 What are you doing today on Amazon? What are you shopping for? Are you shopping on Amazon today? We're going live right now. We're using ReStream to go live and we're going live on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Amazon. Amazon live. If you're on Amazon, where did you come to Amazon today to buy? Are you shopping for something special on Amazon? Maybe you're doing some Valentine's Day shopping. Maybe you're just doing your weekly shopping. A lot of people do their weekly shopping now on Amazon and get a lot of stuff to live at right to the house. Very convenient. Pretty good stuff. Anyway, I'm Jim. My YouTube channel is the Side Hustle Shuffle. We explore ways to make money on the side, ways to make money online. One of the ways is to be an influencer in 2020. They say the number one small business model, fastest growing small business model is going to be an influencer, going to be a YouTuber, going to be a content creator. I go over things and ways to make money using YouTube channels, Instagram accounts, and now we're doing Amazon live. We're going to touch on some things there as we go through the stream today. But number one thing in the screen, almost everything that I'm going to go over today was sent to me for free by various vendors, Bedsure, and different other vendors. I'll name. They sent this stuff to me for free to review, my own unbiased review. I'm bringing it to you. That's the whole point of being an influencer is to influence people to make purchasing decisions. The other thing is going to be now, as I highlight items in my carousel down at the bottom, if you're not on Amazon, if you go over to amazon.com.shop.com, you didn't know, all the items will be there that I'm going over today in the carousel as we discuss ways to make money online side hustles. The first thing is the calming bed, the Bedsure calming bed. Really cool. I got a hyperdog. I got a couple of, well, we babysit a dog. We rescued a dog. Like a Jack Russell, small hyperdog, crazy barks at everything. You might hear him barking. If someone goes past the window, he goes nuts, but he's a rescue, so they're all special needs. You know how that is. I wouldn't have it any other way. He's precious. Once he came around and got used to the family in the house, best dogs to have is the rescue dogs. He's a little high strung, so we tried the calming bed. I think if I share my screen, I'm a one man show, so it takes me a little bit of time to share and make sure I'm doing everything. Here's the calming bed. We're going to run through the video. He's a little bit of a hyperdog. He doesn't normally stay in one spot. It does a cushion in the middle of this thing. This thing is so soft. He don't want to come out of it. It really is calming, stress. If you have a stressed dog, he's not following. Usually he'd be following and jumping and running crazy. The bed is so soothing and soft. He doesn't want to leave it. He does eventually, but today it comes right back. His attention is put to the thing. He loves it. It's got his full attention. I don't know how dogs know when beds are their beds or toys are their toys, but they know. Look at him. He loves it. He's digging around the sides. He's just having a blast. This is the large size. He's a medium-sized dog. This is the large-sized bed. Here he is. This dog is not staying in one spot. He's a runner and jumper. He runs from one person to the next in the room, just jumping and barking and jumping and barking. This thing is just calming him down, helping him relax. He loses it every once in a while. He pulls on it and he gets a little nutty, but it's doing what it's supposed to be doing. I'm very happy with the calming bed. I would recommend it if you have a high-strung dog. Pretty cool. It's so soft, washable. Bedshore is a really good company. I got a lot of stuff that I bought myself from Bedshore. A lot of throw blankets and stuff for the living room for the winter time. I was real happy with them. They reached out to me. Actually, we reached out to each other. They saw some of my puppy videos and thought that I might be good. Look how relaxed he is in the bed. Look how relaxed he is. That's worth the price of admission. That's a hyperdog and he's just relaxed. People in the room, he would never be doing that with people in the room. Maybe after 20 minutes of him going crazy, he might relax and calm down, but he wouldn't be doing this from the beginning. We just put this bed out. Normally that'd be something that'd be exciting to him. Now he's playing with the pillow, the cushion in the middle. The cushion comes out. You can use the cushion separately. I think he's really happy with it. I think it's sold. I think it's a sold item. What do you think? What do you think in the comments section? Is it a sold item? I think it is. I think that if you're looking for a bed for a high-strung dog, the calming, soothing, calming dog bed from Bedshore is exactly as advertised. Works really good. Again, he's a hyperdog, Jack Russell, rescue dog, high-strung, barks at everything, jumps around. He'd be running from one person to the next, jumping, going crazy. He doesn't want to leave the bed. He's relaxed. Look, he's even yawning. I'm telling you, this dog, Benny, this does not happen. Really good bed. Really good bed. We used to make money online. How do people make money online? Look at him. He's so precious. So precious. You have a dog that's a rescue dog that you know has been abused. To watch him just relax in the house like that, knowing that he's loved, that's just priceless. That's just priceless. When we got him, he was a very stressful, high-strung, rescue dog. I don't know how he meant it. They're abused. They're abused. It's a sad case. But he comes around to a loving family and then there he is, the final product with the calming, soothing dog bed, perfect, perfect, perfect. Amazon.com slash shop slash you didn't know. If you're watching me on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, I'm using ReStream to go live in all those places. But Amazon.com, Amazon Live, that's where we're concentrating because that's where we're selling the items. Being an influencer, like I said, the fastest growing number one small business in the United States is going to be being an influencer. And it used to be when I was a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? You said an astronaut, movie star, baseball player, but those were things that were high in the sky. A normal kid wasn't going to become Babe Ruth. A normal kid wasn't going to become Charlton Heston. A normal kid wasn't going to be a kiss. Normal kid wasn't going to be a rock star. Those were goals that were good to have, to dream in your room, listen to rock music or whatever, watching baseball. But you weren't going to get to them. You could work hard and play college ball. It was so hard to become professionals in those fields. But nowadays, you ask them what they want to be when they grow up. They say, I want to be an influencer. I want to be a YouTuber. I want to be a content creator that's so attainable today. Anybody can do it. All you need is a cell phone. You don't need thousands of dollars worth of equipment. You don't need a studio. You don't need... All you need is a cell phone and you can build an audience to stop being an influencer. It's so simple, so easy and attainable that it's ridiculous. The internet puts everything in everybody's hands. It's at your fingertips. It's right there. So what do you do? What do you do? You find an audience, so they get what's called a niche. So your niche would be like, I got the basketball. Basketball would be a niche. Sports would be the big, big niche. Then basketball would be a sub-niche narrowing it down and then maybe free throws or point guards or big men or something would be maybe different plays would be sub-niches. So you narrow it down into sub-niches to get a narrow audience. Then you find out what problem they're having. There's a problem that they're having. You find the solution for that problem. You provide them with the solution. You're an influencer. It's that simple. It's that simple. Find the audience. Find out the problems they're having and offer them a solution and you're an influencer. Pretty simple, pretty simple. So if you're a makeup influencer on Instagram and you're doing eyelashes or eye makeup or whatever, they're having problems doing it so that that's the audience is the people and the problem is that they can't do it and you're showing them how to do it, you become an authority in the niche. That's how it's done. And you can do it in any niche, could be knitting, could be ballet, could be any kind of any hobby, any activity, any sport, any profession. Anything that has an audience and you just identify the problems that they're having. There is something that happens to these people as they're going on as they get started. It's a snag. Snag, it stops them. Maybe someone quit. You find out what that problem is, you solve it, you give them a solution, you become the hero, you become the influencer and next thing you know, you're on your way, you have an audience, you're making money online, you're taking off and you're working your way up to being an Amazon influencer like what we're talking about today. So the next thing in my carousel is also from Bedshore, they sent this to me as well. Northopedic memory foam, it's like a sofa look, it looks like a sofa or a couch. You can see it in the carousel. I'm going to see if I can pull it up here, a picture of it. So this is it here, like I said, I'm a one-minute show and I wish I could play music while I'm doing this because but I'm not, copyrighting is kind of hard. So there it is in, you know, I just put it in there, we have a couple of dogs that we babysit for during the day and they're all the rescue dogs from the same, you know, lunatic place but that's the couch, the sofa as they call it, it's orthopedic, it's memory foam, it's, you know, basically for a smaller dog, I got a picture of Benny with Benny in it, I think, yeah, not the greatest picture but you know, it'll give you an idea of the size. So he's a