Affiliate disclosure

Target Market Atlas recommends outreach and sales tools that we believe help industrial sales teams act on the buyer lists in our reports. Some of those recommendations are affiliate links, and we may receive a commission if you sign up through one. This page explains what that means for the way we write the reports and what it does not.

The rule

Commissions never affect which companies appear in a Target Market Atlas report. The companies mapped in a report — Tier 1 OEMs, Tier 2 fabricators, converters, distributors — are chosen from public sources against a fixed methodology described on each report page. No company has ever paid to be listed, and none of the tools we link to from /tools or from a report's “Next steps” block are companies whose position in a report is influenced by the affiliate relationship. If we ever start ranking a company because a vendor asked us to, we will stop and this page will say so, in the same words.

Where affiliate links appear

• The /tools page, which lists the tools we recommend for outreach, CRM, and prospecting.
• The “Next steps” block below the buyer landscape on each report, which points at the outreach tool we use.

Every affiliate link on the site is routed through /out/<partner>, carries rel="sponsored nofollow noopener", opens in a new tab, and is marked as an affiliate link in a one-line disclosure sat next to it. Search engines are asked not to index those redirects (X-Robots-Tag: noindex).

How we choose which tools to link to

We link to tools we would recommend without the affiliate program — the same criterion that decides which suppliers appear as “typical” on a materials or applications page. When two tools would earn a commission and one is better for industrial sales, we link to the better one and take the smaller commission. When a tool would earn a commission and we would not recommend it, we do not link to it.

Payments

Payments run through affiliate networks such as impact.com and through vendors' own partner programs. Commissions are paid to Grand Roma LLC of Grand Rapids, Michigan, which publishes Target Market Atlas.

Questions

Any question about a link on the site goes to reports@targetmarketatlas.com. We will answer within two business days.