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Cheat Sheet: Demo Review Shops
April 25, 2022
5:50 pm
This cheat sheet is a bit different: we’re looking at review sites that do product demos or walkthroughs. A bit of an inexact science. We led with the publications this time, not the editor in charge…
Cheat Sheet: Sites that Sell Gear (Mostly) to Guys
April 17, 2019
1:32 pm
It seems there are as many platforms as publications these days. A subscriber recently sent us a list of cool-things-to-buy sites, apparently geared to males and built on affiliate marketing, where the publishers make a commission on every item sold.
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