SELL REAL ADVERTISING. SET YOUR OWN SERVICE PRICES. GET PAID TO SHARE.
I built two separate advertising businesses: CoolCarGuy.com and Freak Sites.
Cool Car Guy is its own automotive business.
Freak Sites is a collection of eight niche websites.
Together, that’s nine places where individuals, creators, and businesses can build full-page online advertisements called Parking Spots.
The same person owns both businesses, and they use similar technology. They are not the same company, and their affiliate programs and customer relationships are separate.
Then I asked a pretty simple question:
If someone helps me sell advertising I already built, why wouldn’t I share some of the revenue?
That’s what Share Merchant is here to explain.
YOU ARE SELLING ADVERTISING. NOT A BUSINESS-IN-A-BOX.
The core product is a $7 Parking Spot: a full-page, shareable advertisement on a niche website with room for photos, supported video embeds, writing, links, and a call to action.
It’s $7 one time. No $99 annual subscription. No scheduled renewal. No scheduled expiration, subject to the website’s current advertising rules.
A customer might create one page today and never buy another. Another might publish new pages weekly for a business, an inventory, a creative project, or a growing collection of content.
The important point is that people are buying an actual advertising and publishing product—not paying to become affiliates. You can use the platform products directly, include them in services you sell independently, or apply separately to earn affiliate commissions on qualifying platform sales.
The current advertised product line includes:
| Product | Customer price | What the customer buys |
|---|---|---|
| Standard Parking Spot | $7 | A full-page advertisement with its own URL |
| StoryDrive™ 1000 | $25 | Optional additional recorded-view promotion for an eligible Parking Spot, under current terms |
| Video Spotlight | $49 | An optional video-promotion product where available; on Cool Car Guy or Freak Sites this is placement of a customer-supplied, approved video on YouTube and Rumble channels. |
The $7 page is the core product. Optional services are not required.
OPPORTUNITY ONE: SELL ADVERTISING SERVICES TO YOUR OWN CLIENTS
You don’t have to make your money from a $1.40 affiliate commission.
Maybe you’re an independent marketer, a social media manager, a copywriter, a video creator, or a small agency with clients who need advertising. You can create and manage full-page advertising for those clients, using the published platform products as components of the service you’re selling.
You set your own retail price for your creative work, campaign management, and client service. Your client may value the writing, photography, design, research, video preparation, promotion, reporting, and ongoing attention you provide. That’s what you are selling as your own service.
The underlying platform products still have their posted prices. For example:
- One new Parking Spot: $7 in platform costs.
- One new Parking Spot plus StoryDrive™ 1000: $32 in platform costs.
- One new Parking Spot plus StoryDrive™ 1000 plus an eligible Video Spotlight: $81 in platform costs.
Those are product costs, not suggested retail prices, revenue figures, or profit calculations. You decide what to charge your own clients and whether the work is worthwhile. You also handle your own labor, taxes, other expenses, contracts, permissions, and client expectations.
An agency could choose to offer a weekly campaign of one new Parking Spot plus StoryDrive™ 1000. Fifty-two such campaigns would total $1,664 in published platform components during the year, before any optional Video Spotlights or independent service expenses. That schedule is a voluntary campaign plan, not an automatic subscription.
You are not restricted to charging $299, $99, or any other fixed service price for what you do for your clients. You are buying advertising components and providing your own service around them, subject to each website’s rules.
THAT IS A CLIENT-SERVICE BUSINESS. IT IS SEPARATE FROM THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM.
OPPORTUNITY TWO: EARN AFFILIATE COMMISSIONS ON QUALIFYING SALES
You can apply to an individual website’s Affiliate Program for free. Approval is required. You don’t need to purchase a Parking Spot to apply or qualify for the basic commission structure.
Once approved, you get that website’s affiliate link and tracking tools. When an eligible customer makes a completed, qualifying purchase attributed to your affiliate relationship, you can earn a commission.
Direct affiliate commission: 20%.
That means:
- One $7 Parking Spot sale pays $1.40 directly.
