Since Printful’s affiliate program started, our affiliates have made over $730,000.
If you’re a blogger, YouTuber, influencer, or an ecommerce expert who is looking to earn
a passive income, our affiliate program might be just what you’re looking for.
All you need to get started is a passion for Printful.
But before we start, make sure to hit that subscribe button and tap the bell icon to
get notifications about all the latest ecommerce tips and tricks.
Let’s start off by defining affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards an affiliate
for each visitor or customer brought to the company by the affiliate's own marketing efforts.
It’s a mouthful, so let’s break it down a bit.
An affiliate can be anyone who's passionate about a business and knows the company or
products well enough to help promote it.
Or they could be a content creator like a YouTuber or blogger who has a large following
that could benefit from the company’s product or service.
Our affiliate program works like this.
As an affiliate you:
Create content like a blog, social media post or YouTube video about us—what we do, why
we do it, and how your audience might find it helpful.
Include your affiliate link within your content.
And promote your content to your audience.
Then get clicks, sign-ups, and sales.
After that, you earn a 10% commission for 9 months for every purchase made using your
affiliate link.
So if someone sets up a Printful account using your affiliate link and sells $1,000 worth
of products, you walk away with $100 just for telling them about us!
Now, there are plenty of affiliate programs out there.
So let’s get into what makes ours different.
First, you can earn recurring income from your affiliate link.
With our program, just put out a couple of pieces of high-quality evergreen content and
continuously earn income from them.
And our program is unique in the sense that you don’t only earn from one-time purchases,
you earn from every purchase a customer makes for 9 months after you’ve referred them
to Printful.
If you drive traffic to a page with an embroidered hat and someone visits that page then sets
up a store that sells hoodies and t-shirts, then you take 10% commission from every product
their store sells for 9 months.
You also help your audience.
Creating content about our products, integrations, designs, and other ecommerce tips is going
to be useful for your audience, who are interested in custom printing for themselves or their
business.
They may not be aware that certain products or options exist and you’re going to be
helping them learn about their options.
It’s also easy and free to get started.
The minimum to get started is having a page you can link to.
In our application, we ask for a website but you can include a link to your blog, YouTube
channel, Instagram profile, or whatever your preferred platform is.
You don’t need to invest any cash upfront to create online.
All you need is a login and a passion.
You also have the power to choose what you want to promote.
Promote only products you use, believe in, or would be helpful to your audience, so you
can make sure that the products you promote fit your personal brand or niche.
If you don’t wear a lot of t-shirts or hoodies, but are into interior design, then promote
our home living products.
If you’re a mommy blogger, we have a kid’s collection that you can promote.
We have a wide product range that allows you to take ownership over your promotions.
Our products are also high-quality, which is great because reputation is everything
as an affiliate.
You don’t want to recommend a product that is low-quality—your audience will stop trusting
you.
But when you promote Printful, you know that the people who buy from us using your affiliate
link are getting the best products their money can buy.
The Printful program is also global!
While some programs only pay for traffic you generate from certain locations, with Printful,
you can earn from traffic that you generate across the globe.
And we’ll accept affiliates from anywhere.
We want to see you win.
So we give you all the tools and resources you need to help you thrive as an affiliate.
Once your affiliate application has been approved, you’ll receive our affiliate guide with
resources like banners you can use.
You’ll also receive our affiliate newsletter that will give you all the tricks you need
to succeed.
You can reach out to our affiliate team via LinkedIn, email them or even schedule a call
to get any questions answered.
But until your application has been approved, you can sign up to our newsletters, join our
Printful Insiders Facebook group, check out our blog, and subscribe to our YouTube channel
to stay up to date.
Now that you know more about our program, let’s get into how to apply.
How to apply
Visit our affiliate page and hit sign up.
Then Tell us about yourself and where you want to promote Printful.
This includes your website, social media, podcasting, online courses, or any other place
you’d like to promote us.
After you fill out our form, we’ll email you to let you know if you’ve been accepted.
