Social Affiliate Method: ResourcesOur favorite tools, tips + vendors
for giving your social affiliate channel a lift.
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When you want to know the specific moves you should be making now to grow your social affiliate channel.
No matter where your program’s at—just starting, stuck, or ready to scale—we’re sharing what matters most when it comes to optimizing your channel.
No trends that won’t stick or lofty theories that only work on paper; you’ll only get insider info that actually works, eases the overwhelm, and gives you ideas for easy wins. Because, social affiliate marketing shouldn't feel like rocket science.
Membership + Mastermind
For brands running busy affiliate channels who need a 2nd set of hands in the room, but don’t have the budget for another full-time hire.
We created the Social Affiliate Method Monthly Membership to support lean teams—for less than it costs to bring someone on payroll.
As a SAM member, you get a monthly strategy / mastermind call, weekly office hours, access to a community of other brands doing the same work, 100 qualified leads passed to you every month, and a custom curated creative brief with fresh promo ideas to share with your affiliates.
Productivity Toolkits
When you need help with your outreach, onboarding, and engagement systems—fast (and without spending a lot.)
We have 3 toolkits that help your team increase its productivity without getting stuck in the weeds.
Each include a variety of scripts, templates, playbooks, and resources, all designed to help you implement important to-dos quickly. Instead of guessing, testing, and optimizing, you can spend your time strategizing and scaling.
Engagement How-to Guide
You don’t just want affiliates. And you don’t even want a lot of affiliates. Having a lot of high converting affiliates probably isn’t enough either.
What you want is a lot of high converting affiliates who promote your offer forever.
The key to having affiliates who have it all is treating them like royalty.
And in this guide, we’re telling you impactful ways to inspire loyalty to boost long-term affiliate engagement.
When you put them into action, you’ll see a lift in your affiliate LTV almost instantly!
Outreach Pro-Tips
When it comes to finding affiliates, it might or might not be about quantity for you. But it should always be about quality.
And while finding those top tier creators might be pretty easy, getting them to say YES! to signing up definitely is not… unless you say the right things.
This handy little guide gives you 10 things to say when communicating with the creators on your leads list so you can increase your sign up rate in a flash.
See the complete scripts and tips in our pdf. Coming soon!
Engagement Pro-Tips
REMEMBER: Affiliates are pretty much working for you for free—or at least without a guarantee of income.
So, you need to make it worth their while to choose you more than any other brand.
One way to make sure a healthy percentage of your affiliates are promoting for you (and not your competitors) consistently is to surprise and delight them with thoughtful gestures.
By doing so, you’re showing them you’re grateful for the work they’re doing for you. And when affiliates feel seen, they work hard to make sure your brand is visible, too!
This cheat sheet gives you 7 ideas to surprise and delight your affiliates. Put the pro-tips into play and you’re sure to see an increase in your engagement.
Branding
You really shouldn’t get started scaling your social affiliate channel until your brand is brag worthy.
This means it’s crystal clear to customers who you are, what you’re selling, and what makes you stand out in the marketplace.
If you’re brand still looks like a side hustle or is missing the bridge between its purpose and its power, it’s time to work with an expert who can take your bold vision and turn it into something unforgettable.
Elly & Nora Creative is our go-to team for getting your branding nailed down. Founder Sara Chambers is a master strategist, TEDx speaker, and bestselling author who’s spent nearly two decades helping businesses get clear on who they are and build a brand loud enough to say it.
(NOTE: Much of her clientele are female entrepreneurs, but she works with all types of owners!)Affiliate Tracking
Affiliates need 2 fundamental things to promote your brand: product and a tracking link or code.
When it comes to the tracking, there’s a lot to consider beyond the basics. Some of the things we look at are: reporting capabilities, ability to customize links and codes, campaign management possibilities, app integration, and cost.
Having researched almost all of them out there, GoAffPro is our #1 pick for your tracking platform.
It plugs into the major ecomm shopping platforms, automates referral tracking, lets you set custom commission structures and tiers, and handles payouts — all without needing an engineering team to build it from scratch. The setup is actually quite easy and can be done in a day. And their customer support is really responsive in case you get stuck.
And our favorite part: it’s super affordable, maxing out at $99 per month. There are no super fancy bells and whistles, but there’s also no contract and no commission payout.
Wellness Marketplace + Affiliate Network
Recruiting the right affiliates—who are on-brand and actually able to sell—is often a painstaking process.
For wellness brands specifically, that search gets a lot easier when you're not building the network from scratch. Sourcing health-focused creators, checking them for compliance, and making sure they sign up and stay active takes a lot of bandwidth that most in-house teams don’t have the time for.
LiveShopWell is a curated marketplace built for exactly this. You get an army of high quality creators promoting your brand—for free.
LiveShopWell connects wellness brands with vetted health creators who build their own storefronts to sell your products, and it handles recruitment, onboarding, compliance, and payments on the backend. It runs on a performance-based model, so there's no upfront spend or risk. In fact, some brand partners have reported revenue lifts as high as 5X!
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