Our Disclosure Policy

At Men with Pens, we’ve worked hard for years to bring you our best so you can use our knowledge and experience to reach your business goals. We’ve built a strong, trustworthy reputation with our readers and clients and we want to keep it that way.

So in keeping with that whole open and honest thing, let’s talk about our affiliates for a second. Our affiliates are guys who can do things we can’t do – or if we can do them, these guys do it even better. Basically, they’re people and businesses in whose awesomeness we sincerely believe, and we want you to reap the benefit of their expertise for the exact same reason we want you to reap ours – so you can reach higher levels of success without having to make all the mistakes yourself.

So why use affiliate links instead of just putting up a button that points the way? Well, think of it this way: your friend has an awesome service and you really want to tell people about it. He gives you two ways to tell people. Either you can just tell them, or you can tell them AND get a dollar whenever anyone happens to think your recommendation is just what the doctor ordered. We think it’s kind of a no-brainer.

Are we getting rich off the affiliate programs? Man, don’t make us laugh. We’re not buying sport cars and racehorses with our affiliate sales here. We can’t even afford a horse. Not even a little horse. Not even a pony.

But hey, if you want to take our recommendation and not toss us the small change for pointing the way, then it’s really easy to just Google the company in question and bypass us entirely. You don’t have to use our affiliate link. We just think it’s nice when you do, because it lets us know that we recommended something that’s useful to you, and that’s why we have affiliates in the first place.

We only put up affiliate links to stuff we sincerely love, endorse, and think that you’ll get a lot of benefit out of. We don’t get any compensation for reviewing any of these products and services, and we have no contract or obligation. It’s just us, recommending the things we think you’ll like. We always like to hear your feedback on how well we’ve chosen our affiliates, too. If you don’t thinks one of them is worthwhile, tell us all about it. We may agree.

And if you do like it and think it’s really worthwhile? Well, heck, click on the link. That’s what it’s there for.

(It’s also our secret pony fund. But don’t tell anyone.)