- One $25 StoryDrive™ 1000 sale pays $5.00 directly.
- One $49 Video Spotlight sale pays $9.80 directly, where that product is offered and commissionable.
You are not paid simply because someone clicks, registers, or becomes an affiliate. The advertising must actually sell.
DON’T THINK ABOUT ONE SALE. THINK ABOUT A BOOK OF CUSTOMERS.
One $1.40 commission isn’t going to impress anybody. 😂
But imagine finding businesses that actually use the advertising and come back to publish more.
A Realtor could advertise different listings, neighborhoods, open houses, and services. An automotive business could publish pages around vehicles, projects, and videos. A travel creator might keep adding destinations. A small agency might use relevant Parking Spots to promote a series of client campaigns, with permission and according to each site’s rules.
If ten customers each choose to buy one $7 Parking Spot per week for a full fifty-two weeks, that’s:
10 customers × 52 Parking Spots = 520 actual product purchases.
At $1.40 per direct qualifying purchase, that equals $728 in annual direct commissions—assuming all 520 purchases are completed, eligible, and correctly attributed to you.
That’s an illustration of repeat purchasing, not a subscription and not a forecast. The customers must voluntarily buy useful advertising every time.
And it isn’t limited to the Parking Spot. If eligible customers choose optional products, those qualifying sales may pay commissions too.
ONE SALE IS A TRANSACTION. A GROUP OF SATISFIED, REPEAT CUSTOMERS IS A BUSINESS.
THE CONNECTED AFFILIATE STRUCTURE
You can work entirely direct. You never need to recruit another affiliate.
But if you decide to develop a connected network of approved affiliates who are also introducing paying advertising customers, participating websites currently use five paid positions:
| Position in eligible affiliate path | Commission rate | On a $7 purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Direct | 20% | $1.40 |
| First connected | 15% | $1.05 |
| Second connected | 10% | $0.70 |
| Third connected | 5% | $0.35 |
| Fourth connected | 5% | $0.35 |
Up to 55% of a qualifying product purchase can be shared among eligible affiliates in a fully connected path. The percentages are positions in an attributed sales chain, not membership ranks. Not every sale pays all five positions.
WHAT DOES A 2 × 5 NETWORK ACTUALLY MEAN?
Here’s a mathematical example for someone who wants to understand duplication.
Suppose you introduce two active people. Each introduces two more active people. That pattern continues through five connected positions:
| Connected position | People at that position | Your rate on qualifying purchases there | Illustrative annual commission if every person buys one $7 Spot every week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct | 2 | 20% | $145.60 |
| First connected | 4 | 15% | $218.40 |
| Second connected | 8 | 10% | $291.20 |
| Third connected | 16 | 5% | $291.20 |
| Fourth connected | 32 | 5% | $582.40 |
| Total | 62 | $1,528.80 |
That illustration assumes all 62 people independently choose to purchase one qualifying $7 Parking Spot every week for 52 weeks, every transaction is completed and properly attributed, and every paid position is eligible for the full period.
Those 62 people would buy 3,224 Parking Spots in a year, representing $22,568 in actual advertising purchases. Your illustrative commissions on those purchases would be $1,528.80 under the schedule shown.
For comparison, if you personally chose to publish 52 Parking Spots during the same year, your advertising purchases would cost $364. That personal advertising expense is optional and is not required to earn affiliate commissions. It would be a separate business expense, not a mandatory buy-in or a reliable measure of profit.
This 2 × 5 illustration is not typical earnings. Building an active network with every person buying every single week is a substantial assumption; actual purchases, connected positions, attribution, and commissions may be much lower or zero.
CAN YOU REPEAT THE IDEA WITH MORE THAN TWO PEOPLE?
Of course. The point isn’t that you’re only allowed to find two customers or two affiliates. You can work on your own, bring in a few active people, or build a larger customer-development operation.
