Affiliate revenue economics
Verified revenue milestones, commission-margin tradeoffs, recurring commissions, cash flow, CAC, GMV, testing budgets, paid traffic ROI, and channel scalability.
36%
Best tweets about Affiliate Marketing
50 Best Tweets About Affiliate Marketing (2026)
Find the best tweets about affiliate marketing, including offers, content, attribution, partnerships, compliance, conversion, and sustainable revenue.
Affiliate programs, content strategy, partner selection, attribution, conversion, economics, compliance, and verified revenue lessons.
- Creators
- 44
- Updated
Original Xholic analysis
What 50 top Affiliate Marketing posts reveal
Affiliate marketing is framed less as passive income than as a managed growth channel: product fit, trusted partners, usable content, attribution and economics recur throughout the dataset. Native social-commerce access expands distribution, while individual posts also raise concerns about off-platform checkout, operational workload, attribution gaps and compliance.
- Dominant tone
- Positive
- Median score
- 8.03
- Leading format
- Opinion
- Recent posts
- 32%
56% of posts
All-time engagement
28% of posts
Published in 90 days
Conversation map
The themes creators return to
Affiliate content and conversion strategy
Reviews, tutorials, templates, listicles, landing pages, UGC, product demonstrations, paid amplification, and optimizing content for buyer intent.
32%
Partner recruitment and enablement
Recruiting customers, creators, newsletters, and niche partners; supplying proven content, swipe copy, demos, incentives, and relationship support.
26%
Affiliate program design
Commission rates, recurring payouts, cookie windows, payout rules, tooling, onboarding placement, referral thresholds, and program economics for SaaS and digital products.
22%
Performance measurement and attribution
Tracking clicks, signups, purchases, recurring revenue, untracked conversion paths, broken links, payment integrations, ROI, and partner-level reporting.
22%
Creator-led social commerce
Native affiliate shopping on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok Shop, Facebook, and other platforms; product tagging, checkout friction, platform access, and creator commerce expansion.
20%
Partner selection and quality
Prioritizing trusted customers, engaged micro-creators, buyer-heavy audiences, product-fit partners, and a small group of high-performing affiliates over vanity reach.
20%
Creator partnership operations
High-volume creator outreach, product seeding, follow-up, negotiation, approvals, payment administration, AI automation, and managing affiliate communities.
6%
Tone and stance
Sentiment Positive leads
Author posture Supportive leads
Performance benchmark
- Median likes
- 26
- Median reposts
- 1
- Median replies
- 4
- Median views
- 1.9K
Posts with media make up 56% of this collection. Their median all-time score is 12.1, compared with 6.92 for text-only posts.
Format mix
- Opinion 28% · score 3.83
- Announcement 24% · score 41.0
- Case Study 24% · score 12.3
- Tutorial 18% · score 4.70
Consensus and debate
Where creators agree, and where they do not
Shared view
Trust and product fit beat raw reach
Posts favor customers and smaller creators with credible product experience or buyer-heavy audiences over large but weakly aligned followings.
Shared view
Enablement turns partners into a channel
Affiliate recruitment is paired with practical support: swipe copy, demos, screenshots, content angles, calls and incentives intended to reduce the effort required to promote.
Shared view
Attribution must follow revenue
Posts stress tracking beyond clicksâsignups, customers, recurring revenue and payoutsâwhile noting that links, later direct visits and multi-touch paths can obscure contribution.
Shared view
Product pull precedes affiliate scale
Several SaaS posts argue that affiliates are more likely to promote products people genuinely want to recommend; these authors do not present program mechanics alone as a substitute for traction.
Open debate
Affiliate promotion: performance-only or paid?
One post argues referral distribution merits payment because some value may be untracked; another advocates performance-based compensation after broad product seeding and follow-up.
Open debate
Programs are simple to launch, hard to recruit
Some posts characterize an affiliate program as a relatively low-friction growth lever, while another reports that attractive terms and outreach produced no partner commitments.
Open debate
Commission rules need firm boundaries or flexibility
Suggested program norms include recurring commissions, cookie windows and clawback rules, while another post criticizes a self-referral ban as counterproductive for genuine customer-promoters.
Open debate
Social commerce is opportunity with friction
Instagram and YouTube posts describe expanded product-tagging access, while the Instagram launch post contrasts its off-platform checkout with TikTok Shopâs native purchase flow.
What performs
Patterns behind standout posts
Media posts outperform text median
Deterministic analytics show media posts have a 12.14 median all-time score versus 6.92 for text posts. High-scoring social-commerce and affiliate-framework posts are examples within the media set.
Announcements were the strongest format
Announcements have a 41.05 median all-time score in the supplied analytics, ahead of case studies at 12.33 and tutorials at 4.698. Platform-launch and revenue-announcement posts appear among the outliers.
Operational creator content had the highest theme median
Creator partnership operations is the smallest listed theme at 6% of posts, but has the highest listed theme median score, 49.276. Its evidence includes a detailed affiliate-army framework and posts on creator operations and program reporting.
Affiliate revenue posts are among score outliers
The analytics identify platform-commerce and affiliate-revenue posts among the five all-time-score outliers, including posts reporting Framer affiliate revenue milestones and strategy.
Statistical standouts
- View standout post 1 Score 179.7 · 22.37à median
- View standout post 2 Score 157.8 · 19.66à median
- View standout post 3 Score 124.7 · 15.53à median
- View standout post 4 Score 120.2 · 14.97à median
- View standout post 5 Score 107.0 · 13.32à median
Creator landscape
Who shapes this conversation
The five most represented creators account for 20% of the selected posts.
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1. Charles Floate đ
@Charles_SEO
2 posts
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2. ILIAS ISM
@illyism
2 posts
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3. Jordan West
@jordantwestecom
2 posts
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4. Roas ROI
@roasroi
2 posts
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5. RomĂ n
@romanbuildsaas
2 posts
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6. Dmitrii Volosatov
@volosatovde
2 posts
Top voices are dispersed, not dominant
The dataset includes 44 creators, and the top five account for 20% of placements. Repeat voices include contributors covering SEO, creator commerce, paid affiliate testing and SaaS partnerships.