medium-sized dog and that's the size, that's the small sofa, the memory foam, bedsheet orthopedic memory foam, a sofa, seat cushion, whatever. But it's soft, he loves it, he lays in it, doesn't matter that he's a little too big for it, it's, you know, like I said, it's amazing that I don't know if there's a scent in these things that dogs know it's theirs but they go right to it, they lay in it and, you know, it's perfect, he's got it, he's already stashed his toys in it, this one, we put this downstairs in the basement, when he goes downstairs, there's a desk there where they do some work from home stuff and when people at the desk, he goes under the desk there and so we put the bed there and so he loves it, it's perfect stuff, okay, you can't beat it. You know, bedsheet, like I said, they have a lot of cool stuff, a lot of stuff that could be washed and, you know, I would, anything that, anything that bedsheet sent me was 100% worth the money, was perfect, was well made, the stitching was good, the cushions were good, the memory foam was good, it was washable, almost everything is washable and the dogs, they all loved it, it was just amazing. So, going back to being an influencer, right, I don't know how much you know about it being an influencer and what they call affiliate marketing, so affiliate marketing is when you sell other people's products, pretty easy, pretty normal stuff, you know, everybody, most salesman sells other people's products, whether it's a car salesman or, you know, electronic salesman, they're not selling their own stuff, they're selling other people's stuff and you get a commission. So when people sell things online, it's called affiliate marketing and they promote other people's stuff and they make a commission, sometimes it's a physical stuff like an Amazon product, sometimes it's like a software, like it's a digital product, those are the best ones to do digital products because they're instantly delivered and they can't be returned because digital product, so you know, you get paid and you don't have to worry about returns, but that's affiliate marketing and people are making money doing that, they build their audience and they can they can recommend products to people to solve problems in their niche and watch my YouTube channel, go to youdidn'tknow.live, if you go to youdidn'tknow.live, that's my website, I'll have a sign up, you know, an email list for to know when I go live and there'll be a way to get onto my YouTube channel, there's ways to make money online on there to learn how to make money online without a doubt, by all means, you know, take take everything and learn what you need to learn. There's different ways, so many different ways that you can sell courses, you can you can sell items, you can do drop shipping, you can do affiliate marketing, you can be an influencer, what is good for you, but everybody needs a side hustle, that's why I started my started my YouTube channel, the Side Hustle Shuffle, because I believe, you know, you got to have a job, everybody has a job, hopefully it pays the bills, hopefully, you know, maybe you get some benefits, maybe you have retirement benefits, medical benefits, or something, and maybe you like your job, maybe you don't, I like my job, I'm not looking to quit my job, I'm looking to supplement my income, I'm looking to make my retirement better, I'm looking to pay my kids college, I'm looking to do all these other things, but I'm not looking to necessarily quit my job, it'd be great, you know, if you're making millions of dollars, that's fine, you know, but, you know, a lot of people like their jobs, it's not, that's not the goal is to quit your job, the goal is to not worry about money, the goal is to have multiple streams of income coming in, so as that when something isn't all there one month, it's not the end of the world, like I had a family tragedy last month, we lost some time at work, that would have hurt us normally, but because I have side hustles coming in, and I have other income streams, we were able to make it up. So, you know, that's what I'm talking about, you know, side hustles, one stream of income today isn't enough, so you get married, or you know, or you have a partnership, and you have two people working, you have two salaries coming in, right? One, then you have a kid, or you adopt a kid, or you get a kid, or something happens, and one of them is going to stay home to raise the family, right? And you lose half your income. That's impossible, because now you lost half your income, now you got to start saving for college, you know, all these expenses come up because now you got a family, and you've lost half your income, that's like incredible, that's why most people have to go to work and have and have daycare raise their kids, and I find that to be repulsive, okay, I find that to be repulsive, to have your kid go to daycare, to be raised by somebody else, and you know, by the time you've paid daycare, your travel expenses, maybe your lunches, you know, maybe you make 100, 200 bucks a month a week, after you've paid for the daycare, so what is it worth working and having someone else raise your kids? I don't think so. Have multiple streams of income coming in, start a side hustle, do some affiliate marketing, and have other money coming in so you don't have to worry about it. So, you know, it's great when you start a side hustle, and like for me, the first thing was to start paying the cable bill, you start the people don't have to worry about it anymore, don't have to worry about it anymore, or if you make enough money to pay the car payment and the car insurance. So when you start knocking off these bills with income coming in on side hustles, it makes your life so much better, it makes your life so much better. Next thing is also from Bedshore. This is the cat, the Bedshore cat bed thing, right? It really unfolded real easy. I'm gonna play the video of me unfolding it. But it was really cool. Let's see if I can find it. There it is. Came in a flat box. I'm gonna have to mute that because I got my my signature music playing in the background. It's a little bit loud. All right, but it's cool tune. So, you know, I unboxed it. And I don't I don't have a cat but we got stepcats, we got cats in the family. There's the two dogs are sitting on the back there. Benny's barking at the window like he always I told you he's crazy. He never stops barking. You see the whole video he's gonna bark, not gonna stop, right? Delma is the other dog. She just sits there all calm, you know, Benny just he's just a nut. So the cat thing comes in like three pieces. It's got that soft piece for the inside. And it's got a harder piece for the up for the top. It just unfolds in one one piece, right? And then you put the piece in the top. And then you put the cushion on the inside. And you're done. And you got yourself a cat thing. And it's got the scratch post on the side that you can see the scratch post. And it's got a little play ball thing there that you know, is a play thing for cats like that kind of stuff, I guess, you know, scratch post there. You know, really cool bet sure again, it's a home run another another awesome product. And you know, came out of the box, you saw how flat it was a pretty sturdy thing for a cat. I'm afraid the dogs jump on it might be a little bit, they may be a little heavy. But cat size animal, you know, perfect, perfect, perfect for it. Um, bet sure has a lot of good stuffing and this they sent this to me for free again to review. And I just sent it out today to a family member that has cats, I'm going to get some videos of the cats playing with it. And we'll get that going for next week's live for next Tuesdays live. I'm going to try and start going more often live because one week is maybe not enough. Um, so you know, what do you think about that? How often is any of you guys in here go live and how often do you go live on Amazon? Do you guys go live on Amazon? What did you come to Amazon today to buy if you guys are on Amazon right now? What are you shopping for? Are you shopping for bed shore products? Are you shopping for a cat house? A cat bed? A cat? I think it's a cave or something. But what are you shopping for on Amazon? Are you using a gift card? Are you shopping for Valentine's Day stuff? Are you looking for jewelry and stuff like that? I don't have any jewelry in my in my stream today. No Valentine's Day stuff. We're we're not doing that yet. We're getting there. We're getting there. It's only today's only the first, right? Today's only the first. Um, I think we were talking about affiliate marketing. So selling other people's products. Alright, so what a lot of people do is they'll start a YouTube channel or an Instagram channel and then they'll join Amazon Associates, which is Amazon's affiliate program and they'll promote Amazon products for for a commission. They'll make videos and photos of them using Amazon products and they'll put links to those products in those photos and videos and when people click those and make purchases, they get commissions. They make money. Now, they don't have to buy that specific item. Like if you put a if I put a video for the bedshort cat thing and you clicked and went to Amazon and did shopping for a bunch of other stuff, I would get commissions for all that stuff. You get 24 hours, whatever they buy for 24 hours, you would get a commission on when you drive the traffic for them to Amazon. Really cool program. And so what they do is they uh they'll uh let me let me share a screen here. We'll pop through this quickly. Um so Amazon over here now this is Hollystone. This is a drone that was sent to me also by Hollystone. Um really cool drone. Um and and they sent to me to to try it out and and and promote it and and and like that. So uh I made a video for it and I'm promoting it on Amazon, but I also am promoting it on my YouTube channel. So if I go over to my YouTube channel, let me share the screen over there, it's going to take me a couple minutes to bounce back and forth. Um okay so there's my YouTube channel. Now if you scroll down, you'll see over here is the is the video for the