Where Can I Promote Courses and Earn a Commission?
You can earn a commission on courses you do not own — but only on a platform that was built to let outsiders promote. A teacher's own website gives a promoter no way in: there is no link to track, no dashboard to read, and no agreed rate.
The three things a platform must have before you earn anything
All three have to exist, and all three have to exist before a sale is credited to you. If any one is missing, you are working for free and will not find out until you ask for money.
- Courses that are actually open to promoters. Not every course on a platform is available to promote, so you should be able to see the list before you commit any time to it.
- A tracked link that belongs to you. The link carries an identifier so the platform knows a given buyer arrived through you. Without it, the sale happens and nobody knows it was yours.
- A dashboard you can read yourself. Not a monthly email and not a screenshot somebody sends you — a page you log into. If you have to ask someone else what your numbers are, you do not have a dashboard.
Why a teacher's own website cannot do this
A teacher who sells on their own site has, at most, a contact form and a payment link. To let you earn a commission they would have to build affiliate tracking, agree a rate with every promoter separately, keep records, and pay out. That is a second business on top of teaching, which is why the answer to "can I promote this course?" is almost always no, even when the teacher genuinely wants the help.
What the commission actually is
Two things are worth being clear about before you start, because they are where expectations usually break.
The rate is set per course, by the platform — not by you. There is no industry-standard percentage, and anyone quoting you one fixed number across all courses is describing something that does not exist. The promoter's share is set per course, and you can see it before you decide to promote.
The buyer is an overseas learner and the money comes in as USD. If you have an audience outside mainland China, this is the part that matters: you are not selling to the domestic market with a different currency sign, you are selling to people looking for this from outside.
How to check a platform in five minutes
Ask these five questions. A platform built for promoters answers all five without hesitation.
- Can I see the list of courses open to promoters before I sign up?
- Does each promoter get their own tracked link?
- Is there a dashboard I can log into, or do I have to ask someone for numbers?
- Is the commission rate shown per course, before I start?
- When a buyer is ready to purchase, who completes the sale?
Where the promotion actually lands
Your link usually goes to a page for the course itself, not to a generic homepage — and that page is the part you do not have to build. This matters more than it sounds. A promoter with an audience but no website is stuck at the last step: they can get attention, but they have nowhere to send it.
What we run
We operate a platform for video courses sold to learners outside mainland China, with payment in USD, and we are recruiting promoters — people with an audience, a channel, or a community.
You choose which courses to promote. You get a tracked link and a page to send people to, and you can read your own numbers. The commission rate is set per course by the platform, and you can see it before you start.
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