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Hello, everybody.

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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.

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Welcome to day two, you guys.

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You thought yesterday, day one was amazing.

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Okay, just wait for day two

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and all that Liz has to bring you guys today.

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So can we just like say hello in the chat?

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Can we just say welcome?

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Can we give her a warm welcome again for day two?

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Today is going to be exciting.

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Yesterday, we kind of talked about, you know,

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just getting our feet wet a little bit

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about what does it look like to participate

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and what Liz was talking about

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and making money with just your phone, okay?

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We had a lot of amazing questions as well,

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which I thought was awesome, right?

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And so Liz and I were talking about how we are ready

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to answer even more questions today.

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And today is going to get practical.

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Today is going to be like,

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hey, here's like some actual like next steps

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that you can take today.

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And we're going to, yeah, it's going to be so good.

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So I'm just excited for what Liz has to bring for us today.

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And just want to welcome you guys.

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So without further ado, Liz, we welcome you.

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Thank you.

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Good morning, everyone.

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You were here with us yesterday.

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Welcome back.

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If you are just joining us today and tomorrow, welcome.

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Glad to have you guys.

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Yeah, Daniel and I talked about yesterday

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was like a really cool flow

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where if there's things that you guys don't be afraid

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to like drop questions in the chat as we go.

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And Daniel and the team are watching those.

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And if it's something that like makes the most sense

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to talk about in the moment,

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we'll like pause and jump in and have that conversation.

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And then some of them will be things

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that we talk about at the end, like yesterday.

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If you were here yesterday, some of this,

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you're gonna be like, oh yeah, we talked about this.

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Because in the questions,

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we got into some of the specifics about socials

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and the application processes, all of that.

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So we are going to do the deep dive on that today.

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So thank you for having me back.

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Get my slides going.

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Here we go.

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Today, we are going to talk about getting into the program.

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We're gonna talk about approval versus placement.

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We're gonna walk through applying to the program.

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We're gonna talk about getting approved for placement.

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And we're gonna talk very specifically

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about the different platforms

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that you can get approved with.

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Now, if you were not with us yesterday,

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we talked about what the program is,

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what type of content you create,

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where it goes, the impact it has.

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So I am assuming some context from yesterday

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into today's conversation.

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So if there are points where something I'm talking about

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maybe doesn't totally line up with your understanding,

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drop it in the chat.

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Afterwards, maybe go back and watch yesterday's recording,

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all of those things to like add that additional context.

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And then tomorrow, we're gonna be talking

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about making money efficiently in this program.

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And I say it that way because we all want you

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to make money in this program from your phone,

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no other equipment needed.

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And I want you to do it the most efficient way possible.

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So tomorrow, we're gonna talk about product research,

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commission stacking is what I call it,

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and how to prioritize your content

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to make sure that you're starting to make money

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the fastest way possible in the program,

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but also the most efficient way possible.

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So let's dive into today,

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and we are going to talk about approval basics first.

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So to get into the Amazon Influencer Program,

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you have to apply with one of the approved

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and you have to have an engaged audience on that platform.

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The four platforms, and we'll talk about them,

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are YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.

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Transparently, we are going to talk the most

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about TikTok and Instagram,

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but we are going to dive into the other two as well.

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Now, one of the questions that came out of yesterday

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was can you do affiliate, Amazon Affiliate,

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and Amazon Influencer, and the answer is yes.

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You can be in both of these programs

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where you're driving traffic,

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and when you're doing on-site content as well.

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The good news about this is you don't have to do both.

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So there's no current requirement from Amazon

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for you to be driving traffic

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or be a super active affiliate to get into this program,

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which is really nice, right?

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Like before I got into Influencer.

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I'd had an Instagram account, I knew all these bloggers who were doing six-figures,

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but I had never really figured out a good way to like

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monetize content and

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I didn't want to drive traffic from my Instagram account over so the fact that these programs are related

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Why can I there we go?

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There we go for some reason I keep getting like I can't click my slides

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So this is a two-part process right and I want to drive this home

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so it is probably at some points going to feel repetitive because it causes a lot of

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Confusion the influencer program is a program application

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Once you're into the Amazon influencer program

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There is a separate process to be approved for the on-site placement that we talked about yesterday

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So a lot of people will get in and they're like that's it and just start posting content

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Which I love the hustle

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But we have to pause once you get approved because there is a totally separate process to get that on-site placement

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So I put the URL down at the bottom because the very first portion the program application

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You can do this as many times as you want. There is no

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So if you already have an audience on one of these platforms that we talked about today

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There's no harm in just checking and seeing just go here apply

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See if you can get into this part of the program right now. They do once you go to this

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Link, you're gonna click on sign up

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It brings you to this page and I just want to call this out because especially in this audience

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We have people who are doing multiple things on Amazon whether you're doing merch

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But you could you will actually like if you're signed into Amazon already here

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It will actually just let you use that account. It's like a one-click process for the application there

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All right, let's yeah, okay you're about to get into different platforms, right?

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Because somebody had mentioned red note or lemon eight

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You can't those are not approved platforms to use in the application process right now. Okay, good question

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So these are the four platforms Amazon is currently only using these four platforms to get into this program

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So I'm going to talk about YouTube on this slide because it is genuinely the most long play that there is

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I'm not going to recommend that you go start a YouTube channel for this purpose because you're going to need to age it

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YouTube is a hard algorithm to get up and get going with really solid engagement metrics

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So I'm this is the only thing I'm going to say about YouTube for today is if you have it

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Try with YouTube if you haven't started that yet for this process. I would not recommend starting a YouTube channel

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We're gonna spend most of our time again over on Instagram and tick-tock

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I'm going to mention Facebook because again if you have a long-standing

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Facebook group page or profile that has a ton of engagement and is very active

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The thing that I'll call out is the whichever one that you use profile page or group

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It has to be public. You cannot apply with a private group

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If you have had a deal group or whatever else

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public, you can definitely apply for the program with that group.

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The thing that you need to know is once you have made that public, if it wasn't already public,

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is if you get into the program with that platform, you have to keep it public.

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If you reprivate a group that you had made public just for the application process,

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Amazon will actually shut off your program and you'll no longer have access to Influencer.

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So just know, Facebook, you can long standing.

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point, I wouldn't go start or buy one to get into this program.

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So let's talk about the good ones.

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These are the ones where we get into some of the more exciting things that we can be doing.

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Instagram, similar, also a meta platform, right?

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You can't use your personal account.

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It has to be a business or a creator account on Instagram.

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That's super easy to do.

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If you've got a pretty active personal account that you want to move from

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being personal to business or creator, you just go into Instagram, click on the menu button,

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and it will give you the opportunity to switch your profile.

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It takes no time.

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You're instantly a business or a creator profile, and then you can apply.

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Similarly, it has to be public.

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So I don't even think you can make business or creator profiles private, but I could be

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wrong on that.

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But in any case, it needs to be a public profile.

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Similar to Facebook, you cannot reprivate it if you get in using that account on Instagram.

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Now, I know that Rainmakers has a Instagram course that you guys have.

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So if you've been working through that, Instagram is a good place to start for your application

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Some of the things that I'll call out that have been named challenges for people using

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Instagram to get in currently, the age of the account, the posting, specifically the

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engagement, just making sure that it's super active in your comments.

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as well, which we'll talk about.

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But if you're building on Instagram, some of the best ways to build that really good,

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authentic engagement is for you to go and then also be engaging.

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It always makes me laugh when people are like, well, you're just building an audience on

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social media, or you're just having to get engagement.

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As easy as we all want this to be, we can't undervalue the amount of work that it does

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actually take to build an engaged community, which is what we're really going for here.

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It takes a lot of time.

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When I jumped over onto TikTok to start building, I have Instagram, which is how I got approved

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in 2021.

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I was like, oh, I forgot how much work it takes, especially on the front end, to go

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and start engaging with people that you want to engage with you, being very active, posting

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regularly, reposting stuff, all of the things.

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I know, Rainmakers, you guys talk about it's not an overnight money.

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Once we get into the monetization, it definitely gets way more fun, but there is a little bit

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of a longevity to this play.

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Instagram is probably, if you're already up and running or you're doing Rainmaker course,

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is probably the number two option that I recommend.

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If it's up and running, number one option, all of them.

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If you're going to start something from new, doing the Rainmaker course, if you want the

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easiest platform, I'm going to recommend, even if you want to do Instagram, that you

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build that separately from the influencer if you're starting from zero, do TikTok.