drone, right? So you click that, they're going to play the video. You can't expect your team to manage one with this. I'm assuming you can still see that, but then you come down here. There's my Amazon link. See the Amazon link right there? So they click the Amazon link and it's going to bring them to Amazon and if they buy, I'm going to get a commission, all right? So let me see now. Yeah, you didn't see all of that did you? All right. It didn't bring you to Amazon. So I'll show you where it brought me. It brought me right back to the Hollystone Amazon page, okay? So if they make a purchase on the page, that link brought you right here, right? Now again, we're going to close this out. The same thing goes for Instagram, okay? So if you go to Instagram, my Instagram channel, also let me see now, can you see this? Is this being shared? The Instagram channel? Okay. So over here, the photo is off. I didn't take the time to do the photo, right? But when they click that, it'll be the video, right? Of me doing the Hollystone. I'm going to let that run. Let me see now. Can you see that? Is that being, yeah, you can see that. So it's me taking the drone out of the box, right? This was a really cool drone. I told them that I crash every drone I've ever had. I've wasted hundreds of dollars on drones and they said this is a beginner-friendly drone. You're going to love it. So I said I'm going to put it right out of the box and try it and see what happens. And it pairs right away. A little click with the buttons that way and it pairs, the lights go solid, then you pull it out and it starts it and it takes off on its own. But if you look over here, my affiliate link is right there, the Amazon link. So they would cut and paste that and if they cut and pasted that and went to Amazon, I would get a commission for that. And that's how people make money online, okay? With Amazon influencers and using their YouTube channel and using their Instagram channel. Now this drone is pretty cool. I was, like I said, right out of the box. This is on slow speed, okay? It's got a bunch of speeds. If you want to click the link in the carousel and tell me how many speeds it has, I bounce off the wall with this thing like two times in the video and it doesn't crash. Because it's on slow speed and you can get control of it really easy. And it was really this bending the superdog, okay? The rescue dog. He loved it. He was falling it around. He didn't bark at it, but he wasn't sure what it was. It makes a humming noise. It does. It makes a kind of a loud noise. This one does not have a camera, but like I said, this is a beginner friendly learn how to be a pilot drone. And it was awesome. Look at him on buzzing the tower. And again, I usually, I panic and I crash the drone into the wall like the first two minutes. Once it's turned around and going the opposite way and I get all turned around, I end up crashing it. I was flying this around like as my lovely wife and went on an issue. Buzzing around, I'm not sure when it bounces into the wall, but I'm going to leave it running because it does bounce into the wall. So you make videos on things from Amazon and you put the affiliate links in your videos and people click the links and you make affiliate commissions, right? And it all depends on the traffic. Now you use keywords and ways to drive traffic to these offers, right? And people make good money. People, you know, not everybody, not everybody makes good money. When I go off the wall, I think, bam, look at that. That was, come on. And it didn't crash. That's a good drone. That's a pretty cool drone. And, you know, now I'm going to buzz the tower one more time and, you know, affiliate marketing. This is what it's about. So now I just showed you, and if you were in the market for that drone, if you were watching on the YouTube channel, I mean on Amazon and you saw that bounce off the wall like that, you'd be ready to buy. You'd be ready to buy. So that's the Holleystone HS-190. Again, they sent this to me for free to check it out. I'm behind it 100%. I was just fully expecting to say just another drone that I crashed, you know? But no, this one was pretty good. Again, slow speed, okay? It's very controllable. It says on the box 14 and over. I'm telling you a younger kid would have no problem with this thing. Anybody that has any kind of dexterity, you know, my opinion. So that's how you make money with affiliate marketing. You use your YouTube channel, you use your Instagram, people use TikTok now, people use Pinterest, you know, any kind of social media and you use what's called an affiliate link and I'll only show you how to get that affiliate link, okay? Oh, share the screen one more time. I don't know if you guys are bored, if you just want me to run through products, I can do that. But, you know, I kind of want to educate some of you guys on, let me see now. So we're going to go over to here. Can you see the hollystone? Okay, all right. I'm on the right page. Okay, so up here is called the site stripe. When you sign up for Amazon Associates, okay? You're going to, this stripe is going to be across the top of your page. Every product that you go to is going to have this and when you hit the text button, it's going to drop down your menu. That's your affiliate link. You take this link and you put it in your videos or your Instagram photos, right? And you put the link in there and when people click the link, make purchases on Amazon and they don't have to buy that particular item, okay? You just send them to Amazon for 24 hours, whatever they buy, you're going to get a commission for. So the key to being an Amazon associate is to drive the traffic to Amazon, let them buy, whatever they buy at 24 hours, you're going to get the cookie for, you're going to get the commission, all right? That's it in a nutshell and it's very easy and, you know, it's not easy but it's doable. It's very doable. Where are we in the hip parade here on the car? So we did the cat, the stuff. So here's a bed shore orthopedic mattress, okay? Again, orthopedic memory foam. This is for a large dog. I believe they're made for putting the crates in the cages that you have. We don't train Benny because he was a rescue and he was freaked. So we didn't want to do that to him and traumatize him further. So but a lot of dogs are easily crate trained and they go to their crates. They love them like a cave and they go their all time. You want to have something nice and they throw blankets and pillows and stuff in there. This is a perfect thing but let me see if I have a video of Milo. Milo is a sweetheart of a dog. He's a family dog. He's a senior and he is a sweetheart. Where do you see him? My message is going baloney, a crepola. So there's Milo on the lords and he's a golden. He's a big golden and he's like I said he's a senior guy. He likes to relax but he's got a lot of energy and a lot of love. He's a sweetheart of a dog and he loves this mattress. Again, how do they know that the mattresses are for them? That the beds are for them? That they're dog beds? They go right to them and they go right on them. Bedshorts got it down and you know again another hit out of the park, another home run by Bedshore. Milo absolutely loves it. So we're gonna go, I think I got a picture of Milo sitting on it. I don't know if I can get that up. If I share the screen again maybe I don't know can I? I'm not gonna waste time trying to do that. So the Bedshore bed that's a cool thing. Memory foam. Put it in the crate. It's really cool for them. So you have a dog. You got that memory of home. You bought it. You take the video like I just did of Milo or your dog laying on it. Putting it in the crate that it fits in the crate whatever and you put that on your YouTube channel. You put that on your Instagram. You put that on your TikTok. You put that on your Pinterest. You put that on your Twitter. You put that in your Facebook group and you put the affiliate link there. You drive traffic to Amazon. That's how you make money. That's one way of making money online. Really good way to make money online and Amazon is the name that people go to Amazon ready to buy. It's what's called warm traffic. And a big part of affiliate marketing, big part of making money online is driving traffic. That's the hard part. I ask anybody that makes money online they're gonna tell you driving traffic is the hard part. Amazon traffic, they have their own traffic. People are going there already to shop. Warm traffic with intent. People with buying intent go to Amazon with their money in their hand, right? So using Amazon associate links, Amazon links, people click them. They trust Amazon. They're gonna pay. They're gonna buy. They're gonna buy because it's Amazon. You're not sending them to some fly-by-night website, right? And they're just gonna put their credit card information and you send them to Amazon a trusted site, all right? So when you're the little guy just starting out, you use the leverage of Amazon, use their name, your credibility to make money online, okay? Very simple, very simple stuff. Next thing, now remember all these stuff, all the stuff from Bedshore was sent to me for free. Bedshore is a great company. They sent this stuff to me in a care package, asked me to go through it, use it around, I have access to like six or seven different dogs, couple of cats. We have a vet tech in the family and we try out a lot of stuff. But the Bedshore waterproof, it's a blanket, right? And it's, we use it, first we were using it on the couch. Now we're using it on the easy chair because as he goes there to chew a lot of bones on it. So we put that on there so as it protects the finish on the chair and you can also put it in the car and stuff like that. Let me see if I, do I have a video of this one? I don't remember. Yes, all right. Yes, yes, yes. You guys are lucky today. All right, share the screen again. You know, I don't have any technical people doing, you know, stuff behind the scenes. There's Benny, the Wonder Dog, chewing his bone with the Bedshore waterproof blanket. And that's it folded in half, so it fits on the the easy chair. It's actually like