do that. 90 days is about as far as people are gonna give any activity before they decide whether they're gonna keep doing it or not, right. And it's the ones that keep doing it. It's a skill, okay. It's a skill. Affiliate marketing is a skill. And it's not an impossible skill. And again, it's a numbers game. It's simply a numbers game. And the testing of the ads and finding winning combinations and stuff. The next item was sent to me for free also. This is a solar security camera. This is a pretty cool thing. Hey, Randall, how you doing, man? Randall is in the chat. Randall is also an Amazon influencer. I'm honored to have you on my stream, Randall. Thank you for coming and stopping by. I watch you a lot late night. Late nights, very good stuff. But the solar security camera, right? This thing I set up in a few minutes. See if I can find the video of me actually installing this camera. Do-doop-doop-doop. All right, you gotta always hear the music, right? So we're gonna share the screen. You know, you're a one-man show and you gotta share the screen. It takes you a few minutes. Let's see. There it is. All right, so you can see that. So this is the camera. So the camera, I'm gonna go through the unboxing. But this is me putting it up. I was up and down the ladder maybe five times. Of course, I got a wooden-sided house. So I didn't have to worry about, you know, setting anchors and stuff like that. I could put it pretty much anywhere I wanted. But I was done putting this thing up in 20 minutes. Then you download the app to your phone. And it's solar powered. So once you got it and you set it up to the Wi-Fi of the house, this thing sets me off alerts when the delivery guy comes, when the gardeners come, when the landscaper's come, you know, when the kids are leaving for school, when the kids are coming back, when the wife leaves. I get alerts every time. And there's an intercom system where I can actually hit the button and talk to them through the camera. Pretty cool, pretty cool deal. I'm gonna fast forward it to where I'm using the app. There it is, okay. So that's it. That's it. The solar panel pointed at the sun and everything. And it's got a 360. You can move it with the app while you're on the phone. That's me walking out into the yard. And I'm gonna start moving the camera back and forth with the app. And you can do that from wherever you are. I'm at work, you know, 100 miles away from the house. And I'm moving the camera back and forth, checking the truck, moving it back, checking the car, checking the mailbox. Pretty cool. The really cool item, really, really cool item. And it's on sale. You can't beat a 23% off. Dads love gadgets. And this is something that dads would love to have. And I'm pretty sure you can put more than one on there. You can put a front and a back camera and put it on the same app. Pretty cool item. And that was something that was sent to me for free. The next item I got is a VTEC 4K digital camera. This thing, for the price, okay? It's on sale. It's just over $100. I got it for the 4K camera. I'm trying to see if it's, to do basic stuff that's not action, like cinematic stuff. Do I need a $600 camera? Or it connects to your Wi-Fi. Yeah, yeah, Gabriel, it connects to your Wi-Fi. And there's a way to test it so you can find out if it's strong enough for your Wi-Fi where it is. And it was, I had no problem hooking it up with the Wi-Fi and it stays hooked up all the time. I've never lost it. Yeah, so it works really well. That's how you get it on your phone, I guess, you know? But the VTEC camera, I have it right here. I have it with the mic on it. I got the Boya mic that's gonna be next in the carousel. But the 4K camera, right? The zoom lens for the price. It has a lot of the bells and whistles that the expensive cameras have. And let me share my, let me see if I can find out where some of the photos are. So, okay. I'm gonna stop sharing the screen there. I'm gonna share it over here. Okay. All right, can you see that? It's all right. So, here is me vlogging with the camera. Testing one, two, three. We're testing the Boya mic on a shotgun. I'm also testing the mic. The mic's the next thing in the carousel. But that's the 4K camera, you know, on the vlogging rig. See how that sounds? I think we're on. Is this thing on? Okay, I think we're still on. I don't know what happened. I gotta get this checked because all of a sudden, it just goes blank. The screen and the camera. The light on my computer stays on. I have to hit it and then I restart the computer and everything comes back on and it works for a little while. I don't know what's going on with it. But so we're talking about the camera and I was showing you pictures of the camera. So you saw me vlogging with the camera. I'm gonna see if I can pull up some more pictures of it. I don't know what's been going on with my computer. I guess I'm gonna have to break down and get it looked at. Okay, so here's some photos. Well, that's a video actually. Hold on a second. All right, so that's it right there. That's a video using the 4K camera. Again, this is