Ryan Deiss sold a doomsday prepper affiliate website for eight figures
Sam Parr · Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan · Jan 18, 2022 · at 35:02
Sam Parr and Noah Kagan discuss business opportunities in the prepper niche, referencing DigitalMarketer founder Ryan Deiss.
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“We have this friend named Ryan Dice and Ryan Dice started digital marketer, which is like a pretty sizable business that does all types of stuff. And he owned a conference that he sold for a lot of money, but pre pandemic, like two years before the pandemic, he owned a website called like survival something. It was, I forget what it was called and had he, Who would have known, but had he held onto it towards like COVID times, it would have been sold for so much more because now it's so much more popular, but he had this website and it talked all about like article. It was basically articles and affiliates on like which flashlight to buy, like for the end of the world. And I'm almost positive that he sold it for around the eight figure range.”
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