#2301 - TBT: Camera Affiliate Earns $100,000 in Commissions
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this week’s “Throwback Thursday / Where are they now?” segment, we hear from a camera gear affiliate who earns thousands of dollars a month from commissions. He’s earned more than $100k so far!
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
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Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome listeners, welcome to Side Us All School and welcome to Thruback Thursday. |
| 0:15.6 | My name is Chris Gellabo, every week in this segment we take an in-depth look at someone |
| 0:19.0 | who's story has evolved since we first featured them. |
| 0:21.6 | Now, we've had all kinds of stories, all kinds of variations of stories. |
| 0:25.4 | This week we heard from an eBay consignment seller who decides to focus on selling items |
| 0:30.0 | for other people for a commission. |
| 0:32.8 | Instead of just trying to go out and find a bunch of stuff herself to sell, she finds |
| 0:36.9 | people who have stuff and then she sells it for them and she gets paid. |
| 0:40.2 | Now, today in our latest feature we have another commission model. |
| 0:43.7 | This is quite different. |
| 0:44.7 | We're going to hear from a camera gear affiliate who earns thousands of dollars a month from |
| 0:49.3 | commissions. |
| 0:50.3 | So, as I said, it's a different commission based model. |
| 0:53.6 | As an affiliate, he gets paid whenever he refers sales of purchases. |
| 0:57.4 | Now, camera gear is a great category for this kind of business because it's expensive. |
| 1:03.2 | So you're 6% commission, you're 10% commission, whatever the percentage is, your percentage |
| 1:08.5 | on the sale of camera gear is going to be a lot better than on the sale of a very low-priced |
| 1:13.6 | item. |
| 1:14.6 | Also, people who are into it are always buying stuff. |
| 1:17.9 | So camera gear, sports gear, music, computers, obviously, anything that costs money and inspires |
| 1:25.5 | frequent purchases is always a good fit for an affiliate model or often is, let's say. |
| 1:31.2 | Also, since he started, I don't know if he mentions this here and his update, we're going |
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