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All right, so let's talk about TikTok.

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And this is where we're going to get into some of the more nitty gritty stuff.

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So this gets tactical.

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The first tactical, if you have a platform right now, just go apply.

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That's the first thing you can do today.

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Very real.

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See if you can get into the program with a social media platform that you're already

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The second piece is going to be, if you haven't gotten started yet, go start a TikTok account.

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If you have a personal TikTok account, that's okay.

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There's, you can also utilize one that you already have.

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There's no requirement for TikTok to Amazon for it to be any type of profile.

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I also don't think that TikTok necessarily, like, other than seller and creator has different

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profile types.

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So there's no, you can, if you've been using it for your personal.

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content up to this point, you can continue to do that. But the thing that you want to

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do on TikTok is you want to post for the first, you know, like one to three months, one to

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three times a day, pick a cadence that works for you. TikTok is built for engagement, and

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it's built to find the audience that resonates with what you're talking about. So TikTok

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is the easiest platform to get into Amazon Influencer with right now. And I, I have two

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theories on this. And one of them is my business theory. And one of them is my tin hat, tin

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foil hat, like conspiracy theory portion, right. But my business reason is I think that

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Amazon really wants engaged audiences and TikTok's algorithm is legitimately built for

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engagement, right? My tin hat, tin foil hat theory is that Amazon and TikTok are in a

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little bit of a competition, right? Amazon wants you to be sending people to Amazon and

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they want you to be focusing your content creation on Amazon products. TikTok in way

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of like social shopping, commerce, social commerce is doing a great job. They have now

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a whole ecosystem where you've got the social and the purchase all in one place. So my kind

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of conspiracy theory is that Amazon wants you to get up and running early and often

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on the Amazon content. And so from TikTok, they will take you with a lower follower

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count than some of the other platforms. So that's my conspiracy. But I say that to say

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TikTok is built for engagement. And the more opportunities you give TikTok to shop your

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content for engagement, the faster you will get to where you're going, right? So if you're

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posting multiple times a day on TikTok, you can probably get up to that couple of hundred

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followers pretty quickly. I'll talk about follower counts here in a minute. But just

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to give you an idea on TikTok, we've seen people get through that first portion of the

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approval process with 200 followers, right? I saw somebody post that they had 30 followers.

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I don't know that person. So I would never claim that I do personally know somebody who

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got in with 200 followers. So that one I feel like I can say with authority. But that

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first portion, like just start posting. If you have a personal account, just see if you

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get through that first portion of the application process with what you've got. Now, sometimes

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people start thinking, oh, then I need to start posting product reviews, shoppable content

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type content on my TikTok. That's not actually true. One of the best parts about this program

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is your off-site content does not have to do anything with your on-site content. So

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in other words, on my off-site, on my TikTok, on my Instagram, I post very specifically

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Olympic weightlifting content, sometimes nutrition and just about being, you know, in my mid-40s

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as a female, right? So those are the things that I talk about in my off-site content.

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On Amazon, I review dog products. I talk about bookshelves. I talk about a strawberry, a

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glass dish for berries, right? They don't have to be related at all. So when you start

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thinking about like, what you're posting on your off-site to build from zero, you can

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do on-camera, you can do off-camera, you can post about something that's interesting

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to you, or you can post product type video. Any of those things are okay. I just wouldn't

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spend too much time in analysis paralysis thinking about like what niche you want to

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be in on TikTok. Just start posting, just pick something and go. It can be something

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that's interesting to you, or it can be something that you just think is going to create that

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engagement as fast as possible for you.

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I want to chime in here, Liz. Do you, so as you know, like in our community, a lot of

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people are building their media channels around their product, or maybe haven't even started

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yet. Listen, analysis paralysis, we talk about that. We do not like that because of the whole

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paralysis piece. If you could, I already anticipate this question. If you could advise somebody

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on, hey, should I, from scratch, do I start one on a personal brand that has nothing

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to do with my Amazon? Do I start something that does have to do with my Amazon product

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That's a great question. So if you're already, if you have a product and you're selling it

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on Amazon, this is the base of the question, right? Is like.

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Do you relate your content to what your brand and your product is,

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or do you go something more personal or unrelated?

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I think a lot of people in here don't have Tik TOK. Um,

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welcome to the obsession, right? I know.

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By the way, it is very easy to get followers. I've seen it done. Um,

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with my friends who aren't even Tiffany's shaking her head,

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who's also a coach here.

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I've seen it done with my friends who don't even have businesses or anything.

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So what would you say to that question?

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I think I would pick whatever you feel the most comfortable talking about.

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So however you show up the most authentically pick that.

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So if you have a product that you've developed and you're already building

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media around it, one, you probably are really comfortable talking about that.

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So like, uh, this is not my product,

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but I did a shoppable video for this brand the other day.

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Like if you want to talk about your berry bowl and why you developed it and why

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the glass is better for the berries and the colander and you're developed,

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like that has a lot of content that you can build from.

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You can talk about why you developed the product, how you developed the product,

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what the product is like, there's, you know,

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I think the nice thing is, is you can have a lot to talk about,

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but I want to enforce that. You don't have to focus on selling the product.

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You just want to talk as a person who owns this brand.

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If you're like, you know what,

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I just need a place where I'm not talking about my product and I can talk about

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my weightlifting or whatever that is. Right. Like do that.

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media, like for your product in building around that.

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I just can't say another word about this berry bowl right now,

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go do something different. Wow. Perfect.

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So again, they can be related brand and

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influencer. They can be related offsite, niche,

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onsite content. Like if you pick product reviewer to be your niche,

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um, they, those can be related or you can be totally unrelated.

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So people very often do talk about picking your niche.

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And I saw this guy the other day on tech talking, he was like,

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my niche is me and that's also okay. Right.

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home goods, outdoor, you can pick that type of a niche,

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but your niche could also be me.

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Your niche could also be products, right?

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That you just full-time want to be a UGC creator.

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And if that's the case and you want to use that to build that TikTok account

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initially pick products around your house,

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just start talking about them to build that audience. Right.

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Amazon does not tell us there is zero guidance around number

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of follower count for any of the platforms.

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The thing that Amazon says is you need an engaged following

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on one of these four social media platforms.

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So I'm going to give you some anecdotal

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examples of what people are currently getting approved with.

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don't give us a lot of specifics,

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we're just basically crowdsourcing the answers to this.

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So in 2021, December of 2021,

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I was approved for the program with 2700 followers

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on Instagram.

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It was an aged account with lots of really good engagement that I was posting on

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regularly, but at the time I wasn't even posting like daily.

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It was just regularly right now.

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There's a lot more like daily and engagement and all of that.

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It's a lot more, I want to say intense,

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obviously because the program has fit hit more of a infrastructure build

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established season now on Instagram

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and it's a lot more approvals.

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two to 3000 mark in followers if your audience is really,

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really engaged.

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I have recently seen people who tried to go the route of buying

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like meme accounts on Instagram that had a lot of likes,

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but not a lot of comments.

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I think her account had like 200,000 followers on it.

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Um, and every post had a lot of likes,

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but there was no comment engagement.

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Amazon is really looking for engagement.

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if your engagement isn't showing up,

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they are not approving for that.

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I would say rule of thumb,

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you want to be in that thousand mark.

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I would try to stay away from buying accounts.

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Those don't seem to be working as well anymore.

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But if you want hacks, the follow trains,

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people have mixed feelings about these.

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where people are talking a lot about engagement

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and they're like engaging with each other

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and not just following everybody,

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like some of those are good ways

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to just even get kind of the ball rolling

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alongside your content.

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So that said, aiming for around that thousand mark,

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but honestly, once you hit 200 followers on TikTok,

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go ahead and start applying.

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It just, there's no harm in it, right?

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Now, once you apply, I want you to pause.

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Once you get in rather, I want you to pause

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because we're gonna talk about like that second part

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of the process here in a minute.

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But we did name this session,

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making money from your phone with no other,

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like no other equipment.

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And I wanna talk about that just for a minute, right?

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Because we're talking, now we're shifting.

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You've gotten into the program.

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You've gotten into the program with this other piece.

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Now you're going to start doing content creation.

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So I wanna talk really fast about the equipment you need.

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Your phone is all you need, right?

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You don't need anything more professional than this.

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I wanna add your computer is an option.

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I often sit at my computer and use Zoom

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and talk about the product to your computer.

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It has all of the same things.

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It's either vertical or vertical for this program.

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I don't love setting up my phone

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and that being like my place,

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you can also use your computer and do,

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I call them like talking head videos, right?

