Hello there Sea Changers. Welcome back to my series of program lists to assist those of you looking to fund your sea change with affiliate marketing. Today we will look into a niche that has the potential to build quite a lucrative online business around with my 10 coffee affiliate programs to brew this year. Now, as I have mentioned in a previous post in regards to selling coffee online, there are over 2.25 billion cups of coffee served each day worldwide so to my way of thinking, if this is a market that you are interested in then I think there could be some good opportunity here.

As I am conscious that there are a number of different coffee related sub niches available, I also know that the quantity of affiliate programs to choose from may be just as large. So how have I picked my best 10? Well… I really just wanted to give you a good cross section of what is out there so I did some searching around and checked a few out and chose them by looking at:

• What they offer
• Commission rates
• Payment terms
• Cookie duration
• Application processes
• Affiliate/Marketing materials provided

Before we start however, let’s have a look at what I mean by the term ‘coffee’ and how it can be incorporated within an affiliate marketing website…

What do we mean by Coffee?

So, it probably goes without saying here that we are dealing with that little green bean that is roasted, ground and ‘mixed’ with (usually boiling) water to make that delicious beverage that many of us have managed to get ourselves addicted to daily. As I have mentioned above, this is such a popular market meaning that for those looking to make money selling coffee online there is opportunity for a generalist site, or the potential to utilise a number of sub niches individually or grouped into the one business. So for this post, I have tried to cover a good cross section across some of the sub niches such as:

• Coffee beans
• Coffee machines
• Accessories
• Infused coffees
• Coffee pods
• Travel and coffee

And of course anything else you can think of when it comes to coffee…

What can affiliate marketers promote?

There are essentially no real barriers to what affiliate marketers can promote when it comes to coffee. There are however some things to be aware of as you run your eye over coffee affiliate program possibilities that may suit your site. Some examples of these influences include :

1. Know your audience, some purchasers are looking for specifics and want the best whilst others are hoping to just get a decent cup of coffee made at home each morning on a budget. Choose your affiliate sites accordingly.
2. Coffee fanatics – likely purchasers of high end coffee machines and accessories – will not take risks if they don’t trust you or your affiliate site. Make sure the programs you choose are reputable and have good recourse options if the purchaser is not happy.
3. Those looking to deck out their coffee serving business will generally need to know that they are going to get good quality items so as not to jeopardize their income, reputation or have to replace it again in the short term. Check that your affiliate programs have solid products for sale.
4. Coffee beans must be fresh – check the shipping and packaging arrangements of your affiliate vendor carefully.

That said, stats show that people will spend money on coffee online if it can make their lives easier so as long as you are meeting their needs and solving problems, then you are on the right track. And to give you a boost, let’s have a look at 10 programs that I have found below:

1. Coffee Wholesale USA

Coffee Wholesale USA is a one-stop-shop site with a massive range of coffee and coffee related products aimed at the bulk purchaser and professional use such as cafes, restaurants etc. Their product list is too large to list here however the following is a list of the categories covered which includes:

Coffee

• Fresh roasted
• Filter packs
• Pillow packs
• Liquid concentrate
• K Cup pods
• Other pods

Accessories

• Parts
• Condiments (creamers etc.)
• Cups and stir sticks
• Coffee and tea filters
• Coffee bags
• Machine cleaning supplies

The coffee supplies come from a number of well-known brands such as Starbucks and Maxwell House and they also supply a decent range of other beverage based options such as tea and soda/soft drink mixers etc. allowing for some good cross selling opportunities. This is a great site to base a generalist or professional supply/use site on or as part of any cafe, diner or work break room supply niche etc.

Commission Rate: up to 9%

Payment Terms: Monthly

Cookie Duration: Not stated

Application required?: Yes, Coffee Wholesale USA’s affiliate program is managed by CJ Affiliates. You will be required to apply for an account then for the Coffee Wholesale USA affiliate program. You will need to enter personal and website information as well as promotional plans and platforms to be used.

Marketing material provided: Text links and banners

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2. 1st in Coffee

1st in Coffee is another all encompassing coffee site with products to suit everybody from the home maker to the professional to the hobbyist/fanatic. Their range is massive with categories as follows:

• Espresso machines
• Coffee makers
• Grinders
• Coffee
• Accessories
• Refurbished items

The list above probably doesn’t do them justice but in each category there is multi level options dependent upon the use and requirement of the reader.

They stock all of the most well-known brands and there is certainly enough here to centre an entire coffee site around as well as targeted sub niches mentioned above. There is also great opportunity for some high ticket affiliate commissions with some professional machines on the site listing at over $10,000.

