Updated December 2022

As a graphic designer and entrepreneur, it’s a great idea to have multiple streams of income. When you own your own business, you never know what could happen. You may lose clients, you may lose your social media and followers, you just never know. With multiple income streams, you don’t have to depend on only one source of income.

Affiliate marketing is an excellent source of extra income. There’s no limit to how much extra income you can make. When sharing products and services you already use and love, why not make some extra money at the same time?

As you share products as an affiliate, you’re also promoting designers, artists, and other entrepreneurs which enables them to keep creating their products and doing what they love too.

There are many ways to talk about and share products. Writing a blog post, sharing on your social media, and posting on your website/blog are just a few ideas. You can use your referral code as a link, a button, or a banner. Always make sure to disclose when you are using affiliate links though.

Below are some of my favorite affiliate marketing programs for graphic designers, bloggers, and creative entrepreneurs.

Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links, which means I may receive a commission if you click a link and purchase something.

CREATIVE MARKET

Creative Market is one of my favorite places to find fonts, graphics, mockups, templates, and other design elements. There are so many high-quality products on the website, you’re bound to find ones you love! (I even sell my own products through Creative Market).

Creative Market has a great affiliate program too! Earn commission on any new or returning customer purchases made within 30 days. The partner program offers a 15% commission on new customer purchases and a 5% commission on existing customer purchases made on Creative Market within 30 days of the referral. You can embed their products, use their pre-made banners, or simply use a link. On each product page, your own code will appear, so all you have to do is copy and past it where you want to use it.

I personally promote Creative Market products mostly on my Pinterest account. I have success in promoting my own products on Pinterest, so I figure there’s no better place to promote others as well!

You can even use your earning towards products you want to purchase for yourself, which I do often. This referral program is definitely one I will keep on using!

Canva

If you know me, you know I love Canva! Especially Canva Pro! I even wrote a blog post all about why you should upgrade to Pro. Well guess what… they have an affiliate program too!

The affiliate program lets you promote the paid Canva Pro version. Earn up to $36 for each new Canva Pro subscriber that signs-up with your unique referral link. Their cookie-based affiliate tracking software allows affiliates to be credited within 30 days of the first click.

For monthly plans: You’ll earn a monthly 80% commission for the first two months of their membership.
For annual plans: You’ll receive a one-off 25% commission when the user is charged for their annual membership.

Design Bundles

Design Bundles is another place to find great graphics, textures, templates, and more. There are also fonts available on Font Bundles, their sister site.

The commission rate for Design Bundles’ affiliate program is 25% of purchases with a 30-day cookie window.

Final Thoughts

There you have it! Affiliate marketing programs you can join that are perfect for creative entrepreneurs. Start creating more income streams today!