[pkfrank]

Sponsored posts and affiliate offers seem like no-brainers if lifestyle / e-commerce is your goal. Depending on your ability to convert clicks > sales, you can formulate strategy around developing your own set of sites to benefit from the traffic.

There are definitely opportunities to think bigger (really, ANY idea can benefit from substantial / targeted eyeballs), but starting with sponsored posts / affiliate would give you an easy and instant monetization opportunity.

Just sign up to a few advertisers at CJ that align well with your niche to test it out.

[londonstartup]

Thanks, I've been considering this. It may be more work but I'd love to work directly with makers within a niche and set a 10% or so affiliate price, on a set of products e.g. a style of clothes, drones, IoT, wearables etc and create a long-term focus rather than trying to grab pennies/cents. Whoever's left that can still game the Facebook algorithm for millions of instant clicks (something I've never done/tried to do) would probably do great with these affiliates, like the kid who does dose.com