double that size. It's got the sheepskin on the one side and it's got the the gray material on the other side, soft material and it's water resistant, waterproof, they call it waterproof. Okay, very soft. Again, Bedshore, everything is very soft. Again, they go to these things and lay right on them. They know, you know, for some reason they know Bedshore stuff is their stuff and they go right on it. Awesome, awesome stuff. Benny, the Wonder Dog. Okay, you got to love them, you know, except when he's barking at everything and he does that a lot. He barks at everything, but we love them and they're like, I said rescue dogs. You got to rescue them because we had a family dog for like 11 years and that we had to put down for cancer and we said we would never get another dog. And then the rescue dogs come in, they come in your life and you got no choice, you got no choice and they still your heart. So now that we have the dogs in the house and we've got smokers in the house and we've got dandruff in the house and we got dust in the house, we've had to get an air purifier. So this was also sent to me for free to review. Almost everything in the carousel, just about everything was sent to me for free. But I'll just keep saying that over and over again because people are sticklers for that. So it was sent to me to review. I put it together easy peasy out of the box. It's been running for days. The first day or two, everybody in the house was sneezing because it was kicking up dust. I'm guessing it was kicking up dust. But everybody was sneezing and we were taking COVID tests and everything. It was a little nutty for a day. And we come to find out that it was the dust being kicked up and then everything was fine. Everybody stopped sneezing and the house has been pretty cool ever since. But let me, do I have that video? All right. I know I have it. I just don't know if I have it. I know. I know. There it is. All right. We're going to show it for you right now. Again, I apologize for the dead air and dead space. I'm working on that. Like I said, I want to play music. But you know, copyrights, copyrights. You know, YouTube is a stickler for copyrights. And so is Facebook. If you play the wrong music. And I got some stuff that's copyrighted. It's okay to play on YouTube, but they won't play it on Facebook. It's okay to play it on Facebook, but they won't play it on Amazon. And it's copyrights. Not it's not fun to get a copyright strike on YouTube. So this music that I'm playing in the background is YouTube music so that they won't flag me for it. But here it is coming out of the box because everything in it's got it's got the the charcoal filters, got the HEPA filter. I'm going to let it play with with the volume because I want you to hear how loud it is. Got three settings, one, two and three, right? Pretty simple. It kind of snaps on. It's got an arrow there so you know which way to put the filter in. Does anybody have any questions about what I was saying about making money online using Amazon Associates Applying? You apply to Amazon. It's Amazon affiliate program that's called Amazon Associates. And you drop to the bottom of any Amazon page and scroll down on the on the on the footer. And you should be able to see a link for Amazon work with us or Amazon Associates. I'll try and look for it in a minute. Or you can just look it on Google and search on Google for Amazon Associates Amazon Affiliate Program. So here it is. It's pretty quiet. I'm going to go back to pull it back. Can I pull it back? So when it was at three, I guess it didn't burn at three. No, that's pretty disappointing. No, there is. There it is at three. Hold on. That's it at three. Not loud at all. And two is a little bit less and one's even less, you know. So you leave this running and the the the filter was every 90 days, which was pretty cool. You don't have to worry about it every month. And again, that was like recommended. It's also if you run it 24 hours a day on three instead of one, it was different, you know, different. So, you know, but in today, we're all the pathogens and everything that are going around. You need a nip, you're firing a house. You need it. Everybody needs one. You got to, you know, it's for health reasons. It takes the allergens. It takes the pathogens. You know, it takes mold spores. It takes dust, pollen, you know, all that, you know, bad stuff. You know, it takes it right out of the air. So, let me see if I went to the Amazon page that we were sharing. If I share that page, if I can find on the bottom where it says the Amazon associate program. All right. So if I climb one way down, I'm not sure if it's down here because you might have to search it on Google and just search Amazon associate program. But if you come down here, careers maybe about Amazon, make money with us, become an affiliate right there. So let's click that and see what happens. Oh, I got to go to my page and show you how much money I'm making. I can't do that. Sorry. Sorry. They won't let me do that. But that being said, so you put your affiliate link in your video or your post and when the people go to you, you drive traffic to Amazon and you're going to make some affiliate commissions and, you know, you put one video out there and you put five videos out there. Then by a month, you have 30 videos out there. Then by a year, you got 300 videos out there. And before you know it, you're building up a quite a base. All right. And if it's products, everyday products, okay, and it's not like off the wall products. If it's stuff people are ordering every day and you can go to best sellers and do best sellers. You can go to what's hot now. You can go what's up and coming. You know, movers and shakers they have on there. They have daily deals. And you can you can target all of these different items. Right. And and get traffic because people are searching for those things. Right. Amazon is a great way to start for new people who are trying to make money online because like I said, you're leveraging the Amazon name and you can't beat that. It's like it's a big leverage. You've got to it's like having a big brother on the block because, you know, people aren't going to mess with you because you're with Amazon. Basically. All right. The next thing is the death cycle the under the death cycle to under desk cycle. Okay. And this was pretty cool. I used to have a cheaper version of something like this where it was just a pedal on the and it would move all over. It was a it was a piece of crap. But the under desk desk cycle has some substance to it. It was really heavy duty. And I think you're going to love it. Death cycle. All right. Again with the with the music. All right. We're going to share the screen and we're going to get going. We're going to turn the video where the volume is going to go down a little bit. It says right on the box it improves and improves productivity at work, which I thought was hilarious. So yeah, you know, you're supposed to have this under your desk at work so you can be more productive. Okay. But this kills two birds with one stone. You know, you can you can work out on your desk. You could when you're watching TV, when you're on your laptop at home, you know, when you're watching the game, you know, you're watching the playoff so you can sit there. And everything came in the box went together. This is of course at like five speed. I got this going fast. Let me turn this down a little bit more. The music is a little bit high. But it was pretty easy to put together. And it was really sturdy. Now this thing it's got a meter on it. It's got a tension bar on it. And it's it'll track calories, time or mileage. You can track how many miles you go. You can track how many calories you burn or you can track how much time went by on it. Like you want to ride for 20 minutes or you want to ride for two miles. You can do that. You want to see how many calories you burned. You can do that. So it's pretty cool advanced item. It's not just something to stick under the desk. Like you would think it's just, you know, this is this is a technical thing. It's got some meat to it. And like I said, when I tried to move it with my feet because it was too far in front of me, it wouldn't slide. I had to actually move it with my hands. I couldn't just scoot it back. It was like it's heavy duty. It's not heavy like weight heavy. It's like it's it sticks to the floor. And right now I got it on a high tension. That little black thing right there that I'm touching now is the tension. You can make it loose or tight. Really cool under the desk. There's Benny the Wonder Dog. He loves everything. We love Benny. And she had to I had to pull it back because I couldn't scoot it back because it was and that's on a regular floor, no carpet or nothing. It should have been able to slide pretty simple, but I had to drag it back. It's not sliding back and forth, moving back and forth. I'm going, you know, maybe if I want to work at my desk, I can do that. If I want to watch TV, I can do that really cool, awesome little workout. It solves problems. Remember, I'm telling you audience problem solution. Find yourself an audience. Find out the problem they're having and well for them a solution and you're going to make money online. So the audience is people who want to work out, but they don't have the time. They're always at work or they work from home. They don't have the time. They don't have the space for a big bike. So that's the audience. That's the problem. And the problem is they don't have the space. The problem is they need something better. And here's the solution. Under desk cycle. So you would make a video when you're on the desk cycle. You would put the affiliate link for the item in the video or in the in the picture or whatever you were using if you were using Instagram photos, right? Or stories or reels or whatever you're using. And you put your affiliate link in there and that you drive them to Amazon and then whatever they buy on Amazon for 24 hours, you're going to make a commission. Now the commission might be one or two percent. Okay. But it's volume, right? It's volume. And again, like I said, it's