HOW IT WORKS
One useful page. One URL. One small product that can keep moving.
ShareMerchant is built around a pretty simple idea:
Get Paid To Share.
But not just because you shared something.
A real product purchase has to happen.
The product is a Freak Sites Parking Spot.
Someone sees one.
They understand what it does.
They decide they want one too.
If that qualifying purchase happens through your properly tracked affiliate path, you can earn a commission.
That’s the basic machine.
1. It Starts With A Parking Spot
A Parking Spot is a full-page advertising and publishing page inside one of the Freak Sites.
A standard Parking Spot currently costs $7.
Depending on the Island, somebody could use one for:
- a car;
- a business;
- a vacation rental;
- a race;
- a property;
- a product;
- a service;
- a trip;
- a story;
- a review;
- an experience;
- or something else that legitimately belongs there.
A Parking Spot can include photographs, writing, videos, links, contact information and a public view counter.
It gets its own URL.
Think classified ad on steroids.
Except you do not have to be selling something.
You can showcase it.
Explain it.
Document it.
Promote it.
Or just give it somewhere to live online.
2. Pick The Island That Fits
Each Freak Site is its own niche Island.
CoolCarGuy.com
Cool cars, automotive stories, businesses, videos and experiences.
CarsFreak.com
The broader automotive world.
HousingFreak.com
Housing, properties, rentals, businesses, services and related ideas.
TravelersFreak.com
Trips, destinations, resorts, vacation rentals, businesses and travel experiences.
RunnerFreak.com
Races, runners, coaches, products, events and running stories.
More Islands can be added as the network grows.
Because apparently one website would have been too easy.
The point is context.
Cars with cars.
Travel with travel.
Housing with housing.
Running with running.
Put the page where the subject makes sense.
3. Join The Affiliate Program If You Want To Promote It
Joining the Affiliate Program is free.
There is no required product purchase.
No monthly autoship.
No inventory.
No shipping.
Your affiliate account gives you a properly tracked path you can use when introducing people to qualifying products.
You are not paid because somebody joins.
You are not paid because somebody clicks.
You are not paid because somebody registers.
Qualifying purchases create the commission.
4. Create A Page Worth Sharing
You can create the Parking Spot yourself.
And I think you probably should.
Once you build one, the whole business becomes easier to understand.
You stop thinking:
“How do I promote an affiliate program?”
And start thinking:
“Who do I know that could use a page like this?”
That’s a much easier conversation.
Build the page around something real.
- Use real photographs.
- Tell the actual story.
- Explain the product or business.
- Add useful links.
- Embed video when it helps.
- Give somebody a reason to care.
The product should do most of the selling for you.
5. AI Can Help You Build It
I use AI all the time.
But AI is not the business.
Give AI:
- the facts;
- the photographs;
- what actually happened;
- your opinion;
- your offer;
- your links;
- and what you’re trying to accomplish.
Let it help organize the page.
Then fix the final version until it sounds like you.
AI is the wrench.
The wrench still needs something real to work on.
6. Grab The URL And Share It
This is the distribution part.
Post the page on Facebook.
Put it on LinkedIn.
Share it on X.
Make a YouTube or Rumble video and link back to it.
Email it.
Text it.
Whatever actually makes sense.
You can share:
- your Parking Spot;
- your Garage or Channel;
- another useful Parking Spot;
- the Island itself;
- your properly tracked affiliate path;
- or ShareMerchant.com.
I am not telling you to stop using social media.
I am telling you to give the attention somewhere to land.
The social post can disappear.
The Parking Spot is still sitting there with its own URL.
7. Somebody Else Sees The Product
This is where the whole thing becomes interesting.
Somebody lands on the page you shared.
Maybe they came for the car.
The race.
The vacation rental.
The business.
The story.
Then somewhere along the way they notice:
“Wait. Somebody built this whole page for seven bucks?”
And then:
“I could use one of these.”
That thought is the engine.
The page introduced the next customer to the product without you giving them a 45-minute sales presentation.
8. A Qualifying Purchase Creates The Commission
If that person completes a qualifying purchase through the properly tracked affiliate path, the applicable commissions can be distributed according to the current Affiliate Program terms.
The current structure is:
- 20% — Direct affiliate
- 15% — First connected position
- 10% — Second connected position
- 5% — Third connected position
- 5% — Fourth connected position
On a standard $7 Parking Spot:
- $1.40 — Direct
- $1.05 — First connected position
- $0.70 — Second connected position
- $0.35 — Third connected position
- $0.35 — Fourth connected position
One person does not receive all five positions.
The commissions follow the properly connected affiliate path associated with the qualifying purchase.
The people are not the product.
The Parking Spot is.
👉 How The Freak Sites Income Engine Works
9. The New Customer Now Has A Page Too
This is the part that makes the product different from a normal affiliate link.
The new customer does not just buy something and disappear.
They now have a Parking Spot.
Another page.
Another URL.
Another piece of content somebody else can find.
They can share it too.
Someone else can see it.
That person can decide to create a Parking Spot.
And the basic process can happen again.
The product itself can help distribute the product.
10. Several Pages Become A Garage Or Channel
One Parking Spot is one page.
Create another.
Then another.
Over time, those pages connected to your profile can become your own Garage or Channel.
A runner could build one around races.
A car person around vehicles, products, businesses and automotive stories.
A traveler around resorts, trips, vacation rentals and destinations.
A housing professional around properties, services, businesses and housing ideas.
Now you’re building a library instead of dropping one affiliate link into the Internet and praying somebody clicks it.
11. This Is Where The Connected Tiers Matter
Suppose you introduce somebody to the product.
They understand it.
They build pages.
They introduce somebody else.
That person builds pages too.
The connected positions are designed to give affiliates some continuing economic connection to qualifying product activity farther down the path they helped start.
That gives you a reason to help the person you introduced actually understand the product instead of simply chasing another direct commission.
The connected tiers are not the product.
They’re the incentive structure around distribution of the product.
That is a very different idea.
12. Use ShareMerchant As The Explanation Page
You should not have to explain all of this from scratch every time somebody asks what you’re doing.
Send them here.
ShareMerchant can explain:
- what a Parking Spot is;
- how the Islands work;
- how the Affiliate Program works;
- why there are connected positions;
- how to build pages;
- how to use AI;
- how to distribute what you create;
- and how to get started.
Then you can say:
“Read ShareMerchant.com. If it makes sense to you, use my link.”
That’s a lot easier than trying to explain the entire business over lunch.
👉 Use This Site As Your Funnel
So The Whole Thing Looks Like This
Create or find a useful Parking Spot.
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Share the page.
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Someone discovers the product.
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They decide they want a Parking Spot too.
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A qualifying purchase happens.
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Applicable commissions are distributed.
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Now another Parking Spot exists.
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The process can repeat.
That is ShareMerchant.
Advertise. Build a Channel. Create Income.
For the Lawyers
The Freak Sites Affiliate Program is free to join. Commissions are paid only on qualifying purchases that are properly tracked and attributed under the current program terms. Product pricing, commission percentages, connected positions, payout requirements and other program terms may change.
Nothing on ShareMerchant.com guarantees views, search rankings, traffic, leads, customers, sales, commissions or income. Product activity, affiliate activity and financial results vary and may be zero.
Parking Spots are online advertising and publishing products. They should be purchased because the product itself is useful to the purchaser, not because of any expectation of affiliate earnings.