Posts offer concrete operating recommendations
Several contributors recommend specific actions such as recruiting users first, supplying promotion assets, testing offers, tracking outcomes and concentrating effort on partners that perform.
Compliance and trust concerns appear in the evidence
Individual posts discuss an affiliate-linked telehealth advertising issue, report alleged affiliate-code injection on Motorola devices, and argue that paid-partnership labels could affect crypto-affiliate conversion. These are reported concerns or author claims, rather than dataset-level estimates of prevalence.
Since the previous snapshot
What changed since Aug 12, 2026
- 76% of the selected posts remained.
- The creator count changed by +1.
- The leading sentiment remained stable.
How this analysis was made
Themes, sentiment, stance, and post format are classified per tweet. All counts, shares, medians, creator concentration, freshness, and performance comparisons are then calculated directly from the published snapshot.
Xholic's all-time score compares engagement while accounting for reach, post age, and creator consistency. It is used for relative comparisons within this collection.
This report analyzes the exact 50-post snapshot shown below. AI identifies editorial categories and drafts explanations; all statistics are calculated from the snapshot, and every narrative claim is checked against cited posts before publication.
Best Affiliate Marketing tweets
Top Affiliate Marketing tweets from 44 creators
Ranked 01â50
- 01
@jordantwestecom ·
BREAKING!! THIS MAY BE THE BIGGEST SOCIAL COMMERCE NEWS OF THE YEAR! (and of course we saw coming lol!!) Instagram just launched native affiliate commissions for Reels. What TikTok Shop built in 2023... Instagram is copying in 2026!!! Here is EVERYTHING you need to know about how it actually works right now đ Adam Mosseri announced it this week. Rolling out NOW in the US, Brazil, India, Indonesia and Thailand. This is not a test. This is a FULL launch!!!! Here is how the mechanics work: Creators can tag up to 30 products directly in a Reel. They paste a product URL or pick from a brand's catalog. When someone buys... the creator earns a commission set by the brand. No link in bio. No workarounds. Native affiliate commerce inside the feed. FINALLY!! The KEY difference from TikTok Shop... Checkout still happens OFF Instagram. It redirects to the brand's site or Amazon. TikTok Shop keeps the FULL purchase inside the app. That friction gap matters a lot!! It is the reason TikTok Shop converts the way it does!! Is this the end of TikTok Shop? NO. (hahah) But it is massive validation that every major platform is moving toward creator-led affiliate commerce. TikTok proved the model works. Now everyone is copying it. Now here is the part I think most people do not understand yet... HOW DOES THE CREATOR ACTUALLY GET PAID?? This is important. Brands manage their commission rates through Meta's Commerce Manager OR through third party affiliate platforms like Impact, Rakuten, or Shopify Collabs. So if your brand already has an affiliate program set up on one of those platforms... your creators on Instagram can tap into it immediately!! (SAAS players let me know if you are involved??) When a viewer taps a tagged product in a Reel, they get redirected to the brand's site to complete the purchase. The affiliate tracking link follows them through that click. When the purchase is confirmed... the commission gets attributed to that creator and paid out through whatever platform the brand is using. (CLUNKY AF IMO) This is NOT as seamless as TikTok Shop where everything happens inside the app and commissions are tracked natively. But the infrastructure is there. Brands that already have affiliate programs running on Impact or Shopify Collabs are going to be able to activate this FAST!! (as far as I know) Honest take... it is WAY too early to know how brands are going to leverage this. Instagram has tried shopping features before. They have not always stuck. Creator behavior on Instagram is different. The algorithm is different. The buyer intent is different. We are going to test EVERYTHING and report back. But here is what I know for certain. The brands building owned creator communities RIGHT NOW will be able to activate them on Instagram, YouTube Shopping, TikTok Shop, and whatever platform comes next. The brands still debating TikTok Shop are going to be three platforms behind!! This is EXACTLY why we are called Social Commerce Club. Not TikTok Shop Club!! lolol We saw this coming. Build the creator community. Own the relationship. Activate everywhere. That is the play.
- 02
@AaronOrendorff ·
.@Seanfrank explained to @MBertulli how to build an affiliate army from absolute zero. The twist? Sean stole the entire playbook. He went to a closed Beverly Hills mastermind, heard @ItsHudsonBlake â founder of Comfrt â break it down, came back, and blew Mattâs mind. Hereâs the framework â - Recruit people with low-to-zero followers. Non-creators become the loyalists - Run content challenges at absurd scale. $10K for 1,000 videos in a month. 5,000+ entered. 10 emerged as elite content machines - No mission, no army. The product has to solve a problem people feel personally - Commission-chasers leave for the next bag. You want missionaries, not mercenaries - Nurture them like salespeople. Daily Discord. Two-hour weekly calls. One-on-ones with top performers - Take the best affiliate content and run it as paid media. Hudson is the #1 spender on Snapchat ($100K+/day). Affiliates earn commission on those sales too - Pay affiliates after the sale. That AR/AP difference buys you cash flow margin Meta never will Hudsonâs Comfrt will do roughly $600M this year. Third full year of business. Sean sat down with Hudson for a full Operators Titans episode and broke down the entire playbook, unfiltered.
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@FKThedesigner ·
If you want to increase your @Framer Affiliate revenue, I want to share a strategy Iâve recently discovered đ From now on, Iâm planning to make all my premium landing page templates fully paid. But my CMS-based templates will always remain free. By CMS, I mean templates where most of the system runs through CMS. For example: video platforms, news sites, blog infrastructures, etc. So why this strategy? Because while affiliate revenue is a great model, your income is limited unless you have a truly popular product. Compared to paid products, the upside is lower. Let me explain with my own data: - I currently have 7 templates - I make around ~$1,000/month from affiliate revenue - About $500 of that comes from landing page templates But hereâs the interesting part: My landing page templates have been remixed thousands of times, yet the conversion rate is quite low. On the other hand: đ A CMS template making just 3â4 sales per month đ Earns more than a landing page template with 20 sales So: - Fewer remixes - But significantly higher revenue The reason is simple: CMS-based templates are usually used with higher-tier paid plans. The reality is: Unless your template gets featured on Framerâs homepage or becomes one of the popular templates, itâs very hard to make tens of thousands of dollars purely from affiliate revenue. Thatâs why the focus needs to shift: đ Target high-conversion niches đ Build templates that solve real problems đ Stop asking âHow many people use this?â and start asking âAre users willing to pay?â Iâm moving forward with this strategy and will keep sharing what I learn along the way. Make sure to follow if you want to stay updated đ
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@UpdatesFromYT ·
Regardless of audience size, we know viewers trust creator shopping recommendations. đïž Now, all @youtubecreators in the YouTube Partner Program with at least 500 subscribers will have access to the YouTube Shopping affiliate program, meaning eligible creators can tag products from brands across Shorts, videos and livestreams.