a zoom lens, you know, the price. And that's the microphone on the camera, which I was told wasn't good, but it's actually better than I thought it was. And I went out and bought the shotgun mic for it. Where am I? And there's a couple of pictures. That's the upper Hudson, if you're curious. Way up above, like Lake Placid, some lake pictures, some river pictures. And that's all with the 4K camera. Pretty good, pretty good little camera. Can't complain about that camera for the price. Again, I'm gonna start using it more. I'm gonna do some vlogging with it. Gonna, you know, a couple of weeks I'm gonna end up getting the $600 camera. I haven't decided which one I'm gonna get. It's a $800 camera by the time you buy the lenses and everything. And I'm gonna be doing some comparisons. Is it worth getting, you know, do you wait to get started being a content creator and wait and get a $800 camera? No, because you can get started with your phone. Your phone has a great camera on it right now. And if you wanted to get started doing stuff like this, you could get started with your phone. No problem. The next thing in the carousel is the Boya mic. The Boya shotgun mic that I had on, it's on the camera. And I had it, you heard it. I'm gonna pull it up again. There it is. One, two, three. And that's the shotgun mic. 4K camera. And then my vlogging break and we're outside. You might be like, it hurts. Let's put the shotgun mic plugged into the camera. See how that sounds. I'm gonna unplug it and see if there's a difference. So that's the plug out of the camera that Jack from Boya shotgun mic unplugged it. And so the person's arm is not on. I'll put it back in. Now it's back in and I'm not sure that that made a difference at all. Or if it changed or if it didn't change. Or you tell me what you think. The Boya shotgun mic makes a big difference, I think. So what did you think about it? I thought it made a difference, definitely. But the camera mic itself wasn't that bad. But if you're doing professional videos, number one reason people are gonna tune out of video is gonna be the sound. They'll deal with bad audio, bad video. They'll deal with bad lighting. They won't deal with bad sound, all right? So you get yourself. The first thing you're gonna upgrade is your microphone. So you get the shotgun microphone. And again, there's $100 microphones, $300 microphones, $500 microphones. So this is a $25 microphone. I wanted to see how it was. And I'm gonna compare it to more expensive microphones. And that's gonna be the thing. We're gonna test and see all the more expensive equipment worth it for the normal regular creator. I mean, if you're not doing high level cinematic stuff, MrBeast kind of stuff, perfect shot, whatever it is. If you're not doing that kind of stuff, do you really need a high end camera? Can you get by with something less expensive? The next item was sent to me for free, laser level. Dads love levels, tools, laser levels. This thing is crazy. If your dad ever had a laser level before, he's gonna love this thing. So I'm gonna look where is the video for the laser level right there. We're gonna mute it. We're gonna share the screen. Again, one man show, I gotta do like three clicks to share a clip with you guys. So it's gonna take me a minute. So there it is. We can turn it on. Coming out of the box. Just, you know, give me a second. You're gonna see the laziness of it. The coolness, matter of fact, let's just fast forward to the coolness. Taking it out of the box, setting it up, playing around with it. And it gives you a perfect 90 degree angle on the wall. You can set it up in any height and it beeps if it's not level. So once it's level, it stops beeping and see how it flashes. So you know that it's not level and then once you get it level, it levels right out. You can get a perfect 90 degree angle. You can do your moldings. You can do whatever, hang your pictures, whatever you need to do with a laser level. Dad's are gonna go ape shit for this level. I mean, it's a perfect gift for dad on the $35. And a pretty cool item that I'll appreciate it. Father's Day gifts. You know, if you're looking for Father's Day gifts, this is something that I definitely think I would love to get it from my kids, a laser level. But unless I needed it, I wouldn't go out and buy it for myself. But, you know, you always kind of need a good level. And, you know, when you drop your level, it's not any good anymore. You know, you buy a nice expensive level and you drop it and it throws it off. It's not perfect anymore. There it is, perfect 90 degree angle. It lets you know perfect every time. That, you know, pretty cool. What do you think of that? What do you think of that? All right. I don't know, I get excited over stupid little things like that. You know, like the next thing I got for myself for my work truck, back in October, it started getting dark, like four o'clock, 4.30. I needed a light from the back of the truck because there's no light in the back. And I figured I'd better get a magnetic one. I can stick it to the side of the truck and then