Sell More Books with GeniusLink: 1000% Return on Investment

About this video

Note: this video’s caption track is in Arabic, summarized in English. Dale explains how authors can earn affiliate income on top of book royalties through Amazon Associates and GeniusLink. When a reader buys through your affiliate link you get a percentage of the sale without reducing your royalties, and he says Amazon Author Central encourages this. Books2Read universal links only promote books, while GeniusLink can also promote other products, services such as Kindle Unlimited, and Merch by Amazon products. Setup requires joining Amazon Associates in as many regions as practical — he recommends the US, UK, Germany, Canada and Australia, says his own sign-ups took about 4 hours as a one-time task — plus a GeniusLink account, which he says costs $5 per month after a 14-day free trial. He also cites Amazon’s bounty program, claiming about $3 per person who signs up for a 60-day Kindle Unlimited free trial. As a case study, he reports replacing his universal book links with Genius links in January: in the US alone he reports 1,725 clicks and $65.46 in commission, with smaller results in Germany, Canada and Australia, and international traffic at 14%; he says he was locked out of his UK account so he has no UK earnings data. For February he reports 1,211 clicks and $445.29 in the US and a total of $501 across regions, with international traffic rising to about 24%, and he claims that represents a 1010% return on the $5 monthly cost.

Key takeaways

• Affiliate commissions through Amazon Associates are paid on top of book royalties and, per Dale, do not cannibalize those royalties.
• GeniusLink goes beyond Books2Read because it can promote Kindle Unlimited, merchandise and other products, not just books.
• Join Amazon Associates in the regions where your readers actually live; the sign-up is tedious one-time work that pays off over time.
• Kindle Unlimited free-trial bounties — he claims about $3 per sign-up — can be a significant extra income stream alongside per-page reads.
• He reports February affiliate revenue of $501 on a $5/month GeniusLink cost, which he frames as a 1010% return on investment.

Episode details: published April 13, 2021 · 11:14 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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