- 06
@Charles_SEO ·
These two screenshots will explain more about REAL OnPage "EEAT" (trust signals) than most SEO courses... This is the PressWhizz footer and the bottom of the Charles Floate Training footer. PressWhizz: full company address, service categories, case studies, social profiles, careers page, media page, affiliate program. Everything a real business has. CFT: GDPR, Cookie Policy, Privacy Policy, Modern Slavery Statement, EDI Policy, Accessibility, Code of Ethics, Editorial Policy, Complaints Policy, Disclaimer, Terms. You don't need ALL of these on day one, though it will help considerably in some niches!!! Most affiliate and niche sites have "Home | About | Contact | Privacy Policy" and wonder why they can't compete with authority sites for YMYL terms.. This all now only takes an afternoon to implement and costs nothing with AI - It's the easiest trust signal win in SEO and barely anyone talks about it because it's not interesting enough for a conference talk.
- 07
@Digital_Nmesoma ·
From Being Born into poverty , to making 8 figures, Gaining global Recognitions and Winning Awards. This is the story of Nmesoma Uchendu a 16 year old girl who chose to fight against poverty and change her story. It all started from being born into a family of four My parents werenât rich to cater for us all so I was sent to live with a family member Five years later got into senior secondary school, started doing businesses in school with my friends to make extra income 3 years later I graduated from secondary school, and started working as an affiliate on @promptearn In 3 months I made 6 figures and later on decided to scale, which led to my content creation journey. Before I forget I used to sing but I paused to break poverty first! 1 year after graduating from secondary school I gained admission to study a degree in Public Health. I had to stay in a hostel and continued shooting content on my hostel bunk,but later on the hostel would become very unbearable to sleep in due to bed bugs and poor hygiene. I started having sleep paralysis and depression But that didnât stop me, I decided to start going to a friends house to shoot content (did this for 6 months) Untill suddenly⊠It all paid off! I got my first Apartment and finally had a place of my own to shoot content comfortably. Later on would cross 100k+ followers across all socials Would later cross 8 figures from affiliate marketing, and decide to create my own digital product and launch it on @tryselar Which would later cross 2M in 3 months and 14M+ in 1 year. I would later be recognized in Top 100 African creators on selar And win my second award in 2 years on Promptearn I just chased a dream and never looked back and this is just the beginning.
- 08
@nealmohan ·
Weâre bringing shopping content to more corners of @YouTube so you can buy the products you love directly from the creators you trust đïž Eligible @YouTubeCreators can now join our YouTube Shopping Affiliate program if they have 500 subscribers (versus the previous 5,000). Once enrolled, you can earn commissions by tagging products from affiliated brands across formats.
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- 09
@gumroad ·
Your best salespeople are your happiest customers. Here's how to turn them into an affiliate army: Step 1: Enable Gumroad's affiliate program on your product. Set the commission between 20 and 30%. This is generous enough to motivate people without eating your margin. Step 2: After someone buys and has had time to use your product, send them an email. "Hey, glad you're enjoying [product]. If you know anyone who'd benefit from it, here's your personal affiliate link. You'll earn [X]% on every sale." Step 3: Make it easy for them to promote. Give them a few pre-written tweets, a short product description they can copy/paste, and a summary of who the product is best for. Remove the friction. Step 4: Celebrate your top affiliates publicly (with their permission). "Shoutout to [name] who just helped 15 people discover [product]." This motivates everyone else. Step 5: Create bonus incentives. "Top affiliate this month gets a free 1-on-1 call with me" or "Hit 10 referrals and unlock my premium template pack." The beauty of affiliates is that they scale your reach without scaling your workload. Every affiliate is out there telling their audience about your product while you sleep. You built the product once. Let other people help you sell it forever.
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@daviefogarty ·
Creator ops for any brand that is scaling are an absolute mess. If someone can solve all these problems using AI, it will make them richer than they could imagine. - Outreach volume. The bigger companies need to be contacting hundreds of creators to make a difference. Most brands hire an influencer manager who can maybe handle 20-30 relationships properly, but that's not enough volume to find consistent winners. - Follow-ups. This is where 80% of potential deals die. The creator says they're interested, you send a product, then nothing. No one has time to chase 200 people who ghosted. - Negotiation. Every creator wants different terms. Flat fee, affiliate, hybrid, usage rights, exclusivity. It turns into a full-time job just managing contracts. - Content approvals. The creator sends content, it doesn't match the brief, you go back and forth five times, by the time it's approved, the moment has passed. - Tracking ROI. Which creators actually drove revenue? Most brands have no idea. They're guessing based on vibes. Payments. Chasing invoices, managing payouts, reconciling affiliate commissions. Administrative nightmare. This is why most brands either give up on influencer marketing entirely or throw money at agencies that charge 20-30% and deliver inconsistent results. So how do you build this with AI? Step 1: Define your ideal creator profile Feed the agent your ideal metrics. Follower range, engagement rate, niche, content style. Give it examples of creators who've worked for you before so it knows what "good" looks like. Step 2: Automated outreach at volume The agent DMs creators directly. Makes it personalised based on their content but the pitch is simple: we'd love to send you product, no strings attached. Replicate mass seeding where volume is the game. You're not trying to close deals, you're trying to get products in the hands of as many people as you can. Step 3: Automated follow-up sequence Did you like the product? What did you think? Would you be open to posting about it? The agent handles all of this and keeps the conversation going without you touching it. Step 4: Affiliate pitch Once they've tried the product and responded positively, the agent pitches the affiliate program. "We have a performance-based program. You get x% of revenue from your code. If your content works as a paid ad, you get a percentage of the ad revenue too." This filters for creators who actually believe in the product. They only make money if they drive sales. Step 5: Voice messages Founder voice DMs get opened because they feel personal, and they can't be skimmed/ignored. Pull a database of your best performing creators and creatives. Let the AI use those as examples when explaining what works. Step 6: Everything stays in DMs Don't try to move people to email or a portal. Keep the conversation where it started. Less friction, higher response rates. The whole system runs on volume, automated follow-up, and performance-based compensation. You're not paying $5K flat fees hoping it works. You're seeding product widely, following up automatically, and only paying creators who actually drive revenue. An influencer manager running this manually can maybe handle 30 relationships. An AI agent running this system can handle 300. Same playbook, but 10x the output. This is the agentic agency model I keep talking about. The brands that figure this out in 2026 will have a structural advantage that's almost impossible to compete with.
