The Six Apart Affiliate Program

The main reason we started the Six Apart Professional Network is to help the members of our community build your careers and skills by making the most of your expertise in blogs. And from the start, you've told us that you want to benefit by helping people get started blogging with Movable Type, TypePad and LiveJournal.

So today, we're proud to announce the Six Apart Affiliate Program. It's a simple way to make money by recommending our platforms to your clients, customers, friends, peers, or partners who want to start a blog. So, how much you can earn for referring new bloggers? Here's the details:

• Movable Type: 10% per license (earn up to $129)
• TypePad: $3 per trial subscriber
• LiveJournal: 20% per paid subscription (earn up to $5)

If you're looking for more information on the program, the overview page has all the details, but some other key points you might want to know if you're considering becoming an affiliate:

• You'll need to sign up with Commission Junction and become an affiliate if you aren't already.
• You can get paid for each person you refer who purchases Movable Type or signs up for the TypePad service or a LiveJournal paid account.
• To get credit, the purchaser must follow an affiliate link that you've provided.
• There are custom link graphics and text available for you to use on your site.

We'll be talking more in the future about how to make the most of the affiliate program, including other ways that help develop the economy around blogging. And we expect that everyone in the Professional Network community will be working to create resources to explain the benefits of blogging with Six Apart platforms, now that there's even more incentive for recommending them.

If you're just discovering the idea of becoming an affiliate for blogs, you'll want to join our Professional Network community. It's a single place where blogging experts can trade tips on getting the most out of the affiliate program, as well as information on how to provide the most value to the new bloggers who are getting started.