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The Side Hustle Show

359: Profitable Affiliate Marketing, Even in an Insanely Competitive Niche

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

How To, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Just because a niche is insanely competitive, it doesn’t mean you can’t start an affiliate site and claim a slice of the revenue. At least, that’s what Sa El of SimplyInsurance.com has done, and the way he lays out how he’s done it will pique the interest of affiliate marketers out there. Sa was a door-to-door insurance salesman in Atlanta. He wanted to get into the online space and build an affiliate site, and with more than 11 years’ experience in the insurance industry, it made sense to enter the insurance niche. He took Brain Dean’s SEO That Works course to learn the ropes. But, when he told Brian he was going to build a site in the insurance niche, he was advised against it. Did Sa go back to the drawing board and look for a new niche? Nope. Sa told me there were two reasons why he decided to go ahead and build his site: He likes a challenge, and If the niche is that competitive, most of his competition is already at the top, leaving room for him to work his way up. That was 2 years ago. Today, Sa’s site is bringing in 6000 visitors a month and $13k-$15k in revenue. These numbers prove how competitive the insurance niche is. That’s a huge revenue number for 6k visitors, and Sa told me that only around 4.5k of those visitors are landing on his "money pages." (Some examples linked below.) Tune in to hear how Sa strategically built out his content to capture longtail traffic, how he builds backlinks (lots of them) to rank his money pages, and the tools he’s using to accelerate his efforts. Full Show Notes: Profitable Affiliate Marketing, Even in an Insanely Competitive Niche

Transcript

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0:00.0

How do you go from door to door sales to a six figure online business?

0:06.0

Well in this case it was a combination of smart strategy and plain old hard work. What's up, what's up Nick, Loper here?

0:16.7

Welcome to the Science Hustle Show because the Dream is Free,

0:20.0

but the Hustle is sold separately.

0:22.2

This episode is a crash course in affiliate marketing,

0:25.5

SEO, link building, and quite simply the sheer will

0:29.5

to create a meaningful income online.

0:31.9

I'm excited to introduce Saw L this is the guy who used to sell life

0:36.0

insurance door to door in Atlanta but he took that experience and put it online at simply

0:41.8

insurance.com and a couple years

0:44.0

couple years of education and hustle later

0:47.2

he's now earning 13 to 15,000 dollars a month

0:50.8

as an insurance affiliate essentially making money helping people

0:54.4

figure out the right insurance for their needs and then getting paid referral

0:58.2

commissions by the insurance companies. Affiliate marketing works across a huge

1:02.0

variety of products and services.

1:04.0

In fact, it's how I got my start online selling shoes.

1:07.0

So stick around in this one to hear how Saw strategically built out his content,

1:11.0

how he builds backlinks in the tools he's using to accelerate his efforts.

1:15.8

Notes and links for this one, along with the free PDF highlight reel summary with all of

1:19.4

SAW's top tips from the call are at side hustle nation

1:22.7

dot com slash saw that first name is S a

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