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@kyparus ·
why should referral posts be paid, even if thereâs an affiliate link: here are 7 reasons: 1: you create brand awareness 2: many conversions happen after multiple touchpoints, there's ~80% chance you're one of the first touches, even if youâre not the last 3: users often return later directly, without your ref link, but still because of your content 4. you generate volume and revenue that isn't tracked properly 5. affiliate links often break attribution (technical issues happen all the time) 6. some users remove referral tags or sign up later after doing their own research 7. distribution is marketing, and distribution should be paid referral â free promotion
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@Charles_SEO ·
Google just dropped a spam update AND a core update in the same week... And from the competitive SERPs I'm mostly tracking, have just rewarded MORE black hat techniques đ© Exhibit A: Google is now rewarding FAKE parasites đ€Ł - A FAKE local news site from my home city registered 5 years ago - Almost entirely AI-generated content - ZERO Backlinks (All Telegram Spam) - No Google News approval - FAKE editorial team, authorship or about us (NICE REAL WORLD EEAT VALIDATION) - ONLY launched casino affiliate pages at the end of January - Traffic has EXPLODED since ($400k/mo according to Ahrefs - Likely $1m/mo+ in commissions...) - Traffic value has TRIPLED in March alone during these latest updates... This is EXACTLY the type of page Google says its spam policies target: Third-party affiliate content on a site with no topical authority in gambling, no editorial expertise, and low quality generated filler content. And yet it's not just surviving the spam update, it's THRIVING in them, and seemingly doing the exact same during the core update too. At some point you have to stop listening to what Google SAYS the updates do and start looking at what the SERPs ACTUALLY show. I genuinely can't tell if Google's spam team doesn't know this exists (and a LOT more), or if their systems literally can't detect it because the root domain passes the trust threshold. The algo might be so far gone, they have really lost control of the black box and are just waiting for AI "to fix this" đ
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@roasroi ·
How to start with affiliate marketing? I get this question quite a bit in DMs (in different forms), and to all of those who DM'ed me, apologies in advance for not answering you directly but I will try to at least give some pointers. 1. We've all been there There are so many options, so many people that try to steer you in a particular direction. It is normal, feeling lost because of analysis -paralysis can happen. 2. You must test The ONLY way how to figure this out, is to test. What works for affil1 may not work for you. - At first, losing $1k on testing feels dauting, but if you realize that you just need 1 campaign / 1 ad to make it back 10x, it is not so scary - At this stage, I am prepared to lose $1-$4k on a test of a campaign before I get any traction at all, not even mentioning making a profit Nobody will tell you how to make it work. There is NO other way to figure this out other than spending your own money. No courses. No mentors. Nothing will help. Take you credit card, register on an ad platform, get a lander and get to work. 3. It all can work Organic, native, social, YT, reddit - it all can work. There is no secret key, special method, etc. 4. Ok but how to get started? If you genuinely have NO clue what vertical, offer or traffic source to go with: 4.1 Google "Top Affiliate Networks" 4.2 Apply to 3-5 of them 4.3 Schedule a call with rep or chat in TG 4.4 Ask "What are you top 3-5 offers, and what are their top traffic sources" 4.5 Get approved for those offers 4.6 Start running traffic from the traffic sources that they mention 4.7 Go to ad spy / ad libraries, see what runs, make smth similar THAT IS IT. This is how you will get started. 5. Don't quit Starting is easy. Not quitting after 1,2,3,4,5, failures is hard. Make yourself a promise, that you will daily test 1-2 new ads on a top offer for the next 3 month. 6. Affiliate Is a Normal Business - 10-30% ROI - problems with payment processor - people quitting - top campaigns shutting down - ads being stolen - lander being copied etc. this all will happen If you think that you will take $100 and make $ 10k. No. It wont happen. "But you can run organic" - sure. Go for it, it also works. 7. Stop learning Chances are you already know everything there is to know. You don't need another YT video, you need to apply your limited knowledge. Very high-level, but hopefully this will give this nudge to some of you that are on the fence.
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@illyism ·
A $2B company kicked me out of their affiliate program after I met the founder IRL, no warning, just an email. Fair game, I guess they control their program. But they don't control my top 10 listicles đ So I: 1ïžâŁ Moved them to the bottom of my top 10 articles 2ïžâŁ Messaged their competitors 3ïžâŁ Negotiating a better deal + backlink Good to own the listicles!
