The Problem With Affiliates As I See It

I've been trying to make money online for several years. Initially I used Adsense and other similar avenues to earn an online income, and while this does work the amount you can make is limited unless you have a huge amount of traffic.

As I don't have any of my own products my only other option was to promote other people products as an affiliate. While this led to a couple of hundred dollars a month I found it somewhat lacking because it required a lot of effort to make a relatively small amount of income.

After a couple of years it finally dawned on me, I'm promoting the wrong affiliates. My biggest sellers are WP Themes, Web Hosting Packages and products from my sexual aids site. The problem is that once someone has purchased a theme, a hosting package or a vibrator they're not going to buy another one anytime soon. This means that I have to constantly drive new traffic to my sites in the home that it will convert to more one off sales.

This is when it finally dawned on me, I need to promote a product that people that people buy on constant basis. In the real world I ran a delicatessen for a number of years and there were certain things that people would always buy. These included things like bread, milk, cigarettes, dog food and amongst other things, lottery tickets.

Well, I couldn't see myself selling bread and milk online but I saw great potential for selling lottery tickets. I could see a lot of positives reasons for people wanting to purchase their tickets online and after checking out some of those sites that are already doing it I decided this was the niche for me.

I'm now in the process of signing up people with the knowledge that with every new customer I increase my weekly income as most lottery players buy tickets at least once a week.

The question is are there any other niches where people purchase products on a weekly basis?