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Amazon Influencer Program 3 Videos BEST TIPS

August 14, 2025•21 min read

Amazon Influencer Program 3 Videos BEST TIPS (Onsite Commissions Approval)

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   If you're about to submit your three review videos for onsite commissions in the Influence program, and you're looking for a few more tips to make sure that you get approved and not rejected, then this video's for you because unfortunately, a lot of people get rejected and a lot of times they don't understand why they keep getting rejected, so they have to apply all over again.

And so in this video, I'm gonna break down four tips that I guarantee you will get you approved into the program. For onsite commissions, and I've used these four tips to get approved for three separate Amazon influencer accounts, and I've helped hundreds of others get approved using these tactics, so I know that they work.

And so stick around to the very end and I promise you, you will get approved. And my name is Mark McKeller. If you have any questions about anything in this video, comment down below, hit the like button and subscribe. And if you do, I will continue to post about how to help you make more money. On Amazon every week.

Let's dive in. I'm gonna be pulling out these tips from my Amazon approval kit, which I'll link down below in the video description. If you want your own copy, I guarantee you you'll get approved for onsite commissions or even with the brand new social media account using everything in this guide. So I'm gonna break these suggestions in the four main parts.

The first part is explaining everything you need to know about the approval process for onsite commissions. And the second part will be everything you need to know about how to record correctly, meaning what kind of devices you should record on, and more importantly, what you should and shouldn't say, and what you should and should not show when demonstrating a product during a review.

And then number three would be all about how to pick a good product to review for onsite commissions. It really, really depends, and you want to go really safe on this part, so I'll explain later. And then number four, we'll dive into how to upload your videos correctly, addressing things like titles, thumbnails, stuff like that.

So let's go ahead and get started with the application process. It's pretty simple. You just gotta prove with your social media account, and you need to submit three review videos for a real person from Amazon to watch and approve or reject. Okay? First of all, only submit three. Do not submit more or less and submit all three of your videos at once.

Okay? The video length should be anywhere from at least 60 seconds. Maybe three minutes. I would say four minutes max, but no need to go longer than that. Okay, so only three review videos. Quick story. My first time I submitted like 10 and Amazon reviewed and had to go through all 10. And if they found just one that they rejected, then I was not in good shape.

So like. Only submit three videos. Okay? Now when you submit them, someone will watch the videos and they're gonna approve or reject them within about five days, sometimes longer, sometimes shorter, maybe three, maybe seven days at most. But you should be hearing back within about five days on average, and when they come back to you and report if you got approved or not.

If you've been approved, you're gonna get a notification saying you've been approved and you can start posting more review videos. On Amazon and once you get approved for onsite commissions, the video approving process is not as strict. Meaning every time you post a new review, they don't look at it very in depth like they are this time, if that makes sense.

But more importantly, you're gonna know if you've been approved or not. If you still see that blue lock. On your Amazon storefront, when you click manage content, so if you still see the blue lock, you're not approved quite yet. If the blue lock is gone and you could see your reporting stats, then you have been approved.

If you want more information about what the blue lock is exactly, I'm gonna leave a video linked above where I go more in depth on what it is, what you need to know about it, et cetera. Now you have three chances to get these three videos approved for onsite commissions. Meaning if you submit three videos and they get rejected or one of them gets rejected, then you have two more tries.

And if you get rejected a second time, then you have one more try. And worst case scenario, if you get rejected a third time, you're gonna have to reapply all over again with a new social media account. So it's really, really important that you get approved for onsite commissions this time and this time only.

When it comes to how to record your review videos, pretty straightforward. You can use a computer or a mobile phone. It really doesn't matter my opinion. You can show your face if you want to. You don't have to show your face. I don't mind showing my face and demonstrating it. Um, but you can also not show your face.

And also with how to record with your desktop, you can use a screen sharing software like OBS. Or I personally use Loom, LOOM, and what you can do is when it records, just have it be like a normal web camera, but within Loom, you can edit the video, you can trim it if you want. It's pretty sweet. I'll leave a link down below if you want to use it, but that's personally what I use as far as on a desktop, and then with my phone.

