Social Affiliate Method: Starter PackageGiving you a fully functioning and revenue-generating social affiliate channel… In just 90 days.
If you’re here, then you have a hunch that social affiliates could really help your brand grow, but you’re kind of clueless about how to start. The outreach, the tracking, the KPIs, the whole system built around working with creators—none of it is really in your wheelhouse. (And you don’t have the bandwidth to own it.) OR…
Maybe you've already started testing your theories? You’ve kicked things off with a handful of affiliates. They’re sharing a few codes here and there and sending some traffic your way now and again. But…that’s about it. There’s no structure and no plan that will allow your program to scale.
Either way, you could use an assist confirming your instincts are correct:
Social affiliates absolutely can be your brand’s most powerful growth engine.
And our Starter Package is designed to prove it.
Our seasoned, full-stack team steps in as your expert affiliate department for 90 days, building you that requisite rock solid foundation — setting the strategy, building the systems, sourcing and onboarding partners, and running the day-to-day relationships — so you can give up the guesswork and rely on more than gut instinct.
With this done-for-you approach, you’ll be handed a fully operating channel that’s primed to scale.
With this done-for-you approach, you’ll be handed a fully operating channel that’s primed to scale.
Built for two starting points
Starting from zero
You know social affiliates and influencer partners could create a real revenue channel, but there's no program, no process, and no one with the bandwidth to build one from a blank page.
Stuck where you left off
You already have affiliates and maybe a tracking platform and a spreadsheet of contacts, but the program stalled, the process lives in someone's head, and nothing is documented or easily repeatable.
Either way, in 90 days you get a functioning, documented, revenue-generating affiliate channel — running in your own tools, with your budget and goals in mind, using a proven process your team can take over with ease after we hand it off.
The timeline + targetsStrategy, Systems + Setup
Month
1
Every foundational decision gets made in the first 30 days — goals, KPIs, offer, tooling, assets, and process — so months two and three are pure execution. We give you our best recommendations based on what we know works; however, you are the key decision maker, and our team always works with your brand’s best interests in mind.
Identify your top 3 program priorities and build a realistic timeline to hit them
Translate revenue goals into real KPIs — affiliates needed to hit target, outreach volume required, average monthly affiliate revenue, quarterly targets, revenue per affiliate, active-promoter rate, and channel ROI
Map the specific, controllable performance benchmarks for your first 3 months
Strategy + Goals
Finalize your affiliate offer(s) — discount type/percentage and commission payout
Define or sharpen your ideal partner niches, matched to your buyer's demographics
Build and populate a live outreach + follow up tracker of qualified prospects
Set your do-not-work-with list and approval qualifications: follower count, engagement, and more
Set KPIs for cold and warm outreach and sign-ups
Write personalized outreach and follow-up scripts, per partner niche
Partner Sourcing + Outreach
Set up your shared Google Workspace, including signatures and canned snippets
Select — or audit and optimize — your affiliate tracking platform, and configure your offer
Get logged into every platform the channel needs, with working access (See "The access we need" below)
Build and test your affiliate sign-up page
Build and launch your welcome email + text flow
Systems + Tooling
Design extra earning incentives, if budget allows (first-post bonus, one-month anniversary, etc.)
Write promo asset talking points and scripts, with copy + layout outlines for graphics (graphic production available as a separate line item)
Site-map and build your Influencer Resource Center in Notion
Write every channel-specific SOP, plus a full FAQ doc
Align with your CX team on how they field product, shipping, and fulfillment questions from affiliates
Stand up a recurring weekly team meeting — wins, blockers, questions, campaigns, KPIs, strategy
Build your gifting strategy and budget for every stage — outreach, onboarding, restocking, contests — including unboxing optimization and personal-use coupon code guidelines
Content, Process + Team
Month
2
3
+
Outreach, Engagement + Growth
With the foundation set, we shift to running the channel — growing the roster, making sure new affiliates are onboarded properly and staying engaged, and building the reporting your team will rely on.
