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Today's caller wonders how to earn affiliate commissions from travel insurance packages.
Notes from Chris
Episode 1722
I got in some trouble when I recently said that TSA ID checks are just security theatre … but it’s absolutely true! Guess what else is a scam? Travel insurance! Why do you think airlines push it so much? Because it’s a big moneymaker for them. Insurance companies have all sorts of restrictions on what kinds of claims they pay out, and this is even more true with travel insurance. Furthermore, ever since COVID, it’s been even less necessary (or more useless?) than it was before, because so many tickets are refundable or changeable without penalty now. On the one hand, I was amazed when airlines kept selling these policies even though they were begging people to buy tickets—but on the other hand, why wouldn’t they want free money? Of course, this is Side Hustle School, so let’s look at this topic from another angle: how can you get in on it??"Every time you buy a plane ticket, the airline encourages you to buy insurance. Sometimes the upsell is really aggressive, so that makes me think it's highly profitable for them—but the insurance packages are provided by third parties, so the airlines must be getting some kind of revenue share. Can individuals get in on this and sell insurance packages as an affiliate? What about other forms of insurance, like car or homeowner's insurance? I don't want to become an insurance agent or join a company—I just think for someone with good SEO skills, there would be at least one way to profit from so many people buying these policies. Am I right or wrong?"Listen to today's episode to learn more...
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