- So Amazon Prime is one of
the most popular services
from amazon.com, but is it
worth the annual investment fee,
and does it live up to all the hype?
In this video, I'm going to be talking
about all the benefits that
you get with Amazon Prime
so that you can determine
if it's right for you.
Coming up.
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So my wife and I have been
Amazon users for years.
We really love amazon.com.
We've been Prime members for years.
But this video isn't
associated with Amazon at all.
This isn't sponsored in any way.
It's just something that I wanted to share
so that you can determine if
it's something that is right
for you, your business,
your brand, and your family.
Okay, so the first thing to know
about Amazon Prime is the price.
And so there's a couple
different options here.
The first one that's kind of cool
is you can always start
out with a 30-day trial,
and you can just experiment
to see if it's right
for you or not without paying anything.
So it's kind of cool that
Amazon lets you completely
test-drive it and actually
get the full experience
to actually see if it's right for you.
The second thing is that,
and this is what it's been like for years,
is that it's typically a
$99 per year membership fee.
So 12 months, $99 per year.
Pay that up-front, cancel anytime,
but I don't think you get your money back,
and they actually just
added another option,
which is a monthly charge, and
that is at $10.99 per month,
which is kind of nice.
Obviously it's gonna be a
little bit more for the year,
but maybe you just want
to do it for a few months
to either test it out or only have
the benefits for a few months
without paying for the
entire annual amount.
But the question is, do
the Amazon Prime benefits
actually make it worth the
fee to join the program?
So let's jump into my 10 top favorite
Amazon Prime benefits right now.
So number one is the
free two-day shipping.
So this is what most people
know Amazon Prime for.
You pay that fee, and you
basically get unlimited
two-day free shipping
on the majority of items
especially those that are
actually fulfilled by Amazon.
And something to note
here though is that again,
Amazon actually does have free shipping
for orders of $25 or even $35 dollars,
but number one, you're not
going to be getting the speed,
and actually, number two,
you also have to spend a certain amount.
What's cool about Prime is that
if you order just one thing
for seven dollars, you can get
free two-day shipping on it.
So you can be using it a lot.
So the first thing to
really judge is like,
how much stuff would you
actually buy off Amazon,
and how fast do you want
that shipping to actually,
you know, come when you place that order?
And again, this service
is actually available
to non-Prime members, but
you're gonna pay $8.99
for the two-day shipping
plus 99 cents per item.
So you can see how quick that would add up
if you were just doing it,
you know, one item at a time
or one order at a time.
And so if you're gonna
order a ton of stuff,
Amazon Prime makes sense just
for the expedited shipping,
if that's something that
would be of value to you.
Additionally, there are
currently 29 metro areas
that actually qualify for
Prime Now, which means you can
actually get same-day shipping
or even two-hour shipping,
again, depending on where you live.
But this isn't really open
to the majority of people,
so that's something you can
look into for your own area.
And one little-known power tip here
that a lot of people
don't take advantage of
is when you are signed
up for Amazon Prime,
but you don't actually want your items
really fast in the two-day period,
you can actually opt out
of the faster shipping
for a lot of different digital credits.
And so we've used this a lot.
And so at times, you
get a few free dollars
for digital music or
digital videos if you wanted
to like rent or buy a brand-new release.
You can get credits that go towards that.
You can get credits that
go towards Prime Panty,
to e-books, and so, you don't
really get to select which
is which, but whenever you
reach that checkout page,
if you wanna opt out of your
expedited shipping, you can
actually kind of recover
some costs with those digital
credits, which is kind of
a cool tip for Prime users.
The second Amazon benefit
that you get with Prime is Prime Video.
Now, this is pretty valuable.
This is included with
your Prime membership,
and you get kind of like
Netflix, a lot of movies,
a lot of TV shows, a lot of
documentaries, as well as access
to additional channels
that you can just add on
to Prime video as well.
You can add on Showtime,
HBO, but Prime Video
itself is pretty valuable.
You know, you may not use it,
but it's something that my
wife and I, we definitely use,
and we definitely get value out of that.
It's been cool to see that
Prime is actually producing
their own TV shows, kind of
like Netflix has been doing,
and there have been a few cool,
different shows that have showed up there.
And so again, this is just a
perk that sort of stacks on top
of your shipping benefits,
but something to consider here
is that if you're already
like a Netflix user,
it doesn't really come
that close to Netflix.
For us, we do both.
And so we like Prime
video, but we don't find
that it replaces Netflix
or some of the other
services that are out there.
The third benefit that you
get with Prime is Prime Music.
Now this is, again, something
that you may or may not use.
It's something that I
found to be pretty cool,
and to really tap into the power of it,
you can download a desktop
app and also a mobile app.
And this gives you access
to millions of songs
and some new stuff, some old stuff,
and what I've found this to be the coolest
is with Amazon Echo, and
you can just kind of say
that you wanna play a current
hits channel or something,
and you have all that
music that's ad-free.
You can download it to your device.
And again, it doesn't
compare fully to something
like Spotify, which you
get a lot more music,
a lot more current music, but again,
even that membership alone is $!20 a year
and about $10 a month.
And so, Prime Music is
kind of a cool benefit,
and something that you might
wanna consider, though:
will you use it or not?
Benefit number four is something
a lot of people don't know about,
and that is actually Amazon Photos
and unlimited storage for Prime members.
