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$30K/Year From Affiliate Marketing With a Small Audience

David Ramos
  • David Ramos

  • Affiliate Marketer
  • $30,000 annual revenue

📝 David Ramos writes on Reddit

Between software, Amazon, and courses, my affiliate income has sat around $30k/yr for just over 5 years now… in total it’s just over $148k as of writing this.

Sounds like his YouTube channel has been key, despite only 4K subs…

Long-form (like 20+ min) videos that are low quality (just me and a bad mic and some screensharing software) have VASTLY out-performed highly edited videos that are shorter (5-12 min range).

David recommends promoting high ticket products 🤑

He gives the example of Kajabi ($2000/yr software), which he has talked about in several videos, each with his affiliate link in the description.

80% of my aff income has come from 5 products. The caveat is that I talked about them A LOT. Online and in person. They were actually good, and they actually made sense to recommend to my network (other writers, content folks, etc.).

💬 David adds in the comments…

I made this video about 4 years back and still stand by a lot of the info. It’ll at least point you in the right direction and get you thinking about the foundational elements of what needs to work to make [affiliate marketing] work…

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Updated: March 9, 2025

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