#2048 - Q&A: “What are the best niches for affiliate programs?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Today’s caller is planning to jump into the world of affiliate promotion, where you can get paid for recommending products on a website. Are some niches or topics more profitable than others?
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| 0:00.0 | Today's caller is planning to jump into the world of affiliate promotion, where you can |
| 0:12.1 | get paid for recommending products on a website. |
| 0:15.2 | This is a long running business model. |
| 0:17.3 | We've featured a number of stories where people are often doing really well for this business |
| 0:21.3 | model. |
| 0:22.3 | In some cases, not making huge amounts of money, but making consistent amounts of money |
| 0:26.4 | over time. |
| 0:27.4 | Both of those things are pretty good, right? |
| 0:29.1 | Making large amounts of money, making consistent amounts of money. |
| 0:32.1 | But this leads to our question, when you're going to make a website to promote affiliate |
| 0:35.4 | products, are some niches or topics more profitable than others? |
| 0:40.3 | Well, the answer, first of all, is yes. |
| 0:42.9 | There's actually a huge difference. |
| 0:44.8 | But in this episode, let's talk about which ones might be best, as well as what their |
| 0:48.3 | characteristics are. |
| 0:49.3 | So, when you're trying to decide what kind of affiliate products to I promote, what |
| 0:53.0 | is the industry or niche to go into? |
| 0:54.7 | Well, this is how you can make that decision, not just a list of them, but how you make |
| 0:58.7 | that decision based on what you're into, what might come out in the future, and so on. |
| 1:03.8 | Stay tuned, detailed question coming up, and my answer. |
| 1:06.3 | Want to tell you today about our new sponsor, Lands End Business. |
| 1:11.4 | Lands End Business offers fully customized clothes, accessories, and promotional products |
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