Amazon. So people have trust for Amazon. Okay. If you want to go into business with somebody, Amazon wouldn't be a bad choice if you ask me, right? So why not partner with somebody? The big kahuna, the big guy on the block is Amazon. You know, as far as I think they got like 80% of all retail, online retail is Amazon, right? So why not partner with the big boy and have some credibility, right? Have some credibility and make yourself some side hustles, make yourself some side money, get some multiple streams of income coming in. Every one of these videos can bring you money in. All right? You do one a day. You do five a week, but you do three a week. It builds up over time. And what you do is you pick items that are what's called evergreen. Okay. So you're not picking seasonal items. I mean, I'm not telling you not to. I have a lot of seasonal items, but you want to pick items that are going to be chosen all the time. Okay. So like Christmas just passed, it's January. So usually in January, most marketers have a fall off in their revenue because Christmas is over. Christmas was the push. My items are every day items. So my revenue stayed pretty much the same through December and January. It didn't drop off. So, but that's all strategy and what you're doing. Some people are using, you know, the hot items, bestsellers and stuff like that. Other people are doing seasonal items. Last year, I made a lot of money on a video about a fire pit, one of those propane fire pits. Did a video on a propane fire pit and it got thousands and thousands of views, you know, thousands of views. And a bunch of sales. So I made some commissions on that. Very cool. And again, you would think that it's a seasonal item, but I'm still making sales in the wintertime on that item. So, and it's, this is what's called making money while you sleep. Right. Passive income, making money while you sleep. You put out a video a day. Right. For a year, you have 300 videos and then you go on vacation for two weeks. Those videos are still making money. You're on vacation. Right. That's passive income. When you're asleep. Okay. Those videos are running. People are watching them. Maybe on the other side of the world in a different time zone, but they're watching them. And maybe they're collecting on Amazon. Maybe they're not. And if they are, you're making commissions while you sleep. That's making money online. That's my YouTube channel is the side hustle shuffle. Go there. Go to youdidn'tknow.live. Get hooked up. Sign up for the email list. A lot of ways to make money online. You can, you can make a course to make money online. You can do affiliate marketing. You can do drop shipping. 100 different things you can do. Right. Besides, there's hundreds of different ways. All right. We're trying to explore them all on my YouTube channel because that was, I didn't realize people could make money online. I was always doing side hustles painting, doing repairs, mowing lawns, shoveling snow, whatever I needed to do, cleaning gutters. Following plumbers and repairing holes. Regrounding bathrooms. Whatever I could do on the side, side jobs, I would do it to make money. Right. Always had to have side, always had to have multiple streams of income coming and you couldn't rely on just a salary. That's, you know, really what I'm talking about is you can't rely on just one source of income. And then when I realized people were making money online and I didn't have to use trade sweat equity, my body. Right. I could sit at home. I could work at two o'clock in the morning on a video. Right. Well, everybody's asleep. I don't have to, I'm not at the mercy of, I got to get home from work, get changed, get something to eat, run out to a side job for four hours, get home at 10 o'clock at night. Maybe see my kids, maybe not. Right. Now I can do that all online. I can make, I can make videos. I can, I can research stuff all hours of the night. It's amazing. What's going on today? 2022 was the rise of the creator economy. The passion economy. Find your passion. Like this is, this is, this is the craziest thing. Wouldn't you like to do what you love and make a full-time income? Do what you love. Have fun doing it and make a full-time income doing it. That's what people are doing, being creators, being content creators, being influencers. 2022 is the rise of the creator economy. You should get in. Whatever it is that you do, everybody has what they call, everybody has a course in them. Everybody has something you can teach somebody. Right? That could be your niche. That could be a YouTube channel. That could be your income stream. I can't tell you what it is. It's different from everybody. You may be the person. So ask your friends, what is it that you come to me for? When you're in trouble, what do you come to me for? When you have car trouble, do you come to me? When you have relationship trouble, do you come to me? When you have trouble with your boiler, do you come to me? When you have trouble with your kids, do you come to me? When you have trouble with your finances, do you come to me? So when you find out what people come to you for, or that's what you're good at, that's your niche, right? That's your thing, that's your thing. That's how you find out. If you don't know, your friends know, your family knows. They know who to go to for certain things. If you're that guy and that thing, that's your niche. That's your calling, that's your passion. Go with it, right? Build your following, build your audience based on your passion, follow your passion. This was also sent to me, Thrasio sent me this, Thrasio is a company that absorbs other brands on Amazon and they recruit influencers to review them online. So I got this one here. It's a selfie stick, pretty cool selfie stick. What I liked about it is the phone, whatever you call it, the holder. It's not one of those spring snap cheap things that you always think is gonna break. It's a screw clamp. So it opens up to a large size phone. I mean, it wouldn't do a tablet, but a large size phone would do. And you can turn it around and make it sideways and everything. And if the tripod is there and you can hold it like a selfie and you can put it out, it goes out, I think four feet, 48 inches. And what I like about this too, is it's not adjustable where you have to keep turning the screws. It's very, very tight and well made, right? And once the phone's in there, it stays like that. Another cool thing about this thing has a Bluetooth remote control for your camera, your phone. I haven't hooked up to my phone. It sits right here in the cradle, but it pops out, right? And it's USB chargeable. So you plug it into the USB charger and you turn it on and the light goes on and flashes three times and then it's hooked to your phone. And then when you push the button, it'll either take the video or the picture, depending on what you got set up on. So you set that over, I think it's up to 20 feet away and you can start it and stop it while it's all the way over there. And I loved it. I use this thing almost every video I use it where I have to stand and use both my hands. I'm using this in almost every video. Well, the overhead shots, no. But when you see me standing, I'm using this. And if you see me sometimes, you'll see me with this thing in my hand, with the control of my hand. But this is, I love it. I use it, I get a lot of use out of this and it was free. They sent it to me to review and I'm 100% behind it. I would buy this, if this for some reason I lost it or I don't think it would break because it's really well made, I would get another one. If I needed another one, if I needed two for something or if I had somebody following me around like Gary V, videography in me around and document in my life, I'd have to get another one, right? Really cool, really cool. You're going to be a content creator. You're going to be an influencer. You need tools like this. This is, and if you have someone in your life who wants to be a content creator, this would be something that you would want to give to them as a gift, something that they would put to use, okay? A vlogger or whatever, this is perfect. This is what you need, okay? This is a tripod, it's a selfie stick and it's a remote control. This is like four or five things in one. Well worth, well worth it. And it's on sale, 32% off, okay? Come on, 32% off. Put it in your cart, save it for later. Next time you're making your purchases, just add it on. Look at the price. It's like almost getting it for free, okay? It's almost like getting it for free. And if you want to be a content creator, you need something like that for sure. I'm gonna take a sip of my coffee because I'm getting a little hoarse. All right, so I've gone over a bunch of stuff about making money online, about being an affiliate, about using Amazon to make money online, about using your YouTube channel, your Instagram channel, your TikTok, your Pinterest, your YouTube, your Twitter, your Facebook, right? Any social media, you put the affiliate link in your post, you drive traffic to Amazon, you're gonna make an affiliate link, you're gonna make an affiliate commission, you're gonna make one to 2%, I shouldn't say one to 2% because some things are 4%, some things are 10%, all right? I think if you're into makeup and glamour and stuff like that, it's 10%, right, commissions. If you're into patio furniture, outdoor furniture, I think it's 4%. Most things are one and 2%, electronics are like less than 1%, video games, all that stuff is like very low. The next thing in my, I was almost coughed. The next thing in the carousel, it solves a problem. If you have candle people in your life, okay? People who love candles, now everybody loves candles, Yankee candles, that thing, everybody, all these new candles, homemade candles, right? Earwax candles, who the hell knows? But they all have a thing where they have those long lighters, right? And the long lighters, they're always dead. People are always flicking them, playing with them. So when you go to use them, they're always dead. It just seems like it to me, my experience, they're either missing, lost, someone's using