I'll go one further. I want a rechargeable one because I'm sick and tired of batteries. So I want a rechargeable light with a magnetic base and I want it to be bright so it sticks in the back. So here it is. And I bought them and it's a pair. Where are you gonna get two lights? Rechargeable lights, LEDs for under $20. They're on sale right now. Now, I keep one of these on my furnace. Sticking to my furnace is when I'm changing my filters every 90 days. You know, you gotta go down there and change it. You always need a flashlight. There it is, sticking right on there. And the other one's on my truck. And it's sticking on the side of my truck. And I tell you what, I drive around, it doesn't fall off. It stays right on the bed of the truck. I'm not a crazy, evil, conneval driver, a crazy nut, but you know, normal everyday driving this potholes is bumps, there's everything. It stays on for the most part. It's never fallen off. And there it is. I thought it was dead, rechargeable. I haven't recharged this thing since I bought it, less forever. And it's got, you know, three or four settings to it. And it's got the flashlight in the front right there. Good, good, good flashlight. Good set for a father for father's day. And look, it's got, it goes all the way around to here to fold. It goes like this. Perfect for car repairs. It'll stick on the hood of your car. You know, and again, you got two of them. So I originally wanted two because I wanted one on each side of the truck, but one of them was bright enough. So I only needed the one. And solves a problem. Remember, you got to solve problems in this world, right? So you're going to solve the problem and get your dad a flashlight with a magnetic base rechargeable, USB rechargeable. Never has to get another battery again for the rest of his life. You can't beat that. You can't beat that. Dads love that kind of stuff. Father's day gifts, okay? Father's day gifts in the carousel on Amazon today. Affiliate marketing, right? Again, it's a numbers game. You're driving traffic and if you listen to the gurus, they're going to tell you $5 a day ads, $5 a day ads make money, you know, be a millionaire overnight, you know, drop ship this and blah, blah, blah. Affiliate marketing that it takes testing. There is something called split testing and you've got your headline to your ad. You got your headline, then you got what they call creative, which is either your video or your image, right? It's got to be captivating, has to be enticed curiosity, right? Get the click and then you have your body of your ad, which is sales copy, which is called copywriting, which is supposed to entice them to go to the next step, click the next step, go to the sales page or wherever you're trying to send them, right? And those things all three have to work to get a working ad, right? And it takes people a long time and you split test and you keep doing different headlines and different images and different videos and different sales copies until you find what works and then you throw your money behind that, but you might have invested $1,000 by then. You might have invested $5,000 by then. I don't know. Who knows, you know, it's when you get a good ad, it could be forever. It may never happen, right? But when it does happen, you throw money behind it and you're a millionaire. That's the trick of it. If you stick to it long enough and you find yourself a winning combination and you have the capital to throw behind it afterwards, like a lot of times people are broke by the time they find the winning ad, they have no more money left, right? So if you have the capital to throw behind the winning ad, then you'll be successful. But that's all the stuff they don't tell you, okay? They're gonna say $5 a day ad, you know, Facebook ads, you know, Instagram ads, you know, TikTok, whatever ads they're talking about, you know, it's a, what are you gonna do? What's not great? Am I having problems with the stream? I don't know. Hello? Testing, testing. All right. We're gonna go to the next item in the carousel. Again, gifts for dads, right? We're gonna do gifts for dads. This was sent to me for free to test and it's a drone. Now, I am a terrible drone pilot. I crashed a lot of drones in my time and I told them, I says, you're gonna send me this drone and I'm gonna take it out of the box, put it on the table and I'm gonna see if I can fly it right out of the box without knowing too much about it. So here it is, this is the HS-190. It's a foldable, it fits in that remote control and it's rechargeable and I synced it up pretty easily and I was able to fly it around the house, no problem. Now it's got different speeds on it, you know, fast, slow or whatever. So I was flying it on slow speed so I was able to control it, I was able to recover. A lot of the fear I had about flying drones was, when the drone turns around and it's coming back the other way, left is right, right is left, you panic. I always would send it flying into the wall, crash into a million pieces because I would overreact and it was going so fast but this drone was