If a fully connected five-position network expanded geometrically, these would be the mathematical sizes, not predictions:
| Pattern | Total people across five connected positions | Illustrative annual commissions to the top affiliate, assuming every person makes 52 qualifying $7 purchases |
|---|---|---|
| 2 × 5 | 62 | $1,528.80 |
| 3 × 5 | 363 | $7,589.40 |
| 4 × 5 | 1,364 | $26,790.40 |
Those larger scenarios require hundreds or more than a thousand genuinely active people, each voluntarily making 52 purchases in the year, plus fully eligible, correctly attributed paths. They are arithmetic examples, not realistic baseline expectations or an invitation to buy ads solely to generate commissions.
More important than filling a chart is answering one question: who actually wants to buy and use the advertising?
NINE WEBSITES. DIFFERENT MARKETS. SEPARATE BOOKS OF BUSINESS.
There are eight Freak Sites: CarsFreak.com, HousingFreak.com, TravelersFreak.com, RunnerFreak.com, WritersFreak.com, WeaponsFreak.com, GraveFreak.com, and SponsorsFreak.com.
And there is the separate CoolCarGuy.com business, where the same basic Parking Spot concept started.
FreakSites.com is the home base for the eight Freak Sites; it isn’t a ninth Freak Site. Cool Car Guy makes nine advertising websites in total.
You can build a focused customer book around cars, travel, housing, writing, sponsorships, or another subject you genuinely understand. You can also work on multiple websites, but each affiliate program requires its own application, approval, link, tracking, and customer relationships. Nothing automatically transfers from one Island to another or from Freak Sites to Cool Car Guy.
For example, a person who knows the automotive world might introduce prospects to both Cars Freak and Cool Car Guy—but must use the correct affiliate program for each, and any commissions are calculated separately.
ONE NICHE CAN BE A BUSINESS. MORE NICHES CAN MEAN MORE OPPORTUNITY—AND MORE WORK.
A SIMPLE WAY TO START
Pick one market you understand. Don’t try to sell all nine websites to everybody.
Study the product. Look at real Parking Spots and understand what customers get for $7. You can purchase one yourself if you want to demonstrate it, but buying is not required to join an Affiliate Program.
Apply to the correct website’s Affiliate Program. Approval is required. Use that website’s affiliate links, and disclose your commission relationship when promoting it.
Introduce people who could use the product. A creator with videos, a small business with services, a Realtor with listings, or another advertiser with a genuine reason to build a page.
Look after the customer relationship. If the advertising proves useful and they come back for more qualifying purchases, properly linked repeat business can potentially pay additional commissions.
Decide whether you want to stay direct or build a connected network. Both are valid ways to participate. Neither guarantees sales or income.
THE BOTTOM LINE
I built the websites. I built the advertising products. I use the same Parking Spots myself.
You can become a customer, offer independent advertising services built around the products, apply to earn affiliate commissions on qualifying platform sales, combine these approaches where permitted, or simply look around.
The product is real advertising. Your independent advertising services can have their own customer prices. The affiliate opportunity is getting paid when qualifying platform advertising sells.
That’s why I call this Share Merchant.
GET PAID TO SHARE.
Explore the advertising businesses: CoolCarGuy.com | FreakSites.com
Learn about Freak Sites affiliate marketing: Freak Sites Affiliate Program
Apply to the Cool Car Guy affiliate program: Cool Car Guy Affiliate Registration
Want to understand the Game That Pays concept? GameThatPays.com
FOR THE LAWYERS.
Earnings and legal disclosure: All commission figures are hypothetical mathematical illustrations, not actual, average, typical, expected, or guaranteed earnings. There is no requirement to make personal purchases, recruit other affiliates, or achieve a purchasing quota to participate in the basic affiliate structure. Commissions are earned only on qualifying, completed, properly attributed product sales under the applicable website’s terms. Network size alone generates no income. Real results depend on customer demand, actual purchases, eligibility, attribution, refunds, costs, and other factors; income may be zero. Advertising products are not investments, securities, income rights, or ownership interests in either business. Product prices and affiliate terms may change. Current published terms govern.