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As long as you're holding the product.

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if I have like $20 to do one more thing with,

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grab a microphone.

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that plug into your phone for like five to $20 on TikTok.

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but they're just not that expensive anymore.

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it still needs to be not blurry and all those things.

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if people can hear you,

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they're more likely to stick around and watch your content.

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and do content,

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I recommend this be the second thing you do, right?

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If you are going to pick up anything,

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these are the two things that I would add to your phone

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is a mic and a tripod.

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I have so many tripods sitting around my house

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and I will gladly admit that I still prop my phone up

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just praying that it's not gonna fall down.

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especially if you're trying to demo products

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or talk about things,

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or you're just somebody who talks with their hands naturally

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to have a tripod.

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these are the things that I recommend you start with

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to help make that content easier to make and even better.

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All right, so we've done the initial,

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the application process.

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We get accepted.

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The next portion of the process

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is this placement approval, right?

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So as soon as you get into Influencer,

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you have applied for the program and you get in,

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you get a storefront.

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It obviously will be blank as you get started, right?

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The storefront is technically part

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of the Influencer program,

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but because you have a storefront

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does not mean that you are approved for placement.

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In the program, approved for placement, right?

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So this just tends to cause a lot of confusion

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as people get started.

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The genesis of the Influencer program

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was for affiliates driving that offsite traffic

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to have a place to send that traffic

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that was FTC compliant.

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FTC compliance requires a disclosure of earnings,

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meaning it says underneath my name here,

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it says earns commission.

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That's an FTC compliant disclosure.

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was just the storefront as a place

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for affiliates to send traffic.

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this onsite placement, right?

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placement that we talked about yesterday as the second part of the program.

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Honestly, I think Amazon was like, hey, other people are doing video and doing UGC on their pages and it's converting well.

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00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:21.000
We need to do that. And they were like, oh, we have this group of content creators over here called influencers.

481
00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:24.000
Let's add on-site placement to that program.

482
00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:28.000
Like, I just think they were looking around for a group of people that can do this.

483
00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:33.000
But that's why it's a second part. It's like a different approval process.

484
00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:40.000
So the way you get this part done is you have to create three videos.

485
00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:49.000
And these three videos are going to be the time in this program where Amazon is the most critical of your content.

486
00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:57.000
They are going to actually, we think they put it through AI and we believe that there are people actually watching these videos.

487
00:30:57.000 --> 00:31:02.000
But we cannot prove either of those two things because they don't tell us. It is a black box, truly.

488
00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:06.000
So you're going to create three videos.

489
00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:14.000
Circling back to yesterday, Amazon's stated purpose for this program is to help shoppers make more confident buying decisions.

490
00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:17.000
So we're going to wrap that into these first three videos, right?

491
00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:24.000
The things that you want to be doing in this need to help those shoppers make more confident buying decisions.

492
00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:30.000
We also need to be simple, right? So my top tips for your first three videos, stand in front of a plain wall.

493
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:37.000
Some of the top things that even like once you're approved, we get flagged for is personal information in the background.

494
00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:50.000
Never shoot outside or in a parking lot because that car that drove by while you were talking just ruined your video because the AI flags it as their license plate being personal information in your video.

495
00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:54.000
You just happened to be standing in front of your house. Oh, there's your house number.

496
00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:57.000
Or you turned around. Oh, there's your neighbor's house number.

497
00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:01.000
Like definitely for these, but even ongoing outside is tough.

498
00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:04.000
For these first three videos, stand in front of a plain wall.

499
00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:07.000
You won't forget that there was a bill on your refrigerator or anything else.

500
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.000
Personal information.

501
00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:13.000
The next thing is we can't make medical claims.

502
00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:18.000
Everybody's like, of course, I'm not going to say that this has solved my psoriasis or anything.

503
00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:33.000
But the AI filters hit things like biodegradable, eco-friendly words that are not actually medical advice as giving medical advice or saying something derogatory about the medical field is another one of the filters.

504
00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:38.000
So pick things that are going to be very simple to talk about.

505
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:41.000
So don't talk about supplements in these first three videos.

506
00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:47.000
Don't talk about even Band-Aids, quite honestly, like anything that could fall into that category.

507
00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:59.000
And then make sure that you are not using, honestly, like forcible words, like anything that even you can't read it off of the side of the product sometimes.

508
00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:08.000
So I recommend you do something like in your kitchen that's super easy, non-controversial products, and that you say you talk about it.

509
00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:11.000
You can definitely say if you like it or not.

510
00:33:11.000 --> 00:33:13.000
You can talk about what it's made out of.

511
00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:20.000
Just don't wander into those words that sound medical even if they aren't.

512
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:23.000
So once you've done these three products, this is our back end.

513
00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:25.000
This is Creator Hub.

514
00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:27.000
This is what it's going to look like.

515
00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:32.000
Specifically, you'll see that it says three of three videos here with a lock.

516
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:36.000
Now you'll see in early 2022, I uploaded four videos.

517
00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:37.000
Don't do that.

518
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:40.000
We know a lot more now than we did.

519
00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:42.000
Amazon is going to review.

520
00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:45.000
If you have three videos here, they're going to review three videos.

521
00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:47.000
That's all you need to get into this approval process.

522
00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:51.000
If you upload 20 videos, they're going to review all 20 videos.

523
00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:57.000
So you are giving them more opportunity to decline your approval process here, right?

524
00:33:57.000 --> 00:33:59.000
Here's the other thing.

525
00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:03.000
If you upload 20 videos, they're just going to decline it and say video quality.

526
00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:08.000
They're not going to tell you if it's all of the videos, one of the videos,

527
00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:11.000
or if it's just four of the videos, right?

528
00:34:11.000 --> 00:34:14.000
So if you start with just three because that's all you need,

529
00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:18.000
you give them the least amount of information to turn you down for

530
00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:24.000
while giving yourself the right amount of information to get into the program, right?

531
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:27.000
Now the other thing that I'll call out is they have very kindly told us

532
00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:30.000
that this typically takes two business days.

533
00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:32.000
This is almost never true.

534
00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:38.000
I think I've seen people get in any sort of answer, acceptance or denial,

535
00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:41.000
in two days, like three times maybe.

536
00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:47.000
This has taken up to 12 weeks for people to get through this approval process.

537
00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:52.000
So I want you to know this is a hurry up and wait portion of the process.

538
00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:57.000
While you are in this section, do not stop posting at the same cadence

539
00:34:57.000 --> 00:35:00.000
that you have been posting on your off site.

540
00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:06.080
channel because they are watching that. They don't tell us they are, but they are, right? So,

541
00:35:06.080 --> 00:35:12.800
just keep that cadence up. Once you get through the on-site approval process, you can back that

542
00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:18.240
down. So, if you're posting three times a day, that doesn't have to be what you're posting ongoing

543
00:35:18.240 --> 00:35:23.280
and eternal while you're in this program. Once you're through the approval for on-site, you can

544
00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:29.280
back that down to once a week or whatever works for you for like longevity. I do recommend you

545
00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:36.960
keep it up. Just good practice to also have your off-site still active. But yeah, while you're in

546
00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:43.600
this process, just keep that posting cadence. Quick question. Yeah, ma'am. This was from what

547
00:35:43.600 --> 00:35:51.280
you said right before you talked about the posting videos, but what about books? Like a good choice

548
00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:55.920
and I don't, sorry if I missed this, is there a resource or something where they could find like

549
00:35:55.920 --> 00:36:00.080
a list of different things or do you have one or is it kind of like, what would you say?

550
00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:07.040
It's a great question. Basically, like the two words that I gave you, biodegradable and

551
00:36:07.040 --> 00:36:13.920
eco-friendly, are the ones that we're hearing the most often right now. I will sometimes do videos

552
00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:18.640
and see if I can like all the things that I can say. So, like I have a knee brace that's like red

553
00:36:18.640 --> 00:36:23.920
light and I'll just like talk about it honestly, but I'll see how far I can go down that path.

554
00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:30.080
At the moment, those two words tend to be our most frequently flagged. I think what I would

555
00:36:30.080 --> 00:36:39.200
tell you is Amazon doesn't give us a list. Their filters change. I would just talk about simple

556
00:36:39.200 --> 00:36:45.760
things. It's made of glass. It's dishwasher safe. You can put it in the microwave. It's made of

557
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:52.640
silver. I like this because my kids can use it. Something like that. Like just think the more

558
00:36:52.640 --> 00:37:00.560
simple you can go, the better. The question about books, I would say I hadn't thought about that.