at slow speed. I was able to control it, I was able to recover and there was no panic involved. I was able to learn how to use the controls of the drone. This is right out of the box, first flight, okay. This is the first flight and I'm zippering around the kitchen. I got this in the middle of winter so that's why it's not outside. I actually bounced this off the wall later in the video. I get close to it right here. I touch it but I think I recover there but this is another time where I actually bounce off the wall. Very, very good starter drone and you can't beat the price, 26 bucks. It's on sale in the carousel today in the Amazon store. If you're looking for your first drone, this is the one. If dad's never flown a drone before but he's always talked about it or he always wondered about it, this is the one you want to get. It doesn't have the camera on it so you're not worried about busting it up and ruining something expensive but this was something really good to learn on. And then once you've learned on this one, right, you can go to the next one. The next one I have is the 175D. Hold on, we're gonna go back. We're gonna share the screen again. The 175D. Now, I'm using the camera in this video, the EK7000, the Casio camera just so you know what it's gonna be in the carousel later. But this is the drone, the 175 and that's the drone camera and it's got a 4K drone camera and that's it going up into the sky. It's got GPS, it's got automatic homing. You can send this thing flying out and I do send it out and I hit the homing button and it comes flying back and lands within five feet of where it takes off. Pretty cool drone, very responsive, very quick. And again, this is, I got this, it was just about the end of winter so it was kind of dreary, it was very windy so I was having trouble keeping it in one spot. This is, it's a light drone, it's not heavy and you don't need a permanent drone. And there I go sending it out, flying it far away and then I hit the home and it comes flying back and the camera, you can take pictures with it. It's got a gimbal on it that goes up and down, not right and left, but you can turn the drone right and left if you need to go right and left but it can go up and down the camera. Pretty cool. I had a lot of fun when I had it out. I flew it up, I checked my gutters, I checked the chimney, I checked my roof. Again, I started with the other one where I was able to learn and then I got this one. Pretty cool. I think I'm gonna take a picture of myself right there. You got a 4K picture and it has a, you put a memory card and SD card in it and it's a pretty cool little thing to fly around. Have fun with it. I'm looking forward to taking it out to a park somewhere where I can get some nice pictures, maybe some nice lake pictures and the mountain pictures and whatnot. So, you know, pretty cool little item, okay? Now, I don't know if I had the other one highlighted, the Holleystone HS190, that's the one that was under $26. That one was the starter drone and then you went up to the 175D which was one with the camera, right? Pretty cool. So, affiliate marketing, it's a numbers game but you gotta find an ad that works or a lot of people use affiliate marketing in the sense where free traffic, okay? So what they do is they'll have a YouTube channel in a niche, okay? And I always say the Lego guy. So the Lego guy has a channel where he puts together the Lego sets, right? And in the description of the video, he puts links for the Lego sets. People watch the video, click the link, go and buy Lego sets and he makes a commission all for that. But, and that's free traffic. That's people watching YouTube, they go to YouTube, they search it, they can find it on Google, they can search it and when they click the links in his description and make purchases, he's gonna get a commission and that's affiliate marketing with free traffic, okay? And the thing with that is, depending on the niche, you have to build up an audience and that could take time. People don't wanna invest time. Remember I said 90 days is about as long as anybody wants to spend on something before they quit. And free traffic might take you five years to build up in a niche to the point where you're making good affiliate money, right? So I told you that I was using the AK-7000 Pro, the Akasio, this is a 4K camera. This, you know, the GoPro $600 camera, $400 camera. This is it, comes the same type of box, comes with the waterproof case. This is my second one, I bought one, this is my second one and I haven't taken it out of the box yet, but I can show you some photos of the other one as well. Again, 4K camera, action camera. Is it as good as the high-end cameras? Well, let me see now, I have my, I gotta share my screen, get my pictures, photos. All right, if I scroll down, let me see now. If I share the screen and can you see that? Yeah, okay. So I gotta go down, because that's the other camera that I showed you earlier. So I'm gonna go down to this is, this is the action camera photos. So this one's an action camera photo. That's an action camera