u/Due-Frame6610

I own a subreddit with over 160k weekly visitors, and it’s growing; I wouldn’t be shocked if it reaches 460k soon. The problem is, in the niche I’m in, I don’t have many affiliate programs available to me. I do have one, but it’s not converting well. For example, so far this month I’ve had 5k clicks but only made $464 from 15 conversions. I’m looking for someone who can run this with me, maybe help bring in programs. I’m restricted because of my location. I want someone who can help grow the sub, come up with ideas to improve conversions, and just grow revenue overall.

Unfortunately, I can’t disclose the niche right now.

I recently started promoting this product development company, and those in the niche know how much each project costs, roughly $5,000 and upwards. I get a 10% commission on that, which is around $500 per project. Recently, I partnered up with industrial designers, these are the guys who create the designs for products before they’re made or prototyped. They simply refer the people they’ve designed for, and they get 5% while I get 5%. This is basically marketing on autopilot, and I don’t have to do anything, I just collect commissions. Sharing this to inspire people to think of similar strategies in their niche, or for those already in this niche. Ask yourself: who has access to your customers and can refer them to you? Hope this helps someone.

So here’s the gist, I had a successful campaign on Kickstarter and raised a little over 20k. I had made a concept for my product, but it was not a DFM version. So I was planning on using the money I raised to create a DFM version and ship out backers’ orders. I live in Melbourne, Australia, and there was a local small company named Perv Pete Labs, run by a local guy. They engineered products, so I went with them to create the DFM version of the product. I talked to the guy, he seemed legit and showed me other products he had made for people, which was cool. He also said he had contacts in China for small batch manufacturing, which was perfect because it would save me a lot of headache.

So he gave me a quote, and everything was around 20k, so I wired it to him. Well, a month later it turns out ol Pete had a gambling addiction and lost all our money. Now he’s on the run because everyone is looking for him, including his unpaid employees. I have lost all hope of getting that money back, so I was thinking of a Plan B, using the rest of the funds and my own personal money to complete backers’ orders.

Any recommendations of overseas companies that are cheap would be great.