559
00:37:00.560 --> 00:37:08.000
Books don't do super well for on-site, but that doesn't mean that you can create content for them

560
00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:13.120
and for your first three videos. I think that would be fine. I can't think of a reason why I

561
00:37:13.120 --> 00:37:20.080
would be like no. Nice. Okay. Nice question, Annemarie. Yeah, good one. I had not thought of

562
00:37:20.080 --> 00:37:25.520
that. We like giving you new thoughts. I love it. I'll incorporate that next time.

563
00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:36.080
All right, so this is going to be where we get nitty-gritty on that. You're in the program.

564
00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:44.640
You're waiting for placement approval. When you upload those first three videos, they're going to

565
00:37:44.640 --> 00:37:50.800
show up on your storefront. That means they are published. That does not mean they are placed,

566
00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:55.120
right? People a lot of times are like, I'm published. My three videos are live on my

567
00:37:55.120 --> 00:38:01.360
storefront. That is because you made it into the influencer program. That does not have anything

568
00:38:01.360 --> 00:38:08.160
to do with the on-site placement approval. This, again, is just one of those areas where it's not

569
00:38:08.160 --> 00:38:13.120
super clear on Amazon. It creates a lot of confusion. I want you guys to

570
00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:16.880
know very clearly which part of the process you're in.

571
00:38:19.040 --> 00:38:25.360
The number one reason that we get for rejection for the approval for the on-site placement

572
00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:32.960
approval process. First of all, Amazon always says video quality. I know we talked about this

573
00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:40.080
yesterday. Is it video quality? I'm sure there are people trying to get in that have terrible

574
00:38:40.080 --> 00:38:44.640
audio, didn't think about their lighting, their phone fell down and they didn't edit it, whatever

575
00:38:44.640 --> 00:38:51.360
the case is. I'm sure there is some of that, but it is also very common for us to go and review

576
00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:56.960
videos that are obviously very well done and they got a video quality tag. I think that there is not

577
00:38:56.960 --> 00:39:01.680
another reason that I've seen that people actually get for their being declined for on-site

578
00:39:02.480 --> 00:39:11.920
placement. Nine times out of 10, it is actually your off-site social media engagement. We very

579
00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:18.640
often get people reaching out who are like, hey, I applied with this Facebook page where somebody's

580
00:39:18.640 --> 00:39:23.760
been posting memes for years and I get one or two likes, but it has 200,000 followers on it.

581
00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:29.280
When you look at it, there's not real engagement. I know yesterday we had an outlier on that where

582
00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:36.480
there was real engagement and they still got that decline for the program. This is not a 100%

583
00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:43.120
always. This is anecdotally about 90% of the time, this is what I see, which is why I'm telling you

584
00:39:43.120 --> 00:39:49.200
when you are waiting for the placement approval, you're still posting, you're still engaging,

585
00:39:49.200 --> 00:39:54.720
you're still doing all those things. From a timeline perspective, because you do want

586
00:39:54.720 --> 00:39:59.840
a little bit of age on your, specifically in this case, TikTok account.

587
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:10.000
If you start from zero, it's probably going to take you about four weeks to get to a place where you are approved into the program.

588
00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:18.000
I would hold for another two months or so before you submit your first round of three videos, right?

589
00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:23.000
Because you want enough time on that account to show consistent engagement.

590
00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:33.000
So once you're in that process, keep posting, keep that engagement going, and then hopefully you end up with this, right?

591
00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:39.000
So when you get to Creator Hub, which is our back end, right, I need to give a disclaimer.

592
00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:44.000
In February, Amazon took away Creator Hub, and then four weeks later, they gave it back.

593
00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:48.000
So in this exact moment, Creator Hub is our central location.

594
00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:54.000
If something happens in the next week, I just want you guys to know that it's Amazon.

595
00:40:54.000 --> 00:41:02.000
But when you log into Creator Hub, if you've been approved, you'll get this, everybody calls it the confetti announcement, right, saying congratulations.

596
00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:10.000
Sometimes your confetti shows up on your Creator Hub a couple days before you get the email on the right side of this slide.

597
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:19.000
So it is worth, if you are actively in this process, checking your Creator Hub every so often just to see if you've gotten the approval.

598
00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:27.000
When you get into the program, it will give you, this is your storefront, this is your Creator Hub, like all of that is included.

599
00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:31.000
But this is how you know you're approved for that on-site placement.

600
00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:36.000
And this is where you can start really making that money.

601
00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:40.000
Which leads us to questions for today.

602
00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:46.000
And tomorrow, we'll talk about making money, commission stacking, brand deals, all of the fun things.

603
00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:50.000
Okay, awesome, Liz. Thank you so much.

604
00:41:50.000 --> 00:42:03.000
If I understood you correctly, I just want to repeat this of, you know, starting from, let's say you're starting from scratch, whether that's whatever platform.

605
00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:16.000
Does it matter if it's TikTok, Zoom, Instagram, or YouTube that you want to post for four weeks and then wait another two months after that once you have engagement to then post the three videos?

606
00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:20.000
Is that across the board for anything, or is that just TikTok?

607
00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:21.000
Just TikTok.

608
00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:25.000
Okay. Okay, so Amy, I saw you in the chat.

609
00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:28.000
This was actually only for TikTok, what she just said.

610
00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:29.000
Correct.

611
00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:36.000
And I believe you just mentioned she was talking about Instagram and Facebook, so they're different.

612
00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:37.000
Correct, yeah.

613
00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:42.000
If you're starting from zero, I would just go straight to TikTok.

614
00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:45.000
It's just your best chance of getting in.

615
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:53.000
If you already have the other platforms and or are working on something on those, like apply with them and see how it goes.

616
00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:55.000
There's no harm, no foul.

617
00:42:55.000 --> 00:43:00.000
I wouldn't build from zero today on another platform other than TikTok.

618
00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:02.000
Okay.

619
00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:05.000
Again, specifically for this program.

620
00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:12.000
I know a lot of people in here are also building media for their products, so I would just pull some of that apart.

621
00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:17.000
If the goal is influencer from zero, TikTok.

622
00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:26.000
Okay, and then for TikTok, can proven viral content be posted or should it be more personal content?

623
00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:29.000
Do you know what we mean by proven viral content?

624
00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:30.000
I don't.

625
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:32.000
Okay, so I'll tell you real quick.

626
00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:59.000
That's what we've just also been learning in the community, which is basically the content where you grab, like maybe Tiffany, you can say this better than what I'm about to say, but you basically grab like a video and you write a caption, like a video that's going viral and you write your own caption on it that is related to your brand or your account.

627
00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:00.000
Oh, yeah.

628
00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:06.000
So, but like it's B-roll of me talking in the background and then I've captioned, but it's like a trend, right?

629
00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:09.000
I'm not taking somebody else's video and putting captions.

630
00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:13.000
Yeah, so it is other people's content.

631
00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:15.000
Sometimes it's a meme type video.

632
00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:26.000
Sometimes it's another creator's content, but you're adding your like hook, your caption, your maybe even like a green screen video of you talking over it.

633
00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:35.000
You obviously can't just repurpose the video as is, but you're like adding your take on it or your spin on it.

634
00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:40.000
I think yes, like as long as I mean, I think I understand.

635
00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:46.000
Like, yeah, it's definitely not reposting, which I know is not what you're saying like that.

636
00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:48.000
No.

637
00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:54.000
I know just from experience TikTok is a little more like gray area on this.

638
00:44:54.000 --> 00:45:00.000
So like if you're posting, we use we in the training course that we do.

639
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:11.000
We go through all of this on we're doing like templates where you like use your brand template and then we put the video inside and then you talk about like, you know, you add a caption or a hook.

640
00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:19.000
And I know that when I've posted those types of posts to TikTok, it has been flagged or.

641
00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:31.000
So I think if you are going to repurpose that kind of content from Instagram, you may have to do like a green screen over top where you're like showing your face or talking about it or I don't know.

642
00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:37.000
I know that's just my experience TikTok can be a little more strict.

643
00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:43.000
On TikTok, the other thing is, is you can do it or stitch people.

644
00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:55.000
That's probably how I would do that because technically that video, unless you have that creator's permission, is their content.

645
00:45:55.000 --> 00:46:03.000
So whether however you're like giving them credit for it, like on TikTok, you can stitch or do it.

646
00:46:03.000 --> 00:46:06.000
So it automatically shows that it's theirs.

