Anyone can become a promoter and earn money here. On ProfitShare.ninja, instead of businesses paying established advertising companies for advertising they pay you!

You can promote any listed project as long as it is available in your country and it is entirely up to you how you want to do it. It is also entirely up to you to decide how much time you want to spend on it. You may just spend 2 minutes once with putting a personalized link on your Facebook or similar social network, or 5 minutes putting a permanent link or graphic ad on your blog or website, or, on the other side of the scale you can build a whole business on getting customers for a particular project or few carefully selected projects and spend all your work time on promoting them. In any case, every single customer who makes a purchase on the target website or app will earn you money. How much you can earn only depends on your choice of the right project to promote for you, your contacts or access to a fitting community of people and the frequency of transactions the customers you refer conclude.

Many projects will be potentially useful to almost anybody while some may be targeted on a particular group of enthusiasts. You may have many many friends or you may be part of such group and a correctly selected project to promote can bring you a great income with minimal effort. Or you may simply just be lucky and be first to promote a project that will be adopted by many customers.

To become a promoter

To become a promoter you need an account on ProfitShare.ninja. If you don't have one yet go here to register.

Once registered and logged in just find a project you like, open its detail page and click the "I want to promote this". Then, on the "Hyperlinks" tab in the "You are promoting this project!" section that will replace the button you will see one or more green "Get link" buttons. Click it, select one of the options offered and paste the resulting personalized text or HTML link anywhere on a public website. From that point on, if anyone uses that link to go to the target website and buys anything from it in the next 12 months you will get the advertised profit share.

That's it! You are now a promoter of a project.

Advanced options

There may be several of the "Get link" buttons. They represent different entry points to the selected project's target web page. Usually there will be just one, but more may be offered each fitting better for a particular type of customers to which you may promote it. Select one that seems best. You can see the actual web page they redirect to by clicking on the "=> open" links in the "Project URLs" section that you can found below the section just being discussed.

Clicking the "Get link" button opens a dialog that prompts you to select the type of link you want to use. You can either get a simple link that you can share directly in emails, social networks or your blog. It will be put into your clipboard and ready to be pasted. The second option puts a complete HTML anchor tag in the clipboard, which you can paste into the source code of a html page. The third option, if available, is the same except that instead of a text anchor it gives you a picture-style ad code. Just select an image you want to use if more than one are available.

For many different reasons you may need or want to be able to explain more to the potential customer about the project that you are promoting once they click your link. For that reason you are able to create custom redirection pages containing any text you like. To create a new custom page click the blue plus (+) button next to the "Get link" button. It will open a custom page dialog that lets you define a page title, a name for you to recognize it if you create few different custom pages for one link and then, when you click the blue "Edit page content" button you'll be able to create the page content.

In the custom page editor, you are able to use templates, html formatting, different fonts, colors etc. They may not always be beneficial and in fact lose you potential customers, so use them cautiously, but for the right reasons they can help to convert a potential customer to a real paying customer of the target website. These custom pages may also be useful if you promote the project by offline means like printing and distributing leaflets to physical mailboxes in your area. If they contain only some very basic info you may want to say a bit more on your custom page before the customer opens the promoted target website for the first time. And you can create the leaflets themselves as a separate custom page! Just use one of the three various size templates available in the custom page editor.

If customers are logging into your website which you use to promote projects and you have the potential customer's email address, you can include it as a query string parameter in the referral link in the format "email=the@customers.email". Doing so will link the customer's email to your promoter account and then even if the customer eventually arrives to the target project directly, his or her transactions will be reported and profit share from them attributed to you. That is under the condition that the customer agrees his or her email address to be passed on the target third party. Even though we do not sell or give away any email address lists you still should have permission from your users to pass their email address to us.