I will just use my iPhone and I have this little neck tripod. I know it looks stupid, but it works because what you can do is if you have a magnetic back, go ahead, slap it on there, and I'll literally wear this around my neck. It makes demonstrating and showing a product so, so easy, like it is 100% worth it, even though I look like a doofus.

It is worth it. Or if you wanted to use like a little tripod, I recommend buying something small like this to putting your phone on. You don't need a monstrous, huge. Tripod to record with your phone. Okay? But when you go to upload, you can upload on your mobile or desktop. I'll show you later how to do that, but that's personally what I do.

Like I said, I personally recommend just recording on your desktop, like your webcam if you can, but that's how you can record either one of those mobile or desktop. Now let's talk more about what you should be saying in your review video. Okay. First and foremost, you wanna demonstrate the product, meaning you wanna start off a video by saying, Hey, this is my review of this husky.

Pocket knife. Okay. And why you should actually introduce a product like that, like there's a reason is because when you post review videos onto Amazon, what's gonna happen is over time about a, like, you know, three to four weeks after you submit a video is they're gonna take that video and they're gonna place it.

Onto other Amazon product pages within the same category. Okay, so like that's a good thing because that means that people who are shopping for a different kind of pocket knife could see my video and. Watch it and buy that product. Okay. If that makes sense. So overall, it's a net positive thing, like you can only earn more commissions from this.

But with that being said, it's good to introduce the product so that someone has an idea of what you're actually talking about in that video. So, so once you introduce the product, next, you want to demonstrate educate. Describe the product. Okay. I like to always talk about why I purchased the product to start off with, because then it has a little bit more congruency as far as like why I'm actually reviewing this product in general.

But I do like to educate and to demonstrate it, meaning show how to open up the knife. How to close it. Maybe I'll show putting it in my pocket. So like I want to demonstrate how it's actually used in real life and not just kinda like show it like this. So if you can actually show you using the product if possible, and give like or one or two real life use cases.

Of how you use that product in real life. And that way it'll be a lot more relatable and a lot more real. And honestly, it'll be a lot more easy to talk about in your video. Real quick, if you wanna learn more on how to get approved into the influencer program or how to increase your commissions month after month, I have a free guide the Amazon Influencer Cheat Code that it'll link down below in the video description.

It'll tell you everything you need to know about the influencer program, and think of it as my free gift to you for watching this. Video. Also inside the guide is linked to my Facebook group, which you can join for free or you can ask questions, get more help, and learn the best practices for the influencer program.

Like I said, this guide is in the video description. Make sure to grab your free copy. And the last thing is just to be honest about the product, like honest with your experience using the product. Honestly, this is really important for the three review videos for onsite Commiss. Once you get approved into the program, like I said, they don't watch all of your videos as intensely or meaning.

If a video gets rejected or gets taken down from your short front, you're not gonna be like huge, like, like heavily penalized and get your account taken away. You just have to change the video. But especially with these three review videos, just be honest and just be real and really kind of see yourself as a impartial third party of just explaining the product, your experience.

And that's it. Okay, so that's what you should say. Now let's get into what you should not say. This is even more important because this list is full of things that usually get people rejected for onsite commissions, and they don't even know it. And so this is like the part where you actually really, really want to pay attention.

The first thing you shouldn't talk about is any kind of private information, meaning where you live, um, what your address is. What country you're in, uh, your weight, your height, um, just different personal information that you do not want to disclose. Meaning, and this is also a good point to say if you are gonna review like maybe a, uh, protein powder or like a cosmetic or like, um, makeup or, or stuff that really kind of brings out like an overall transformation, you have to be careful because sometimes like products that we take or like that we put on our body or whatever.

They produce like this transformation, and that makes us want to just talk about the transformation. And a lot of times like that brings up personal information and so that's why like for your three review videos, you know, maybe stay away from like supplements or makeup or lotion, stuff like that. The next thing is any kind of defamatory language, if you review your product and it honestly is like junk or garbage.

You don't want to say this product is pretty junky or it sucks, or there's, it's, you know, kind of garbage. You don't wanna say anything like that, reword it and say something like the, um, the wooden part on this knife is not very soft, or, the plastic on this product is actually very, uh, loose and not very strong at all.

