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title: 'Don''t Do Amazon FBA in 2025, Try This Instead'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=aRNXuwpw4L0'
video_id: 'aRNXuwpw4L0'
date: 2026-07-27
duration_sec: 544
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# Don't Do Amazon FBA in 2025, Try This Instead

> Source: [Don't Do Amazon FBA in 2025, Try This Instead](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aRNXuwpw4L0)

## Summary

This video argues that Amazon FBA is a poor choice for beginners due to high risk and capital requirements, and instead promotes TikTok Shop affiliate marketing as a low-risk, high-reward alternative. The speaker shares personal experience of failing with FBA and achieving $59,000 profit in the first month with TikTok Shop affiliate.

### Key Points

- **Amazon FBA is Not for Beginners** [00:01] — Amazon FBA is often portrayed as an easy way to make money, but 99% of beginners fail because they lack capital and experience.
- **Personal FBA Failure** [00:40] — The speaker invested $10,000 in an FBA product (car air freshener), sold out first month but had poor ROI and inventory issues that crashed the company.
- **TikTok Shop Success** [01:48] — After switching to TikTok Shop affiliate, the speaker made $59,000 profit in the first month, $45,000 per month consistently, and helped family members earn millions.
- **How TikTok Shop Affiliate Works** [02:29] — Get free products from companies, film content or go live, earn commission on sales. No upfront investment required.
- **Example of Passive Income** [03:11] — A retractable car charger still earns $10/day over a year later, with no active promotion.
- **Key to Success: Study Viral Content** [04:03] — Analyze why videos go viral, replicate hooks and styles. The speaker's sister made $70,000 in her third month after improving content.
- **Get Free Samples** [05:12] — Use the product marketplace to request free samples; no payment needed. Must post content within 14 days.
- **Speak with Good Tonality** [06:32] — Avoid sounding robotic; study viral creators and adjust your delivery.
- **Post Consistently** [07:11] — The speaker posted 87 videos in the first month. Each post is a 'free lottery ticket' with potential to go viral.
- **Actionable Steps** [07:40] — 1) Get 5,000 followers. 2) Request free samples. 3) Film content. 4) Post at least 3 times per day. 5) Analyze metrics and iterate.

### Conclusion

TikTok Shop affiliate marketing offers a low-barrier entry with high potential returns, but requires consistent effort and content analysis. The key is to treat each video as an opportunity and not quit.

