The Easiest Side Hustle of 2026? (Amazon + Vmake AI)

Side hustle Slim Jim here. One of the best side hustles right now. Not a lot of money up front easy to get started is the Amazon influencer program and I've been doing this for several years. I used to have a company that did it for me. They would upload the videos but that got a little costly having them do all the videos and it was costing me four or five thousand dollars a month, but you can do this yourself. How it works is basically you take products that you've already bought from Amazon. You make a quick video reviewing the product you upload it to Amazon. They put it on the product page. And then if someone watches your review video and then buys the product you get a percentage of the money. So each of these videos that you upload kind of becomes its own income stream. Now for some of you, you might stop watching the video right now because you're like, well, I don't want to record review videos. So I want to show you today how you can use V make you can use AI to make these review videos for you and upload them to the Amazon influencer program. Again, if you reach a friction point where you're like, I don't want to do that side hustle because of XYZ see if there's a tool see if there's a way AI can help remove that friction point. So step one is you need to apply for the Amazon influencer program. So I'll leave this link here and you do have to have a YouTube and Instagram of Facebook or TikTok accounts. You need one of those four and it's a little they're not real clear on who they accept and who they don't but they're looking for influencers, but I mean if your Facebook account if your Instagram, you know has 500 followers or 200 followers a lot of times they'll let you in as an influencer and what I've done before in the past is I've just uploaded product review videos to a TikTok and pretty quickly you'll get to 500 600 a thousand followers just posting those so just go give it a shot. Just go apply. This would be step one and it doesn't hurt just sign up and you'll enter in your social media and you'll just see if they'll let you in. So once you get in you'll get a storefront like this. This is James. I just put a little bio about myself and then you can add content, you know, if you are comfortable getting on camera, just go ahead and hop on a live stream like just take one of the products go to your Amazon history. This could be embarrassing. What's on here? Okay. Hopefully my kids are not watching because there's Christmas gifts on here, but you can go to a list just of products that you've ordered pick one and then start recording a review and it you know, it's as easy as doing a live stream right here. But if you're not wanting to do a live stream, I want to show you how to use v-make. So this would be an AI. It'll generate videos for you about products and we'll see if we can generate a few products reviews to put on Amazon just upload again. This is taking me out of the equation. I'm a bottleneck. I've got too many things going on but if AI can do it for me, this could become a side hustle and income stream. So let's start with this egg chair. Okay, my son got this for his room. He really loves it. So I'm going to save the image. This is actually a great product to review because it's a little bit more expensive. So if you get some Commission, it'll actually be you know, some significant amount of Commission another thing. My son actually likes it. I encourage you don't be dishonest on your reviews. If you hate a product don't make a review saying it was amazing that hardly ever happens to me because I pretty much only buy things that have really good reviews already. But one thing I love about this income stream is you upload these videos and you see Amazon puts these videos on the product pages. So Amazon's really doing the marketing for you. You can see there's a video right here on this product page. And these are not honestly, these are not great videos. They're not looking for professional videos because then it doesn't seem, you know legitimate, but let's see what we can do with V make with AI to upload to this. And again V make is an image and again V make is a video generator AI video generator that's focused particularly about products, but they have a lot of features. We'll walk through some of those features here. They have a video background remover. There's a lot of cool stuff. You can do with that auto captions AI thumbnail generator. I'm going to try that for sure. Let's see what we can do here. So we're taking this image going over to V make okay, and I think whenever I am using one of these AI tools, I like to save as much work as possible. So I'm going to use this AI agent feature. So I mean they have a lot of different features, but if there's somewhere where I can just type something in and let AI even direct me to how to use AI that will save even more time. So turn anything into user generated content videos. That's what I'm looking for. So then they have some inspiration out of what if we tried I'm not sure how this will work with this big chair like this, but let's just see I'm going to hit try now. Okay, create a short social video where a virtual presenter showcases the product of the image. So and actually we'll come back to this one