Run outreach and onboarding across warm and cold leads. Target: 50 new affiliates onboarded over the engagement
SOPs for affiliate communication, including target response times
Build automation wherever it saves time — auto-responders, snippets, and more
Growing the Roster
Launch a weekly affiliate newsletter and perform personal check-ins with new/key affiliates
Get on calls with existing affiliates for program feedback and relationship-building
Stay active with affiliates on Instagram and email
Create fresh content ideas each month and share creative brief(s) with affiliates
Share Instagram tips & tricks to help affiliates perform
Affiliate Engagement
Build and maintain a live affiliate revenue dashboard
Start mapping a campaign calendar, including monthly affiliate-only campaigns
Reporting + Planning
“I’ve been burned too many times by ‘top tier’ agencies promising big results but failing to deliver. The team at Social Affiliate Method more than proved their worth. They not only did what they said they would do, they went above and beyond. I trust them completely and would 100% work with them again.”
– Vibrant Blue Oils
How it worksGetting Started with the Starter Package
Apply
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Fill out a quick form, telling us about your brand and where your program currently is (or isn’t).
Discovery Call
2
We talk through your goals, budget, and expectations, and whether this is the right move for your brand.
Kickoff
3
Once our teams are aligned, we start with a productive working call—collecting essential info and setting strategy. Then, our team gets right to work building your channel!
Weekly Reporting
4
Throughout the 3-month build, we provide weekly updates and set time for regular meetings with you. This is your chance to ask questions, provide feedback, and make sure everything is on target.
Offboarding
5
At the end of the 90 days, we leave you with a complete, revenue-generating, scalable social affiliate channel. Everything is in place for your team to easily take over, including a starting roster, SOPs, and overall structure that’s built for growth.
What it Costs2 Pricing Options
$6,500
Month-by-Month
3 payments: $19,500 total
OR
Save
20%
$15,600
Paid in full, due at kickoff
Both options include a seasoned, full-stack team dedicated to building your channel, plus the entire 3-month engagement described above: strategy, systems setup, outreach, onboarding, engagement, and reporting.
FAQsYou Might Be Wondering…
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To build and run your social affiliate channel, we need complete access – not view only – to every platform the program touches:
Your ecomm platform (ie, Shopify)
Your shipping + fulfillment software
Your ESP (ie, Klaviyo)
Team workspaces (ie, Chrome, Slack)
Instagram
Any other social platform we’ll be using
Your affiliate tracking platform
Any other software or service you use that’s applicable to the channel (ie, Canva, Claude)
If we can't operate independently inside these tools, we won’t be able to deliver the program above. This is a requirement of the engagement, and we'll ask for it in week one.
That being said, we respect your company's policies and how you run your business. We're not here to edit or own anything outside the affiliate channel — our access and our work stay scoped to that, and nothing else in your ecosystem.
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Our team owns this process, so we do all the heavy lifting. In order to respect your limited bandwidth, we start the project by collecting as much necessary info as possible—your brand’s mission, vision, values, goals, and budget—which allows us to make decisions that are in line with the ones you’d make yourself. We also get access to all the platforms we need in order to minimize roadblocks.
That being said, you are the key decision maker, and our team won’t make any big choices without your green light.
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Not at all. In fact, social affiliates are a great source for the UGC in paid ads. Our team can help negotiate those usage rights. Similarly, if the ads team needs specific content for the paid media, we can work to collect that from affiliates.
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Product seeding depends on your budget, margins, and growth goals. We’ll figure out the correct strategy for your brand during our kickoff call. The end goal is to make sure you’re not losing money and the affiliates still have what they need to create content.
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Absolutely. Before we start building, we’ll discuss in detail both your growth goals and limitations and set targets accordingly.
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First, we’ll dig into why your program missed the mark in the past—and make sure we don’t make the same mistakes. Most likely, your channel never had the proper systems and structure in place, and there were too many gaps left unfilled. Our team has a proven method – that we’ve used with dozes of clients – that prevents anything from falling through the cracks and instead allows for successful scaling.
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You're left with a running, documented channel your team can operate on its own.
If your team needs extra training, we have options to support them, including our 8-Week Course, our Monthly Membership (with monthly group strategy calls), and ad hoc consulting.
If you'd like our team to keep running your channel, let’s talk through next steps before Month Three wraps!
Your next stepsLet’s Start Building Your Channel…
Applications take about five minutes. We read every one and follow up asap to schedule a fit call. Apply below or email us at team@socialaffiliatemethod.com with your questions.