I'm gonna tell you why you should start an Amazon affiliate niche site my name
is Doug Cunnington I'm the founder of an inch side project I talk about affiliate
marketing and productivity and project management and I'm gonna tell you the
seven reasons why you should start an Amazon affiliate site the number one
reason you should get started with Amazon affiliate marketing is you can
make extra money so I don't know many people who wouldn't like to have a few
extra hundred dollars per month you can pay off debt you can go on more
vacations you can eat out more often or whatever you happen to need you get save
for your kids college fund whatever but most people would prefer if they could
to have a little bit extra spending money in the cool part with the Amazon
affiliate sites is a couple hundred dollars is quite doable even for a
beginner I'll place some links in the description to other videos where
they're basically case studies and success stories of you were just like
you some of these success stories are about people that are still in college
other people may be you know professionals maybe they're engineers
and other folks are you know musicians or teachers so there's quite a diverse
set of people that have found Amazon affiliate marketing interesting and
profitable number two you get to learn about internet marketing and I didn't
know anything about internet marketing until I found the smart passive income
podcast by Pat Flynn before that I was super into like beer brewing podcast I'm
very into beer in general craft beer home brew beer and and so on I'm just
into the craft of beer so at some point I got overwhelmed with all this beer
content and beer podcast and I was browsing around I found the smart
passive income podcast and I was hooked I learned all about
this whole other world out there where people were making money online I didn't
even know you could and I mean when you look back I didn't know anything about
WordPress or I didn't even know what WordPress was let alone like created a
website with it or anything like that but I learned all about internet
marketing through niche sites if you wouldn't learn about this huge industry
of internet marketing then a niche site is a great way to get a taste of it and
sort of see it in different areas of course you know affiliate marketing like
an Amazon affiliate niche site is a subset of internet marketing but it
teaches you the core set of skills which are highly marketable now number three
is learning about SEO that search engine optimization again when I first got
started in 2013 I didn't know anything about the topic in fact if you would
have quiz me I wouldn't have known what SEO even stood for the thing is you
could create a whole company around SEO there are literally SEO agencies out
there that help companies rank in search engines so as you could imagine it's
it's fairly profitable because it helps companies make money if you have this
core set of skills about SEO then you're in great shape to provide that service
in fact I know a lot of people that got started with internet marketing or niche
sites in general and they found that they were really good at SEO they were
interested in starting a service and they moved forward they started a
service business around SEO some people do sort of like local SEO for local
businesses like locksmiths or plumbers or electricians and other people maybe
they don't do local SEO but there are many different flavors of SEO and there
are all sorts of companies that need help with SEO yeah number 4 you can
learn about starting a website WordPress and hosting WordPress themes and
basically all that infrastructure kind of stuff that you have to deal with when
you start a niche site as mentioned before I didn't know anything
about this world of WordPress before I found smart passive income and niche
sites and affiliate marketing and all that stuff and it turns out you can you
know have a whole company that all you do is work on WordPress sites so you
know one of the reasons I'm framing it this way is because even if niche sites
aren't for you at the end of the day if you started a niche site maybe you'll
make a few bucks but you'll be learning all these skills that you can apply in
other areas in fact you may find that you really love WordPress themes you
start dabbling in you know creating your own themes and you become a wordpress
developer or something like that basically that sort of a skill is highly
valuable and you could you know dedicate your efforts to just WordPress
development or WordPress plugins or themes or whatever and you know you
become a software company that has WordPress plugins versus you know
running niche sites just an example but a niche site will expose you to that
whole side of the infrastructure of WordPress websites hosting domains all
that kind of stuff number five is outsourcing you can learn
all about hiring vs hiring writers working with you know marketplaces like
upwork now that's where I hire most of my assistants whether it's a video
editor who's editing this right now or if it's a Content writer or a content
editor or WordPress developer so there's a certain skill set that you have to
develop to effectively hire people where they're you know they're not located
near you or anything you can't sit down and talk to them so you have to
understand how to create a job listing interview the person if you need to hire
them and then work with them communicating via you know messages
whether it's email or within the up work platform so again it's a whole skill set
to be able to hire people again you may be able to run a whole agency based on
you know your skills as you know hiring manager for outsourcing
work you could have a Content service where you for example write content for
niche sites for your customers right you can have clients that need content and
maybe you're able to hire a Content team and put a system in place where you're
providing a valuable service for them because you know they don't know how to
hire people on up work but you do obviously you can become a pretty big
business there are actually you know business models out there for content
specifically another example maybe around SEO maybe you're able to hire SEO
folks from up work and then package up their services and essentially provide a
service to your clients because you're able to hire the VA is more effectively
number six is you learn about writing and creating content so I've alluded to
this a couple times even in the last example but if you start a niche site in
your budget slow you're probably gonna have to do a lot of the writing yourself
upfront that's what I did I actually wrote most of the content for the first
eight months or so of me working on niche sites why well I didn't have faith
that I would be able to invest the money and get an ROI in return but after I had
