HOST: Hello guys Sorin here welcome back to our course I am very excited and glad that you have reached up to this point at our final lecture that means you have paid close attention along the way in the course and you learn all the information and now you have anything and everything that is necessary in order for you to transform Amazon video direct into your own online business of selling videos into Amazon's huge marketplace. Now just before letting you go and start your own Amazon video directed business I wanted to have like a short section or lecture of conclusions regarding what you have learned in this course which are the future opportunities and how you can go how you can go out of this course and look for new opportunities too.
So first of all as you have seen and what I have understood from Amazon launching the service is that the online videos and movies marketplace is booming and so is the e-learning industry and big players like Amazon are starting to jump in the trends so be aware of other players coming into the marketplace because if you are on ground zero as you have seen it can be a huge opportunity Amazon is one of the largest marketplaces and corporations in the world and if they jumped in this industry is clearly a trend that will boom in the next years.Another thing is that if you create high-quality content then can be distributed on different platforms and it can be easily monetized you will have success for sure so you will be able to monetize your content and make money out of it by practically publishing it on different platforms you just have to do your thing okay create a high-quality content that is attractive to people that teaches them something valuable and you will have no problems in monetizing it.
Then a lot of people are scared of using new platforms but you should not be scared of using new platforms because there are different solutions that allow you to adapt them different softwares okay different things that you think about just like for Amazon video direct for example at the first site you wouldn't be able necessarily to publish courses on Amazon video direct by but by using the episodic type video you can do that okay so there are different solutions to publishing your content so do not be afraid to use new platforms because it can be a great opportunity.
And finally of course something that we have stated all along discussed and now in the conclusion section jump on new opportunities at first sight you don't know who might be the next big deal so exactly like there were people that jumped in on Facebook and created huge followings in the beginning on Instagram is the same thing on YouTube is the same thing people that published courses on Udemy just in the beginning or on Skillshare or on other platforms this is what happens with new platforms not all of them will be big hits but if you are publishing your content on all of the new platforms one of them will get in the top and you will be there from the beginning creating the
huge following and practically taking your business to the next level so jump in your opportunities because you never know which one of them might turn out to be your greatest decision up to this point.
So guys thank you very much for being here with me in this course and in this final lecture I hope this of course was helpful for you if you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask them in the question dashboard I would love to connect with you so which out to me on Facebook or the other social media platforms of course if you loved this course I would like to know your feedback please take one or two minutes to leave a rating and a review for future students and for me as the feedback I would really much appreciate that and I am looking forward to see your success on Amazon video Direct thank you very much again for your attention I wish you all the best bye, byefor now and see you in future lectures and courses Sorin here

Host: Hello guys Sorin here welcome to our next video and to our next lecture from our course on how to use Amazon video direct to sell your videos into its huge marketplace, now let's dive into the actual information because this would be a short lecture I want to show you guys what the price options you have what choices can you make in order to monetize your content and your video practically it works the same for any type of the three types of videos that you have so we will practically go into my stand-alone product that I have just created and I am waiting for to be approved by Amazon and when you will actually go into your product that you have created.
The price options and where you want to distribute it all around the world is in the section called availability so you go here in this section and the first thing that you can choose here is either if you have right for this video to be distributed worldwide and sold by Amazon worldwide or only in a certain country or region. Obviously, in my case it was all worldwide but an example of a type of video that could only be distributed in a certain country would be if you have distribution rights or copyrights for a video that it's created in Deutschland only for Deutschland, Deutschland that means Germany and practically you can select it to be available only for German okay.
