Affiliate and Reseller Programs for GIS, Geo-Spatial and Location-Based Content Websites

by GeoCommunity Staff

Reseller and Affiliate programs are a great way to add content to any website. Many commercial product and service providers will pay you a commision for any leads that you directly refer to them from your website. For example, if you provide a link on your website that results in a purchase made at The GeoCommunity store, we'll pay you a commission, provided you are enrolled in our affiliate program. Other partner programs serve to provide you with free content. You don't earn a commission but you get quality content on your website and it's all managed by someone else. Our research has turned up a number of partner or affiliate providers that may be of interest to you. If your company provides a web-based partnering program and you want to get listed here, please send details to editor@geocomm.com

Applied Geographic Solutions - The AGS Channel Partner program is the very best in the industry. By combining premium quality data with flexible delivery and pricing, AGS has created a truly unique opportunity for software developers, real estate information providers, and consultants.

Blue Marble Geographics - Sell Blue Marble Geographics products directly from your website. The Associates Program is an easy and exciting way for you to work with Blue Marble to enhance your site and to merchandise products from your site. By simply linking to BlueMarbleGeo.com, you can earn a referral fee by having visitors click from your site to our site to purchase items. We handle all of the customer service, fulfillment, shipping, and tracking of sales generated from your site. You get paid on all sales.

CARIS Authorized Strategic Alliance Program - In 1991 CARIS established the Authorized Strategic Alliance Program as a vehicle to supply its geospatial software solutions to new vertical and horizontal markets. Today CARIS operates a network of more than 50 Authorized Strategic Alliances providing CARIS expertise and first-line support around the globe. A number of options are available including: CARIS Affiliate Program, Business Associate Program, System Integrator Program, Authorized CARIS Trainer Program, Academic Partnering Program. For more information on the CARIS Authorized Strategic Alliance Program or its members visit www.caris.com. You may also contact the CARIS Strategic Alliance Support Team at: E-mail: alliance@caris.com

Delorme - DeLorme's Online Affiliate Program Affiliate Program Information. The DeLorme Online Affiliate Program provides you with the tools you need to offer high-quality mapping software, atlases and GPS receivers to your site’s visitors. Essentially the affiliate receives 10% of sales generated from their site. Checks are mailed quarterly. A check is sent when the affiliate has reached $100 or more.

DMTI Spatial - DMTI Spatial’s Reseller Program enables authorized resellers to remarket and sell select spatial data products and software. As a Reseller, your company will be partnering with Canada’s leading provider of intelligent spatial solutions and profiting from DMTI Spatial’s market proven portfolio of spatial products.

GeoCommunity/SpatialNews (News Affiliates) - Looking for content? Put the latest GIS/Geo-Spatial news headlines on your website. All it takes is to add a couple of lines of code to your html page. Once in place, you'll have the latest industry headlines available to you and your website vistors. Available in two options, image with hyperlink, or javascript headlines.

LandInfo - This pay-based, referral program allows companies to offer their website audience the growing international data products from LANDINFO.com's Online Map Store. USA, Saudi Arabia, Honduras, and other areas are available through the popular store. Affiliates will earn 12% commissions on Online Map Store purchases made by referrals. This offline program is offered to selective internationally-focused GIS companies. Limited Distributors enjoy a 10% discount on standard and personalized Topo Maps, DEMs, Contours, Parcel Maps, and select future products. Online Map Store products are not included in this program. This program includes no dedicated marketing/sales support or regional exclusivity. Email inquiries to sales@landinfo.com

MapQuest - Add Mapquest maps to your website. These are simple maps suitable for quick and dirty driving directions or general maps showing a store location etc... You wont make money from this but you will get some pretty cool content for your website. Provide your website visitors with the ability to generate driving directions, without them having to leave your site!

Maps.com - Quickly and easily begin making money by selling travel maps, wall maps, atlases, globes, travel guides, and mapping software on your website. Every map or product sale originating at your site earns you 7% of the product price. Not all applicants are approved.

