[dotBen]

Affiliate deals with content sites - which are more than just advertising because they tend to have insane revenue sharing deals for the lifetime of the lead - often 50% split of membership fees for the life of the subscription.

So from just a single user signing up for a $30/month subscription, you would make over $180/year.

My partner enjoys a healthy secondary income (way way above the monthly figure mentioned in the original question) from such activity.

If you do big-data analysis and/or curation of content you can probably sell this to other sites too as many in this space are cash rich and tech-ability poor.

[pdelgallego]

Hey Ben, I would like to read more on this topic. Have you written something about it?

What are the needs and the problems that they are facing. How to identify the possible customers. Common affilate scheme in the industry, etc ...

[dotBen]

I've not because I don't actually have any projects in this space - my partner (Violet Blue) does and I help her with the technical side of her sites and as someone with a media/tech background I find a lot of it quite interesting.