Your Part of the Bargain

The exact encouragement/reward bundle of will depend on the nature and level of your participation.

So, what’s your end of the deal?

Pretty standard trappings, really. You’ll circulate information and enthusiasm for my offerings to your audiences via email, social media, podcasts, your website, etc. We can hammer out the deets so it feels doable, authentic, and gainful.

The more your peeps engage with me and my stuff, the more you benefit, too.

Supporting You Supporting Me

I can provide you with:

You’re welcome to swipe copy from my sales materials as well. But, I think it makes most sense for you to create or tailor some of the copy yourself so that it better resonates with your audiences.

Additionally, I’m available to answer questions, field feedback, discuss the finer points, etc. I’m generally around during regular biz days/hours (Pacific Time).

Technically Speaking….

I’m a ThriveCart girl. My sales pages are there, most of my offers are served up via ThriveCart Learn, and my affiliate program is managed there. This is important in a few ways….

(To learn more about being an affiliate on ThriveCart, check out their article, What are my commissions and when/how am I paid?.)

Please Note: I reserve the right to change the following processes, terms, conditions, etc. at any time with or without notice to affiliates. I do my best to keep the info below up to date and to keep the lines of communication with affiliates open.

Application, Onboarding & Beyond

The Application Process

In most cases, it’s a two-part application process.

First, you’ll fill out an Affiliate Application here. Then, if accepted as an affiliate, you’ll complete the second part of the process on ThriveCart to get set up as an affiliate of mine.

If you’re joining the SBSF Affiliate Corps as a Contributor to an SBSF-hosted collaborative event (like a Bundle or Summit), you’ll only need to do the signing up on ThriveCart part of the process. Details about this are provided to wouldbe-affiliates at the time of the given collaboration.

Signing up on ThriveCart takes just a few short moments, especially if you have all the info (e.g., your PayPal email addy) ready or are already an affiliate of someone else who uses TC for their affiliate program.

Welcome Aboard!

Once you’re good to go in the ThriveCart affiliate account, you’ll be auto-approved promote any products for which I’ve enabled affiliate promotions. This is most of my offers.

As soon as they’re ready, info/links to affiliate promotional materials for each product will be shown along with your affiliate links in ThriveCart. (There will also be an Affiliates Hub here on the website, someday….)

Ongoing Communication with Affiliates

When you join the SBSF Affiliate Corps, you’re added to my email system. This is what enables me to communicate with you about affiliate opportunities. I will periodically reach out to the SBSF Affiliate Corps about upcoming events, launches, promotions, etc. that prime for you to promote as an affiliate. So be on the lookout for those!

You’ll also get all the emails non-affiliates get, like my weekly newsletters. I strongly suggest you stay subscribed to my list so you’re aware of what’s going on in the SBSF universe — it makes it easier for you to be knowledgeable about me/my biz/my offers that you’re promoting.

If you use different email addresses for “regular” email and “affiliate” email, I can manually put your affiliate email into a group that only gets affiliate announcements but not regular emails that go out the my whole list. Just LMK.

Affiliate Tracking

ThriveCart automagically does this. When you get set up with your TC affiliate account, you get your unique affiliate identifier code.

This is what enables ThriveCart to track how many people click through and subsequently purchase via one of your affiliate links. You’ll be able to see your own stats in your affiliate account dashboard.

Commissions & Payouts

This is all managed in ThriveCart. I select which products affiliates can promote and set the terms for affiliate compensation. TC tracks it all and issues payments when you’ve earned a commission.

Commissions

Here are the commission rates and cookie settings for all eligible products.

• Free products: 0% commission on free product but standard commissions on bumps/upsells/downsells
• One-time payment products: 30% commission including for any bumps/upsells/downsells
• Memberships/Subscriptions: 20% commission on the initial purchase + 15% commission on subsequent recurring payments for as long as your lead is a member/subscriber

No Self-Commissions Allowed

You’ a’re not eligible to earn commissions on your own purchases of SBSF products.

Unfortunately, at the time of updating this page, there’s no automatic way to prevent this from happening in ThriveCart. So, if I see that you used your own affiliate link(s) to buy something, I reserve the right to cancel the associated commission (assuming I catch it before the corresponding commissions payment goes out).

This can happen inadvertently if you’re testing your aff links and later go on to buy something from me. It’s NBD but is something for you to be aware of.

Additionally, I reserve the right to cancel commissions accrued before the stated Affiliate Promotion Period opens for formal promotional campaigns for events (like Bundles or product launches).

I do this to discourage early promotion bc I think my audience should hear about SBSF events, products, etc. from me first. And, in the case of collaborations, I want to ensure Contributors have a chance to reach their own audiences before other Affiliates. (Don’t worry, tho, it evens out in the end bc of the cookie settings! 👇)

Cookies

Cookies are set to last-cookie and are active for 60 days.

Payments

Right now, most Products are set so that commissions are individually automatically paid after a 14-day delay. HOWEVER, I’m in the process of changing everything over so that commissions will be bulk paid on a specific day of the month (usually the 8th).

Bulk payments PUTS MORE MONEY IN YOUR POCKET (bc you’ll have less taken out in processing fees, more on this below). They also streamline my (and your?) operations bc, instead of 10 random commissions for like $.90-$3.60, you’ll just have one transaction to track and just one notification email. This approach really does make loads more sense for my low-ticket offers.

Also, I don’t offer refunds (hello, digital products, can’t get ’em back once they’re in the wild) and all my aff-promo-eligible offers are pre-paid, so there’s really no need for a window to ensure that customers’ payments have cleared and are “bankfully” settled. So, there shouldn’t be any scenarios in which I’d have to clawback a commission that’s paid out.

All commissions are paid via PayPal. So you must have a PayPal account set up and connected to ThriveCart if you want to be paid. There is no minimum payout amount threshold. I will not do manual payments.

Affiliates are responsible for PayPal fees. This is a PayPal thing. Neither I nor TC have any control over this. Check PayPal to see what the fees are for your location as it differs from country to country.

So, Who the Heck Am I?

Well, I’m not Jean Valjean (24601! 🎶) — that’s for damn sure.

I’m Suz (rhymes with “news”). Currently, I live in the beautiful (though frequently gray and wet) PNW but we’re toying with the idea of being at-least-part-time digital nomads.

My background and career experience are in business management, operations management, marketing support and communications, and information and knowledge management. These days, I’m solidly in the marcom space, mostly helping small and medium-sized businesses do stuff like start and fill out their blogs or writing or revising their service pages.

The jump into digital and POD products is a natural extension of my 1:1 freelance and consulting work. I’m hoping it’ll:

• Help augment and diversify my income streams
• Give me additional opportunities to connect with and serve more people
• Reinvigorate me personally and professionally
• Keep me on my toes and always learning new things
• Be a fun and interesting lane

If you want more/different tidbits, feel free to go down these rabbit holes….

Professional Life

outside of work

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