HeartStrings e-Patterns Sales Affiliate Programs

Earn commissions for selling PDF downloads of selected HeartStrings patterns

Are you interested in making additional HeartStrings pattern sales to the growing market of internet-savvy online knitters craving the instant gratification of downloading e-patterns upon payment?

In addition to the hard copy patterns you now offer and sell, HeartStrings invites you to sell digital HeartStrings patterns. HeartStrings provides the internet delivery platform and there is no cost(1) to you. Just set up affiliate links for available digital products that you want to sell, promote them and earn commissions of 25% on sales(2) you make. There are no minimums and no on-going obligation. To retain active participation, you need only continue to maintain an active HeartStrings dealer account in good standing. Affiliate sales are not intended to replace hard-copy sales, but rather be a channel to attract additional pattern sales in an easy, no-cost way.

⁽¹⁾ Assumes you already have internet access and email service. You do not need a website or blogsite on which to place your affiliate links, but a site will give you more opportunity to make sales than just email links. You are responsible for setting up your affiliate links and the cost of any marketing you do to promote sales.

⁽²⁾ Since HeartStrings e-Patterns are usually priced $1.00 higher than suggested hard-copy retail (never lower than), your effective percentage of suggested retail will actually be more than 25%. The customer will be paying extra for the convenience of instant gratification downloads and added flexibility of using e-Patterns on Palm Pilots etc.

Overview of e-Pattern Sales Affiliate Program

• Product Offerings: Digital versions in downloadable pdf format of HeartStrings publications including all out of print book and pattern publications. May include other offerings in future that are available as digital-only media such as tutorials and mini-classes (e.g. audio and video).
• Commissions: 25% of sales made through your affiliate links; paid semi-monthly by Shopatron if you are an active retail fulfiller in their system, or credited to you HeartStrings account against future orders you place for hard-copy patterns.
• Why participate in this program: Satisfies the continued demand for publications that are no longer available in printed version. Expands offerings to other digital-only products. Attracts additional pattern sales in an easy, no-cost way.

Getting started is easy

1. Sign up with Shopatron for your free membership (if you have not already done so).
2. Contact Jackie E-S at HeartStrings to assign an affiliate id to you.
3. Set up selling links with your affiliate id for each available downloadable product you want to sell.

Note: If a customer follows one of your Shopatron affiliate links and buys ANYTHING in the HeartStrings Downloadable Patterns catalog, even if not the item in your link, you will still get credit for the referral at 25% of the total amount of digital products sold. So even a feature of a single e-Pattern link in your newsletter could net you additional sales you hadn't even anticipated.

I encourage you to consider this exciting opportunity. Contact HeartStrings now to get started!

HeartStrings FiberArts is a wholesale pattern company. I encourage individuals to visit your local yarn store or check the Store Locator to purchase hard-copy patterns and downloadable e-patterns. If you don't already have a favorite retailer from whom to buy, you can use the HeartStrings online catalog at Shopatron. This service will find a retailer with the patterns you want in stock to mail to you right away.