• What is an affiliate?
• What are the advantages of joining the Affiliate Program?
• Who can be an Affiliate?
• What portion of affiliate sales do I get to keep?
• How and when do I get paid?
• Do I have to have a website?
• What do I put on my website?
• Do I have to use your banners?
• How do I keep track of my affiliate activity?
• Does it cost me anything?
• Where do I sign up?
• What if I have trouble?

What is an affiliate?

An affiliate is someone who earns commissions by referring people to our website via their own website or blog or via email.

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What are the advantages of joining the Affiliate Program?

Anyone who signs up to become an affiliate earns a percentage of any sale they refer to us, and gets a check for it in the mail. In this way, you can help to share your favorite books and authors with your own website visitors, and earn some extra money while doing it. You may also increase your standings in search results when people search for the books/authors/subjects you are linking to, and help to create an active community on the Web for the evolving human spirit.

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Who can be an Affiliate?

Anyone who signs up is welcome to be an affiliate. If you have a website from a small blog to a large e-commerce site, or just want to send links via email to your friends, you can sign up and begin earning commissions today.

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What portion of affiliate sales do I get to keep?

You keep 6% of every sale that is made to website visitors who reached our site via one of your links or banners.

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How and when do I get paid?

Commissions are paid quarterly. To simplify bookkeeping, there is currently a $5.00 quarterly commission threshhold--if you have earned less than $5.00 of commissions, your commission total rolls over into the next quarter. If your cumulative total for the whole fiscal year is under $5.00, however, you will by paid by July 31st no matter how small the total commission is at that time.

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Do I have to have a website?

Almost all affiliates will, though it is possible to sign up for the affiliate program and simply send out links via email. The important thing is that people must have something to click on in order to be directed to our site in order for to earn a commission on the sale.

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What do I put on my website?

We have ready-made banners that you can post the code for right into your own website code. The banners come in a variety of sizes and aspect ratios, so you can choose the one that fits your site best, and if you paste the code in correctly whenever someone clicks the banner you'll get credit for any sale that results. From your Affiliate control center (or from any book information page you view while logged in as an affiliate) you may also generate your own banners for any book in our bookstore, which will show a thumbnail image of the book which will give you credit for a sale when a visitor clicks it and makes a purchase--even if they buy books other than that one.

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Do I have to use your banners?

No! We have professionally designed our banners to be attractive and easy to use, but anything that links to our bookstore using your unique affiliate number will do the trick. For example, we provide text versions of all our banners if you just want to link to us in the text of your web page or emails. If you are web-saavy, you will also find it easy to create your own banners and links which include your affiliate number so you can get credit for sales from custom banners and links you have designed yourself.

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How do I keep track of my affiliate activity?

When you are an affiliate and log in from the main Affiliate Login page, you will be presented with an Affiliate Summary page, which gives you access to sales reports, clickthrough activity, and presents you with options for using and generating banners for use on your site.

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Does it cost me anything?

Absolutely not. You simply earn commissions at your own leisure, and there is no up-front cost or any cost to you thereafter.

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Where do I sign up?

Sign up from the Affiliate Login page. There you will see a "New Affiliate" option.

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What if I have trouble?

Visit the Contact Us page and send an email with your questions. Note that once you are signed up as an affiliate, your Affiliate Summary page will present you with your own special contact-us page so we can give your queries special consideration.

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