An example

For example, let's say that you are very enthusiastic about the sharing economy and you discover a project that enables people to build local sharing communities. You would love to help to transform your neighbourhood into a sharing community where anyone can easily rent things from their neighbours including those they may not even know on a personal level yet. So you create a simple leaflet (using a separate custom page and one of the available leaflet templates), print it and distribute it around your neighbourhood. On the leaflet you may just want to say who you are and that you'd love to create a sharing neighbourhood, asking your neighbours to type a short URL into their browsers. This would open another custom page on profitshare.ninja where you are able to explain at any length your vision and what to do when people get to the target website to help you turn your vision into reality. Then, if you succeed, every rental transaction between the members of your community you brought to the target website will reward you for your efforts with the share percentage offered by the project.

Existing custom pages can be edited at any time using the same blue button now showing a pen icon instead of the plus sign.

Attract and keep customers

In many cases people may just need to be shown a great service and they will by happy to use it just for its merits. Other times you may need to attract them with a promise of a discount.

You can further share part of your profit share with the customer, which may likely result in more customers and for you in also keeping the customers linked to your promoter account so that any purchases they make will earn you, not somebody else, a profit.

This is how it works: Since you may not be alone promoting the same project, yours may also not be the first or the last link that a particular customer will use to get to the target site. Often it takes several exposures to an ad before a customer actually decides to buy or at least investigate. So to keep this system fairer if a customer gets linked to several promoters and finally makes a purchase, who should get the profit share? You, who was the first one to let them know about that particular great service or the last promoter whose link the customer ultimately used on the day on which they made the purchase? Well, if no discounts to the customer are offered by any of the linked promoters, the profit share will be split among all of them. However, if you offer a discount to the customer than the customer is using your particular coupon (directly or indirectly) and the whole profit share will go to you. And, on the top of that, if a new customer uses a someone else's link but that promoter does not offer any discount, if there are any other promoters linked to this customer that do offer a discount, the one with the highest offered discount will receive the profit share from that customer's transaction and the customer will receive the highest available discount on the target website.

You offer a discount to your customers on the "Coupon" tab. Simply set what percentage of your profits you are happy to share with the customer and any customer using your coupon code or your link will receive an appropriate discount at the checkout on the target website.

Understanding profit shares

You may be wondering how can a businesses offer such high profit percentages to share with you. If you do, it probably is because we need to explain to you better what it exactly means.

You see, the word "profit" in the "profit share" expression is important. It is because what is being shared with you is the actual profit margin, NOT a percentage from the product's or service's advertised price. This may mean that a 50% profit share from a sale of a book that costs $100 and a 50% profit share from a service that is priced at $20 is the same at $10. How come? Well, the book is a physical item that costs to print and distribute and the profit margin may be 20%, which, on a book priced at $100 is 20 dollars. A service offered by a website may cost virtually nothing after the website is built and so basically the whole amount of the sale is profit and you are getting 50% of 20 dollars in both cases.

The above is obviously a simplified example, but we do require the businesses who list their projects to simplify this way so that it is easy for promoters like you to easily make sense of what is being offered to you. For example, if a business offers purely web-based services, then they should say that the profit from all types of transactions is about 97% because payment processing costs around 3%. With such an explanation it is easy for anyone to know quite precisely what percentage amounts of profit out of the whole price to expect if the profit share is set to let's say 40%.

The actual profit amount from each transaction is reported by the target website to ProfitShare.ninja as most businesses will have varying profit margins on varying products or services they sell. They can belong naturally to certain categories of transaction types which can be defined by the project owner and different profit share percentages can be set on them. Yet, even within the same category one product's actual profit margin may be 20% and other's, which may be on special or simply be more expensive to purchase, may be just 10%. This is inevitable an if your next question is "Well, couldn't the project owner lie in saying that a particular transaction type generally has 20% profit margin and then report only 5% on all transactions?", then the answer is "yes, they can". However, as soon as the first transactions are reported our system calculates the actual average profit margin percentage and uses that number to show on the project detail page. So if a business wanted to deceive the potential promoters of their project such strategy would only be effective until the first transaction comes through and they may earn negative rating for doing so, which would result in the opposite effect for them. So there is no reason for anyone to try this.

Making sure that transactions are really being reported

Since without an ability to test this system would be basically based on trust, which is nice but not a dependable way of doing business, we have implemented a testing facility and a rating system that together ensure that project owners properly implemented our API and you get paid. See how you can test the selected projects.