The catalog already recommends real products. This plan is how it earns: by carrying or linking those products as an affiliate, a wholesale reseller, or an authorized distributor. Every row below is a real, researched pathway — sourced, with the application route and a ready prompt.
Ranked by how quickly a small online store can actually start earning. Affiliate & open-wholesale beat slow distributor applications.
| # | Opportunity | How | Terms (confirm on signup) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bookshop.org — the catalog’s books | affiliate | 10% (up to 15%); instant online signup; best book rate, on-brand |
| 2 | Amazon Associates — blanket | affiliate | books 4.5%, toys ~3%; one account monetizes the whole catalog |
| 3 | Speks — desk toys | affiliate wholesale | affiliate ~8–15% [confirm]; open wholesale by email |
| 4 | Geomag — construction toys | wholesale | via Faire, net-60, instant onboarding |
| 5 | K&J Magnetics — hobby magnets | affiliate | in-house; one email to activate; rate [confirm] |
| 6 | Ferrotec EFH — ferrofluid | auth. reseller | join their named reseller list; classic hobby SKU |
| 7 | Eclipse Magnetics — magnets & tools | distributor | public, online-store-friendly application + training |
| 8 | SuperMagnetMan / Master Magnetics | wholesale | quote/dealer wholesale; hold inventory |
Sign up, drop in links, start earning. No stock, no minimums.
Monetize the Whole Magnetics Catalog's books via Bookshop.org affiliate. 1) If we don't have a Bookshop.org affiliate account yet, tell me exactly what to enter at bookshop.org/affiliates and I'll create it (account signup is mine to do). 2) Build a Bookshop list/shop for the catalog's books: Driving Force (Livingston), Magnetism: A Very Short Introduction (Blundell), Magnetism & Magnetic Materials (Coey), Permanent Magnet & Electromechanical Devices (Furlani), Iron-Dominated Electromagnets (Tanabe), Introduction to Magnetic Materials (Cullity & Graham). 3) Rewrite the book citations in Section X of wholemagnetics.com/wmc/ as Bookshop affiliate links; keep Amazon Associates as the fallback for any title Bookshop lacks. 4) Add an FTC affiliate-disclosure line to the catalog footer. Deploy, then verify every link resolves and report any title with no Bookshop match.
Set up Amazon Associates as the catalog's blanket affiliate layer. 1) Guide me through creating/validating our Amazon Associates account and tracking ID (the signup is mine). 2) For every catalog product on Amazon - the books, Speks, Geomag, Ferrotec EFH ferrofluid, demo magnets, magnetic viewing film - generate Associate links with our tag. 3) Wire them in: Section X books as the fallback to Bookshop; Section IX toys/ferrofluid entries. 4) Add the required Amazon affiliate disclosure. Deploy, verify, and list which catalog products had no Amazon match.
Start reselling Speks. 1) AFFILIATE: find Speks' current affiliate program (their site / Sovrn-VigLink / aggregators), tell me the signup URL and the confirmed commission + cookie terms, and get me signed up. 2) WHOLESALE: draft an email to wholesale@getspeks.com opening a wholesale account for WholeMagnetics as a magnetics content + commerce hub - ask for MOQ, margins, and whether they dropship. Save the draft for my review. 3) Add Speks to the catalog shop with affiliate links now; hold wholesale listings until the account is open. Deploy the affiliate links and report the terms you find.
Activate hobby-magnet affiliate links for the catalog. 1) Draft an email to contactus@kjmagnetics.com requesting K&J's affiliate/link-commission program details for WholeMagnetics (describe our magnetics sites + traffic); ask for commission rate, cookie window, and link format. Save the draft for my review. 2) Sign me up for JC-Magnetics' in-house affiliate program (jc-magnetics.com, ~5%); confirm the real rate and link format. 3) Once we have links, wire K&J / JC-Magnetics affiliate links into the catalog's demo-magnet, viewing-film and hobby-magnet entries. Deploy and verify.
Buy at wholesale, sell at retail from our own shop. Geomag via Faire is the lowest-friction start.
Open a wholesale account to resell Geomag via Faire. 1) Guide me through creating a Faire buyer account and opening Geomag's brand page; confirm the current net-60 terms and first-order return policy you find. 2) Draft a short backup note to sales@geomagworld.com for a direct wholesale account. 3) Once we can buy, build a /wmc/shop/ listing for the Geomag sets we'll stock, with our retail pricing. Save the draft; report the exact Faire terms.
Open wholesale/dealer conversations for raw magnets. 1) Draft an email to weblead@magnetsource.com (Master Magnetics / The Magnet Source) applying for a wholesale/retail-dealer account for WholeMagnetics, asking for the dealer price list, MOQ, and retail-ready SKU catalog. 2) Draft a wholesale-quote request to SuperMagnetMan for volume pricing on their common demo/hobby magnets. Save both drafts for my review; summarize what each needs from us to open an account.
These take an application or a sales conversation, but they're the branded, higher-margin lines — and Polymagnet is the whole point of the catalog.
Pursue an authorized Polymagnet supplier relationship with Correlated Magnetics Research - the strategic core of this catalog. 1) Draft an email + call script to CMR (connect@polymagnet.com, 256-489-4444) proposing WholeMagnetics as a Polymagnet Supplier / online retail channel: reference the catalog, our magnetics network + traffic, and the existing family distributor polymagnetics.com. Ask how to become an authorized supplier and carry the demo kits + coded-magnet parts. Tie it to the Tim Costello / Mary access thread. 2) As the fast interim path, find whether Amazing Magnets (which already carries the Polymagnet catalog) offers an affiliate or dealer option, and draft that outreach too. Save both drafts for my review.
Apply to become an authorized reseller of Ferrotec's EFH educational ferrofluid. Draft an application/outreach to Ferrotec USA (via ferrofluid.ferrotec.com) positioning WholeMagnetics as a magnetics catalog + store that would carry EFH ferrofluid; ask about reseller terms, MOQ, and being added to their authorized-reseller list. Note in the draft that we want the EFH educational line specifically (not the OEM industrial/vacuum fluids). Save for my review.
Apply to Eclipse Magnetics' distributor program (eclipsemagnetics.com/company/become-a-distributor). Draft the distributor application for WholeMagnetics as an online store covering their standard magnets + magnetic tools line (not the heavy separation equipment), emphasizing our established magnetics web presence and catalog. Capture what the form/onboarding requires and their training terms. Save the draft/application details for my review.
Open a channel/rep conversation with Industrial Magnetics Inc (imi@magnetics.com, 800-662-4638) to carry the licensed Max-Attach / coded-magnet line. Draft an outreach positioning WholeMagnetics as an online reseller; ask about dealer/rep terms, MOQ and margins. Save for my review.
Real and cool, but there's no realistic path for a small online store to resell them. They stay in the catalog as story, not as a sales line.
Sells iron-nitride magnet material to OEMs (GM, Stellantis, Moog). Nothing cataloguable to resell; keep as the rare-earth-free story.
Engineered components sold through Digi-Key / Mouser / established distributor accounts. Not accessible to a small reseller; keep as reference.
Wholesale exists but bars Amazon/eBay/marketplace resale and enforces RRP, and there’s no affiliate. Only workable via our own storefront under MAP. Optional hero product if you want it — say so and I’ll draft the reseller inquiry to sales@flyte.se.
Reseller status is by arrangement (education channel, e.g. Arbor Scientific). Possible but slow and niche; park unless you want the demo kit specifically.