them, someone's playing with them, it's gone, but most of the time when you get it, you find it's dead. So this thing solves that problem. You find the audience, the audience is candle people. The problem is that their lighter runs out of gas, runs out of fluid. So this is the, I don't know how to say it, sparker, sparker, sparker, okay? It's the sparker by power practical, power practical, extended rechargeable electric lighter, electronic lighter. Now this is like Nazi stuff, okay? This is like Shark Tank, Shark Stick stuff, okay? It's rechargeable, it comes with the USB, right? Really cool little item. It's got a little protective thing on the top here, right? It comes right off and all right. So you hit the button three times, one, two, three, turns it on. Now again, it's USB charging, right? I got a little candle over here. Now the dog doesn't like this. It's like Sonic, it's like electroshock therapy, but so I haven't hit myself with this thing, but I think that if I did, it wouldn't be pleasant. You know, it's like the Shark Stick you see, you know. Okay, I'm gonna put it right up there, right? It's like Tesla. Anyway, you know, it sounds a problem, it's cool. I think, you know, I've given it to a couple of people already that are candle people, they loved it. Three clicks and it goes off, rechargeable. I've had it since before Thanksgiving. I've recharged it once. We've used candles around the house. I've got like six candles running all the freaking time. My wife loves the candles, especially around the holidays. You know, you got the apple pie going and Thanksgiving and then you got the pine and the pine forest going around Christmas. And so now we're gonna start with the Valentine's. What's the Valentine's since now, I guess, Rose or who knows what it is, but that's gonna be next. So candle people and they're everywhere. And now, you know, they have all these specialties, candle shops where they're making homemade candles and you know, it's a whole big industry candles. So you make a video of the candle lighter. You put it on your YouTube channel. You put it on your Instagram. Now, I'm doing it now. After you've built an audience on YouTube, Instagram or Facebook groups and you have an audience, you can apply to be an influencer on Amazon like I am now, right? And you would do the same thing on Amazon and you make videos, put them on Amazon. And if you go to my channel, my page over there, Amazon.com slash shop slash you didn't know, I have a whole page with videos of old products and you can go check them out. And when you click them and buy stuff, I'll get commissions for it. Being an influencer, I have a shop on Amazon. This is the shop you didn't know. And I have different lists and stuff like that and you can go and when I send people through affiliate links to the store, I make commissions. And it's really worth working with Amazon. I can't stress it enough, you're leveraging the Amazon name. It's very powerful. People aren't afraid to use the Amazon name. They aren't afraid to put their credit card in to pay and buy stuff on Amazon. You're one step ahead of the game that way. You don't have to convince people they're already ready to pay to buy to spend money on Amazon. So I used to be a superintendent, maintenance superintendent for apartment complexes. I used to do apartment inspections. When people moved out and they had pets and I would have to check the carpets for stains, carpet stains. And I would use a black light for that. So you would get a black light and you would shine on the carpet and it would show highlight where the pee stains were, where the blood stains were, where any kind of bodily fluid stains were. This is the stain sniper by Angry Orange. This was sent to me again. The RACIO took over Angry Orange. Angry Orange is a brand on Amazon. It's a top brand on Amazon, best seller. The stain sniper is a black light. They sent it to me for free. Now I know it works because I used a big one, like a movie theater usher kind of thing. It was a big one and I would flash it around and I'd find the stains. But this one's nice, small, comes with a battery inside it. I'm not gonna waste the battery but you shine it on suspected areas. It'll show you the highlights where the urine is and then you can shampoo the rug and get it out of there. Very, very, very cool item and it's really reasonable price because the ones I used to use when I was a super, the big, big ones, they were like, I don't know, 50 bucks, 100 bucks back then, they were really expensive. But this is a good price, small, something for the house, something that you could have around for when you need it. You come home from work, the puppy, you know we had an accident, you don't know where it was because it's probably dry. If you had it when you first left, it's dry. You can't find it. You wanna find it, you wanna shampoo that out. This is the way to do it, okay? Perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect. Again, problem, audience problem solution. People with new puppies and carpets, that's the audience. The problem is finding the pee stains and then the solution is the stain sniper. Do the video on the stain sniper, put the affiliate link in the video, drive traffic. That's how you make money. That's how you make money. Okay, again, Angry Orange, again, it's a great brand. They sent it to me for free. This is funny because you got the pee pads for the puppies and they pee on the pee pads in the house. You're a little bit lazy. You don't take them out as often as maybe I should. I'm not the only one here. The odor eliminator, we used to use a miracle stuff, right? And actually we used a couple of different brands and stuff, whatever was on the shelves, whatever one went to the store. But for the enzyme to clean up pee, urine and whatever, this is Angry Orange odor eliminator. Smells like heaven, works like hell. Citrusy smell, it really kills the smell. We went through the bottle in a month and I bought another one. We're gonna start using this one. This is a family favorite now, whoever's cleaning up. I used to have it on my desk when I was doing my lives and we were still using the other products. They would come and steal it from my office. They would come and steal to use it because they didn't wanna use the other one. They liked this one better. And we went through it and they won our second bottle of this and Angry Orange, we're really happy with Angry Orange, very, very good product. And the smell is really cool. Really nice citrusy smell, pleasant, kills the odor, kills that sting of the urine smell. And it's got the enzyme in it to break down the odor. Any questions on how to make money online? There's gotta be questions. There's ways, multiple ways. Audiovox Pro Microphone Shock Mount. This is the shock mount right here. It's got a bungee cords. It's got the microphone suspended on a bungee cord. So when I hit the mic and I hit it, you're not hearing bangs, okay? When I hit the desk, you can see the mic is shaking, but it's not making that bang, that jarring noise because audio is like the number one reason people are gonna tune you out. If they don't like your audio, if your audio is offensive to them, they're gonna shut you off. So you've got those bangs and people are always hitting into the microphone. I'm terrible at it. So I didn't know I even needed this item. They contacted me and they were like, we're gonna send you this item. You're a content creator. You'd go live. We're gonna send you to see what you think. I go, I don't use that. I don't need it. And then I started listening to my recordings and noticing a big difference. So it definitely helps. Definitely something that I would recommend if you're a content creator to get. It's just a little tool that you have. And this one's on sale now. It's 20% off. It's under $20. Really cool item. And it's worth it to add that quality to your videos, to your audio. So now, again, I hit it. I hit it again. I hit it again. You're not hearing a bang. It's suspended on bungee cords. So I'm gonna pull it up again. And those bungee cords are suspending it in the middle here. So it's that when I bang it, it's not being jarred. Really, a pretty cool item. And again, I didn't know I needed it. Now I won't record without one. I think they're awesome. So if you're doing content creating or if you're looking to upgrade your setup and you don't have one, Audiovox has one for sale and it's made for the Blue Yeti mic which is what I'm using right now. I don't have that in the carousel today. The Blue Yeti, I usually do have it. It's my go-to microphone. You're gonna see a lot of content creators use this microphone. But next time, I'll have it in my carousel. So my day job, I told you I have a day job that I'd like. And one of the problems is I go and I'm a service technician. So I go and ring doorbells and I do services at people's houses. And I ring the doorbell. What happens? Especially now since COVID, your kids are home, people are working from home. People got new dogs because they were home. You ring the doorbell and like pandemonium breaks out. It's like a loony bin. The dog's barking. The kids are running. Maybe you were bathing the dog. Maybe you were feeding the kids. Maybe you were on a Zoom meeting. The doorbell rings. And it's just like that two minutes is just stress like 10 times the stress. It's crazy. I see it like 10 times a day, right? And by the time you get the dog in the cage or in the room, you lock them in or you get the kids to calm down or you give them snacks and send them to the other room or you excuse yourself from the Zoom meeting. Meanwhile, the guy's outside, rang the bell and he's outside for like 10 minutes. This is the guard line wireless driveway alarm. This thing is so cool, all right? It solves so many problems. So you put this down the driveway like a quarter mile down. It's up to a quarter mile down the driveway. And it's an infrared. So when someone passes the point and sets off the infrared, it sets a tone off in the house. There's like 25 different tones. You can set it a nice pleasant tone so it doesn't set off everybody. So now you know, someone's