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@HedgieMarkets ·
đŠMotorola's preinstalled Smart Feed app on Razr Ultra and Razr Fold phones secretly hijacks Amazon app launches to inject affiliate codes into your purchases. The behavior showed up in version 2.03.0070, released in the latest software update. Network logs traced the redirect through https://t.co/L9hNKe4aKa (a mobile ad service whose Motorola integration page got quietly deleted this week) and then through a domain tied to a fashion influencer whose public affiliate codes do not match the ones being injected. The Razr Ultra retails for $1,300, the Razr Fold for $1,900. Motorola has not commented. Users can disable Smart Feed under Settings, Apps, Smart Feed, Disable. My Take Somebody on the Motorola side decided affiliate revenue from your Amazon purchases should fund the bottom line on a $1,900 phone. The behavior closely tracks the Honey scandal from 2024, where PayPal's browser extension was caught stripping other people's affiliate codes off Amazon purchases and replacing them with its own to skim commission. The difference here is that Motorola built the skimming directly into the operating system layer, not a browser extension you chose to install. https://t.co/Dd0IfTiCR9 had a public documentation page describing its Motorola integration, and that page now returns a 404 error after the Reddit thread went viral. A legitimate business partner does not scrub its own documentation hours after a story breaks. Whoever built this knew it would not survive scrutiny. Phone manufacturers want recurring revenue beyond the one-time hardware sale, and monetizing the traffic the user already generates is the easiest path to get there. Anyone running a Motorola phone should disable Smart Feed today, and anyone shopping for a new phone should price in the trust premium Apple and Pixel still command for not pulling stunts like this. Hedgieđ€
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@romanbuildsaas ·
Our affiliate program has generated $218,014.41 in revenue. Pretty insane for something that started very simple. Most founders make partnerships way too complicated. They think they need a huge launch, a partner portal, a perfect commission structure, a big announcement, all of it. We didnât have any of that at the beginning. We just asked: who already has the audience we want? For us, that meant people already talking to founders, sales teams, growth operators, and B2B teams. Then we made the offer easy to understand. What the product does. Who it helps. Why their audience would care. How much they get paid. Thatâs basically it. The playbook: 1. Find people with actual trust A creator with 5,000 people who buy from them is way more useful than a huge account with random followers. Reach is cool. Buyers are better. 2. Give them the angle Nobody wants to post âtry this tool.â They need the story. The pain. The use case. The before/after. Why it matters right now. Make the post easy for them to write. 3. Make the payout worth it If they can make more from one sponsored post than from months of affiliate commissions, they wonât care. The math has to make sense. 4. Track everything Who sent clicks. Who sent signups. Who sent actual customers. Otherwise youâre just guessing. 5. Double down on the few that work Most affiliates wonât do much. A few will quietly drive most of the revenue. Those people are not âreferrals.â They are a channel. The mistake is thinking affiliate = free revenue. Itâs not. Itâs borrowing trust from people who already earned it. And in B2B, thatâs usually the hardest part.
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@tibo_maker ·
2 affiliates are making money off a flaw in my product đ quick context: Outrank auto-publishes SEO content on Shopify stores and mentions your products in a really natural way it works great.. but honestly the setup is intimidating for non-tech people so these 2 affiliates started doing it manually FOR non-tech store owners they onboard the store, configure everything, content starts publishing on autopilot they've now made $10k+ doing this and it compounds: every store they set up keeps running, keeps ranking, keeps paying them (min $30/month/store in aff commission for life) love seeing this
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@TubeAIYT ·
YouTube just announced new features for advertisers. Here's what it means for your channel: 1. Buy with Google Pay on TV Viewers can now complete purchases from their TV screen in 2 clicks. YouTube is turning into a shopping platform. The channels that attract buyers are about to become significantly more valuable to advertisers. Higher advertiser demand = higher CPMs. 2. Custom Sponsorships with AI placement YouTube is now using AI to match brands to the exact moment a viewer is most likely to buy. Brands no longer just buys an ad slot. They buy placement next to content when a viewer is actively thinking about money. That changes everything for smaller channels. A 30k finance channel can now attract the same brand spend as a 300k lifestyle channel because the audience intent is worth more than the audience size. 3. Affiliate Partnerships Boost Brands can now pay to boost videos that already mention their products. You review something, tag the brand and they can amplify that video without any formal deal. The better your content fits their audience the more likely they are to boost it. Start talking about products more. 4. Multimodal Video Creation YouTube can now produce full ad campaigns with a few prompts using Gemini and Veo. AI generated brand content is officially on the platform. The creators who win from here have something AI cannot produce. A real face, a real perspective and a real audience that trusts them. This is what brands will pay a premium for. 5. New Creator Shows YouTube is signing Trevor Noah, Dude Perfect and others for exclusive shows on the platform. YouTube is becoming TV. If you're building a personal brand, build it for the big screen. YouTube is telling you exactly what it wants. Human content, product mentions, CTAs and long forms built for TV. Creators who follow this will own the next decade.
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@galligator ·
MEDVi statement in response to external speculation FDA letter In September 2025 and February 2026, the FDA sent an unprecedented number of warning letters to dozens of telehealth companies, drug companies and pharmacies regarding their direct-to-consumer advertising practices. In one of the FDA's letters, the URL mentioned is https://t.co/ER5jE4rkFd - not MEDVi's actual address of https://t.co/vKQD6AmVvo. The letter addressed to MEDVi was directed at an affiliate marketing agency whose website contained outdated copy. We immediately reached out to the affiliate and required them to remove the materials allegedly at issue. We understand the affiliate also directly responded to the FDA. My company MEDVi has never received a letter from the FDA. If we were to receive such a communication from any regulatory authority, we would act swiftly and collaboratively to address the matter. So-called "fake doctors" We have recently become aware of what appear to be advertisements featuring potentially AI-generated medical practitioners. Since we became aware of this issue, we have updated our marketing practices to make clear that this type of advertising and / or promotion is prohibited. We continue to proactively address this issue. Additional statement from Mr. Gallagher Building a company the size of MEDVi and scaling so quickly involves many learning moments. At each of these stages, I have course-corrected immediately and appropriately. I will continue to do so. The New York Times was recently given unprecedented access to MEDVi's business information and also interviewed our business partners and other collaborators. As I continue helping our customers achieve their health goals, I remain committed to building and operating transparently. https://t.co/8J9mjXx5AG
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@RossHudgens ·
The SEO career path of the future includes affiliate marketing. In the past, partnerships and affiliate would sit under paid teams, but within organizations where organic is by far the most dominant channel, having that sit under a âDirector of Organic Acquisition" now makes the most sense. This would allow organic teams to collaborate seamlessly with partnership teams, aligning LLM strategy across the organization instead of siloing it within paid programs. The SEO skillset is deeply valuable to affiliate motions: being able to properly quantify and find search demand, as well as being able to accurately model the upside of LLM improvements are all valuable skillsets when determining appropriate budgets across services. Within companies where paid marketing is a significant spend or otherwise, affiliate is such a big part of the companyâs revenue as to dwarf search, placing it under paid teams may still make sense. Organic social also has a place in this structure, too. Reddit and LinkedIn are best managed by social engagement teams, not SEOs. For those teams to be most aware of the influence they are having on LLMs, they should frequently collaborate with their search professional teammates. Thatâs only possible within an organizational design that supports it. Will your organizational design move towards an LLM future? Now might be the right time to argue for it to best drive performance at your company.
