Amazon in meltdown?

Well, not quite. But this is not something I felt I would ever see!

So a few of you know I write the affiliate reviews for TheDrive / CarBibles. And they are one of Amazon's biggest affiliate partner sites.

Anyway, I got an email from my editor yesterday saying that Amazon had reached out and asked them to STOP sending traffic their way for a while because they are unable to keep up with demand.

Amazon.com! Shaking under the weight of so much traffic!

So we are actively diverting traffic away from Amazon towards Walmart, for the foreseeable, at Amazon's request.

Absolutely crazy.

Well, I'm not entirely sure.

For one, it's encouraging. I mean, we all assumed that capitalism didn't sleep. But I thought maybe it would slow down a little.

But also, I'm not sure how it will affect the individuals you send to Amazon in terms of available stock and/or shipping.

I know that Amazon are taking on something crazy like 100,000 employees in the US. So that will certainly help with demand.

I also know that a lot of big hitters in the dropshipping scene have seen numbers fall off because of the (true or not) assumption that products are coming from China.

I guess the best thing to do is to keep doing what you've always done.

Write good content, build you brand and maybe we'll see some good come out of this whole fiasco in the long run.

There are definitely worse times to be dabbling with a side hustle!