## Transcript

talking about Amazon FBA as the easiest way to make insane amounts of money for that's been going on for years already. And for some reason, people never want to get tired of it. But what they aren't telling you is that Amazon FBA is one of
you can actually get into, especially if you are a beginner with no money or experience. There's a reason why so many people are actually trying to get this business model to work, but 99% of them are stuck at the bottom while the top 1%
it's a bad business model. It's just simply not a smart path to take if you are a beginner just getting started with no money to invest or more importantly, no experience. And funny enough, I actually did this as well back in 2022
with my own product that I invested over $10,000 designing my own car air rearview mirror of your car and made with essential oils and manufactured in everything I could to make this product work. I thought this was a good product
spent was actually a good amount of investment and time that I did, but I whatsoever. Well, I shouldn't say that. I sold out my first month, which was amazing. I was very excited, but the ROI on this product was not very good. I
like did not keep the inventory in stock and ended up crashing my entire company on Amazon. So, I quit and went and tried to search for a new business model that was less risk and honestly smaller of a learning curve. And listen, you you can
trust me here. I have I've been that person who has been desperately in search for something to make more money. I've been in so much debt. I've like from Hawaii to San Diego and the debt that I accumulated during that process.
I was desperate and I just stumbled across a new business model that ended up working for me and that is Tik Tok Shop affiliate. I came across this with, you know, tons of videos on Tik Tok and tons of videos on YouTube of people
that can make you a ton of money and, you know, you don't really have to invest a lot into, which I thought was, you know, not normal. I was like, that's not possible. But even with all of that weird stuff involved of me not really
trusting the process, I decided to jump into it. And my first month, I made $59,000 in profit from posting Tik Tok shop content from products that I got changed my entire life. Literally taking me from making $6,000 a month in the
military to making over $45,000 a month and changing my life, everybody's lives around me, like my sister who made over $4 million in sales just in 2024 and even my mom who did over $2 million in sales in 2024 because I got all of them
affiliate actually work exactly? And why is it such a great business model for First, we have to know what is Tik Tok Shop affiliate. Tik Tok shop affiliate is when you get a product completely for free from a company that's on Tik Tok
shop. You get that product mailed to your house. You film that product for a video or you do a live stream. And every time that you make a sale from those a commission or a percentage of every sale. And when you make content that
goes viral, like a live stream or a video that does really well, resonates product, you can make hundreds of thousands of dollars from just one single product. My first viral product was a retractable car charger that I
still sell to this day over a year later that makes me over $10 a day even to this day and I don't even promote it anymore. But when I started posting that product, I made over $60,000 just in my second month promoting that product.
Second is why is it so easy to get started with this? And the reason is that you don't need any money to get started. You don't need capital. You need followers. And that is the hardest part. But to be honest with you, the
lot of other business models, you have to spend hundreds of thousands of it was $10,000 just to get my product going, and I had to hope that it would actually take off. Whereas, Tik Tok Shop affiliate, there is no money. You don't
need to spend a single dime, but your first month, you could make $59,000 just question I get is, "How fast can I see results? When should I start seeing success?" And to be honest with you, it totally varies on how well you perform
and how good of content you make. The people who study other viral content on Tik Tok and actually research why that content is going viral, recreating it, making the actual same hooks, fixing all the problems that they have when they
analyze their content are the people who end up seeing success really quickly. sister did. Her first two months, she didn't make almost any money whatsoever. But her third month, she made $70,000. All because she actually fixed the
first two months. Now, how do you get started? You need 5,000 followers just to actually be able to post as many times as you want. If you have a,000 but you can only post five times per week, which is not enough. I highly
and check out our other videos because we go over how to actually gain the really common question I get is, "What kind of equipment do I need? Do I need equipment?" and you know audio equipment. The answer is really no. The
only thing that I ever use to make my content is just my cell phone. That is it. I have a nice I have a nice iPhone, but that's about it. I don't use a equipment. Even though lighting equipment is actually very helpful if
home. Now, how do you actually get these products to start promoting them? Well, you can actually go into the product marketplace and you can select any kind you can either purchase that product yourself or what I like to tell people
is do not pay for these products. You should be requesting free samples, which free sample completely for free. No catch. All you have to do is make the content within 14 days. Now, there are a couple skills that I would say are
really necessary to making this content work on Tik Tok shop. Now, the first one look at your content and analyze it objectively and say, why is this not going viral and how can I make my content like this other person who did
go viral? Being able to analyze your content and see what is actually getting people to stay and what's not is actually really helpful. And also, Tik Tok is starting to help you with these features as well. Every time you post a
to the more metrics tab at the bottom and you can actually look and see and in your video that's causing people to want to leave. They'll tell you, hey, your hook is bad. Your, you know, your content is people are leaving in your
the case is. They'll tell you what you need to fix on, but it's usually pretty broad. So, that's why I highly recommend go and watch viral content and see what replicate their content to make it for yourself. The second skill that I'd
actually speak on camera with good tonality. A lot of people, they go into this and they kind of sound very robotic. And a lot of people do when beginning of my videos, I was very robotic. But I learned really quickly
how to shift that because I would look at other people's content. I'd go, they don't sound like I do. What is going on? And I would find ways to just shift my more like these people who were going viral. And this is a big reason why
with the mindset that that hey, I'm going to post three or four videos on I'm gonna make hundreds of thousands of dollars. And that's not the case. It does take a lot of work. It's a lot of posting. It's a lot of reanalyzing your
doesn't. But a lot of people don't want to do that. A lot of people want to give And it's just honestly that's not how it works. My first month I posted 87 videos. 87 videos. A lot of people are like that's crazy amount. But it didn't
single time that I posted one of these videos, it was a free lottery ticket And plus, on top of that, I was getting free products that I could sell on way, I was going to make money. But the problem is a lot of people don't see
that. A lot of people see this as like, you know, I need to make money that's not the mindset you should have. Now, here are some actionable steps that you can take right now. If you are not a Tik Tok shop affiliate, step number one
is you need to get to 5,000 followers. Once you have 5,000 followers, you can once you get accepted into the program, which you should be automatically, you need to start looking around your house for products that are already on Tik Tok
you have. Once you find these products, you need to also be requesting free many of them as possible so you can start getting more products mailed to need to be filming the products that you have and you are getting to start
posting at least three times per day. As you're posting this Tik Tok shop content, you need to be looking back at the metrics and looking at why are making sales? Because I guarantee you, you're not going to go viral your first
You're going to be posting a lot of content, looking back, and testing new ways of speaking, new ways of filming, new styles, new metrics, new everything. You need to be changing things up often to see what works and what doesn't. If
that you will be successful on Tik Tok shop as long as you don't quit. Now, if you guys want more in-depth guidance on how this works, watch this video where I need to know, as well as how I film my content and actually do it live with