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@romanbuildsaas ·
Affiliates have generated $67,000+ for GojiberryAI. Weâve never really promoted the program. Some affiliates are making $7k+ per month in recurring revenue. People get affiliate programs wrong. Most of the time, a great affiliate program isnât about tactics. Itâs about having a product people genuinely want to talk about. No one wants to promote a tool that makes $0. Get traction first. Affiliates will follow.
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@jordantwestecom ·
I had an insane call with one of our clients yesterday!! Get this!!đđ He told me their UGC budget is now virtually zero. đŹ Not because they stopped using video content... Because TikTok Shop affiliates produce it automatically. Every creator who sells your product makes a video. You just license the ones that actually convert. (We help with that) And here's the part that blew my mind... That affiliate content shot in someone's living room is now outperforming what used to be your number one creative on Meta. The $5K studio video. The talent fee. The photographer. The usage rights. And the crazy part is that you only licence the videos that you know already are performing on TikTok shop, so you already get the top 1% of videos. đ° All of it... replaced by a creator who just loved the product. TikTok Shop didn't just change how brands sell. It changed who makes the content. And most brands haven't caught up TBH
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@CJSlattery ·
On the other side of partnership ads are 19% lower CPMs, 2x CTR, and 58% lower CPAs. Hereâs everything we learned about working with creators to achieve this: (note: I can't guarantee those metrics for youâŠbut these are our blended figures for clients): 1. Follower count doesn't predict performance. We've had 2,000-follower partners outperform 200,000-follower partners when the smaller account had genuine engagement and actual product experience. 2. Under 2% engagement rate is a hard pass for us now. No questions asked.k naturally on camera, do they have a real relationship with the product, and does their audience trust them? 3. Under 2% engagement rate is a hard pass for us now. No questions asked. 4. For accounts spending under $50k/month, micro-creators in the 5k-50k follower range are almost always our best performers. They're cheaper, more authentic, and their audiences are tighter. 5. Real customer partners at $100-300/video outperform professional UGC creators at $300-700/video more often than you'd expect. 6. Cap affiliate commissions on subscription products at first order value. 7. You need at least 5 active partnership ads live for the algorithm to have anything to work with. At scale, we aim for 15. I'll continue to share learnings, but if you want us to run this for you, DM me. We're already doing it for dozens of brands.
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@adrien_brbr ·
I emailed 130 newsletter owners to promote my SaaS. 40% lifetime commission. Good product. Clear pitch. 2 replied. Zero said yes. Tried TikTok creators too. Zero. "Build an affiliate program" is the laziest growth advice on the internet. Nobody tells you that finding affiliates is harder than finding customers.
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@dudufolio ·
STOP banning affiliates for self-referral. It's counterproductive. I just got banned from an affiliate program for earning $1.90 on my own account upgrade. I'm an actual customer using their product in two upcoming launches. I clicked my own affiliate link to check where it lands, triggered the cookie window, a month passed and I upgraded my account, got a $1.90 commission, and got BANNED the next day. I was planning on talking about them when I launch, but now I'm just pissed at the principle of it that I don't even want to. They will remain on Toolfolio because I think its an awesome tool and i don't believe my bias should be reflected on Toolfolio. Two reasons this policy makes no sense: 1. Affiliates who are customers are your best promoters. Don't punish them, instead encourage them to self affiliate or even give them a generous discount. 2. If you're worried about abuse, raise the payout or referral threshold. Don't punish real customers that also want to sell for you.
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@eugZolotarenko ·
Affiliates have generated âŹ162,000+ for Outrank đ What this taught me: - good products create their own momentum - we didnât have to push the affiliate program that hard, yet 961 people still signed up to promote it. It's a sign that the product is solving a real problem - when that happens, distribution becomes a result of product value, not just marketing effort So I think a lot of founders do it wrong... They try to engineer distribution before they've built something people naturally want to share. But when you build something that actually helps people: - people talk about it - people recommend it - people want to be part of it because doing so makes sense for them too.
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@roasroi ·
This week a guy from out TG group reached out. Said he would like to give affiliate marketing a go, as his agency is quite demanding and this could be a good passive income source... "You just find a winning angle, link to offer and that is it, right?" Affiliate marketing is the opposite of "passive" (and sometimes even opposite of "income") Apart from "just finding" the right angle, you are constantly putting out some kind of fires somewhere. FB/G/TT has a bad day accs got suspended tracking is wrong attribution is wrong offer is paused (nobody told you) offer changed funnel (nobody told you) 50+ people started promoting the same thing your ads are great... so now there are at the top of every spy service your ads are stolen bank asks questions it never ends anyway, I explained that give what he told me - continuing with the agency would seem to be a better choice (given his unrealistic expectations of affiliate marketing)
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@s_chiriac ·
There are SO many directories (and SaaS) without an affiliate program⊠And honestly, theyâre missing out big. Affiliates = free distribution. People promote you because they want to. Real example: One of my affiliates made $500+ from just 600 visits đ€Ż Thatâs not luck. Thatâs leverage. If you run a Directory or SaaS â set it up now. Rewardful / Affonso .io are great to start đ
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@ToltHQ ·
Your affiliate program should be able to answer questions. Whoâs leading the program this month? Which partners are dropping off? Which payouts are still pending? Tolt MCP lets you ask Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini and get the answer instantly, using your live affiliate data. No reports, no CSVs, and no more digging through tabs.
