Ok, so I'm not real familiar with Patreon. I think it's a place for artists where you can get endorsements or sell your work?

Anyhow, I like the idea of what they call 'owning your own piece of Internet Real Estate'. In short, I own my own website domain and pay a company for web hosting.

Because I own that domain, I can switch to any web host service I want to, though some have contracts. Breaking them just means you don't get the money back that you paid for a year or two of advance service.

My niche is offshore fishing and I use Amazon as an affiliate. It's not the best way to earn, and I need to think of affiliating with better paying programs. Trouble is, in offshore fishing, I haven't found many I want to affiliate with.

Then there is the SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. This is extremely important to learn inside and out as an affiliate marketer. Otherwise, Google won't rank your posts very well and you'll have to pay for your traffic. Amazon doesn't allow paid traffic anyway, another thing to watch out for.

So in short, I could be doing much better in sales if I had picked something other than offshore fishing. But it's what I know well and can write about with passion, so there's another consideration.

Also, if I had dedicated my time solely to my website over the past 5 years, it would be doing much better. I might be bringing in 700 to a thousand a month instead of the 100 or so it makes now.