more experience I realized that you know it's okay if I hire people nevertheless
it was a great experience writing the content because I hadn't done much
writing other than you know in college and then all the writing that I did as a
professional was that kind of technical it was very business oriented as a
project manager it wasn't very interesting writing for niche site us
it's more copywriting than sort of technical business writing like I was
doing before and copywriting of course is a whole other you know topic to get
into but essentially you know you're writing something to sell the product at
some point or something like that you you need to sort of convince people to
do something it's persuasive writing if you will if you get into the content
you may find that you really enjoy this type of writing and maybe you get into
copywriting if you become a highly skilled copywriter you can charge a lot
of money for your services or you know for example again around the service
business idea you could develop a you know content service where you do the
writing and if you develop your skills well enough then you'd be able to charge
quite a lot for your content quick example you know if you have a
specialized skill let's say you're a electrician or something like that and
you find a you know site that needs someone who has the skills and knowledge
of an electrician you could charge a lot for your content a lot more than you
know a general writer on up work so if you have skills you could charge more
for Mises I know about project management and HR and you know hiring
people I could probably charge a lot as a Content writer for project management
topics I'm a PMP right so my skills and my knowledge are sought-after and people
would pay a lot more for that content so you can look and figure out what skills
you have if you have any you know unfair advantage where you know more than other
people and you're an expert well then you could probably charge more for your
writing again just another example of being able to you know find a skill that
you're good at and then maybe niche sites aren't for you you could do
something else with it and number seven this is the most important one if you
get started with niche sites and you make you know a few dollars here a few
dollars there maybe you build up your income to you know a couple hundred or a
couple thousand dollars per month you realize that you don't need a corporate
job you realize that you can work for yourself and make your own decisions now
that's a whole other set of you know problems that you may have if you're an
entrepreneur but there are countless examples of people who got started with
niche sites and then they went on to work for themselves they they either got
laid off like Pat or myself I actually got laid off in
2015 luckily I was into internet marketing
you know was able to take my hobby of internet marketing and the skills that I
learned from niche sites and work for myself so I am currently working for
myself and have been for about two-and-a-half years at the time of this
recording but there are a lot of other people a lot of other examples out there
where they realized they didn't need a corporate job my transition was a little
faster since I got laid off I didn't really have to make the decision but
there are other people who eventually you know build up enough income on their
side projects that it actually exceeds their full-time income at their
corporate job a lot of times when you hit that point you realize that you want
to quit your you know your day job and stop moonlighting and make your
moonlighting job your full-time gig I'm sort of grateful then I got laid off
when I did because I was able to accelerate my entrepreneurship endeavors
and actually I learned a lot more I learned a lot more faster and it was
definitely you know trial by fire but it's one of those things once you
realize that you can make money on your own it's hard to go back to you know a
corporate job where you know you don't make the decisions you're potentially
doing work that isn't meaningful for you and you know if you're commuting that's
the worst if you're sitting in a car and you're spending time away from your
family or something like that it's not cool now
Georgie's back here that's my dog Georgie in the background but I'm really
fortunate I get to hang out with her all the time I could take her for plenty of
walks all day long and get lots of exercise those are a couple high
priority things for me and if you have a family of course you know you want to
spend time as much time as you can with your family if you have kids then
obviously you want to spend a lot of time with
especially as they're growing up so just wanted to throw that in for point 7 once
you figure out that you can make money on your own and you don't need that
corporate job the genie is out of the bottle right and you can't get it back
in so it's one of those deals and it's enlightening again once you make your
first couple bucks you realize that it's possible and the sky's the limit at that
point there's no there's no upper limit with a corporate job there's pay scales
that you're sort of stuck in there's experience levels and most of the time
almost always your income and your raises are not really based on your
performance and that's hard to get your head around where if you're an
entrepreneur almost like everything is based on your performance and how well
you're able to focus and be effective and do the things that actually make a
difference like that's everything we're at a corporate job you can get away with
goofing off and you know spending a lot of time answering emails that don't
matter or goofing around in meetings that don't matter so anyway I hope I
convinced you to take a look at Amazon affiliate niche sites if you're looking
for like a task list on how to get started with Amazon affiliate niche
sites check out the description there's a link you'll basically be able to go to
niche site project com click on the green button and you'll be able to enter
your email address and your name and then I'll send you a link that'll have
like a bunch of keywords that'll help you get started with a niche site there
will be a task list so that you can see the steps that you have to do and
basically a bunch of information that helps you get started with niche sites
again I'm Doug Pennington if you like what you see on the channel subscribe
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the question of the day do you have any other reasons why people should get
started with Amazon affiliate niche sites let me know in the comments below
and be sure to check out the comments by the way because some of the best
suggestions and best ideas there from the audience or not for me so be sure to
check it out and can with other people in the community
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