647
00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:12.000
I wouldn't like download theirs and then upload it into your account and put your stuff over it.

648
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:15.000
I think that's different, right?

649
00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:17.000
Yeah, yeah, definitely.

650
00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:18.000
Yeah.

651
00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:24.000
Like, I actually, I'm very excited about this, but I went viral for the first time on TikTok last week.

652
00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:26.000
Yeah, you did.

653
00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:28.000
I know I'm super excited.

654
00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:39.000
I was like, I mean, like I told a girl at an event I was at and she has like millions of followers and like viral for her is like 15 million views.

655
00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:42.000
I was like viral for me, I hit like 200,000 views.

656
00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:58.000
So within my scope, but I think the best way on TikTok to kind of accomplish what you're talking about is finding these viral trends and putting it for your brand, your thing, but over your B-roll, right?

657
00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:07.000
So like the one that I did was like people were talking about the audio is like, who takes care of you?

658
00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:11.000
And then the interview audio says, huh, I do.

659
00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:13.000
And then she kind of like laughs, right?

660
00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:17.000
And so I have B-roll of me sitting on a stage at an event.

661
00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:22.000
Fun fact, my mascara was in my eye, so I'm doing this, but it looks like I'm crying.

662
00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:28.000
And then over I put POV, Gen X oldest daughter, right?

663
00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:37.000
And so like it's my content with the trend audio, which on TikTok you can use the sound so it credits the audio person.

664
00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:45.000
And then the actual like trend portion applies to me because I'm Gen X oldest daughter taking care of everyone, right?

665
00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:48.000
So I think that's the best way.

666
00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:55.000
And there are people you can follow on there where all they do is talk about current trending audio and things that you can do.

667
00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:57.000
I would just include your own content.

668
00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:06.000
And if you're like, I don't have B-roll, just set up your, that phone we're talking about, just set it up while you're doing the dishes or while you're at your desk or in a meeting, right?

669
00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:08.000
And what is B-roll?

670
00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:09.000
Oh, sorry.

671
00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:10.000
Good question.

672
00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:13.000
B-roll is that, great question.

673
00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:17.000
B-roll is like, that's great.

674
00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:18.000
What is that?

675
00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:26.000
So B-roll is like, if right now, if on my phone, I had it running and just recording me, it's that background.

676
00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:37.000
When I'm talking about products, if I'm like doing a talking head video, I've got B-roll running over here of me like assembling it and I'm talking about it.

677
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:41.000
So it's basically like background video.

678
00:48:41.000 --> 00:48:47.000
It's just you doing whatever you do, whether that's working on the product that you can just use.

679
00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:51.000
It's just a video you can use in the background of a listing or of a video.

680
00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:52.000
Okay.

681
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:53.000
Awesome.

682
00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:55.000
Glad we clarified that.

683
00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:57.000
Okay.

684
00:48:57.000 --> 00:49:00.000
If you get denied at step one, can you reapply?

685
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:01.000
Yes.

686
00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:07.000
So application into the program is an unlimited number of applications.

687
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:08.000
Just keep reapplying.

688
00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:11.000
You get 200 followers on TikTok, apply.

689
00:49:11.000 --> 00:49:13.000
You get 500, apply.

690
00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:15.000
I have people do it every day.

691
00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:17.000
I just want to see if I can get in.

692
00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:18.000
Yeah.

693
00:49:18.000 --> 00:49:21.000
That's awesome.

694
00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:33.000
We've got somebody who was approved with a Facebook account, didn't hear anything or do anything with it for about a year, haven't posted to that account in about a year.

695
00:49:33.000 --> 00:49:36.000
What would you suggest in that scenario?

696
00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:40.000
I think I'm already approved for the placement on Amazon.

697
00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:44.000
Audrey, it looks like you were approved with a Facebook account, right?

698
00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:49.000
Audrey McKeelan.

699
00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:50.000
Let's see.

700
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:53.000
I'm checking the chat.

701
00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:57.000
Is she on here?

702
00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:59.000
Hi.

703
00:49:59.000 --> 00:50:00.000
Yes, I'm here.

704
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.040
approved with your Facebook account?

705
00:50:03.040 --> 00:50:05.120
Yes, but it was like a year ago, and then I

706
00:50:05.120 --> 00:50:06.240
didn't do anything with it.

707
00:50:06.240 --> 00:50:10.760
And I haven't done anything with the page.

708
00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:15.520
So my question is, if I were to submit videos,

709
00:50:15.520 --> 00:50:17.880
am I going to have a problem because I haven't been posting

710
00:50:17.880 --> 00:50:19.200
to that Facebook page?

711
00:50:19.200 --> 00:50:21.480
Or do I just start posting to the Facebook page

712
00:50:21.480 --> 00:50:25.640
and then upload three videos and see what happens?

713
00:50:25.640 --> 00:50:29.880
There's no harm in trying, right?

714
00:50:29.880 --> 00:50:32.880
Because you've already got all in.

715
00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:38.920
I think most likely, spend a month at least starting

716
00:50:38.920 --> 00:50:41.120
to post again, trying to drive some engagement.

717
00:50:41.120 --> 00:50:46.280
If you have $10, pay for an engagement, whatever.

718
00:50:46.280 --> 00:50:50.320
My guess is you're not going to get approved for on-site

719
00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:53.280
with the Facebook group because it's been dormant for a year.

720
00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:57.240
They're really hard to get back active to the point

721
00:50:57.240 --> 00:50:59.520
where Amazon likes it.

722
00:50:59.520 --> 00:51:01.560
If I were you, and I know this is not

723
00:51:01.560 --> 00:51:03.760
the question you asked me, instead

724
00:51:03.760 --> 00:51:08.000
of spending four weeks trying to rebuild that Facebook

725
00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:11.360
engagement, I would go start a TikTok account.

726
00:51:11.360 --> 00:51:12.160
OK.

727
00:51:12.160 --> 00:51:12.760
OK.

728
00:51:12.760 --> 00:51:13.320
Sounds good.

729
00:51:13.320 --> 00:51:13.880
Thank you.

730
00:51:13.880 --> 00:51:14.520
You're welcome.

731
00:51:14.520 --> 00:51:15.480
You're welcome, Audrey.

732
00:51:18.160 --> 00:51:19.720
Let's see.

733
00:51:19.720 --> 00:51:24.880
What about accounts that we remix on our own pages?

734
00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:26.640
Can you tell me more about remixing?

735
00:51:26.640 --> 00:51:27.320
Yeah.

736
00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:30.320
Shannon Odell.

737
00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:34.000
I think, are you on, Shannon?

738
00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:38.360
I think I know what you're talking about.

739
00:51:38.360 --> 00:51:40.280
Shannon Odell, are you on?

740
00:51:44.560 --> 00:51:45.840
Tiffany, do you know what she would

741
00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:47.200
be talking about with remix?

742
00:51:47.200 --> 00:51:50.920
Is this with the using the proven viral content

743
00:51:50.920 --> 00:51:51.800
and personal content?

744
00:51:51.800 --> 00:51:52.600
Sorry, yeah.

745
00:51:52.600 --> 00:51:54.440
I think if I'm understanding correctly,

746
00:51:54.440 --> 00:51:56.720
remix in the Instagram.

747
00:51:56.720 --> 00:51:57.640
What was her question?

748
00:51:57.640 --> 00:51:58.440
Can you repeat it?

749
00:51:58.440 --> 00:52:00.120
Shannon, you're here now.

750
00:52:00.120 --> 00:52:01.400
Hi.

751
00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:03.480
What did you mean by remix?

752
00:52:03.480 --> 00:52:05.480
So like on Instagram, I actually,

753
00:52:05.480 --> 00:52:07.000
I think it was in one of the classes

754
00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:12.200
I first took on with Rainmakers in one of the five day courses.

755
00:52:12.200 --> 00:52:15.200
So you create an account, and then you

756
00:52:15.200 --> 00:52:20.200
can remix other people's videos, and then put it on your page.

757
00:52:20.200 --> 00:52:22.520
As long as you remix it and then add something to it,

758
00:52:22.520 --> 00:52:23.720
you're not just.

759
00:52:23.720 --> 00:52:25.960
Yeah, the built-in feature in Instagram, right?

760
00:52:25.960 --> 00:52:27.160
Is that what you're meaning, Shannon?

761
00:52:27.160 --> 00:52:27.880
Right, I believe.

762
00:52:27.880 --> 00:52:28.920
Yeah, exactly.

763
00:52:28.920 --> 00:52:29.440
Yeah.