walking at the driveway. I have five minutes before they ring the bell. I can get the dog to the cage. I can put the kids, put the show on for the kids. I can excuse myself from the Zoom meeting. I can get out of the shower. I can get dressed. I can do whatever it is I need to do and meet them at the door and not have a stressful lunatic minute or two, right? Pretty cool item. It solves a lot of problems for people. You make a couple of videos of the pandemonium that goes on when people ring the bell, right? And people duck and hide when the doorbell rings, you know? And so now you know who's coming and this is a great item. I mean, I can't stress it enough. Everything that I'm telling you about finding an audience, finding the problem and then offering them a solution, that's the blueprint for anything. Find the audience who you're gonna market to, right? Find out what problem they're having now and you find out the solution. That's a good salesman is a problem solver. A good salesman is not the slimy used car salesman who's trying to rip you off. That's like the Hollywood movie image of a salesman. A salesman who wants to make a living as a salesman, he is a problem solver. He wants you to keep coming to him so he could keep selling you stuff. So he's gonna solve your problems. He wants to be your authority in whatever it is. So you'll keep coming back to him, right? So they're not sleazy, salesmen aren't sleazy. Salesmen are helpers, they're problem solvers. You got a problem, you go to a salesman and he'll find the solution because he wants to sell you something, right? Another thing that we have that's a good problem solver. So this works corded car vacuum cleaner, okay? Pretty cool item. This is a really cool item. Now, so the audience or anybody who owns a car, everybody's car gets dirty, right? So what's the problem? When you have a car and you're gonna clean it, so you have a cordless vacuum cleaner and it's gonna run out of juice, but the battery's gonna die before you're finished with the car, that's what happens. So you have like half a dirty car. So that's a problem. Or you get one, you got a cord on the vacuum and it's too short and you can't reach everywhere in the car, right? So there's problems there. This solves both problems. This is corded and it has power, has 100% power, HEPA vacuum, has all the attachments, very powerful vacuum cleaner and it doesn't lose power because it's corded. Now, the other problem was that the cord's always short. This cord is 16 feet long. It's like 16, four inches long, right? Solves the problem. This can go from the front seat to the back seat to the back of the van to the trunk. It's gonna get the whole car. It's gonna keep the strength of the vacuum, the suction, it's gonna keep the power all the time because it's plugged in and it's gonna have the range to get all over the car, okay? Plus it's got the HEPA filter and it's got all the attachments on it to get in between the seats and all that other happy horse crap, right? So this is a good example of a product, audience problem solution. Anybody with a car is the audience. The problem I just told you is the power and the cord's too short. Solves both problems. So you make a video of someone in the car, battery dying with mess, cold fish and all crap on the floor and the battery dying and they're all pissed off and saves the day. This works car, corded vacuum cleaner saves the day. And you make the video, you put the affiliate link in the video and you make commissions, okay? You make commissions. That's what you do. There's, of course, there's ways because you have to, what's called SEO, search engine optimization. So you wanna optimize your stuff for the search engine so it can be found by the search engine, like YouTube search engine, Google has a search engine, pictures has a search engine. So you wanna have that search engine pick up your stuff. You put keywords in that people are gonna be searching for and when you do that, well, there you go. The last item I got in the carousel because we, is the Glow City Glow in the dark basketball. Pretty cool item. I got it right here. Okay, March Madness is coming next month. It's only February, but now, you know, NCAA is picking up. So I'm gonna turn out one of these lights here. All right. All right, turn them both out. All right, check this out. All right, it goes by touch. So when you touch the ball, the light goes on, right? When you touch the ball, the light goes on. Okay, get it straight. There you go, Glow City. So every time, and it goes off on its own, there's no on or off switch, right? So it goes on and off on its own and you can play in the dark, you pass, you shoot. You can take a light strip and put it around the hoop and play in the dark. You know, I thought that was a pretty cool item. Now, if I can get my lights back on, that one went back on pretty good. And Mo controls, there we go, works pretty good. So, and I think it went out already the ball, see? And every time you hit it, it'll go on. Very cool item, okay? And, you know, it's still getting dark around five o'clock and excuse me, I'm sorry. Well, I'm in the Northeast so it's getting dark a little bit after five right now. And so you wanna play in the yard. Of course, if you drive away shoveled, you've got a lot of snow going on. You wanna practice in the dark, you know, you don't cut a light, pretty cool, pretty cool. And it's a gimmick, it's fun. You can take it to the gym and turn the lights out and play with the kids and, you know, and just have a blast with the damn thing. And it comes with an extra set of batteries, hold on. Sorry, comes with an extra set of batteries and it comes with batteries already in it so you don't have to worry about it but it also comes with a tool so you can get the batteries out. And we played with it outside, passed it around. We didn't really get a chance because of the weather because of the ice and everything, I don't wanna mess it up. But hey, hey, Reagan, how you doing, man? Elaine started following me. Thank you, Elaine. I just noticed that a couple of minutes ago. I appreciate the follow, appreciate the follow all the time. Now, we've been talking about Amazon Associates making money online using your YouTube channel, using your Instagram channel to use affiliate links to drive traffic to Amazon to get a 24-hour cookie so is it anything they buy in the 24 hours you're gonna get a commission for? That's how people are making money online. That's just one example and it's the best way to start because you're using Amazon's name. You're leveraging the name of Amazon. People come to Amazon, it's called warm traffic. They come with the intent to buy. People come to Amazon expecting to spend money. It's warm traffic, right? So you're leveraging warm traffic of Amazon, the Amazon name and that's how you're gonna get yourself started as a new influencer, all right? And of course, the key is if you have a niche, whatever it is, you find your audience, you find out what problem they're having and you get a solution. You find out, you present them with the solution to that problem. That's how you become an influencer. That's how you become an authority in any niche. What's a niche? Do you know what a niche is? A niche is the audience. A niche is the activity and niche is the hobby, the sport, the profession, the thing, okay? The group, whatever group it is, there's a group with a common interest that's a niche, okay? And you find out what their problem is and I said, let's say it's knitting and when the beginners start and they get to a certain point, a certain stitch messes them up, I'm just guessing, I don't know. So let's say a certain stitch messes them up. You make a video on how to change that, how to fix that, how they can overcome that and you've solved the problem. Now they look to you as an authority figure in the niche. You've become an influencer. It's that simple. That's that easy. It's that easy. It's that easy, all right? Now we're back to the Holly Stone drone. Again, everything today in the stream was sent to me for free. When you become an influencer, companies are gonna send you price for free so you can review them because they want their stuff out. They want it on Amazon. They want it on YouTube. They want it on Instagram. They want people to see it. They want your followers to see it because you're an influencer. You have influence over them. And when you recommend products, you have influence to help make them buying, to have them make buying decisions, right? So Holly Stone contacted me and they said, we got this drone, we'd like to send it to you. I said, I'm a terrible pilot. I crashed a bunch of drones already. I don't think you wanna do that. They said, well, we're gonna send it to you. This is our beginner friendly drone. We're gonna start you out with a beginner friendly drone and I said, well, I'm gonna take it out of the box, put it on my table, and I'm just gonna try it. And that's it. We're gonna see how it goes. So here it is. Are you kidding me? Wait, I can't look at the door if you're watching. It's fine. It's okay sweetheart. James! James! James! I'm not gonna go do the whole video but that's it at a slow speed. It's got a bunch of speeds on. If you wanna click the link in the car cell and see how many speeds it has. But on the slow speed, I was able to really control it and I actually bounced it off the wall at one point and it doesn't crash. It bounces off the wall and I'm able to turn it and it just re-corrects and goes. So as far as a beginner friendly drone, easiest drone I've ever flown, hands down. And I mean, I'm not like a super pilot. I think this is like the third or fourth one I've ever, it is the fourth one except crash three. And the one crash was like epic. It hit the wall and blew up into a million pieces and I never thought I was flying another one again. But like I said, right out of the box, you see me open it up. I put it on the table. I start, I'm reading the directions and I'm pairing it and sending it off. It's got an automatic takeoff button and landing button and it's really cool. I had a lot of fun with it. Every once in a while