B-to-B Trade Publications for Fun and Profit
Anita Campbell of the Small Business Trends blog has recently offered an interesting post inviting small business owners an opportunity to Monetize Your Website or Blog by Offering Trade Magazines. Check out both the publications available that you might like and how you can participate if it seems like a good fit to you.
Anita explains that TradePub.com is a way to get B-to-B trade publications for free and links to the TradePub.com feature on her site. According to Anita, TradePub.com is now looking for additional blogs and websites interested in affiliating with TradePub.com to offer a trade publication storefront on their website. In addition to offering an additional service to visitors to your site, you will get paid a fee, varying by publication, for each new subscription your readers make through your storefront. The fee may be as little as a dollar per subscription, but can also be as much as $5 or $10, or in a few cases, even $20.
I took a look at the publications available and was surprised at the range. Virtually every industry seems to be represented. Within minutes, I found two that seemed like they'd be useful to me, including one called The Deal which is described as "the indispensable newsweekly for all dealmakers covering M&A, bankruptcy, private equity, venture capital, law & tax, corporate." The confirming e-mail said it might take up to 12 weeks for the subscription to kick in, which was a little disappointing, but then I suppose you shouldn't expect too much for free.
As far as signing up to be an affiliate, I'm still thinking about that. It certainly sounds like a good program. From what Anita says, it also appears to be low maintenance from the site owner perspective. Anita also points out that once you sign up, you get stats about which publications are of the most interest to your readers and that can give you useful information about topics your readers are interested in.
To become an affiliate, you must sign-up with RevResponse.
- for more information on how the program works, click here or here.