764
00:52:29.440 --> 00:52:32.520
My guess is that's going to fall into what Tiffany was talking

765
00:52:32.520 --> 00:52:35.800
about earlier, where TikTok will probably flag it.

766
00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:37.760
That's what I was thinking.

767
00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:38.640
OK.

768
00:52:38.640 --> 00:52:39.440
Thank you.

769
00:52:39.440 --> 00:52:41.600
To kind of piggyback off that, if you

770
00:52:41.600 --> 00:52:44.680
have an Instagram or a Facebook or some other place

771
00:52:44.680 --> 00:52:47.480
where you were previously creating content,

772
00:52:47.480 --> 00:52:49.080
you can repurpose that.

773
00:52:49.080 --> 00:52:52.080
Now, maybe not the remix or the other people's content

774
00:52:52.120 --> 00:52:54.120
that you haven't spliced up or anything,

775
00:52:54.120 --> 00:53:00.480
but if you have the inspirational quote stuff

776
00:53:00.480 --> 00:53:05.080
or you've been creating personal content on those other

777
00:53:05.080 --> 00:53:11.920
platforms, they're doing photo carousels now on TikTok.

778
00:53:11.920 --> 00:53:12.760
You can do that.

779
00:53:12.760 --> 00:53:14.920
So from our old school Instagram days

780
00:53:14.920 --> 00:53:17.960
when we used to just post pictures of what we were eating

781
00:53:17.960 --> 00:53:20.880
or doing that day, you can repurpose that content

782
00:53:20.880 --> 00:53:21.880
over there.

783
00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:25.080
You can repurpose videos that you've

784
00:53:25.080 --> 00:53:27.640
done for reels over there.

785
00:53:27.640 --> 00:53:31.680
Just within that, I think Tiffany's right around TikToks

786
00:53:31.680 --> 00:53:36.760
much stricter around copyright and with the things coming

787
00:53:36.760 --> 00:53:38.560
from different platforms.

788
00:53:38.560 --> 00:53:39.480
Yeah.

789
00:53:39.480 --> 00:53:41.760
Awesome.

790
00:53:41.760 --> 00:53:43.160
I want to acknowledge the time.

791
00:53:43.160 --> 00:53:44.360
We have three minutes.

792
00:53:44.360 --> 00:53:50.160
And I have a hard cutoff at 10 to 12 after.

793
00:53:50.160 --> 00:53:52.760
So we'll try to get to what we can.

794
00:53:52.760 --> 00:53:55.480
And then you guys will get to come back for day three

795
00:53:55.480 --> 00:53:58.120
tomorrow, same time, same place.

796
00:53:58.120 --> 00:54:03.440
And tomorrow, we will have more time for more questions.

797
00:54:03.440 --> 00:54:07.640
So just letting everyone know that at the moment.

798
00:54:07.640 --> 00:54:09.320
OK, this is a good question, Amanda.

799
00:54:09.320 --> 00:54:10.720
I don't think this has come up yet.

800
00:54:10.720 --> 00:54:12.760
But does there need to be alignment and profile

801
00:54:12.760 --> 00:54:14.840
names between the social media accounts

802
00:54:14.840 --> 00:54:16.680
and the Amazon influencer name?

803
00:54:16.680 --> 00:54:18.560
Do they need to match?

804
00:54:18.560 --> 00:54:19.440
Good question.

805
00:54:19.760 --> 00:54:24.000
I think Amazon will automatically

806
00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:27.960
assign your Amazon profile name.

807
00:54:27.960 --> 00:54:32.600
So my Instagram handle that I applied with

808
00:54:32.600 --> 00:54:34.160
is Liz on a Journey.

809
00:54:34.160 --> 00:54:36.720
When I applied, Amazon just gave me

810
00:54:36.720 --> 00:54:40.680
amazon.com slash shop slash Liz on a Journey.

811
00:54:40.680 --> 00:54:42.600
That was the domain name they assigned me.

812
00:54:42.600 --> 00:54:47.000
Now, I can change on my storefront what it says.

813
00:54:47.000 --> 00:54:48.800
And they don't care.

814
00:54:49.200 --> 00:54:53.480
So in order to change that domain name, like your URL,

815
00:54:53.480 --> 00:54:56.200
you have to show Amazon that you've

816
00:54:56.200 --> 00:54:59.000
changed it on the social that you were approved with,

817
00:54:59.000 --> 00:55:00.280
like officially.

818
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.040
it will update your domain.

819
00:55:02.040 --> 00:55:05.160
So the handle doesn't have to match,

820
00:55:05.160 --> 00:55:07.760
the domain you have to, will match,

821
00:55:08.600 --> 00:55:10.400
and you have to like officially change on both

822
00:55:10.400 --> 00:55:11.640
in order to change that.

823
00:55:13.120 --> 00:55:16.760
And then is it possible to change your vanity URL?

824
00:55:16.760 --> 00:55:19.100
Only if you've changed your social

825
00:55:19.100 --> 00:55:21.600
that you got approved with thing.

826
00:55:21.600 --> 00:55:24.160
So like I got approved with Liz on a journey Instagram,

827
00:55:24.160 --> 00:55:28.440
if I wanted to change my URL, the vanity name,

828
00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:32.040
I would have to also change my Instagram

829
00:55:32.040 --> 00:55:34.360
to whatever I want it to be,

830
00:55:34.360 --> 00:55:39.120
then file a ticket with Amazon proving that I did that

831
00:55:39.120 --> 00:55:40.520
and you can't change it back on,

832
00:55:40.520 --> 00:55:42.680
like it has to, those have to match

833
00:55:42.680 --> 00:55:45.860
like once you've gone through the process with Amazon.

834
00:55:47.300 --> 00:55:48.960
Okay, great.

835
00:55:48.960 --> 00:55:52.440
And then, okay, let me, what'd you say?

836
00:55:53.440 --> 00:55:58.440
Would you say to link multiple social accounts

837
00:56:00.880 --> 00:56:05.880
based on engagement, based on comments,

838
00:56:06.520 --> 00:56:08.520
what would you say about that?

839
00:56:08.520 --> 00:56:09.360
Is there like a-

840
00:56:10.440 --> 00:56:13.280
So there's two, I think two ways,

841
00:56:14.640 --> 00:56:15.760
this question can be asked

842
00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:18.480
for two portions of the conversation.

843
00:56:18.480 --> 00:56:21.560
When you apply, you can only apply with one account.

844
00:56:23.440 --> 00:56:25.200
Sometimes it takes 24 hours,

845
00:56:25.200 --> 00:56:27.080
but usually it's almost immediate

846
00:56:27.080 --> 00:56:29.480
that you know if you got in with that account.

847
00:56:29.480 --> 00:56:31.360
So like if I applied with my Instagram,

848
00:56:31.360 --> 00:56:34.640
I'm instantaneously, sometimes again, they say 24 hours,

849
00:56:34.640 --> 00:56:39.080
but for the most part, they're like in or not, right?

850
00:56:39.080 --> 00:56:40.440
In that moment when I know,

851
00:56:40.440 --> 00:56:42.600
then I would maybe go reapply with my TikTok

852
00:56:42.600 --> 00:56:45.600
if I felt like, oh crap, like that's not,

853
00:56:45.600 --> 00:56:47.280
I can try again, right?

854
00:56:47.280 --> 00:56:49.240
So for the application portion,

855
00:56:49.240 --> 00:56:51.040
you can only do one at a time,

856
00:56:51.040 --> 00:56:52.800
but it's pretty fast, right?

857
00:56:54.280 --> 00:56:56.480
For the linking on your storefront,

858
00:56:56.480 --> 00:57:01.320
that's totally unrelated to your application process.

859
00:57:01.320 --> 00:57:05.120
So like on my storefront, I only have my Instagram

860
00:57:05.120 --> 00:57:07.360
because my others are not that impressive.

861
00:57:08.720 --> 00:57:11.960
And that's the one I am the most active on, right?

862
00:57:11.960 --> 00:57:14.800
But if you're active on all of them,

863
00:57:15.760 --> 00:57:18.000
you can link all of them, right?

864
00:57:18.040 --> 00:57:22.000
The main thing that linking out to your socials does

865
00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:25.320
is give brands a place to find you off site

866
00:57:25.320 --> 00:57:26.840
so they can message you.

867
00:57:26.840 --> 00:57:29.120
So I pick Instagram because it's the one

868
00:57:29.120 --> 00:57:32.600
that I read that DM inbox the most often.