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@bradsmith ·
You've built your SaaS. Posted about it on social media. Tried organic marketing. Sent cold emails. And now you are considering ads. Don't start ads until you have this dialed in. Your customer wants to see a sneak peek inside your software before they join. Even a small conversion lift can change the math. If 1,000 people visit your page and your demo content improves conversions from 3% to 4%, that is 10 more customers from the same traffic. When we were working with Founderpath to help them scale, there were 2 important videos we made. 1. A promo demo video: The video below was used as ads on every platform. We also retargeted website visitors with this video to remind them to come back. 2. A founder video: This is where the founder gets on camera, shares their screen, and shows the features, use cases, and how it works. These 2 videos will help you scale not only with ads, but with your organic content as well. P.S. When I am an affiliate for a SaaS, I create my own YouTube videos showing a sneak peek of what to expect before they join. P.P.S. The reason behind the sneak peek is simple. I am assuming they have not joined yet. That is the perfect time to have a new customer click your affiliate link, right before they join. Have a SaaS? Post your link below so I can check out your affiliate program.
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@fatjoedavies ·
Don't overcomplicate this. AI doesn't have it's own opinions. It uses ranking 'listicles' or 'reviews' and summarises them. If a brand shows up multiple times across multiple listicles, it has a lot of confidence to show that brand in its answer. That's it. So, as a marketer, or SEO, the focus should be getting included in Listicles and reviews across the web. Sounds dated because SEO's can turn anything innocent into a dirty old tactic. But people love listicles. They are timeless. They are easy to digest (for humans and bots). They are easy to synthesise and summarise programmatically. I'm just telling you what's working + and you can verify it yourself at the sources being used in AI. You can do this by: 1. Outreaching to media outlets with ranking listicles. 2. Commissioning new listicles on relevant media If applicable, start an affiliate program, and ensure there's attractive incentive to show your brand. You can transcend 'tactics' by creating a more holistic marketing campaign that bolsters your brand and reputation - until your brand becomes an 'obvious' choice to include in lists. Think hubspot for CRMs or fatjoe for link building providers or ahrefs for SEO tools etc But I say, do both. Tactics while you wait for the world to catch up with how good your brand/solution is from your brand marketing.
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@coreyhainesco ·
When affiliate marketing works for your SaaS, it's one of the best scalable channels out there. Variable cost. Compounds over time. Pays you in customers you didn't have to acquire. But "works" doesn't happen by accident. It takes deliberate program design. I've codified everything I've learned running affiliate programs across all my SaaS products (most notably TrueList â all powered by Rewardful) into a "referrals" AI skill. Full playbook with commission structures, recruitment templates, enablement, fraud prevention, the works. TLDR of the playbook I actually use: 1. Design the offer 30% recurring for 12 months is the sweet spot for most SaaS. High enough to motivate, low enough to protect margin. 60-day cookie window. Pay monthly. 2. Pick a tool that gets out of your way For Stripe-based SaaS: @getrewardful. Setup takes ~15 minutes per product. Syncs with Stripe automatically, every paid signup gets attributed without me touching anything, no transaction fees on top. 3. Recruit customers first, not strangers Your best affiliates already pay you. They know the product. They can write about it credibly. DM your top 10 power users before anyone else. 4. Enable them properly Swipe copy. Screenshots. A one-pager on who it's for. Most programs fail because affiliates have no idea how to write about the product. 5. Promote the program itself Page on your site. Mention in onboarding. Email existing customers. Most founders launch a program and never tell anyone it exists. Affiliate revenue compounds in a way most paid channels don't â customers who refer customers tend to be stickier themselves. Lower CAC, higher LTV, durable distribution once it's running. (Rewardful + the full skill linked below.)
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@Whiskeyatx ·
Every once in a while you come across something that's ironic. Today I saw an ad for ATO, which is affiliate takeover, a massive conference for affiliates, guys who are performance-minded, performance-driven. My wife flew out there today for her job. I fly out there on Thursday to speak at the conference on the backend of it. I just clicked the link on and ad, and I looked at their landing page. Mistake number one and mistake number 100: Having a CTA at the top of your page outside of Google search will increase your CTR and destroy your conversion rate Be an affiliate and push those customers down a funnel where they have to read all the shit and then click to buy Don't focus on vanity metrics; focus on dollar in dollar out
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@brock_mammoser ·
Ok I keep seeing this in the comments, "this looks like a pyramid scheme" It's not lol A real pyramid scheme is where people make money recruiting other people, not actually selling anything The money just trickles up to the top That's not what we're doing at all Everyone in our program makes 15% of sales The "tiers" are just VIP levels If you sell a lot, you get early access to new drops, new colors in advance, more communication from us That's it Nobody is getting paid to recruit anyone I'm pretty sure that would actually be illegal Just a normal affiliate program Sell product, make money
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@om_patel5 ·
if you have a startup or an app and youre not pushing an affiliate program, you should probably start today $10,564 in revenue from affiliates alone, from 138 of them i pay 35% on every payment, ltd or recurring depending on what the customer buys no ad spend, no cac, and no risk because they only get paid when someone actually pays put the link in your onboarding email, your footer, your discord, everywhere every happy customer is a potential affiliate and most of them just need to be asked
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@maverickecom ·
4 years and over $1M GMV into TikTok Shop, here's what I've been surprised to learn. 1. Products must be new, in season, or niche. Videos must be interesting or relevant to go viral. Seasonal products are big. New eye-catching angles beat the old best seller almost every time. 2. The halo effect on Amazon is the real prize. When a TikTok video takes off, the bump on Amazon and the brand's website is clear. Sometimes those channels make more from the video than TikTok Shop itself, because trust is higher there. And here is the magic: those outside sales push your Amazon rank up, and that placement keeps paying you long after the video dies. This is the entire reason we run AI affiliate pages on Instagram and Facebook driving straight to Amazon at 100 to 200% commission. You are not buying salesâŠYou are buying rank you keep! 3. GMV Max ads are a force multiplier. They find the affiliate videos that are already working and pour fuel on them. Efficient spend, and a bonus: once you start spending, better affiliates show up asking for samples. Winners attract winners. Affiliates asking for 4+ samples are usually taking advantage of you. Sample grifting is real and it quietly eats margin. Track sample-to-sale rates by affiliate and cut the takers fast. This is another reason i like AI affiliates zero samples, zero grift, less upfront cost The content costs a few dollars and either performs or gets replaced. 4. The best brands run affiliate armies plus their own content. Look at what the fastest-growing brands on TikTok Shop do, like Greg LeVecchia has shared from Bloom and Hudsom from Comfrt built. It's volume: hundreds of affiliates posting daily, heavy sample seeding to small creators, boosting the winners with ads, and brand-owned pages posting right alongside them. Brand content is a cheat code because you pay no commission and the followers you gain build a flywheel. The answer is not either or. It's both, at volume. 5. Volume is money. The more videos you get live, the more likely you are to make money. Typically, 4000 videos = ~$100k GMV 8. Implement AI for reporting and scaling strategy biggest unlock I've found is running two armies at once: real TikTok Shop affiliates for trust and direct sales, and AI affiliate pages pushing Amazon rank you keep forever. âWhat gets measured gets managedâ - Peter Drucker Having ai give you data daily to make best decisions is key! Claude code dashboards do this great. I'd love to read what others have learned in the comments.
