Your first month as an affiliate

Your link is in your affiliate portal. Every time someone signs up through it and buys a subscription, you earn 25% of their first payment. The average first purchase is $23.71, so that is about $5.93 per subscriber. Your first payout is sent once you pass $50, which is 9 paying subscribers. Each commission is held for 60 days before it is paid, so refunds and chargebacks can settle first.

Anyone who clicks your link is tracked to you for 30 days, even if they sign up later.

One thing to do today: send your link to 3 people you know are job hunting right now. A personal message beats a public post every time.

The fastest first payouts come from people you already know. Take five minutes and write down 10 names:

• Friends or family between jobs
• Classmates who graduated in the last year
• Former coworkers affected by layoffs
• Anyone in your network whose LinkedIn says "Open to work"

Message each one individually. Mention something specific to them, like the role they want, then offer the tool as a way to get more interviews from the applications they are already sending.

Always say it is an affiliate link. People trust a recommendation more when you are upfront about it, and disclosure is required.

LinkedIn is where job seekers and the people helping them spend their time. One useful post can bring in more signups than a dozen links dropped in comments.

Posts that work lead with something the reader can use right away, and put the link at the end. Pick one of these and make it your own.

Communities are full of people asking "why am I not getting interviews?" That is exactly the question the scanner answers.

• Alumni groups
• Bootcamp and course Slack or Discord servers
• Layoff support groups
• Industry subreddits and forums

Read each community's rules first. Most ban self promotion and affiliate links. Where they do, answer the question properly and offer the link only when someone asks. Where links are allowed, still lead with real help.

Never post the same message in many places at once. It reads as spam, it gets you banned, and commissions from spam are voided.

Two weeks in, check your affiliate portal. It shows every visitor, signup and paying subscriber your link has brought in, and how close you are to the $50 first payout.

At about $5.93 per subscriber, an extra $100 takes 17 paying subscribers. If your warm list is used up, the next step is one public post and one community.

Check what is working, then do more of it.

Messages and posts fade in a few days. A link in the right place keeps earning for months.

• Coaches and mentors: add it to your intake checklist or the follow-up email after a session.
• Creators: put it in your YouTube descriptions, your link-in-bio page and your newsletter footer.
• Bloggers: write one honest guide on tailoring a resume to a posting, and link it there.
• Everyone: add it to your LinkedIn featured section.

Whatever you do, keep it honest: say it is an affiliate link, never promise a job, and never pay or reward people to sign up.