869
00:57:32.600 --> 00:57:35.240
But if you're on TikTok, put that as your first one.

870
00:57:35.240 --> 00:57:37.040
If you're active on all of them,

871
00:57:37.040 --> 00:57:38.200
definitely put them out there

872
00:57:38.200 --> 00:57:40.200
because it does let brands know like,

873
00:57:40.200 --> 00:57:41.760
oh, my YouTube is super active

874
00:57:41.760 --> 00:57:43.480
and I do product reviews over here

875
00:57:43.480 --> 00:57:46.880
or my TikTok has all this content about my dog

876
00:57:46.880 --> 00:57:49.800
so I definitely wanna work with pet brands, right?

877
00:57:49.800 --> 00:57:52.600
It's because we're not driving traffic

878
00:57:52.600 --> 00:57:54.360
for the most part to our storefront,

879
00:57:54.360 --> 00:57:56.720
really the only or the best part about it

880
00:57:56.720 --> 00:57:59.040
is the opportunity for brands to investigate you

881
00:57:59.040 --> 00:57:59.960
and come find you.

882
00:58:01.040 --> 00:58:05.960
Okay, so we have a situation

883
00:58:05.960 --> 00:58:10.320
where she got kind of grandfathered in through her blog

884
00:58:10.320 --> 00:58:12.640
and actually have any socials linked,

885
00:58:12.640 --> 00:58:14.440
but she is an influencer.

886
00:58:14.440 --> 00:58:17.360
Yep, OG, love it.

887
00:58:17.360 --> 00:58:18.360
Hey, hey.

888
00:58:18.360 --> 00:58:19.840
Yep.

889
00:58:19.840 --> 00:58:22.800
So like, would there be a goal for like number of comments

890
00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:26.040
or something for good engagement in her situation or?

891
00:58:26.040 --> 00:58:28.240
No, but I would love for you to tell me

892
00:58:28.240 --> 00:58:31.600
like when you do the approval process for three videos,

893
00:58:31.600 --> 00:58:32.480
how it goes.

894
00:58:32.480 --> 00:58:35.120
So one of my good friends, Kathleen,

895
00:58:35.120 --> 00:58:36.840
who actually introduced me to the program

896
00:58:36.840 --> 00:58:40.520
got in with a newsletter email list years ago,

897
00:58:40.520 --> 00:58:42.920
like 2017 when they launched the program.

898
00:58:42.920 --> 00:58:47.760
So we have a lot of OG bloggers who got in super early

899
00:58:47.760 --> 00:58:49.480
when it was just the storefront

900
00:58:49.480 --> 00:58:51.600
and they were like, who cares?

901
00:58:51.600 --> 00:58:54.000
And now it's like, oh, on-site placement, cool.

902
00:58:55.040 --> 00:58:59.360
So there's no real guidance around this part.

903
00:58:59.360 --> 00:59:02.880
Amazon is not going to have like an off-site

904
00:59:02.880 --> 00:59:06.140
that's currently approved to check for you.

905
00:59:07.480 --> 00:59:10.400
Since you're in, definitely do the three videos,

906
00:59:10.400 --> 00:59:11.840
like from the part where we talked about

907
00:59:11.840 --> 00:59:15.480
doing the placement approval forward, like start there

908
00:59:15.480 --> 00:59:18.440
because you're already in, like, let's check it out.

909
00:59:18.440 --> 00:59:21.120
You don't have, and they're not checking engagement

910
00:59:21.120 --> 00:59:21.960
on your blog.

911
00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:23.720
Okay.

912
00:59:23.720 --> 00:59:26.200
And we just had somebody say in the chat,

913
00:59:26.200 --> 00:59:28.840
Charis, she's an OG and she said she had no problem

914
00:59:28.840 --> 00:59:30.840
getting her videos approved.

915
00:59:30.840 --> 00:59:33.640
Yeah, my guess is like most of the people that I know

916
00:59:33.640 --> 00:59:35.880
that are in the program from when they,

917
00:59:35.880 --> 00:59:39.120
they're not checking socials, there's no connection there.

918
00:59:39.120 --> 00:59:42.720
It's just, it's almost like they know that

919
00:59:42.720 --> 00:59:47.080
because you built that audience that they can trust you.

920
00:59:47.080 --> 00:59:50.000
It's like, you still had to, at that point,

921
00:59:50.000 --> 00:59:53.840
be an affiliate who was driving some number of sales

922
00:59:53.840 --> 00:59:55.400
through your affiliate stuff.

923
00:59:55.400 --> 00:59:59.800
So the OGs have like a little bit of like a advantage.

924
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.720
from what we've seen.

925
01:00:02.720 --> 01:00:05.600
OK, so Christina, you're saying you're conflicted.

926
01:00:05.600 --> 01:00:09.360
You're not sure if it will hurt you to link your socials

927
01:00:09.360 --> 01:00:11.440
or keep them.

928
01:00:11.440 --> 01:00:12.880
Is this one of the bloggers?

929
01:00:12.880 --> 01:00:14.800
Yeah, she's on the call right now.

930
01:00:14.800 --> 01:00:19.040
Christina, she said because they're not active right now,

931
01:00:19.040 --> 01:00:21.360
her socials.

932
01:00:21.360 --> 01:00:25.560
So should she add them or not?

933
01:00:25.560 --> 01:00:30.320
Yeah, but was approved through a blog.

934
01:00:30.320 --> 01:00:32.880
And it was approved through a blog, right, Christina?

935
01:00:32.880 --> 01:00:34.760
Yeah.

936
01:00:34.760 --> 01:00:37.600
Yeah.

937
01:00:37.600 --> 01:00:38.880
That's a good question.

938
01:00:38.880 --> 01:00:40.360
I don't know, honestly.

939
01:00:40.360 --> 01:00:42.320
I wish I had that answer.

940
01:00:42.320 --> 01:00:45.800
I wish Amazon had more guidance around this.

941
01:00:45.800 --> 01:00:48.200
Yeah.

942
01:00:48.200 --> 01:00:50.600
It can't hurt.

943
01:00:50.600 --> 01:00:54.080
So would it only hurt if they're inactive?

944
01:00:54.080 --> 01:00:59.200
Or would, since she's already approved and in, it won't,

945
01:00:59.200 --> 01:01:01.760
does it really matter, I guess?

946
01:01:01.760 --> 01:01:05.120
I mean, so in the program, but not approved for on-site

947
01:01:05.120 --> 01:01:07.120
placement is what I'm reading.

948
01:01:07.120 --> 01:01:08.800
Right, Christina?

949
01:01:08.800 --> 01:01:09.400
Correct.

950
01:01:09.400 --> 01:01:10.400
OK.

951
01:01:10.400 --> 01:01:14.000
And was approved with the blog.

952
01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:17.720
But is the blog active?

953
01:01:17.720 --> 01:01:20.360
Is your blog, OK, that's a good question.

954
01:01:20.360 --> 01:01:23.080
I think what I'm reading is blog is no longer active.

955
01:01:23.080 --> 01:01:25.680
Socials are not active.

956
01:01:25.680 --> 01:01:27.440
Christina, also feel free to come on mute.

957
01:01:27.440 --> 01:01:30.280
It's not super active, but definitely not comments.

958
01:01:33.360 --> 01:01:34.040
I don't know.

959
01:01:34.040 --> 01:01:35.040
I wish I could help.

960
01:01:35.040 --> 01:01:36.040
I'm so sorry.

961
01:01:36.040 --> 01:01:40.440
The OG stuff that got in, like, in the past,

962
01:01:40.440 --> 01:01:42.720
I kind of had seen what Cherish said

963
01:01:42.720 --> 01:01:47.520
was that they had this magic backdoor, basically, access.

964
01:01:47.520 --> 01:01:50.800
So I'm sorry, Christina, that was not the same for you.

965
01:01:50.920 --> 01:01:55.960
OK, so it just sounds like maybe I should let it be how it is.

966
01:01:55.960 --> 01:01:58.160
And then there might have been some background

967
01:01:58.160 --> 01:01:59.360
issues with my first videos.

968
01:01:59.360 --> 01:02:01.400
That's the only thing, the only quality issue

969
01:02:01.400 --> 01:02:02.780
that I think that might have been.

970
01:02:02.780 --> 01:02:06.400
So I might try again with a plain background.

971
01:02:06.400 --> 01:02:08.280
And then, I don't know, it's going

972
01:02:08.280 --> 01:02:11.040
to take me a minute to build up socials, but.

