Blogger, Reviewer, Affiliate marketer and More

 Being an affiliate marketer has some ups but plenty of downs. People say you can make a lot doing affiliate marketing but truthfully you can in a way but it's not always. I once made 700-300 monthly selling sex toys. Giving amazing reviews from products being sent enticing the views and readers to want the toy, the way it is, what it does and how it works including how it feels. I still make a little off of it but I do not make much like I did.

I use to use the reviews to make money to support my family and now I am trying to find something else to make a little bit more income in which I started streaming again on twitch. So if you are interested my channel is lovely_grizzly. I don't really get views but I have been affiliated since 2018 and I actually quit streaming in 2019 due to internet would not allow it but now it does.

On adult blogs you cannot get AdSense at all. They do not approve it so you have to go around to companies and become an affiliate with them and try to get people to buy products and click the links that you have laying around the blog whether it is in the post or on the side bars but most do not count if the viewer does not buy something. 

Companies enjoy seeing the traffic from your content. They will try to give you a review unit and then make you basically wear out the viewers and your social media by recycling the product post and then basically try to up your commissions if they buy and then because of their sales they believe it will push more and more people in but in hind sight, they have so many bad reviews and reputation that when I brought it to the attention they just rub it off and say its just a competing company in which I understand that as a business owner but trying to use someone for clout isn't gonna help their case.

Sometimes, you can give it your all just to watch it not grow no matter how much love and water you give it, it never takes off so you have to figure out what you are going to do next while in a time crunch and not understanding why nothing is working. Sometimes it is like this trust me I worked with affiliate marketing for 5-6 years and only had a sell for one company and then have a lot for another company.

 No one will ever tell you how difficult it is to do this. I have done this from scratch many of times and I had to start over. I ended up getting rid of a lot of companies that have not done anything for me. I also cleaned the slate and did not stress over it cause it is a 50/50 chance of making it. 

Sometimes it is best to just stick with one company instead of using so many that way you can focus on and not get lost like I did trying to force and share links to try to get spotted and known and just completely trying to help others get out there and it just became so much on me.

Truthfully it does not take much to start your own business you can dropship meaning the product stays at a warehouse and you never have to touch the product at all. It cost me $20 dollars for a business license and the EIN is free. In which I did this and made close to 1000 or so until I got shut down by eBay since they were suppose to release the money but did not and pocketed it all. 

Inventory of FREE dropshippers is where I found my supplier and made some cash. I used Dream host as a webhosting site which was 13.99 a month for as many sites as I wanted. Click here to check them out they are really simple to use and use WordPress but you can convert it as a store using the themes and plug ins which is nice and the customer service is on point and always helpful.

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Making Money Online (selling)

Surveys do not pay you like they say they will. Don't get me wrong there is lots of sites saying that they will pay you to take surveys but honestly, I have not found one to pay me yet. I only found ones that you refer people with and you get paid.

There are all kinds of articles for you to read on how so and so has made so much money or how they get paid but honestly I don't even think its real. I've tried and tried but they did not work. I got so fed up with it I deleted my account after 6 months of opening it due to it was not honest. Affiliate marketing could work if you get your audience but don't count on it because I've been doing it for a year and still have not made anything advertising for Rakuten marketing or Amazon. You get paid by selling things for them to people and you get a certain percentage of what it sold for. I have not even sold anything on either and guess what I had to go in and reopen my amazon affiliate marketing because it closed itself all because I didn't meet the requirements of selling something. There is a lot of work to affiliate marketing from posting advertisements that are appropriate while trying to figure out what people are into and it gets hard and frustrating because it is a lot of balancing trying to figure out what is popular and what isn't.

eBay and Amazon are nice but the fees get expensive and there is lots to worry about. There are honest people in this world but then there are people on eBay trying to scam people and try to get things free. Trust me we have ran into this recently and decided to shut down the store because it was not worth it anymore and sometimes the fees are more than you make which puts you in the whole and you barely make anything unless you price things higher.

Facebook market and sale groups and apps like let-go, craigslist, offer-up or any other sites you meet face to face are nice but sometimes it can take forever to sale something but its like this on anything you sell on.  ALSO BE SURE TO MEET IN PUBLIC FOR YOU SAFETY I!!! Sometimes you will have a no show and you waste your time and gas trying to sale things so be sure to message them and let them know if you cannot make it and be sure to ask if they are coming. We tell people the time and the kind of car we are in to let them know and then we tell them where we are parked.Not all people are like this but there are a couple. There was also a couple of people who have gotten robbed over a phone so be safe and bring another person with you. Please do not go alone if you can help it. You could also do shipping on these if you don't wanna bother meeting them just on the post put shipping available and make sure you charge enough to cover the shipping weight.

Mercari is nice and I love it! The only thing is you don't get your money until you ship the item and it reaches the buyer. This is a safety thing so that you cannot scam or be scammed.The app lets people know when their package is there and they have 48 hours to rate you and if they do not then the workers of Mercari rates you for them and you will get your money. I absolutely love how it is set up and it works great. You don't even have to hunt the shipping label because when something is sold and paid for it is emailed to you. It also takes it fees out of it for you so you don't have to worry and when you post the listing it will tell you how much it is taking.
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Etsy is a site for handmade crafts but you can basically sell it anywhere not just there. i have an account but never sold anything. I felt it was to much of a hassle and you have to pay.20 per listing which isn't to bad but I just don't like the way its set up or the platform.