Then you have the option of how will Amazon customers watch this video because you will you have different types of monetization for your content which actually is very cool so first of all you can make it available and you can check this the small box here for Prime users a lot of Amazon buyers and customers have Amazon Prime and you can make it first of all included with Prime that must have, then for short stand-alone videos like the one I have just created you can practically let people watch the video for free but you will make money out of ads because a lot of people will watch the video you will actually make some money out of ads ok just like you are making with Google Adsense on a website or on YouTube then you have the option to rent your video for a smaller price so people can just take it for a couple of days or forty days and pay you a lesser price then they would buy it, then you have the option to buy okay to offer people the product to buy and have a lifetime access to it and subscription if people practically put practically opt in for a subscription model but this is only for you as based so I've let these four options here and then we have the pricing model that you want to use you have a preset pricing that is created by Amazon I will recommend you to start with this because they know better what type of prices their customers will actually give the money for and they already have statistics and that and tracking and they know better what type of price should you put on your video but if you have a certain price in your mind you can go for custom pricing and you can set everything up obviously you see here you have for the rent model okay and you have for the buying
model okay so you have you can set your price for each of the countries for rent or buy I will let the preset pricing because I think they know best what type of price brings in the best results so we have the base type of pricing which is best for balancing cost with wide audience appeal or value best for older or back-catalogue videos if you have an older video or key or back catalogue obviously they will offer it at a lower cost if you will have a look at that.
So these are these are options that you have obviously, I would suggest you start to push that pricing with custom pricing you can set a lower price or a higher price if you want to probably a lot of you guys will start with lower price maybe if you will have very short movies or tutorials and for your whole courses that will be a web series and the in the episodic type of videos section you will have higher prices so that's about it guys.

HOST: Hello guys Sorin here welcome back to our next video and lecture from our course on how to use Amazon Video direct to sell your videos intoAmazon'shuge marketplaceso as I've told you before captions or titles are mandatory if you want your video to be eligible for publishing on Amazon Video direct. So what does that mean?That you need to create captions for each of the videos that you want to publishAmazon Video direct.
Now if you are going to the support section into your dashboard into your Amazon Video direct account and if you are going to technical specifications you will have caption information right here and they have here more technical information regarding how your captions should look like or subtitle should look like and which are the formats that are accepted I think this is the most important part here you have the formats that they accept OK for your close captions and also the formats for subtitles then you have caption frame rates so here are the frame rates that you can use OK and you have your video supported and then you have captions providers so they offer you are least with provider that can create your captions we have 3play media, media access group and others I selected the Web.com This is the one I've used and I will show you why because it's actually very nice and here if you go into the services section on captions you will see that captions made simple OK so you have one dollar per minute this is the cost that actually you have so they can create a caption for one minute video so if you have a video that’s 15 minutes long it will cost you $15 .rev.com will create the captions for that video.
The fact is this what does .rev do and how does it work practically it's somebody it's a person it's a human that you actually look at that at your video or listen to a video and create the actual captions OK so it's not a robot it's not an automatic software that will create that it's actually a human being that will listen to your video and watch your video and will create the captions that is why they have 99% accuracy. The other thing is that you will have 24 hours till your caption will be ready so we choose actually very fast OK so after 24hours from submitting your video here on rev.com you can pay with PayPal OK Your order will be ready you will download you will download your captions for example I've created the caption with the extension C CC OK and then you will upload your caption into your product into your video on Amazon video direct so you will make an order here already you upload your video here on their platform after you create an account or you sign into your account here you make your order they will tell you how much money it will cost but based on how many minutes your video has you can pay with PayPal or your credit card and after that in 24hours your order will be ready you will download your caption and upload it into your Amazon video direct
account and that's it OK It's actually very simple and it's one of the best products that you can find based on this .
Another way to go for this but I would actually use rev.com because it's much more simple as a process you can go on Fiverr for example. Fiver is the marketplace where you find a lot of freelancers that are doing things for 5 bucks only for $5 and you can go for captions creation OK in the search button. And you can find here captions OK that didn't work then just search captions.
And you will find here freelancers that are creating captions for you OK so for example I will make captions of 10minutes video in English so you can even find a better price here if you look around OK. So you can look for people here be sure to check their reviews if they have good reviews of OK be sure to check the price so it won't be more than a dollar per minute because if it's more than a dollar per minute you can definitely go for rev.com It's much more simpler as a process here you work with directly with the free