1M/1M: Affiliate Network For Entrepreneurship Blogs
Does anyone know if an affiliate network exists for entrepreneurship bloggers? I know from personal experience writing a well read and highly regarded (but relatively way smaller than the TC or GigaOm/VenutreBeat type properties, making it irrelevant for ad based monetization) that smaller entrepreneurship / tech bloggers have a hard time monetizing their efforts.
Would it make sense to have an Affiliate Network that helps these blogs monetize?
A related question I am toying with is what if we pull together an affiliate program for 1M/1M, which is a relatively high-end and high priced solution ($1000 annual membership fee), and we can offer a solid monetization model to the affiliates (say, 10% affiliate fee with a 9-12 month cookie duration).
Any thoughts from entrepreneurship and tech bloggers on whether this would be interesting to you? Conceivably, even if you have 10,000 readers, the monetization could be interesting.
I would appreciate any feedback you offer, as this is a serious strategy question that our team is contemplating. Thanks.
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Hi Hari,
Affilate networks are a very well known monetization models for web sites.
The reason you would join the network is to monetize your traffic. As a broad strategy, I suggest you read up on how affiliate marketing works, there is a lot on that topic on the internet. Typically, affiliates get commissions for selling a product.
There is no other reason to join the group than wanting to monetize the synergistic traffic you may have.
Sramana
Thanks Sramana. Will understand more on this and get back to you.