Your WordPress Affiliate Plugin is making your life so much harder.
They look at affiliate programs backwards, and as a result, you create a single, gigantic, complex program. This is really limiting! Let's dig into the pitfalls of that.
Chris Badgett invited me on the Lifter LMS podcast to talk a little about how Siren is changing how WordPress sites can look at not only affiliate programs, but partnerships in-general.
I think it sucks that affiliate programs only pay out a commission to the last person who referred that person.
What if you could share the engagement among everyone who ever referred that person? What if you could pay the person who referred the individual the most? What if you could pay someone based on the percentage of times they referred that person?
Affiliate programs as you know them today are so limiting. Siren's gonna fix that.
I made some progress on the Siren's Add Program screen recently. This is a key difference of Siren - affiliate programs are just one of many types of programs that you can create. Programs are tracked based on any number of different events, and the way they're paid out can be based on different incentive structures. You can have as many programs as you need.
This also highlights a key touchpoint with integrations like LifterLMS! 🧜♀️🚀
With the Hostinger news - it seems like a good time to mention rule number 1 of Affiliate Marketing - Affiliate links are not okay without getting knowledge from the reader. they're DEFINITELY not okay on a platform you don't own.
For many people (myself included), 40 hours a week is too much. I believe that we're long overdue to shake up this work model, and using knowledge from my nearly 20 years in the workforce, both as an employee, and a business owner, I have come up with what I believe is a better way to measure success.
I've been having some fun using AI to help me create a mascot for my affiliate program start guide. I'm really loving how much more fun it makes my landing page, compared to stock images of people. It's a great way to prototype a character.
I might make everyone into mermaids on this site 😅