photo. Let me go this way. Action camera photo, action camera photo, action camera photo, not a bad camera, okay, for the price. You're talking about under $80, where the GoPro is running you $400 to $500 and the Akasio comes with the waterproof case. I've had this in the water, it works really fine. Look at that. It's a pretty good photogenic camera. You can't beat the price, all right? So I'm always saying, is it worth it for what you're doing? So like, if you're not flying off a mountain on a snowboard doing flips, do you need the $600 GoPro? Or can you get by with the $80, Akasio? For me, for what I need it for, I need it for B-roll, I need it for just regular photo, it's fine for what I need it for. When I'm going tubing down the river and I need a waterproof camera, I'm gonna take it with me. When I'm boating, I'm not doing jet skiing where I'm jumping jumps and all kinds of crazy stuff. And I could put it on my helmet on a jet ski and still get good shots with this camera. It's very, very, it's worth every penny if you ask me, for sure. The U-Brees, we're told my father's day gifts, right? So this little tripod, okay? With the flexible arms, everybody has one. This one is under $20, you know? Comes with a remote control. So you get it for dad. You can put his phone on the table. He can be in the family pictures and he has the remote control and he pushes the button, the Bluetooth on the camera and he can now be in all the family pictures. I know that for me, I'm not in any of the pictures, you know? Very rarely do you see me in the family pictures. I'm the one taking the pictures, right? So, but if you have one of these and you put it up on a table and with the remote control, now dad can be in the pictures. So that's a nice Father's Day gift to get dad, you know? And little gadgets like that make dad happy. Tripods, you know, all kinds of stuff like that. You know, if he's at the cameras and stuff, definitely, definitely worth it, definitely worth it. I'm gonna take a sip of my death wish coffee. The world's strongest coffee, best coffee in the world. Not bitter, never bitter. Okay, now the last item in the carousel is the blue glass fire pit. I bought this last year, we use it a lot. We go out on the patio and let me see if I go to my Amazon page and I find it. There it is. We share the screen again. I know, again, it takes how many clicks to get to the video that I wanna share. So there it is. Comes, this thing came in a box, flat box, took me about 20 minutes to put together. Come, came with the cover. Blue fly, for me, the blue fly glass makes it what it is. Then it gives it character. It's got the little ledge around that you can put your drinks or whatever you got on the ledge. And this thing works with the same gas that the barbecue works under. And it turns on with the electric starter, kind of like your hot water tank where you gotta heat the thermocouple. You press it for a few seconds and you wait and then you hit it and it sparks and it goes on. But the instructions are right on the door and it lit up every time, perfect. The lighting instructions are right on the door. You can read them, no problem. Anybody can do it. But what I love about this is people wanna leave or the kids don't wanna fire, you put a fire on and all of a sudden now they wanna go play manhunt. Now you got a fire in the yard. So now you gotta worry about putting a fire on. This you just shut off and it goes off. You can still toast your marshmallows. You can still do what you need to do. You can still have your sing-alongs. You can still have your campfire. But at the end of the night, you turn it off and you don't have to worry about is the fire out or the kids running around, not staying by the fire or we're doing whatever they're doing, perfect. And the atmosphere is great. I loved it. It was a big hit amongst the family and we're out there, especially in the fall. But come the summer nights, hey, Karen started following. Karen, thank you very much for following. We're gonna go back and we're gonna stop sharing the screen and Karen, we're gonna give you the dance party. Okay, we're doing that and I'm gonna see if I can get some music going here, some hip-hop music. Thank you for following. How's that? You might hear the dog barking in the background, but I love it when people follow, okay? Following is great. Love it when they follow. The dog is barking in the background. Everybody's going crazy. Ha ha ha, Karen, thanks for following, perfect. You know, I hope you got some value in the stream tonight for sure. So affiliate marketing, we were talking about affiliate marketing and if I go to the DigiStore page and we can run through the math again, but basically, let me pull up my calculator and I can run through it without. So here, you can't see that. I'm gonna have to share the screen so you can see the calculator. Okay, you can see the calculator now. So here it is. Oh man, give me a second. So you're gonna send 1,000 clicks, okay, with ads or free traffic, whatever it is, you're sending it 1,000 clicks to something and it's gonna convert it 12%. So your 0.12 is 12%. So of course you're gonna get, what the hell was that? 120 sales, all right? 