So word it differently. Don't just say those kinds of words, like, like, junk or crap, or, you know, this product sucks or anything like that. Next is any kind of call to actions. So in your video you don't wanna say anything like. Hey, if you like this video, you know, uh, hit the thumbs up so that my profile can get more, more, uh, attraction.

Or you don't wanna say anything, like, if you really like this video, like go to my short front and click on my Instagram account and follow me there. Any reason to bring the viewer. Off Amazon is not good. And that usually starts with like a call to a call to action. Okay? So don't have any kinda like call to action or signal for your videos, especially for these onsite commission videos.

Just a few more things you don't wanna mention. The price point of the product, you don't wanna mention if it's on discount because that's variable that changes over time. You don't wanna mention any kind of like promotion or time sensitive information about the product, meaning. You have to buy this right now or else it's gonna go off sale after prime day.

You don't want to say anything like that. With that being said, you don't want to display or talk about any kind of numbers or show any numbers. That means license plates, that means, uh, numbers on the product, anything like that. Because what happens is Amazon will look at the video and if they see even a few numbers that maybe look like a license plate or a phone number, but it's not.

But if it just looks like it, then they will be like, eh. That's no go. Okay. So just like erase it completely from these three videos. And then the very last thing I kind of touched on this is never mention any kind of like medical claims or any kind of, I promise you, you'll feel better if you take this product.

You will get stronger if you take this whey protein powder. Nothing like that. Those are a few of the things you should and should not say now. Quickly want to talk about what you shouldn't show in your video. You should not show any kind of barcodes of the product if there is a barcode on the product or the packaging.

Either covered up with your hand or put tape around it. Do not show the barcode whatsoever and of course any kind of personal information. Next, you don't want to review any kind of products that are not sold on Amazon. I know that should be obvious, but like, just make sure it is sold on Amazon. You don't want to have any kind of signs in the background that says subscribe.

Or, uh, any kind of big graphics or posters of like brands, anything like that, you want to be an impartial third party reviewer, and that includes what's in the background. With that being said, when I recorded one of my review videos for onsite commissions, they rejected them because I had a bunch of books on that desk.

Who would've thought, but I removed them and then I got approved the next time. So just have a clean background, nothing crazy. And of course, no Amazon logos, especially no Amazon logos on your social media account, but especially on the review video. Next, you don't wanna show any kind of children or show or talk about any kind of alcoholic products or you know, smoking products, anything like that.

And then of course, what you do want to show is you want to show the product. Very clearly and up close upfront. You wanna show the features, uh, you wanna talk from experience, and you just wanna show every, like, you, the whole video is about the product, not about you. You are the, uh, translator, if you will.

You're just the person carrying the message and the message is the product. So just show and demonstrate the. You can do that through a video like this, or you don't have to share your face and just show with your phone. Simple as that. Now, my three step framework on what kinds of products you should review for onsite commissions is one, pick a product that is easy for you personally to talk about, and typically that will mean a product that you've used a lot, that you know a lot about, and that confidence that that free flowing talking about the product will just come out in the review video and it'll be a lot more natural and you're less likely to make mistakes.

And you're more likely to just draw upon personal experience because it's easy to talk about 'cause you've used it for a long time. So pick products that are easy to talk about for you personally. Next thing is pick products that are easy to show and demonstrate. Something that you can hold in your hand, you know, something like this, it doesn't like something that that is huge or ginormous can be kind of hard because then you have to like record it and walk around it.

So I like to just review products for onsite commissions. With what I can hold in my hand. It just makes it a lot more easy and convenient to review. And the third thing is kinda like what I was saying before is try to avoid products that have a tendency to bring up personal information or like too much personal experience where you're talking about this huge transformation and I'm referring to products that maybe you, uh, eat or consume or put on your skin.

Or, you know, um, any kinda like healing or stuff like that. So just have it be like a physical product. Like, like this. It'll be a lot easier to get approved with, uh, and to avoid those mistakes of disclosing too much personal information. Now let's talk about the best practices to upload. So I will show you how to upload on your mobile phone and on a desktop.