So, this is pretty crazy.
You can actually store
unlimited photos on the cloud.
So you can back up all the
photos from your phone,
from your computer, and just make sure
that you don't lose anything
if you were to have some
sort of hard drive crash
or lose your phone or something like that.
Additionally as a Prime member,
you also get five gigabytes
of storage for anything on Amazon Cloud.
So you could store video files,
or your own digital music,
or anything else that
you would want access to.
So again, Amazon's just kind of stacking
on these other things.
That feature's pretty cool.
Plus, you can actually receive
some shipping discounts
for Amazon Prints.
And so yeah, Amazon's definitely
taking over the world.
If you wanna print out your photos,
or whether you wanna print out
like a canvas or something,
again, Amazon's got some
cool services for that,
and Prime members receive some
expedited shipping benefits,
complimentary with their membership.
Number five is the Kindle Owner's
Lending Library and Kindle First.
And so, as a Prime member,
you're actually entitled
to one free Kindle book per month,
if, this is the key thing,
you actually have an Amazon
device to read it on.
So you have to have a
Kindle or a Fire tablet
or an Amazon phone, but if
you've got one of those,
then you're entitled to get
that one free book a month.
So a study was done to basically show,
if you're a big reader and
you're taking advantage of this,
if the book was $9.99,
the Kindle book per month,
that value alone could be
$120 of value in a year,
just from all of the titles
that you're getting off
the lending library.
And then Kindle First is
something you get access to
as a Prime member to have early access
to some of the new-release books,
and you can get access to that, I believe,
just from the Kindle app on any phone.
So, if you're a reader,
there's some cool Amazon
Prime benefits for you.
Benefit number six is, I think,
one of the biggest ones for me,
and that is Prime Early Access.
And so coming up soon,
depending on when you're
watching this video, is
actually Amazon Prime Day,
which Amazon talks about as
their biggest shopping day
of the year, even bigger than
Black Friday or Cyber Monday,
there they put out a ton of
discounts, a ton of deals,
on a lot of different products
so you can experience some big savings.
So if that's something
that you're interested
in throughout the year,
what's cool about being
a Prime member is you get 30 minutes'
early access to deals
ahead of other people.
And I'm not even sure on Prime Day
if you even can shop at all
without a Prime membership.
And so, depending on how
much spending you're doing.
Like this channel, you know,
we talk a lot about video gear,
a lot about audio gear
and tools for creators,
and so there's always new
stuff that we need to level up
our gear, whether that's
laptops, cameras, lenses,
microphones, you know, all
kinds of tech to really
just help you go further
faster in creating content
and getting your message out there,
and so, the benefits alone
and the savings alone,
from not only being able to
shop on these special deals
but actually get to them
as early as possible
ahead of non-Prime members is huge.
And so it still takes strategy.
There's a lot of Prime users,
so there's still competition,
but if you put notifications
on your phone, you plan ahead,
you know what deals
that you wanna shop for,
and you really do the research,
you can really recover the
cost of your Prime membership
just with the savings alone
that you'll get on days
like Cyber Monday, Black Friday, you know,
all throughout fourth quarter
during the holidays and
on Amazon Prime Day.
Benefit number seven is Prime Pantry.
Now, this is something we
haven't used very much,
but it's kind of something
cool to have access to.
If you wanna get some household
items as well as groceries
delivered to your house
at a much better price
than any other service,
you still have to pay,
I believe, $5.99 for a delivery charge
and you can fill up a box of stuff,
but it's a pretty crazy deal
compared to other deals out there.
So it's just a benefit
that Prime members have
that you may enjoy.
Number eight is Amazon Family.
Now, this is something
that a lot of people
haven't heard about, and
this is a way to get 20% off
your diapers subscription
on Amazon, and a few other
benefits that come along
with Amazon Family as well.
So again, you can see
that if that's something
that you're gonna use,
that can add up pretty quick
to cover the membership fee,
especially with how competition
Amazon's prices already are
and how low they already are.
When you start stacking
these additional discounts,
it can add up to a lot
of value really fast.
Benefit number nine is for the gamers,
and that is called Twitch Prime,
and there's a few kind of
incentives that you get there,
sometimes some discounts on new games.
I'm not too familiar with
this, but if you're a gamer,
I'll link up details below
so you can read the
details about Twitch Prime.
And Prime benefit number
10 is membership sharing.
Now, I believe that in
the past, they said it was
four adults that could
share one Prime membership,
but I think now it's two
adults and four kids.
And whatever that means, it
just means that multiple people
in your household can take advantage
of all of these benefits,
whether that's watching
Prime video on a couple different
devices at the same time,
whether that's whenever
anybody orders, you know,
benefiting from that two-day shipping,
and so when you think about
that initial investment cost
and the membership-sharing
aspect, it's pretty incredible.
So I'll actually link up
details about how to set that up
and a few more details if
you want to actually set up
membership sharing for
your Prime membership.
All right, so those were my 10 favorite
Amazon Prime benefits,
and we didn't even talk
about Audible channels or Prime Reading,
but overall, as far as our conclusion,
you can see why we've been
Prime members for years.
I just feel like you get really
disproportionate value
with all of those services,
especially if you're gonna use them.
And so for us, we've never hesitated
to review our membership.
But, question of the day
is do you think Amazon Prime is worth it?
Why or why not?
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