To Affiliate Or Not To Do?

Index

Privacy And Affiliate

Bol.com

Charlotte's Law

Euroclix

Laudius

How Does Affiliate Work?

Will I Get Rich From Affiliate?

Why Am I Doing This?

One-Time Affiliate

Related blogs on my website

Privacy And Affiliate

There are as many people for and against affiliate as I hear and see the opinion around me on socials. I have chosen to work with Laudius and Euroclix as Affiliate partners. Affiliate is Big Data that is being collected to know from where the sale is done and which sales. The data itself is not shared with me. I will only know there was a sale through my link to one of my affiliate partners, not what is bought or who bought.

Bol.com

I have a good experience as a customer with bol.com. Also with selling my books via Bol.com. Once I've finished a book, I decide whether I want to keep it or not. If I want to keep it, it goes in the bookcase on a special shelf, the keep books. If I'm never going to look at the book again, I think it's a shame to put it on the shelf. It goes on sale via bol.com and I register it at bol.com as a book that is for sale. I've been doing this since 2013, when I gave up everything to travel. Unfortunately, since 1 June 2021, the sale of second-hand books via Bol.com changed and is not anymore possible for me to do this. Now I earn a bit on the sale of books (or other products) if the (book)link with Related affiliate link is used. The same as writers earn on their books with publishers. In September 2024 there also came an end to me being an affiliate of bol.com. It is not interesting anymore for me to be an affilliate partner of bol.com.

Charlotte's Law

I love the way Charlotte's law blogs about law. Easy to understand. Also Charlotte's law sells lots of law products I can use for my business Databeet, in just a few clicks. I am using these products on my website and I have an affiliate with Charlotte's law. I earn if the link with Related affiliate link is used. The same as writers earn on their books with publishers. In September 2024 there also came an end to me being an affiliate of Charlotte's Law. It is not interesting anymore for me to be an affilliate partner of Charlotte's Law.

Euroclix

I have a very long relationship with Euroclix. I started with filling in surveys and later with earning on things I buy. I earn mostly on my buyings. After a while I also started with their affiliate. If someone uses the Euroclix link I earn a bit.

Laudius

Laudius started in a different way than Bol.com. Together with another teacher, I set up the Big Data eCourse for them in 2017 (published in 2018). I received an amount for developing this eCourse and I am paid for checking the homework of those who choose the option checking their homework in the Big Data eCourse. I also earn if an eCourse is bought through a Laudius link on my website. Not only when Big Data eCourse is bought, but also when another Laudius eCourse is bought. There is more, use the code: GUISELAINE in the affiliatepartner section and get 10 percent discount on all Laudius eCourses.

How Does Affiliate Work?

It is hard work becoming an affiliate, because I have to place all the affiliate links in my blogs at the right place and check regularly if they are still working. I earn a bit if someone orders something through my related affiliate links. It is like writers earn on each book sold with their publisher. No extra costs for the one buying.

Will I Get Rich From Affiliate?

I will immediately wake myself up from the dream of affiliates, I will not get rich of it, but it is income. The percentages that I receive as an affiliate partner are somewhere between 1-10 percent and the latter is rare. Penny work, but every little bit is welcome. It is indeed passive income, but it is not really passive, because I have put work into creating links in advance. If I am the one who promotes the products via affiliate, it often gives sales that the affiliate partner probably would never have had otherwise. Since it often comes from my fans and not from the primary customers of the affiliate partner.

Why Am I Doing This?

I have chosen to work with these affiliates, because these products are linked to the products that I use myself or have made myself. The money is welcome and will be used to pay for the hours I put into my blogs, guest blogs and articles, because those are unpaid hours. Or I should invoice myself, but that seems nonsense to me.

One-Time Affiliate

In addition to the main affiliate mentioned above, I sometimes have affiliate collaborations for 1 or more blogs or number of social media posts and some barterdeals. These are always individual agreements and are mentioned on the relevant blog and/or social media.