Affiliate Disclosure

The short version

Where this site publishes an affiliate link, if you click it and sign up for a paid plan, we may receive a commission from that company. It costs you nothing extra.

The longer version

We participate in affiliate programs only where the current status is shown below. When we use an affiliate link, it identifies the referral as coming from us; if you subscribe, the vendor may pay us a commission under that program’s terms.

We want to be specific about what this does and does not mean.

What it does not change: the prices you pay. Affiliate links do not increase your cost. In some cases vendors offer a discount through them.

What it does not change: our numbers. Every cost figure we publish is calculated from the vendor’s own public pricing page, and you can reproduce the calculation yourself in a couple of minutes. Our arithmetic does not become more favourable to a platform because we earn from it.

What it could change, and how we guard against it: which platforms we cover, and how enthusiastically. This is a real risk in affiliate publishing and we manage it three ways:

We publish the full method on our Methodology page so our reasoning is auditable.
We include platforms we earn nothing from when they are relevant.
We state plainly when a platform we do not earn from is cheaper or better suited. The three-platform cost comparison does exactly that where the numbers support it.

Current program status

The current participation and application status for each program is shown below.

Product experience

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Per-article disclosure

Every article containing affiliate links carries a disclosure at the top, before the first link, in the same text size as the body copy.

No paid placement

No vendor has paid for inclusion, ranking, or favourable treatment. No vendor reviews our articles before publication. If that ever changes, this page will say so and the affected content will be labelled.

Questions

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Skool: Participating: An affiliate link has been obtained. No paid Skool plan has been purchased.; Affiliate links for this program are currently published on this site.
Circle: Approved: The affiliate application has been approved and a referral link has been obtained. No Circle customer use is claimed.; Affiliate links for this program are currently published on this site.
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Heartbeat: Not applied: No application has been submitted.; No affiliate link for this program is currently published on this site.
Patreon: Program paused: The Creator Referral Program is currently paused.; No affiliate link for this program is currently published on this site.

The operator has not paid for or used any of these platforms as a customer. A free Skool account exists solely to obtain an affiliate link; logging in for that purpose is not the product experience behind these articles.