Thank you for your interest in This Reading Mama’s affiliate program.
Is This Reading Mama Affiliate Program right for you?
If you…
- prefer hands-on activities for learning, not stacks of workbooks,
- blog about early learning for preschool through early elementary,
- and have homeschoolers and/or classroom teachers as a large part of your audience, then
my affiliate program is a great match for you!
This Reading Mama’s Affiliate Program
I sell my products through a shop on my blog. When you are accepted as an affiliate, you will have access to This Reading Mama’s Affiliate Platform, where you can monitor your earnings and generate custom links.
You will want to direct your readers to my shop {or any product or post} using your affiliate link. When you direct your readers to the shop, they will see a variety of products at once, which can lead to more than one sale!
Affiliate Terms & Conditions
By signing up as an affiliate, you acknowledge and agree to the following.
1. As an affiliate you will earn 50% of all sales income you generate minus Paypal’s fees. You may not market the products at any price except those authorized by me.
2. Affiliate payments are paid monthly for the previous month’s sales. For example, in the first week of August, you would receive all the income you generated from July 1-31.
3. All payments are made via PayPal. PayPal’s fees for affiliate payments are payable by you, not by This Reading Mama.
4. You can grab an image you’d like of each product to go in your post. Please only post one image of the product and ask me if you need more. If you want to create a post featuring the product, it works best if you take your own photos of your kids using the products.
5. You will pay taxes on your earnings. The current law states that Paypal will issue a 1099 only if your earnings exceed $20,000. However, you are still responsible for keeping track of your earnings and paying the taxes you owe.
6. You can receive free downloads for the store product(s) you want to promote, with the understanding that you will not e-mail or share them. Nor will you sell them apart from This Reading Mama’s Program. Please email me for the code to get your free downloads.
How to Become an Affiliate
1. Read everything on this page and make sure you understand all the terms.
2. SIGN UP to become an affiliate.
2. Contact me at becky{at}thisreadingmama{dot}com. Take a moment to introduce yourself and your blog. I will check to see that your site is a good match. Please note that I reserve the right to decline an application to become an affiliate.
How to Maximize your Affiliate Sales
1. Use my products with your own children or students and mention them naturally in your post.
2. Look at your most popular posts. Can you link to one of my products in a way that makes sense? For example, if you have any posts about playing games with kids for learning, my BINGO pack or 1-2-3 Flip It/Spell It pack would be great products to plop into your post. If you are writing about beginning readers, my Reading the Alphabet bundle pack is a great fit.
3. Write a blog post about one or more of my printables and promote it on your social channels and in your newsletter.
4. Regularly feature my products in your newsletter. You can copy and paste any custom link from This Reading Mama’s Affiliate Platform and your affiliate link will be embedded.
5. Do you link to my blog often? Start generating custom links even for posts that are not related to products. Simply go to “Ads” then click “Link Generation.” Copy the URL from my blog then click “Generate Referral URL” and copy the affiliate URL into your blog post. If the reader hops over to my site, looks around, and purchases, you’ve made a sale! Woohoo!
6. Regularly share my products on Facebook and other social media, using different images from the product so you are not “spamming” your followers. While affiliate links are no longer welcome on Pinterest, you can write a blog post with a variety of images and pin that.
Images for Affiliates
You may use the cover image of products from my shop or create your own images. I have found that your own images and pictures work best because you know your audience better than me. You may use an image from my blog to promote the products (1-2 images max), but please do not share screenshots of any images from within the product.
If you would like additional sizes or a particular style of ad banner, please let me know so I can create one for you.
My Products
Most everything I create and share is free; and they will remain free. But occasionally, I like to bundle printables up to save readers time looking through posts and finding all the download links. Bundled packages often feature extra “goodies” that are not available in the free versions.
My shop continues to grow each month as I add more items. Please take a look around and get to know my products. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email me.
Thank you for considering being a partner with This Reading Mama!
~Becky