for a different product that's in your hands. I need one where like the product is in the background. So let's see what we need to do to upload it here. Got this file go ahead and upload it tag a product my orders. So and currently unavailable. I wonder if it's just out of stock title. What should customers know about this video? I'm going to use Gemini. So I'm doing from Gemini study sturdy comfy and sets up in five minutes. That's a good review. So and I'm going to use their AI thumbnail just to get a better thumbnail. I think I'm just going to upload a image. Let's just see what they do when I upload the image. Here we go. This will work best room decor. This is pretty cool. This looks pretty professional again. This took me almost no time. I'm going to just hit submit post submitted. Let me get a link to that. They probably have to verify it when your post is approved. So yeah, they'll have to verify that but that link is done. Okay, let's do another one. So the first one was this egg chair. I also want to do this lava lamp. Let's do kind of the same thing here. We'll save this image. We'll go to V make let's go to AI agent again this time. We can do a product that's in your hands. All right, let's see what happens when we do the product image to model showcase. Then again, I use Gemini to help with this but create a 30-second review video. The speaker should be enthusiastic and describing a cool room decor fine. I'm going to add the image and then let's get that going. Then again, whenever I'm using AI, I want to multitask. That's the advantage of you know, if you just sit there and watch your AI work. It's actually kind of a waste of time. You might as well just do it yourself if you're going to do that so you can multitask. That's the advantage of using AI. So let's go do our third one again. We're going to just do three videos here today, but let's multitask this one. I think for this one, let's do these under the cabinet lights. So again, we'll save this image. Hopefully you're getting the workflow down here. You can see we could crank out a lot of videos very quickly here while this one's generating. We're going to do another one AI agent. And again, I'm kind of using we'll do this one again. This is another one you could hold in your hand if you wanted to and again, I'm using Gemini to kind of come up with the prompt and I'll add the image of the cabinet lighting. So now we've got the AI agent working on this one. We've got the AI agent working on this one. So what else can we multitask? Let's get the thumbnails down. So what we want to do here is for a product like this, you can actually these are viral products and thumbnails that did really well so you can kind of copy them, but we need one that would look good for like holding a lava lamp. How about this one Thanksgiving dinner? I don't know. This is going to work great. We'll see. We'll put the lava lamp image on this turkey one. We'll make it 9 by 16 is fine. Generate thumbnail. We'll see how that does. And then we'll do one more for the cabinet lighting. Actually, this one would have been pretty good for the lava lamp, but let me let me try it for the cabinet lighting. So again, this agent. Oh, it did it. Yeah, I didn't quite use that correctly. I like how that first one turned out. I'm going to just use this actually. So yeah, that looks really great getting under 16. So again, we've got this AI making the thumbnail. We've got this AI making the video. We've got this AI making the video for another product. We've got this AI making the thumbnail for this product. We're going to do no wiring. That's perfect. Okay, so we've got this thumbnail ready still waiting on this video waiting on this video. Got this thumbnail ready. So we'll just get these two finished and get those uploaded so and you can do this with as many products as you want. You can go through your entire Amazon history and just keep making these videos and uploading them to Amazon, but I think this is probably one of the fastest ways to build a passive income stream in 2025. So again calls to action. You need to take some action to make this happen. What's the verse of the channel Proverbs 14 23 hard work brings profit mere talk leads only to poverty. So first off go apply for an Amazon influencer account. Just make sure that you get in and sign up for v-make. They have a very generous free tier so you can kind of test it out and make sure you know, there's a lot of other features that we didn't even go through but I don't like to just highlight these tools, you know, kind of randomly. I like to associate it with here's a business. Here's a side hustle. Here's a way that you can use it. So I think using their AI agent to create product videos is a great way to use this tool and to start a new income stream. So and again, if you want me to turn this into a series if you want me to go, you know, upload 20 different products and see if I can actually turn this into a revenue stream. I'm happy to do that. Just like comment. Hey, turn this into a series again. I kind of look for what people are interested in. I'm not looking to just make videos for fun. Although it is fun. So appreciate you guys very much. Thank you for all the support. Thank you for watching. God bless you and have a great rest of your day.