12% of 1,000 is 120 sales. Now you're gonna have some cancellations. So let's say you have 2% cancellations. So 2% of them are gonna cancel. So you're gonna lose two and a half people. So let's say you lost three out of the 12, right? So you still got nine sales, right? So if you're making $50 a sale, right? So nine times 50. What the hell happened here? I'm not paying more good attention. Pay more good attention. So now you're making $450, right? So now you gotta figure out how much did it cost me to get those 1,000 clicks, right? So like I said, the average Facebook ad cost 30 cents. So that would be $300, right? So you're making a little bit, you know, off of that. So you're making like $175 off of that ad set. So but how long does it take to send 1,000 clicks to something? Now if you're using Facebook ads, you could take a day, it could take a weekend, right? So you could make that in a weekend. And of course you could do it on a larger scale. They call it scaling, right? So you're gonna scale. Of course, there's also if you send 10,000 clicks to something overnight, you know, or 100,000 clicks, you're sending traffic and it's all about what you, how much, what you're gonna pay, you know, how much do you wanna pay, right? And it's testing. Affiliate marketing works, ads work. If it didn't work, people wouldn't do it. Facebook ads, Google ads, Instagram ads, all the social media has their own ads. Snapchat has their own ads, TikTok has them now, right? They all have their own ads and it's all a numbers game, okay? And depending on the niche, some niches are seven cents a click. Some are a dollar a click, right? You know, dating and relationships is gonna be more expensive than gardening, okay? Just the way it is, because there's more money in dating and relationships than there is gardening. There's a bigger audience for dating and relationships than there is for gardening, so it's gonna cost more, all right? And that's just the numbers game. So you find your niche, what is your niche? And I go through, if you go to my website, you didn't know.live. You go to youdidn'tknow.live and I give you a free ebook on how to follow your passion, how to, what, do you wanna start a YouTube channel and do some affiliate marketing and give it a shot? I'm here to tell you it's gonna take you five years, three to five years to build a YouTube channel to where you start making affiliate money that you're comfortable money, real money. But it's gonna take time. It's gonna take three to five years and it's gonna take work. You're gonna have to learn some skills. You're gonna have to learn how to make videos and stuff like that. But if you wanna know how to do that kind of stuff, go to youdidn'tknow.live. My YouTube channel is the side hustle shuffle. You can find out about it there. You can also get the free ebook on what does it take to be an influencer? Follow your passion. People are following their passion and they're making full-time income. The problem is people are worried about being a millionaire, being rich. But they discount the fact that normal people are making normal livings on YouTube. Normal people are making 100 grand a year and up. They are, people are. From affiliate marketing, from their ads, from the ads that play on their YouTube videos, all that kind of stuff adds up. My Amazon money that comes in, all these income streams come in, they all come in and they all add up over time. And the more you work at them, the bigger they get. They start out being five, 10, $15 a month. After five years, it's $100 here, $300 there, $1,000 here and it adds up. But you can't give up in 90 days. Like I said, everybody gives up in 90 days. It's gonna take you three to five years to start something. If you were starting a traditional business, you would say like a restaurant, you need at least five years before you're turning a profit, the whole the money you're investing in everything. Online, it doesn't really cost anything to get started as far as investing money. You can get started free, but you're investing your time and you have to get educated. You have to learn some stuff and you're investing that. And I mean, it takes time to get good at stuff. And again, the ad has a title to it, right? The headline, headline has to grab your attention. If it doesn't grab your attention, it doesn't work. Get you to the next step, which is the image, right? Or the image could be the first thing and then the headline. But the image, something's gotta grab your attention, either the headline or the image. And then it gets you to the next step, which is the copy, which is the writing, the sales copy in the ad. And that's job is to get you to the next step, to click to get to the next step of the sales funnel. All of these things have to work in order for affiliate marketing to turn a profit. And you have to test all of these things and split testing costs money. So they say $5 a day ad, I always say it $5 a day ad, but it is, it's each ad