How to Make Money While You Sleep With Affiliate Marketing | Interview with Priest Willis

How to Make Money While You Sleep With Affiliate Marketing | Interview with Priest Willis Contact Priest: Podcast: http://insidethemarketplace.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/priestwillis Blog Posts: https://medium.com/@priest_willis Priest Books: https://www.amazon.com/Priest-Willis-Sr/e/B01DGSCASM?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_8&qid=1615041274&sr=8-8 In this video we interview Senior Manager, Global eCommerce Marketing Strategist at Lenovo & Host of The Marketplace Podcast Priest Willis. Every situation will be different. My goal was to give you my first hand experience. I hope you enjoy this video and please remember to subscribe, like and comment. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• --------- Contents of this interview -------- 00:00 - Intro 05:05 - Interview starts 07:36 - What made you get into creating a podcast and how did you start networking with people to build your platform? 15:11 - At what point should someone start to monetize their platform? 17:21 - Can you breakdown what affliate marketing it? 19:22 - That seems pretty simple, is it simple? 21:45 - How did you get into affliate marketing? 25:13 - How important are relationships when it comes to affliate marketing? 27:39 - Can you tell me the difference between Advertising and Affliate marketing? 30:25 - Is Amazon the best for affliate marketing? 35:14 - When you work with a Lenovo product let's say a laptop, will they send me that laptop for free if I'm an affliate and would they allow me to offer discounts with my affliate code? 37:21 - For someone who is just startig their podcast and writing blogs, how can they get thier brand out there? What's the best way to leverage another relationship or platform to be heard to drive traffic to whatever you're doing? 40:38 - Do you get paid when they do that? 42:26 - What's the best platform for monetization? 45:14 - When you are trying to educate your audience, how do you do that to let them know about your monetization? 47:46 - Is it necessary to have a Twitter, Instagram or some other platform to build a relationship with your community? 50:23 - When you built your platform and your podcast, what was that one thing that helped you grow to where you are today? 53:55 - How do you find a strategy that works for you and not get sucked into what the algorithm wants and also the goals that you've set for yourself as far as growth? 57:11 - Slow growth is "for-sure" growth, can you break that down? 01:02:44 - Ecommerce vs Affliate Marketing vs Dropshipping - what's the difference between them? 01:06:43 - Is that Dropshipping? 01:07:46 - Is Amazon good for someone tha wants to be in a small business? 01:10:57 - Selling books to Amazon vs selling them yourself, which is the better approach? 01:12:43 - If you write a book you go through Amazon and you're an Amazon affliate, can you double back and use the Amazon affliate to sell you own books? 01:15:43 - Can you talk about renting vs buying as well as where we are now in terms of the price of houses for someone thinking about buying? 01:19:30 - It seems like once you own a home, your status changes. Is that true or is that in your head? 01:20:59 - One of the things you talk about is your pathway to living off of just 60k. Do you want to break that down and talk about what it is and what drove you to the concept? 01:33:12 - If you're starting a blog, podcast, youtube channel, how do you change that narrative when it comes to building with black people? 01:35:50 - How do you deal with that? 01:42:03 - You just graduated college and you got into the tech field and you have issues with Imposter Syndrome. Does "fake it till you make it" work in that sense? 01:44:35 - When it comes to side hustles, would you rather make 100k or have passive income with 10 different businesses or ventures making 10k each? 01:47:33 - Priest asks: "What would you say?" 01:59:30 - How do you reach out to people for podcasts? 02:02:45 - Outro Du'An Lightfoot on Social Media: https://twitter.com/labeveryday DISCLAIMER: This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive a small commission. This helps support the channel and allows us to continue to make videos like this. Thank you for the support! #LabEveryday #insidethemarketplace #AffiliateMarketing