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@danclachar ·
Smart SaaS companies turn happy users into a growth channel. Thatâs affiliate marketing. I earn recurring affiliate income by recommending SaaS I actually use. Not because I built the software. Because I use it for my clients and in my own online business, and I genuinely like it. I still donât understand why more developers donât build affiliate programs in from day one.
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@volosatovde ·
I have compiled a list of 50 examples of SaaS affiliate programs. Most of them follow the same pattern: âą 20â30% commission âą 30â90 day cookie window âą monthly payouts âą clear refund & clawback rules If youâre building a SaaS affiliate program, donât start from zero. Benchmark first đ
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@JamesEbringer ·
Amazon's affiliate program launched in 1996 paying 4% commissions and the entire affiliate industry has been scamming you with that number ever since Here's what actually happened Amazon was a dying bookstore competing with Barnes & Noble on 6% margins 4% was the maximum they could survive paying It wasn't a commission rate it was a desperation rate Then every network that came after looked at Amazon and went "oh that's what affiliates get paid" And locked in the lowest possible number as the industry standard forever ClickBank, ShareASale, CJ, Impact, every network you've ever heard of All of them built billion-dollar businesses by paying affiliates the rate a 1996 bookstore could barely afford while selling digital products with 97% margins A $97 digital course costs the creator nothing to deliver The network takes their cut for "infrastructure" that Stripe replaced 10 years ago The affiliate does 100% of the work driving traffic and gets 25% The creator pockets 60% for sitting there The network skims 15% for processing payments that cost them 3% This is the most successful price-fixing operation in the history of the internet and nobody calls it that because everyone making real money inside it needs you to keep believing 25% is generous The networks paying 100% front-end and 50% backend MRR aren't being charitable They just stopped participating in the cartel TAP runs that play Study this
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@Nickeubanks ·
Affiliate marketing has a perception problem. People hear "affiliate" and think coupon sites and spam. The reality: the top 500 affiliates on @Digistore24 are sophisticated media buyers, content operators, and community builders running 7-figure businesses. The label undersells the category.
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@IsaacOdongoSr ·
Ugandan creators have been sold a lie that success on X and TikTok is measured by follower counts. The lie persists because platforms benefit when creators obsess over vanity metrics rather than actual revenue. A creator with ten thousand followers but no income is not a successful creator. A creator with one thousand followers who earns a sustainable living is running a real business. The difference is understanding where monetization actually comes from. Beyond follower counts, Ugandan creators can monetize through several channels that work regardless of audience size. Direct services are the most accessible. Offer consulting, coaching, or done-for-you creative work to businesses that need exactly what you demonstrate on your page. A creator who makes entertaining skits can charge local brands for short comedic ads. A creator who explains tech simply can charge for one-on-one tutorials. Digital products scale beautifully. Record a workshop in Luganda or English about a skill you have mastered. Write a PDF guide about growing on TikTok in Uganda. Sell templates, scripts, or strategies that other creators would pay to copy. Create once. Sell infinitely. Affiliate marketing works when you promote products you actually use. Mobile money agents, delivery services, local fashion brands, and software tools often have affiliate programs that pay commissions. Your genuine recommendation carries weight that a banner ad never will. Premium communities are underestimated entirely. Charge a monthly fee for access to a private WhatsApp or Telegram group where you share exclusive tips, answer questions directly, and host live calls. Even fifty members paying a small monthly fee creates reliable income that no algorithm can take away. The common thread is ownership. Follower counts belong to the platform. Your offer, your product, your community, and your expertise belong to you. Build those instead. IO
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@1752vc ·
Founders sleep on affiliate programs. It's one of the lowest-cost growth levers you've got. The setup is simple: 1. Get a program live â Rewardful, or whatever tool you prefer. 2. Pay generously. 20â30% recurring for the first 6â12 months is the sweet spot. 3. Remove all the friction. Give affiliates plug-and-play assets: demos, screenshots, copy. Better yet, hand over the actual posts and videos that have already converted for you â no guesswork on their end. 4. Start with the fans. Your happiest users are the obvious first recruits. They're already sold. 5. Put it in front of people. Announce it to your email list, stand up a dedicated page, work it into your social rotation, drop a link in your footer, and get listed in the affiliate directories. 6. Go recruit on purpose. Reach out to YouTubers, newsletter operators, and directory owners and pitch them directly. Do the work to make it easy, and your best customers will do the selling for you.
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@thebrianjung ·
Just got this DM from one of our affiliate partners for @kaizen This person had just a couple thousand subs on his YouTube channel and generated $8k in affiliates since last year. Affiliates have always been one of my favorite ways to earn additional income. If you find a good program that gives MRR and has sticky retention it can add up.
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@_Quivira ·
If you run crypto affiliate links on X, this Paid Partnership label is not small news. It changes how we make money. If every OKX or exchange post gets tagged Paid, people will trust it less and engagement will drop. That means fewer signups. The real problem is simple: If affiliate posts stop converting, small creators lose income first. The solution is shifting where the conversion happens. Instead of selling on the post: Sell in: âą Telegram âą DMs âą Guides âą Tutorials The post becomes the door. The conversion happens off X. Crypto creators that understand this early will survive. Those relying on direct affiliate tweets will struggle.
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@glenngabe ·
Focus on affiliate marketing? I shared the other day about Facebook's new affiliate partnership program that was announced on 3/26. The launch partners are Amazon and Shopee. One piece I missed was that eBay will be included in the coming months. Posts and Reels can include tagged products. https://t.co/8HsGnrS5DY
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