is $5, but you've gotta put out 10, 15, 20 different ads to find out which one is working. And then the ones that work, you throw the rest of the money behind those and hopefully have money left because that's the big part of the problem. And you make your money back because you found the winning ad. You found the winning ad, the winning product, okay? So you have to have a few things for things to work out. You have to have the right ad to the right audience at the right time at the right price, right? You get all of these things together and you do that by testing and testing costs money. And that's the problem with all of these online gurus that don't tell you that it's gonna cost you money and time to invest. Do people make money overnight and are there overnight successes? Yeah, there are, there are a few, but most people aren't. Most people are knuckles to the grindstone, working every day, learning and building and it takes three to five years, I'm telling you. Before I started seeing any kind of legitimate return was the five year mark, but I wasn't doing it. Videos of animals work really well, Karen. You know, cute puppies, who doesn't like cute puppies? And then there's plenty of affiliate programs, PetSmart, chewie.com has its own affiliate program where you can drive traffic to Chewie and the good thing about those things, right? Let's say you get someone on your pet channel to buy the pet food from you, right? So they buy the pet food from you and they can eat the pet food every week or every month. They gotta buy it. So it's recurring, you get a commission every time they buy it. So it's a lifetime customer and you know they're gonna keep buying it because he has to eat, right? So recurring commissions on affiliate marketing is really big and next week I'm gonna go over, tune in next Tuesday, we're gonna go over recurring commission products and how valuable it is, how powerful it is. When you sell something one time and get paid over and over and over again, so you sell something today and it's a monthly subscription, they're gonna buy it again next month, the month after that, the month after that, the month after that, you know, and like Fruit of the Month Club, right? They're gonna buy it every month and you're gonna get a commission every month, whether it's 30% or whatever the commission is, you're gonna get a commission every month, you have a lifetime customer. But once you start doing that, that's passive income, making money while you sleep, right? That's like, it's happening already. You've sold it once and in the future, you're gonna be making money forever. As long as they buy the stuff, right? Excuse me. All right, so we go live every Tuesday, eight o'clock, okay? Yeah, Karen, you're welcome. You know, I try to educate with my lives and the Side Hustle Shuffle is my YouTube channel. It's all about different ways people making money online, different income streams, different ways people make money online. I always did side jobs, you know, my whole life, trading time for money. Then I started learning about affiliate marketing and making money online and YouTube videos. And you can make money in your sleep. You make a video and it's like cloning yourself, like the Matrix, you've just cloned yourself. It's out there on the internet. People can watch it over and over again and you can make money from that video over and over again. You've done it one time, right? You've done it one time and a year from now people can watch it. I have videos that I made five years ago. One of my best videos I made four years ago and it gets watched all the time and people click the links and I make affiliate commissions off the links. And I also make ad revenue off the ads on the video. But again, you have to get started and it takes time to build. And you know, the number one fastest growing small business in 2022 is being a content creator, is being an influencer. And people are making full-time income, not millionaires, not some of them are, but not millionaires. I'm talking about legitimate 100 grand, 150 grand, 200 grand a year income from a YouTube channel, being a content creator, right? Instagram personalities, people on TikTok. They can, what's the word I won't look for? Transform, they can use those venues, those platforms to earn money. Some people use their social media for social reasons and some people are earning money with their social media. You know, which one do you wanna be? Well, we're gonna cut it short now because we've been on almost an hour and 15 minutes. We try and keep it around an hour and we're gonna go live again Tuesday. Every Tuesday, eight o'clock, we're gonna talk about the side hustle shuffle. We're gonna talk about ways to make money online and we're gonna go through the carousel and we're gonna talk about products and certain things that I use to go live, my camera, my lights, my microphone. We're gonna talk about all that kind of stuff and if you have questions, we can talk about it and we can get you started, right? Get you started. All right, I will see you Tuesday. Don't miss it.