MapTech - Affiliates can use MapServer on their sites and access www.maptech.com/bp/mapserver for free. Affiliates then receive 10% of any sales resulting from a click on the "buy maps and charts" button on the Mapserver GUI. To register, affiliates need to contact our sales department at 888-839-5551 (the registration process will move to the web shortly).

National Geographic Store Affiliate Program - Link to the National Geographic Store, and you’ll earn 10 percent or more of selected software sales that result from your link and 5 percent of all other sales. And there’s no cost to you.

OrbImage Partner Program - OrbImage is seeking qualified partners to join their growing partner network who will integrate imagery into business applications to provide solutions in a variety of markets.

RTSEUSA (Channel Partner Program ) - The GeoConnect Reseller Program Enhance your revenues by offering custom application development using GeoConnect components, and offering new integration, training, and support services, plus you'll get:
• Opportunity to conduct joint marketing and promotional campaigns
• Sales referrals from RTSe USA (based on geographic or vertical market focus)
• Generous volume-based progressive discounts on products
• Comprehensive product sales training at our Redmond, Washington, office
• Technical support from RTSe USA
To qualify, Authorized Reseller candidates must show that they are existing, successful businesses that:
• Provide consulting, product support, and other value-added services related to GIS
• Have the ability to add real value to the sales of RTSe USA products
• Have consulting or sales relationships with clients with geospatial information management needs.
Participating resellers will receive substantial product discounts, sales training, and support from RTSe USA.

TopoZone - Topozone's Free Mapping Services Program is designed to let you select specific map images from the TopoZone and display them on your site. These images may either be annotated or displayed without modification, but in all cases the underlying map remains the property of TopoZone and is made available solely at our discretion. Since the maps are free, the map must always be accompanied by an active hyperlink to the http://www.topozone.com site in the form of a "TopoZone logo" or "Powered by TopoZone" button (we provide the graphics). There is a limit of 100 of these maps displayed at any one time on any given site. This program is free and is ideal for clubs and organizations or non-commercial sites that want to add maps to their site as a service to their customers. If you are interested in this program, you can sign up right now with our simple online application. they also have a Map Image License Program available.

BOOKS - Sell Books from your website and earn a %

Amazon - Perhaps the grand-daddy of all affiliate programs. Sell books, electronics, toys etc.. Excellent reporting, tutorials, and product selection Every time you send us a customer from your site, you earn up to 15% of each sale. Please note that a 15% take is not the norm and is only offered in rare circumstances. The amazon reseller program is very easy to set up and simply to maintain, however, the commission payments seem pretty small when you consider your total sales!

Barnes and noble - More than 380,000 web sites, from the largest to the smallest, have already joined this Affiliate Network. Registering as an affiliate entitles you to a percentage of all B&N products that you sell from your website. Similar to Amazon, you get a small % in exchange for promoting their product sales.

Chapters - Developed for Canadians, sell books, software, electronic etc... Chapters.ca pays you 20% commission on the sale of thousands of book titles, 10 - 15% on hundreds of thousands of individually linked book titles, and 5-7% on additional books, music CDs, music cassettes, videos, DVDs, electronics and accessories, software, and games

OTHER

AOL Affiliate Program Apply now to become a moneymaking partner affiliate with America Online, the #1 Internet Online service! For every member that signs up for AOL and stays for 90 days, AOL will pay you a MINIMUM of $15. You can get up and running with your own affiliate program by visiting http://affiliate.aol.com/affiliate/

Compaq Affiliates - They are not accepting any more affiliates, but you can always try again in the near future.

VistaInfo - Enhance Your Site with Free Environmental Risk Research Earn Referral Fees-up to 30%. VISTAinfo pays you a percentage of sales for all environmental, risk and real estate reports that are sold as a result of your members or customers ordering. They track the customers you refer to us, track sales and provide you with sales reports.

BigWhat Geocentric Search Engine - A search engine that displays results in a map. Cool idea but the databse needs to be exanded to be more useful. You will earn 1 cent for each search which is performed on their search boxes, in addition to the 3 cents per search you earn on YOUR search boxes! They boast that some people actually earn a living by referring others to their affiliate program.