973
01:02:11.040 --> 01:02:13.400
So actually, from where you're at, Christina,

974
01:02:13.400 --> 01:02:15.840
since you've gotten, you're in the program,

975
01:02:15.840 --> 01:02:19.800
you have gotten one rejection for the on-site placement.

976
01:02:19.800 --> 01:02:20.600
Yeah.

977
01:02:20.600 --> 01:02:22.600
I would just try again.

978
01:02:22.600 --> 01:02:24.720
I would link your socials to see if that helps.

979
01:02:24.720 --> 01:02:26.720
I would unlink your socials, fix whatever

980
01:02:26.720 --> 01:02:29.480
issues you think you had with the video quality,

981
01:02:29.480 --> 01:02:31.560
because you do get three chances.

982
01:02:31.560 --> 01:02:35.520
And all the while, you could go start TikTok

983
01:02:35.520 --> 01:02:38.400
and start building that so you're not wasting time

984
01:02:38.400 --> 01:02:40.080
while you're waiting.

985
01:02:40.080 --> 01:02:42.480
But you really don't have anything

986
01:02:42.480 --> 01:02:47.000
to lose by trying again from where you're at with the blog.

987
01:02:47.000 --> 01:02:48.880
OK, I just wasn't sure if I would hurt my,

988
01:02:48.880 --> 01:02:51.360
quote, unquote, OG status if I start linking stuff

989
01:02:51.360 --> 01:02:53.440
and it's not great right now.

990
01:02:53.440 --> 01:02:54.400
No.

991
01:02:54.400 --> 01:02:56.680
Yeah, I would, whatever TikTok you

992
01:02:56.680 --> 01:03:00.480
are building on the side for this,

993
01:03:00.480 --> 01:03:03.240
I wouldn't link that one to the account that's

994
01:03:03.240 --> 01:03:07.480
approved with the blog, just in case they tie those.

995
01:03:10.440 --> 01:03:11.640
OK, awesome.

996
01:03:11.640 --> 01:03:12.240
Love it.

997
01:03:12.240 --> 01:03:15.080
OK, I've got, yep, you're welcome.

998
01:03:15.080 --> 01:03:17.640
We've got two more for right now.

999
01:03:17.640 --> 01:03:21.360
OK, so if our domain name is the same,

1000
01:03:21.360 --> 01:03:23.920
should we stick with content slash products

1001
01:03:23.920 --> 01:03:29.040
that are niche-specific to that domain name?

1002
01:03:29.040 --> 01:03:32.320
No, once you're on Amazon, they're

1003
01:03:32.320 --> 01:03:33.880
going to find you as they're shopping.

1004
01:03:33.880 --> 01:03:36.320
So I'm looking for a dog collar.

1005
01:03:36.320 --> 01:03:38.160
I'm going to go to this dog collar listing.

1006
01:03:38.160 --> 01:03:40.560
And oh, there's Liz talking about this dog collar.

1007
01:03:40.560 --> 01:03:42.960
I don't care if Liz talks about Olympic weightlifting

1008
01:03:42.960 --> 01:03:43.760
on her Instagram.

1009
01:03:43.760 --> 01:03:45.080
I'm not looking at her Instagram.

1010
01:03:45.080 --> 01:03:47.600
I'm looking at this exact listing.

1011
01:03:47.600 --> 01:03:48.840
It's the beauty of the program.

1012
01:03:48.840 --> 01:03:52.320
You can talk about anything, any product that's on Amazon,

1013
01:03:52.320 --> 01:03:54.480
and people will find you at that moment

1014
01:03:54.480 --> 01:03:56.240
at the point of purchase.

1015
01:03:56.240 --> 01:03:57.400
Perfect.

1016
01:03:57.400 --> 01:03:58.320
Awesome.

1017
01:03:58.320 --> 01:04:03.560
And then as far as going back to the faceless slash face

1018
01:04:03.560 --> 01:04:09.800
conversation with, hold on, I'm reading.

1019
01:04:09.800 --> 01:04:10.360
No worries.

1020
01:04:10.640 --> 01:04:11.120
Um.

1021
01:04:15.040 --> 01:04:17.960
Caitlin, can you just say very specifically what your question

1022
01:04:17.960 --> 01:04:18.440
is?

1023
01:04:18.440 --> 01:04:20.800
My question is.

1024
01:04:20.800 --> 01:04:21.800
Yeah, absolutely.

1025
01:04:21.800 --> 01:04:24.120
I know it sounds confusing.

1026
01:04:24.120 --> 01:04:29.080
This group is as easy as you can just ask to get your question.

1027
01:04:29.080 --> 01:04:30.240
I think it's about faceless.

1028
01:04:30.240 --> 01:04:32.760
Yeah.

1029
01:04:32.760 --> 01:04:36.000
Yeah, my question was just, I know that you had said

1030
01:04:36.080 --> 01:04:40.520
that we could be faceless, that we had our brains going

1031
01:04:40.520 --> 01:04:42.040
on with Instagram.

1032
01:04:42.040 --> 01:04:43.960
But you wouldn't be able, once you get accepted

1033
01:04:43.960 --> 01:04:45.920
and talking about it, and you're talking about the products

1034
01:04:45.920 --> 01:04:48.560
and whatnot, this is like you have to show your face

1035
01:04:48.560 --> 01:04:50.080
and show yourself, right?

1036
01:04:50.080 --> 01:04:53.200
No, you can be faceless on Amazon, too.

1037
01:04:53.200 --> 01:04:55.000
Oh, OK.

1038
01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:57.840
How would you do that if you're going to talk about a product

1039
01:04:57.840 --> 01:05:01.040
and then recommend it to somebody?

1040
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:08.000
I'm going to look down on the product, like, point of view, and talk about it from here, like, and then I'm totally out of the shot.

1041
01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:16.000
So it's like a this direction perspective, talking about it. You're not required to be on video.

1042
01:05:16.000 --> 01:05:19.000
Okay, perfect. That was my question. Thank you.

1043
01:05:19.000 --> 01:05:22.000
Yay! Glad we got that.

1044
01:05:22.000 --> 01:05:25.000
Awesome. Um.

1045
01:05:26.000 --> 01:05:34.000
Okay, I don't see any other questions. I'm pretty sure I covered all the ones in the chat.

1046
01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:40.000
Anybody else have any last minute questions?

1047
01:05:40.000 --> 01:05:43.000
Okay, I think we're winning here. I think we're good.

1048
01:05:43.000 --> 01:05:46.000
Heck yeah, love this. Okay.

1049
01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:50.000
Woo, we'll take it. Okay.

1050
01:05:50.000 --> 01:06:02.000
All right. Yeah, so as far as replays goes, if you are in your first eight weeks, these should be on searchrainmakers.com.

1051
01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:08.000
I'm making, I made a comment on the back end, making sure these are uploaded in a timely manner.

1052
01:06:08.000 --> 01:06:16.000
So go ahead and check those. And then if you are on the app, it will be in app replay.

1053
01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:20.000
And if you are in the Facebook group, it's also there.

1054
01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:25.000
And Tiffany, just drop the searchrainmakers.com where you can find the replays.

1055
01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:29.000
The account is free to get into, again, if you're in the mastermind.

1056
01:06:29.000 --> 01:06:34.000
And then there is no attendance link, Jessica. Not today.

1057
01:06:34.000 --> 01:06:40.000
Okay, so tomorrow we're going to hit day three. It's going to be deeper.

1058
01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:45.000
It's going to be better. There's going to be more time for questions.

1059
01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:49.000
So you're so excited. Anything else you'd like to say, Liz?

1060
01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:55.000
Just thanks for hanging in with me today. I know that it can be really in the weeds with the nuance of the program.

1061
01:06:55.000 --> 01:07:01.000
So we made it through day two. Tomorrow we get to do the fun stuff, which is talking about the money.

1062
01:07:02.000 --> 01:07:05.000
Yes, we have lots of thank yous. Thank you so much, Liz.

1063
01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:12.000
And thank you all for showing up and taking what you need, asking questions, letting your voice be heard.

1064
01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:16.000
This is something we really want to partner with and have in our back pocket.

1065
01:07:16.000 --> 01:07:22.000
So it's why we get Liz and all of her amazing wisdom for us.

1066
01:07:22.000 --> 01:07:28.000
So, yay. Okay, well, we'll see you all tomorrow. Enjoy the rest of your day.

1067
01:07:28.000 --> 01:07:31.000
Have a good Tuesday. Bye everyone. Bye.