Aquaponics Training Affiliate Program

We want to share this information with the world instead of keeping it for ourselves, so we are offering the following: we will partner with anyone (who has taken a group commercial aquaponics training or personal intensive training from us) to offer aquaponics trainings in your location using our training materials. Here are the conditions of the deal:

You must build and operate a commercial aquaponics system FIRST so you have a system to present the hands-on portions of the training with if you want to give commercial aquaponics trainings. If you want to teach Micro-System trainings or Family system trainings, you must have an operational system of that type and size ALSO (HAVE, not have one planned or under construction). You can give all three trainings, but you must have the appropriately sized systems with which to give the practical portion of each course. You must also have access to a decent training room with projector.

You must make a commitment to hold at least one commercial training per year if you want to get certified as a Commercial trainer; two trainings a year if you want to get certified as a Family System trainer; and four trainings per year if you want to get certified as a MicroSystem trainer. You also make a general commitment to keep expanding your aquaponics knowledge whenever you have an opportunity.

How do you get certified for this? Get your aquaponics system built and running, then simply convince us you are ready and capable of doing a training. We’ll check your general level of aquaponics knowledge with an open-book test. We don’t teach off the manual anyway, but from our knowledge of aquaponics. You need to develop a similar working knowledge of aquaponics in order to be competent to train others. You also need to feel confident enough to work with a room full of people who expect you to magically turn them into aquaponics successes. Our training materials don’t automatically make a training happen, you will be the person giving these trainings, and you need to be able to handle (as they say in Hawaii). Simply put, we need trainers who are going to faithfully pass on the knowledge and technology Friendly Aquaponics has developed, as measured by the number of aquaponics systems the students in your trainings actually build. This is how we measure our success: did it get implemented? If you want to get certified to give Personal Intensive Trainings, you will need to complete a really in-depth open-book test.

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What we’ll do to make you a success at your aquaponics trainings:

1. Anyone who wants to attend a bi-annual group Commercial Aquaponics Trainings (who has already attended one or a personal aquaponics intensive) may attend anytime one is given for a fee of $75 to cover course materials and pupus (h’or d’oeuvres). This will give you a reasonably cheap way to keep your aquaponics knowledge current. This offer is ALWAYS open to ALL who have already attended one of our live Hawaii courses, not just those who wish to train others.
2. After signing a binding agreement with us, we will provide you with printed copies of our Do-It-Myself packages (the same course materials we use) to use as course materials in your trainings, at a 50% discount on the prices we normally charge for them on the website. As per the agreement, our affiliates will price their live trainings at the same price we charge for the same live training. This leaves the affiliate with a reason to work hard to do a good job at these trainings, and also means affiliates won’t be able to compete with each other by lowering prices, and then be tempted to CHEAPEN trainings to make up the money lost by lowering the price. Transferring this knowledge whole and complete to a large sector of the general public is our goal here. We’ll update your course materials twice a year as part of the agreement with our ongoing R&D in aquaponics.
3. If you wish, and you put together a training with enough people to make it economically feasible, we will come and co-train with you, and teach you how to do aquaponics trainings at the same time we’re giving this training with you. If you’re interested, let us know, and we can give you some approximate cost figures (We need our expenses covered, and will charge a fee also).
4. In addition to this arrangement regarding live trainings, we will also give affiliates (you must have already qualified as a trainer to get this offer) a 10% fee to send purchasers for the associated Do-It-Myself materials to us, with a tracking system installed on your website with an affiliate code. We’ll process the sale, mail the customer their package, and remit your 10% via PayPal when the payment clears. Affiliates will NOT be allowed to print and sell the trainings in Do-It-Myself format (they’re our copyrighted materials). We will directly provide all technical support associated with the Do-It-Myself Trainings you sell.

How do I sign up for the affiliate program?

1. Simple. Email us photos of your operating aquaponics system at Friendly Aquaponics, and we’ll send you a copy of the open-book test and the affiliate agreement. Then we’ll start the application process, which will involve interviews, phone calls, and more. We will not automatically rubber stamp applications: as stated previously, transferring this knowledge whole and complete to a large sector of the general public is our goal here; and we need to make sure you’re capable of doing that.