Commission Rate: 7%

Payment Terms: Monthly

Cookie Duration: 90 days

Application required?: Yes – 1st in Coffee’s affiliate program is managed by Share-A-Sale. You will be required to apply for an account and then for the 1st in Coffee affiliate program. You will need to enter personal and website information as well as promotional plans and platforms to be used.

Marketing material provided: Banners, Text Links, Data feed

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3. My Espresso Shop

My Espresso Shop is another large coffee related site dealing with all manner of :

• Coffee Machines
• Grinders
• Accessories

They list all of the major brands with enough there to satisfy both home users and professionals alike.

This is another great site that could be utilised to base a generalist, professional, hobbyist or fanatical coffee drinker niche around with access to top-level machines and some high ticket items as well.

Commission Rate: 7 – 9%

Payment Terms: Monthly

Cookie Duration: 90 Days

Application required?: Yes, you will need to enter personal and website information as well as promotional plans and social media platforms to be used.  My Espresso Shop will use the following criteria to evaluate any affiliate application:

• You have a website, blog, preferably with a top-level domain (i.e. yourwebsite.com) – OR you have an active social media presence (or other reputable traffic sources)
• You have a quality website, blog design, or social media presence
• Other miscellaneous considerations including website/blog following and content, social media following/content, and perceived ability for your site to perform successfully in our affiliate program.

Marketing material provided: Text links, Banners

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4. Lifeboost

Lifeboost is a smaller site that offers coffee in both bean and ground form. The point of difference with this site however is that it prides itself on the fact that all of its coffee is:

• USDA Certified Organic
• Single origin
• Shade grown
• Non-GMO
• High-elevation grown
• Certified Kosher
• Mycotoxin and chemical-free

There is not enough on this site to build an online business around, however it would certainly make a great addition to just about any other coffee related, organic foods or chemical free living niches. Oh, and they also sell coffee mugs.

Commission Rate: $30 per referral

Payment Terms: Monthly

Cookie Duration: Not Stated

Application required?: Yes, personal and website information required.

Marketing material provided: Text links and banners.

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5. Koa Coffee

Koa Coffee is a gourmet coffee site specializing in hand-picked premium Hawaiian coffee. Their product list is not as large as others however there is a good range of:

• Peaberry Coffee
• Grande Domaine Kona Coffee
• Private Reserve Kona Coffee
• Swiss Water Decaf Kona
• Estate Kona Coffee

Coffee can be selected by darkness and grind type.

Again, as per with some of the others listed here, there is probably not enough to base an entire business around however if you are in the gourmet coffee niche, then this would make a handy addition.

Commission Rate: 10 – 20%

Payment Terms: Monthly

Cookie Duration: 45 days

Application required?: Yes, Koa Coffee’s affiliate program is managed by Share-A-Sale. You will be required to apply for an account then for the Koa Coffee affiliate program. You will need to enter personal and website information as well as promotional plans and platforms to be used.

Marketing material provided: Ad banners, text links

6. Volcanica Coffee

Another good gourmet coffee site aimed and the coffee connoisseur is Volcanica. Volcanica specialise in gourmet coffee products from all over the world with a range of categories including:

• Estate coffee
• Peaberry coffee
• Jamaica blue mountain coffee
• Decaf coffee
• Flavored coffee
• Decaf flavored coffee
• Coffee blends
• Coffee by region
• Dark roast coffee
• Organic coffee
• Low acid coffee
• Fair trade coffee
• Rainforest coffee
• Shade grown coffee
• Cold brew coffee

If your niche is aimed at the coffee fanatic then this is a great site to add to your business. Prices are a little higher than many other sites listed here meaning that it can also be added to generalist and other sub niche coffee sites as a good gift, ‘treat’ or higher ticket item.

Commission Rate: 15% commission for each sale for the first 45 days, then 10% for new customers. 1% for return customers.

Payment Terms: Monthly

Cookie Duration: 30 Days

Application required?: Yes, the Volcanica affiliate program is managed by Share-A-Sale. You will be required to apply for an account then for the Volcanica affiliate program. You will need to enter personal and website information as well as promotional plans and platforms to be used.

Marketing material provided: Text links, banners, product feeds, Free 16 oz gourmet coffee bag to each new affiliate who posts promotion on their site.

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7. Gourmesso

Now we head into the ever growing world of coffee pods (traditionalists turn away now) with Gourmesso. Gourmesso supply a massive range of Nespresso® and Keurig K-Cup® pods covering all manner of intensity levels, flavours and organic blends.

Their pods are all 100% compostible with no plastic or aluminum included in their manufacture. This site would make a great addition to any ‘pod’ related, generalist or professional supply niche as well as for the home user. And as some extra cross selling/gift opportunities, they also have a good range of re-usable coffee mugs, cleaning capsules and cold brew options.