I take it out and play with it. The dog likes to follow it around. And I can't really wait for the nice weather to come so I could take it outside. Cause again, it's a lot of fun flying a drone and when it's, when it's, when you got speeds like that and you can, it's a lot easier to control on the slow speed. You don't panic. I mean, I always panicked when it, when it took off and shot and like when it turned around to come back at you and right was left and left was right. That's when I would panic and I would crash it. And I would, you know, it makes some kind of crazy move and panic. But that's everything in the screen, everything in my, everything in the carousel on my Amazon side. So the guys that are on Amazon, what did you come to Amazon to buy? Are you shopping on Amazon for something specific? Are you just like hanging out? Do you just hang out on Amazon? Do you look through the lives? Are you one of those people who hang on the lives? We love you. We love you to come to the lives. We love you to comment and hang out and talk. And I try to be a little educational and like show you my journey and how I got here. And maybe if you're interested in stuff like that because like I said, Side Hustle Shuffle is my YouTube channel about making money online, about making money on the side, about multiple streams of income, side hustles, okay? Cause one stream of income isn't enough today. You can't rely on one stream. If anything became apparent during the pandemic was that your income can change in an instant, right? Like the government can come in and just shut you down. And, you know, until they figure it out, you don't have any money coming in. You know, it's pretty scary when that happens. Of course they bail people out, you know, but you can't always count on that either. And it's nice to have stuff coming in and from multiple different directions. And once you start one stream of income with a bunch of videos, and like I said, the compounds, you make one video a day for a week, that's seven videos. At the end of the year, that's 300 videos, right? Almost 400 videos, 356 videos if you do one a day. Right? That's a, that's heavy duty. If you do five a week, if you do three a week, it's still, it's still over time. Now nothing, nothing happens overnight, right? That's, you know, you see these people, you know, they're Lamborghinis and the Bikini babes and the caviar dreams and they're making money online. They're making millions of dollars. And you think that that's real. It's all bought stuff. It's all crazy stuff. It doesn't happen overnight, okay? People, it doesn't happen overnight for anybody. It doesn't, okay? Overnight success takes years. All right? Then that's real. That's real, okay? You'll find out someone who made it, they've been plugging away at it for three years. All right? They've been learning, paying their dues, learning the ropes, figuring stuff out. It just doesn't happen overnight. And those guys that it does happen overnight when they try to repeat it and do it again, they don't even know what they did right because it was a chance. It was one in a million chance and they didn't learn anything. So they can't repeat it, right? Where other guys were in the trenches, learned and figure stuff out on their own. And then when they finally make it, they've got experience and nothing happens overnight. Plan on being in the game for two or three years, all right? Plan on five years. I mean, some people won't make it ever, but it's possible. It's a lot easier, it's a lot more attainable than being a movie star or a rock star or a movie star, like I said. Is there any questions? Anybody have any questions about Amazon Associates, Amazon Live, how to become an influencer? Well, if that's it, we're gonna go, we're gonna call it a night. Thank you for coming. Well, again, you didn't know.live. You didn't know.live, sign up for my email list there. It'll tell you when I'm going live. I'm gonna start sending out emails, letting you know when my next live is. I usually go live Tuesday nights between seven and eight o'clock, stay on for about an hour, hour and a half. Every Tuesday, that's gonna be a given, but I'm gonna try and go one or two more times a week if I can squeeze it in. But again, I got multiple streams of income coming in. So I got multiple streams of things to do. So every day of the week is something. So Tuesday is the Amazon Live. Wednesday is Amazon Shop of Videos. And then Thursday is my YouTube channel. And then that editing and then every day is something different. So all these different income streams happen, but it takes work. Again, wouldn't you, the passion economy, right? It's do what you love, have fun and make money doing it. So I'm gonna just throw this out quick. How many people do you need to follow you for you to make money online? Okay, a million followers, 500,000, 100,000, 50,000, 10,000. What if I told you if you had 100 dedicated followers, if you had 100 people that followed you everywhere, 100 people that commented on your posts, 100 people that shared your posts, 100 people, you'd be set, you'd be making good money. And let me explain that to you. So let's say that you're in a niche like, we've said makeup before, let's say makeup. So you do an eye makeup, right, on Instagram. And you have 5,000 followers, let's say, 5,000, but 100 of them come every week to your live, 100 of them engage, 100 of them are there for you all the time. So you start what's called a membership group. You meet with them exclusively, just those 100 people, you charge them $20 a month to join this group. You're gonna meet with them live one hour a week and you're gonna answer questions. You're gonna show them, give them tips on makeup. You're gonna meet with, they're gonna be able to ask personal questions. My skin tone, this, whatever it is, right? And you'll be able to give them one-on-one interaction. They would pay $20 a month to be part of that group. Now, 100 people, $20 a month is $2,000 every month. 12 months a year is $24,000. So for one hour a week, $24,000 a year, that's part-time money for one hour a week. And that's with 100 people. So, you know, when you're talking about people who have 10,000, 500,000, 100,000, a million subscribers, that's a vanity number, okay? Because all of those people don't engage. Engagement is the key. It doesn't matter how many subscribers you have, how many of them engage, how many of them would run into the bullets for you, how many of them would hit Normandy Beach, right? How many of them would share your posts, comment on your posts, those are the ones. Now, when you have 100 people that do that, you're set. Now, I gave you $20 a month, right? But what if you charged them $50 a month, right? Now you're talking 60 grand a year for one hour a week, okay? One hour a week. So if you're into stocks, you can charge them more than $50. If you were giving out stock tips on a Sunday night and met with these guys for an hour and said, these are my three tips for this week, come and pay me $100 a month and we'll meet once a week, that's how simple it is, all right? And it doesn't take much to be an influencer. All you have to do is solve a problem for somebody and you become the authority. It's that simple. You've solved the problem and you get them on the right path and you're the authority, you're the mentor, you're the one they're turning to from now on. And here's the kicker. When you're what they call a nano influencer or a micro influencer, someone that's like under 10,000, 50,000 subscribers, you are more than likely engaging with your people, okay? They comment, you answer, right? Right? So when that happens, so when the YouTuber you watch answers your comment, don't you get happy? Don't you get crazy? When the TikTok person, when the Instagram person answers you and says, hey, thank you for the comment, doesn't that make you happy? So the engagement, that's what the key is. So you're engaging with them. So now they're engaged with you, they're invested. You've engaged with them, now they're ready to go. They'll follow you, that's what it's all about. When you get to be 500,000 followers and subscribers, you're not answering all of these comments. But when you're a micro influencer, a nano influencer, you are answering the comments and that's you and the engagement is the key. So now brands are looking at these nano influencers because of the engagement that they get because when the million dollar celebrities, the million subscriber celebrities, people know that it's a paid endorsement. They know Kim Kardashian isn't using that every day, right? They know that she's being paid to use that. So people are smart in that regard. But the nano influencer, when I say, this is what I use to make money every day, people are gonna say, well, that's real. And they're gonna take my advice and because I've been right in the past, right? And I've engaged with them in the past, right? So that's all important stuff. So I didn't say it yet, but follow me. Take this minute now and follow. It's a vanity thing, like I said. It doesn't really help me out, but when I get to a certain number, there's plateaus and there's levels to everything in life, right? Social media included and vanity metrics are part of it. So when you get so many followers, you move up to the next tier, you get so many more exposure and stuff like that. It's all part of the game that you play. So I know it's a vanity metric. I know it, sure it makes me feel good when someone follows me, but most of them I know they're gonna unfollow me right away, so it's not a big deal. But when you get to be a certain amount of followers, you can move up to the chain. And that's where we're going with this is, you're always looking to improve, right? To be better, you get, you improve your equipment, just like any other hobby, just like any other business. You know, you get better cameras, you get better lighting, you get better microphones, you get better everything, right? So this is the last chance to ask me a question about Amazon Associates, YouTube channels, Instagram channels, making money online. No, well, I'll see you next week then.