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StudioStyles is the web’s leading online photography training center. We’re dedicated to helping photographers turn their passion into profits.

We do this by providing the largest library of quality, content-rich how-to videos currently on the web.

Each video tutorial is filled with practical photo tips and studio lighting techniques so they can learn to take photos they will be proud of, and ones their customers will love (and pay for).

We turn passion into profits – so can you!

Now, through StudioStyles’ Affiliate Program, you can help your friends become better photographers. They will get better, faster when they get the right instruction AND you’ll get paid for being a friend – 15% – 25% per sale.

Step 1: Sign up to be a StudioStyles’ Affiliate. You will be assigned a special link with your affiliate code embedded.
Step 2: Through your social media web connections, refer your friends that are serious about their photography to the StudioStyles website.
Step 3: Your friend visits the website, likes what he sees, then buys a training video or a subscription using the link you gave him.
Step 4: BINGO! You get paid a referral commission when your friend buys AND each time he makes another purchase for an entire year!

Yes, it’s that’s easy! There’s no inventory. No deliveries. No customer support. We do the work, you earn the cash.

Your referral commission is based on the number of sales per year you help generate.

1-10 Sales – 15% of the purchase value of any StudioStyles training video, subscription, or template.
11-24 Sales – 20% commission
25+ Sales – 25% commission

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Frequently Asked Questions

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1. What do I need to become an affiliate?

Nothing! Except your desire to be an affiliate. You don’t even need a website (although having your own website helps). You can promote our product via your blog, social media websites, search engines, postings in internet forums, or simply email to all your friends and people you know with your affiliate link to our product.

All you need to do is to send a visitor to our site via a special link (called an ‘affiliate link’), and if he or she buys anything from us, you will get 15% of the sale value.

2. How do I know I will be paid for my referral?

The program is powered by Post Affiliate Pro, the leading affiliate tracking software. Post Affiliate Pro uses combination of cookies and IP address to track referrals for best possible reliability. When the visitor follows your affiliate link to our site, our affiliate system registers this referral and places cookie on his or her computer.

When the visitor pays for the product, affiliate system checks for cookie (if not found, checks for IP address of referral) and credits your account 15% of the purchase value. This process is absolutely automatic. All your referrals will be properly tracked. Post Affiliate Pro is used by thousands of Internet merchants and affiliates world-wide.

3. How is the payment handled?

You can choose if you want to be paid by PayPal or by wire transfer, as well as minimum payout value ($25 minimum). We do not support regular checks at the moment. Payments are issues in US dollars, and are paid once a month, always on 15th.

4. How do I set up an account?

Setting up an account is very easy and it’s completely FREE. You don’t have to pay for becoming an affiliate.

All you need to sign up go to the Signup Form below and fill it out. After a review from our affiliate manager, you will receive email with your password and other information.

As our affiliate, you will have your own control panel where you can see detailed statistics of traffic and sales you referred, news and training materials, and choice of banners and text links.

Then you only need to place an affiliate link, banner, text link or other link at your web site or place ads in pay-per-click search engines, so you can start sending customers to our web site.

5. What is the affiliate link?

The Affiliate link is a special URL where you should be sending the visitors. You will get the URL’s for different banners in your affiliate panel after log in.

6. Can I promote you through pay-per-click search engines?

YES! You can promote us through pay-per-click search engines.

7. Do you have any training program for affiliates?

Yes, basics of affiliate marketing and most useful tips are described in your affiliate panel. You can find new tips and techniques also in our affiliate newsletter.

8. What must I do NOW?

Here are the simple steps to becoming an affiliate:
1. Go to the Signup Form
2. Fill out the form
3. Receive your password and other info by email
4. Log in to your own affiliate panel and choose from various banners, text links, reviews and other promotional materials
5. Place some of these banners/links onto the Home page of your website and as many pages as you want, to increase your sales
6. Receive 15-25% commissions from every sale!

Any questions? Contact us at support@studiostyles.net We will be more than happy to help!

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Promoting us.

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Here are a few ways to make money with our affiliate program.

After sign up you will be able to log in to your affiliate panel, where you’ll get a selection of the promotion materials from us.

Write a review of some of our products, letting people know how good it is. Include your affiliate link at the end of the review. Post your review to free sites such as GoArticles.com & EzineArticles.com.
Create a free blog (web log) at sites such as Blogger.com, and post your review of the Post Affiliate Pro, including your affiliate link. Then “ping” your blog at a site such as Pingomatic.com, so it gets picked up quickly by search engines.
Join popular marketing forums such as WarriorForum.com, and make frequent contributions to popular threads there. Be sure to go into your forum profile and edit your “signature”. Make a signature that includes your Post Affiliate Pro affiliate link, or a link to your own Post Affiliate Pro “review” website. That way, every time you make a post, anyone who sees it will see your signature and potentially click on your affiliate link.
Post a Press Release – Once every few weeks post a press release at PRweb.com, in which you include your favorable review of Post Affiliate Pro program, along with your affiliate link. If you pay them $80, they will guarantee that your press release is picked up by all major search engines, potentially sending you thousands of visitors.
Email Your Newsletter List - If you own an email list of newsletter subscribers or other people who have opted in to receive email offers from you, send them an email telling them about our website, and feel free to use some text from our homepage in your email. Include your affiliate link at the end of the email. You can even use our email sample above.
*NOTE – We do not tolerate spamming in any way.
Pay-Per-Click (PPC): Using a PPC account from Google Adwords, Overture, or many others, you can easily generate income with the SAMPLE affiliate program. You can either send people directly to us using your affiliate link in your PPC ads, or you can create your own website in which you have a review of our product, followed by your affiliate tracking link.
Social Media Websites – Let your friends on Facebook know you found this website that helps you become a better photographer. We will be providing video tips your will be able to share with them.

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