How to Make $500 a Month in the Amazon Influencer Program

One of the most common questions new Amazon influencers ask is how to reach a specific income goal. In this article, we tackle a great question from the Oink Facebook group: “If I want to get to $500 a month in earnings, what is the best way to do that?” The answer might surprise you, because the path to $500 a month is the same path that can take you to $5,000 a month and beyond.

Do Not Sell Yourself Short: Think Bigger
Amazon’s Two Rules for Making Money
Break Your Goal Down by Day
Track Your Daily Progress
The Same Activities Scale Up
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Do Not Sell Yourself Short: Think Bigger

Setting a goal like $500 a month is a very common thing for new Amazon influencers. Many people start with wanting to make a car payment or cover a specific bill. But here is what you quickly realize once you hit that number: what you thought was the top of the mountain is actually just the beginning of the journey.

The activities that get you to $500 a month are the exact same activities that can take you to the next level. If you are at $50 and working hard to get to $500, you are really doing the same things, just learning to do them more often and more consistently. The same applies from $500 to $5,000. Most big-time creators in the Amazon influencer program are still doing the same things they were doing a year or two ago. They have just gotten better at it through repetition and efficiency.

Amazon’s Two Rules for Making Money

Amazon says there are really only two rules when it comes to making money in the Amazon influencer program. Everything else falls into place after these two fundamentals. First, you need to make consistent videos on products that are selling. If a product is not selling, Amazon cannot make money and you cannot make money. So target products that have an actual sales history.

Second, your videos have to actually get watched. This means targeting products that have little to no influencer saturation. That is it. Those are the only two rules. If a product is selling and people are watching your video on it, you are going to make money. This holds true whether you are making $50, $500, or $5,000 a month.

Break Your Goal Down by Day

Whatever your target income is, break it down into a daily number. This makes the goal feel much more manageable. If your goal is $500 a month, that works out to about $16 and some change per day. That sounds a lot less intimidating than $500, right?

This approach was used by Chris, who set a target of $100,000 in a year and broke it down by day to give himself a clear daily benchmark. When you have a daily number to work toward, it becomes much easier to evaluate whether your efforts are on track or if you need to adjust your approach.

Track Your Daily Progress

Once you have your daily target, watch your daily sales and think about the efforts you are putting in each day. If you start to see yourself not trending in the right direction, it probably means you are not doing enough of the things Amazon wants you to do: making videos on products that sell and ensuring those videos can be seen.

If your commissions are not going up or they are starting to decline, you are probably falling short somewhere in those two fundamental areas. It really is that simple. On the flip side, if your numbers are trending up, you know you are on the right track. That is when you want to lean into it even further and double down on what is working.

The Same Activities Scale Up

Do not put $500 worth of effort into your daily work. Put $5,000 a month efforts into your daily activities. There is an old saying about shooting for the moon because even if you miss, you are still among the stars. If you aim high and work with that level of intensity, you will have a much better chance of hitting and exceeding your goals.

The key activities remain the same at every level: work on your product pipeline to ensure a consistent stream of products coming in, do your product research every day, and create content every day. There is no secret sauce beyond consistency and following those two core rules. Take the thing that is already working and do it more often. Sit down every day, make content, do product research, and keep building. The pieces will fall into place.