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Building Digital Networks

Developing new channels and partnerships gives strength to online publishers.

Offering content for little or no money puts direct emphasis on the need to have volume. To succeed as digital publishers, it’s necessary to develop a digital retail network and affiliate networks so you have more sources for selling and promoting your content.

Developing new channels and partnerships gives strength to online publishers.

Offering content for little or no money puts direct emphasis on the need to have volume. To succeed as digital publishers, it’s necessary to develop a digital retail network and affiliate networks so you have more sources for selling and promoting your content.

The opportunity to create a retail network is already outlined before you. Amazon, Apple and Barnes & Noble all offer online publishers an easier route to selling products to buyers. It’s true that online publishers will only generate 70% of the revenue from these sales, but they will have a much larger audience of active buyers exposed to the content. If you can accept this profit sharing model, these retail partners could lead to more sales.

Beyond a retail network, an affiliate network of will help you find like-minded audience members. Affiliates may be direct competitors willing to have a mutually beneficial relationship, or they may be companies who have similar products or services.

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If you need to learn how to get the most out of your content, develop larder audiences, and build beneficial partnerships, join us at the Audience Development Summit 2012. Seats are filling up fast for next month’s program, so register today.

By Amanda MacArthur

Research Director & Managing Editor

Amanda is responsible for all the articles you read on the Mequoda Daily portal and every email newsletter delivered to your inbox from us. She is also our in-house social media expert and would love to chat with you over on @Mequoda. She has worked with Mequoda for almost a decade, helping to evolve the Mequoda Method through research, testing and developing new best practices in digital publishing, editorial strategy, email marketing and audience development. Amanda is a co-author of our four digital publishing handbooks.

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