Commission Rate: 20%

Payment Terms: Monthly

Cookie Duration: Not Stated

Application required?: Yes, Gourmesso’s affiliate program is managed by CJ Affiliates. You will be required to apply for an account then for the Gourmesso affiliate program. You will need to enter personal and website information as well as promotional plans and platforms to be used.

Marketing material provided: Banners, Text Links

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8. Subduction

Whilst coffee has been around for a while, another niche that is starting to take a hold in current times is hemp and CBD oils. Subduction combines the two with a nice selection of hemp infused coffee and coffee pods. Their coffee is sourced from all over the world and infused with hemp so that “all you taste is delicious coffee but in a short time you truly feel what Coffee+Hemp has to offer”.

As with some of the other coffee-only sites listed here, there may not be enough to build a site around with just this program however again it makes a great addition to any coffee, CBD Oil or natural health affiliate marketing business.

Commission Rates: Not Stated

Payment Terms: Monthly.

Cookie Duration: Not Stated

Application required?: Yes, You will need to enter personal and website information to apply.

Marketing material provided: Text links, social media banners

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9. Kimera Koffee

Kimera Koffee is another small site that offers infused coffee products – this time vitamins. Their range of vitamin infused coffees is designed to “increase focus, power output, and cognition” and includes both ground coffee and K-Cup® pods as well as creamers and drink ware.

Again, there is not enough here to base a whole affiliate site around but if added to the coffee based programs above then I think it would make a great addition to any coffee niche site.

Commission Rate: 10%

Payment Terms: Monthly

Cookie Duration: Not Stated

Application required?: Yes – the Kimera Koffee affiliate program is managed by Reversion. You will be required to apply for an account and then for the Kimera Koffee affiliate program. You will need to enter personal and website information as well as Instagram or social platforms to be reviewed!.

Marketing material provided: Banners, Text Links

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10. Wacaco

And finally we come to Wacaco. Wacaco make travel sized espresso machines so that you don’t have to miss out when you are out and about. Their range is not large but includes hand powered portable coffee makers capable of managing both ground coffee and pods. The machines come in a large range of colours and are small enough to take just about anywhere.

This site would work in well with any coffee or travel related niche as an additional cross selling opportunity or as a great gift idea.

Commission Rate: Not stated

Payment Terms: Monthly

Cookie Duration: Not stated

Application required?: Yes – You will need to enter personal and website information as well as promotional plans and platforms to be used.

Marketing material provided: Banners, Text Links

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Amazon Associates

Alternatively, should you wish to set up your site up with a range from a few different brands or companies on the same site then you can do so via Amazon. Amazon provides access to a good range of coffee related products and has a fairly good affiliate program as well. So if you wish, join the Amazon Associates program, locate the best products relevant to your site within Amazon itself and you can post links on your own site as per below:

Amazon’s commission rates are not too bad and some prefer this avenue due to the sheer amount of traffic and trustworthiness that comes with a company site of this size.

How to find your own affiliate programs

As stated earlier, by outlining the sites above I have really just tried to give you a good cross section of the types of programs that are out there by listing the really good ones in each ‘category’. That does not mean that you cannot find affiliate programs that better suit what it is that you are trying to do within this space especially as I could never even begin to cover every coffee related requirement or sub niche in the one post. Luckily for us, there is a simple way to find these programs online.

All you need to do is enter “affiliate: niche type” into your search engine (substituting ‘niche type‘ for whatever product it is that you are choosing to sell).

There are coffee related affiliate programs for everything else that we have listed at the top of this page as well – you will just need to have a look around until you find one or two that suit your site. Once you have completed your searches, you can look through and find programs that:

• Relate to your niche/problems that you are solving.
• Have quality products – your brand can be severely damaged if you promote poor quality products.
• Have solid payment and customer service arrangement.
• Pay decent commissions.
• Have good testimonials covering commission payouts and quality of product.

In most cases, you will need to apply for the program before you are allowed to promote their products – don’t take this step lightly or you will be rejected. Affiliate programs will generally want to know:

• Your website name.
• Traffic levels.
• Why you want to join – (so I can make money by selling your coffee pods is unfortunately not generally a good enough answer).
• How you plan to promote their products.

Conclusion

So… There are 10 of the best coffee affiliate programs to brew this year. I hope it has been helpful for you as you commence your own coffee based affiliate marketing business and as usual, please do not hesitate to comment below if you have any questions, need some advice or have any experiences to share. Oh, and especially comment if you have any experience with these, or any other programs as well.

Until next time

Have fun

Paul

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