Once you’ve been cleared, you’re all set to start promoting your affiliate link!
Promoting your affiliate link
The key to success in promoting your affiliate link is making sure your content is relevant
and engaging to your audience on the channel you’re promoting it on.
So you want to consider what types of content to create.
There are many types of content that you can incorporate your link into.
With our affiliate program, some of our best performing content comes in the form of:
* YouTube videos * Blog posts
* Online courses * Instagram posts
* Facebook posts * And LinkedIn posts
If you’re creating more text-based posts, include visuals to keep your audience engaged.
When creating videos, don’t worry about your video needing professional lighting or
sound.
Any video can be successful when you come across as charismatic and can communicate
what you’re doing and why you’re doing it.
Choose whichever content types and platforms feel most natural to you.
The more confident you are with each platform you choose, the better it'll translate to
your audiences.
And don’t be shy about cross-promoting your content to make sure there’s maximum reach.
Just be sure to format each post to fit platform standards.
When deciding which topics to cover, take a look at the Printful dashboard.
It'll show you all the steps you need to take when you first register with Printful.
Those will be a lot of the questions that your audience might need help answering so
it’s a good place to start.
You can also: * Talk about your personal experience using
Printful * Compare Printful with other drop shipping
services * Talk about why you recommend Printful
* Or review new products
Make sure to include just one main idea in each piece of content.
And avoid covering the entire Printful journey in one blog article.
Instead, you can break it down into multiple pieces.
The first can be about how to register, the second can be about how to integrate your
ecommerce platform, and so on.
This helps you avoid burnout and allows you to come up with multiple pieces of content
that your audience can learn from, and give them multiple shots to discover and click
on your affiliate link.
Once you’ve come up with a few topic ideas, you’ll then want to make sure your content
has a chance of coming up on people’s radars so that they’ll click your affiliate link.
This involves some keyword research.
Search your topic ideas on search engines and the platforms you’re looking at creating
content on.
Check out the hashtag Printful on Instagram to see what other people are posting about.
If your topic is oversaturated, then your content might not have a chance of standing
out in search results.
One way to be distinct is by promoting products that not everyone is promoting.
There’s a lot of content out there about t-shirts, but not as much about jewelry.
It’s a fun challenge that's worth taking on!
The same thing goes for creating and promoting content for regions where there isn’t much
competition.
There’s a significantly higher chance that audiences will find your content and click
on your affiliate link.
The same thing goes for languages—if you create content about Printful that isn’t
in English, you’ll stand out.
Check out our video on SEO for more information about how to create discoverable content.
The link to that is in the description below.
When it comes to incorporating your affiliate link into your content, make sure to educate
or entertain your audience first before directing them to your affiliate link.
People are hesitant to click on a link when they don’t know what they’re really clicking
on.
Help solve their problem first, then sell them on your link.
For more visual based mediums like YouTube and Instagram include your link in the description
box.
On your blog, incorporate your link as anchor text or highlight it in a feature box for
best results.
And make sure to be compliant with FTC guidelines.
Use the hashtag #ad on your social media posts so your audience knows you’re getting commission.
Then, track your progress using our affiliate dashboard.
You can see information on referring links, how many people are clicking and signing up
to your link, the locations of your customers, how many active customers you have, how much
money your affiliates have made, and the total commission you’ve made.
Use this information to inform your content and promotion strategies
Now, onto how you get paid.
How you get paid
Your commission is calculated based on our product price, not the customer's retail price.
This excludes discounts, refunds, shipping and taxes.
For a referral to be connected to your account, they need to sign up to Printful within 30
days of opening your link.
After this point, the affiliate period lasts 9 months after your referred customer’s
first order.
The commission will show up in your account after an order has been shipped.
Once you’ve received your first commission, the minimum withdrawal is $25, which you’ll
receive in US dollars via PayPal.
It’ll take about 1-3 business days to settle into your account.
And that’s our affiliate marketing program!
Are you new to affiliate marketing or are you already an affiliate?
Let us know in the comments below!