From Zero to Affiliate Hero
By: Wojtek Dziwalski
Tags: Training Courses, Affiliate Marketing, Saas Marketing, SaaS, Passive Income

Doesn’t this look just nice? Source: Stocksnap.io

Hello, Dear Readers,

My name is Wojtek and I’m in charge of Prospect.io’s partner program — a way to earn passively while recommending us to new, awesome companies.

Having worked on 2 partner programs in SaaS, I don’t consider myself any kind of affiliation guru (and you shouldn’t either, unless you want to, which is fine!) but working for past years with various affiliates, having seen all the different styles of promoting software to qualified prospective customers (or failing to do so), gave me a lot of insight I wanted to share, so you too can learn and hopefully send me a postcard from some tropical spot you kick back at while your money flows from all directions (this isn’t happening without the effort though, so there’s a catch).

If you want to bore yourself with more information about me or have a question, click that connect button on LinkedIn. I also have a fairly active Quora profile, although you might experience bits of really non-affiliate marketing related content, such as magic, dragons, and imaginary loot (yep, that’s D&D, my friends).

First things first, what is Prospect.io and why the hell would I want to promote it in the first place?

Good question! I will try to get you an answer that calls home for us and helps you understand why we exist, and why this program exists.

Back in 2016, we’ve developed a handy app that really saves the lives of salespeople by solving one of their biggest problems — where to source the lists of people I want to contact, and how to reach out in a way that lands us a happy customer and not a spam related lawsuit. Our solution was cold emails, and not just any cold emails, but automating the whole process while staying human. If the term “cold emails” doesn’t tell you much, make sure to check Lincoln Murphy’s article on cold emails first to get a good grasp.

(Don’t worry, I will be going in detail on how our app works in future articles. After all, how can you promote something you know nothing about?)

Dream big

At a certain point, we’ve realized that some number of our customers simply recommends us to their colleagues, peers and sometimes even clients. That gave life to our partner program, where all participants earn a 20% of the monthly payment of a customer they refer to us. This means that we pay you not only the initial 20% but also the portion of monthly payments we receive after that, for up to a year (assuming the customer stays with us and doesn’t bail to competition).

This partner program is an offer for sales professionals, SaaS enthusiast, Marketing Heroes, Social Media Ninjas and You. It doesn’t matter how you call yourself, if you have the chops (which roughly translates to motivation and will to learn), this is the right place to start earning.

Why should I pay attention?

Many times I talk to new partners that are eager to start and have a basic idea on how to do it, but ultimately, fall short on delivering the results and get discouraged in the process, eventually dropping the idea. Over the course of this series, I’m going to be talking in more detail about different promoting techniques that are compatible with Prospect, something useful for you to make your first, tenth and without a doubt— a salary-sized commission at some point.

“Sky is the limit” is quite a cliché, but at the same time, it’s the truest thing for affiliate marketing, because oh boy, it CAN scale up!

We’re about to go on a journey of learning how to influence without being pesky, how to reach out without being unsolicited, and how to convert without actually selling anything — instead, we are going to merely present the right option to the right people at the right time. Sounds easy, right?