The Well-Fed Affiliate Program

Program Instructions

(NOTE: If you’ve been involved in affiliate programs before, you’ll likely find the following instructions detailed to the point of near-absurdity. Fine. Just skip over what’s already familiar. I’d rather be extra careful to spell it all out to those for whom such programs are a new animal and, in the process, reduce overall confusion.)  

1) Sign up at: http://www.wellfedwriter.com/cmd.php?cmd=signup

You'll need to have a PayPal account to sign up for the program, as that’s the only way I pay affiliates, so if you don’t, sign up for one at www.paypal.com. Commissions need to accrue to $50 total before payouts are made.

2) After signing up, youll then receive an email with your new username and password, along with a unique URL you can use to log in (using that new username and password) and check your stats at any time. The URL will have a "1shoppingcart.com" prefix and while it only mentions using it to check stats, it's also your login link (incidentally, you can also log in using http://www.wellfedwriter.com/cmd.php?cmd=login or http://www.wellfedsp.com/cmd.php?cmd=login).

3) Go ahead and click your new log-in link and log in.

4) At the next screen, click “Affiliate Programs” in the upper left corner. At the next screen, you will see (at this point), two affiliate programs, one for The Well-Fed Writer, and one for The Well-Fed Self-Publisher.

5) At the top of each program, you’ll see, respectively, these two headings:

Well-Fed Writer
URL: http://www.wellfedwriter.com

The Well-Fed Self-Publisher
URL: http://www.wellfedsp.com/ordertwfsp.html

The URL noted is the “landing page” for that affiliate program. So, the first simply lands on the home page of The Well-Fed Writer, while the second lands on the book order page of The Well-Fed Self-Publisher.

6) Right below each of these headings will be another box, under which you’ll see, “Click here for your affiliate links, Banners and other Available Media Types.”

7) Let’s click the one below Well-Fed Writer. You’ll be taken to another page, where you’ll see your unique affiliate link (in the thin white box) for that first affiliate program.

If you paste that line into your promotional materials, anytime anyone clicks it (taking them in this case, to the home page of The Well-Fed Writer), and ends up purchasing anything on that site (OR if they click The Well-Fed Self-Publisher link on TWFW site and buy something there), you’ll earn a nice commission!       

On that same page, a bit further down, you’ll also see a few pieces of book cover banner artwork, along with a description of exactly where that banner links to on the site. By using the banner, you can send your readers right to that particular book page, and the banner is also tagged to you. Then, you or your web person simply needs to follow the instructions under that for placing that line of code into your system to pull that image onto your site. 

8) Then, click back to the “Affiliate Programs” screen described in steps 4 & 5 above and try the other link, the one under The Well-Fed Self-Publisher. Again, you’ll see the unique link that you need to place in your promotional materials (and that will click through to the order page of the TWFSP site) along with banner artwork there as well.

Just as with the first one, if someone clicks this link and goes to the order page of TWFSP, and purchases anything (OR clicks The Well-Fed Writer link in the navigation bar on the right of the TWFSP site pages, and goes to that site and buys something), you’ll earn money.  

So, simply choose which one you’d rather have your people go to.

NOTE: The affiliate links for both programs start with http://www.wellfedwriter.com. If you’ve decided you want to use the second program (and promote the TWFSP site), and would prefer to have that affiliate link reflect the TWFSP site, you can actually retype the link prefix to www.wellfedsp.com. The code is already imbedded so it doesn’t matter how it looks. As you see below, I just cut and pasted the affiliate link (for a fictitious affiliate) twice, manually changed the second one, and yet, both go to the same place: 

http://www.wellfedwriter.com/cmd.php?Clk=1529591

http://www.wellfedsp.com/cmd.php?Clk=1529591

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That’s it! Good luck with it, and thanks again for your support!