Affiliate Program
topic on 3 shows · 11 statements across 9 episodes
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11 statements about Affiliate Program, every show
Swulinski: 10% to 15% of Viktor acquisition comes from affiliate program
“Like for Victor, a good 10 to 15% of our acquisition on a monthly basis comes through our affiliate program. And that's, you know, people that want to earn money because we give them between 10 and 15% revenue share.”
Marc Thomas: Lifetime SaaS Affiliate Payouts Stay Flat or Rise as Sales Drop
“The number of new sales actually drops over time, but the amount that you're paying out does not. In some cases, it even grows the amount that you're paying out, because if you've got expansion revenue working, you're still paying for the same percentage.”
Thomas: Capping Recurring Affiliate Commissions at 12 Months Drove Program Growth
“I cut one of these recurring commission things, just like I said, one month notice, that's it. Like, after this, it's just, No more commission on anything older than 12 months. We actually saw an increase in referrals after that because people were like, Flip,…”
ElevenLabs' One-Week Affiliate Program Build Generates Tens of Thousands Monthly
“So for example, affiliates, we set up over a year and a half ago, and that now is bringing in over, you know, tens of thousands of dollars of MRR Per month. But this was set up a year and a half ago by one engineer in one week, and then no one's touched it sin…”
Affiliates drive 70% of Systeme.io's sales, earning $100,000 monthly
“70% of our sales come from our affiliate program. We pay our affiliates over a 100,000 US dollars per month. So we pay 40% lifetime commissions to our affiliates.”
Walling: Launching an affiliate link won't attract promoters without active biz dev
“Running an affiliate program and just starting it and having a link available, almost no one is going to come in who has an audience and promote your stuff. This is more like business development. At this point, it becomes enterprise sales, or at least having …”
Jones: Successful SaaS affiliate programs pay 15% to 20% to influencers
“Right, so the average programs and the one we see to be very successful is they're paying 15 to 20% out to the influencers and it's working for everyone.”
Jones: SaaS companies pay affiliate commissions for 12 to 24 months
“People are paying between 12 and 12, 12 and 24 months for that.”
Barry: ConvertKit gets 25% of revenue from affiliates with 30% commission
“So we, about a quarter of our webinar, a quarter of our revenue comes through the affiliate program and then we pay out a 30% commission.”
Cardew: Pixc gained 1,000 signups in three weeks from one affiliate
“We just launched our beta program, sorry, our beta affiliate program in December with one person, and they did a long form piece of content, and they got us a thousand signups in three weeks”
Lifehacker separates genuine product recommendations from affiliate link monetization
“We recommend products we like, and then the business side will go say, okay, do these people have an affiliate program? Let's, you know, let's see if we can put that in. Rather than us saying, okay, who has an affiliate program we can try to recommend and make…”