djp98374

they run adds on their vlog thry get money, site clicks/ visits, hotels could pay some endorsement fee.

pseudoswede

Sometimes OnlyFans

Eastbay1K

For a secret peek at the PDB? If you want to see me actually drink the PDB, you have to pay?

kokonutz

The halcyon days of profitable Amazon and credit card affiliate revenue for all but the Titans may be gone, but there is still serious money to be made in affiliate marketing. Freelance affiliate marketing is exploding ATM. And since everyone is travel-crazy in the post COVID era it's an very monetizable space.

The irony is that it's much tougher to monetize videos on TicTok and Insta vs. Facebook and YouTube. This presents Z and Alpha freelance affiliate marketers with a conundrum: be cool or make money.

Raffles

The problem with affiliate marketing in the travel space is that you being competed against by the same airlines you are writing about, who are sending your readers emails encouraging them to book via their portal instead.

When we negotiate a deal which forces readers to book via a special link the results are astonishing, and implies that 'leakage' to cashback and portal sites could be around 80% (or, to put it another way, the sales we directly generate are 5x what we are actually paid on most of the time).

The upside of course is that, as long as your site is aimed at intelligent people with decent jobs, they will be spending chunky sums and your cut of the bookings you do pick up is decent. Most people trying to make money off affiliate don't understand that 'poor people don't have any money' and then wonder why their clickbaity nonsense isn't attracting readers who spend $500 per night on a hotel.

craigthemif

This is the Catch 22 of being a responsible blogger. You either:

1. Try to retain the affiliate commission for yourself, because after all you are doing most of the work and providing a valuable service that ought to be remunerated (but you are clearly not highlighting the "best deal" for the reader)
2. Help out your readers by pointing them towards cashback websites, where that affiliate commission is recycled to the customer (but you are only being remunerated with whatever crumbs the cashback websites send your way...)

Once you have a critical mass, of course, websites such as yours can do ad hoc negotiated deals where everybody wins...

kokonutz

Just so.

No one is going to make a successful side-hustle out of Amazon affiliate payments these days. It's ALL about high ticket affiliate marketing - whether that's in the product, service, travel, coaching, marketing, or e-comm space.

Jaimito Cartero

You don�t get out enough.

I�ve met many of them, often before it became a thing. A few in the last decade.