But before I do a couple of things is one, when you title the video, just have it be something simple. Say something like. My honest review of this blank, and then say the product name. Don't say the brand, but just what the product, uh, is, like what it's called, I guess. Uh, or you could say something like, my experience or my, my honest experience using this blank.

And then fill in the blank with your, uh, product name. The next thing is gonna be any kind of thumbnails. So that's a question is like, should I use thumbnails? Should I not? For onsite commissions, I would not use thumbnails. Just let Amazon take a random picture of your video and use it as a thumbnail.

But don't add in like a custom thumbnail on Canva. I do add in thumbnails on my videos, on my storefront, and I do it for every product, but not for onsite commissions. You wanna remove any chances of you getting, um, rejected and that can be a chance. Alright, now I'm gonna show you what it looks like uploading your review videos on your desktop and also your mobile phone.

And now if you already know how to do that, um, but you're still unsure on like what exactly to say, like this script. For your review videos for onsite commissions, I have this video up here. I'm gonna link above where I go in depth on what I call the perfect review script to get approved. It's a timeless gem.

It will work for you. It's worked for so many others. Watch that video. I promise you, you'll get approved with your review video script, so watch that. If you're on that step, or if you wanna learn how to upload on your mobile phone or desktop, then I'm gonna show you right here. You're gonna come right into your storefront, your hub, and it should look just like this.

Okay? Now, once you're here, I want you to click manage content and then click video. And you should see something like this if you are trying to get approved for onsite commissions. Maybe you're already approved. If so, that's great. But typically if you're still trying to get approved, you're gonna see the blue lock.

It says zero of three videos submitted. So let's go ahead and upload our first video. But I'm gonna go back to my storefront just to make things simple and then click create content on the top left, and then post video. That way I can just drag my video onto this window from my desktop. And so I'm gonna upload it, and then I'll just say something like my full review of this air compressor tool.

Okay, now show you the easiest way to upload your review videos. Using your phone instead of, you know, recording a product review video with your phone and dragging it onto a desktop, it's much more convenient to just open up the Amazon app and upload it there. So, for example, I just reviewed these smart glasses and the video is on my phone.

So first thing I'm gonna do is open up the Amazon app and before we upload the video, we need to know how to actually find it, how to actually tag it correctly. Two ways you can do that. One if you search for it ahead of time and it'll be saved in the browser history, so it'll be easier to tag. But another huge tip, if you never know for sure, like, oh, okay, I, I've reviewed this product, how do I tag it correctly?

Um, a huge hack is I will open up the camera where the search bar is, and then I'm gonna take a picture. Of my glasses. Hopefully that was a good picture. And what it's gonna do is Amazon using their smart AI system, they're gonna be partnering and pairing that with similar products on Amazon that look the same, and they're usually pretty spot on.

So as you could see, here are the glasses. I'll click that, making sure it's the right one. Um, and I'm gonna kind of leave it there for now. If I really wanted to, I could click the share button and you could see the uh, commission rate. It's with Creator connections right now at 10%. So that's really good.

So now let's go back into the home button. I'm gonna click the little, little figure icon, and then I'm gonna scroll down to where it says Amazon Influencers and then create content. I'm gonna go ahead and click post video, and we are going to pick the video from our photo library. So I'll click that.

Here's my review video and I'll give it a second to upload. So now that it's uploaded, as you can see, we have four options to tag the product. We can go from our idea list, our orders, browse, history, subscriptions. I always will click browse history. And it's not on there and oh, okay. I scroll down and here it is.

So I will click add product and then done, and then I'll come up with the title. Really simple, my Honest Thoughts about These Smart Classes, and it's uploading a little bit more. It does take some time to. If I wanted to, I could edit and add a thumbnail. You can actually do this with the Canva app, you know, for getting approved for onsite commissions.

I don't really recommend doing a thumbnail, um, but it is an option and you can always post videos and, um, have 'em sit for some time and then go back and then add a, a thumbnail later if you want. So that's just another option. So I hope that all makes sense. I hope those tips were helpful for you. If so, hit the like button subscribe and I'll see you in the next one.

Amazon FBA Seller and Owner of the Amazon FBA Accelerator

Mark Mckellar

Amazon FBA Seller and Owner of the Amazon FBA Accelerator

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