Review Books on Amazon & Get Free Stuff

Do you want to get free stuff, connect with experts, and have more clout in your industry? I've got a pretty cool way for you to do that. Coming up next. Hey there. I'm Julie Bod of havemoreinfluence.com today I want to tell you why you should be writing Amazon reviews. Yep, I've got five reasons and probably four of them you may not have thought about yet. Number one, if you've used the reviews on Amazon to decide whether you're going to buy something yourself, it's just a nice thing to do to give back as a way to help other people make their buying decisions. So writing reviews is a way to give back. So that's one reason to write reviews on Amazon. The second reason is opportunities. When I was starting out in the real estate education space, I used to just write reviews about all the books that I was reading to give back. Or what I didn't know at the time was that other authors would also be reading these reviews. And I was contacted by an author of a book that was going to be published by Wiley, and she asked me to provide a case study and answer a few questions for the book that she was writing. That was my very first interview for a book, and it came as a result of my Amazon review. Number three, writing good Amazon reviews takes a little bit of practice. And frankly, most people need a little bit of practice giving good feedback. So what makes a great Amazon review? Well, actually, Amazon outlines what they're looking for, but generally here's just four things that I think make a great Amazon review. Tell people who this is for. So whether it's a product or a book, who is this right for? Because while maybe you didn't like it, perhaps a beginner or a more advanced person would so indicate who is this right for? What did you like? What did you benefit from? What would you like to see differently? Or what could have been changed for it to be better for you? Or did you find any tips for using it to get the best benefit out of the book or the product? Because that will be useful to people in the future as well. Number four, free stuff. Yeah, so I've had publishers send me a catalog of their books and say, let us know which books you want. And that is how I got an advanced copy of Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff, which was fantastic, one of my favorite books that I've ever got. And I, I got it free. And so I've received many books over the years free from the publishers looking to get good reviews, and often I get them in advance. I've also received things like this vegetable trimmer thing. If you Write reviews for Amazon.com and you get ranked high enough, you'll actually be eligible to be invited to something called Amazon Vine. You have a whole bunch of companies that want to send you products in exchange for the reviews. Now, there's lots of criteria and rules to what happens with Amazon vine, but it's a pretty cool program and the stuff that you can get free is pretty unreal. So that can be an opportunity and another reason to write Amazon reviews. Number five. If you want to reach out to an expert in your industry, what better way to get them to contact you or communicate with you or send you their book than to say, hey, I'm an Amazon top 1000 top 5000 ranked reviewer. Here's a link to my profile page if you want to see. It can give you clout. It can allow you to connect with people who you might otherwise struggle to connect with without having a warm introduction from somebody that you know. So there's five reasons Free stuff, More clout Connect with experts Giving Back There's a lot of good reasons to go ahead and write your first Amazon review. Got a tip? Love to hear it. Go ahead, post it in the YouTube video comments below. And if you haven't already, come on over to havemoreinfluence.com where we share lots of tips to help you have more influence and impact and get more done in the day. We'll see you there. That. That's a wrap, right? Tell me that's a wrap. Ok.