Guides for South African creators
How the work actually works: what an affiliate programme pays for, how commission becomes a rand payout, and how to promote a campaign without losing the trust that made it worth running.
The basics
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What an affiliate programme actually is
Affiliate marketing is often described as passive income. It is not. It is paid work with a delay, and knowing exactly how it works is what keeps the delay from feeling like a surprise.
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Where to put your tracking link
A tracking link is not a post. It is a door. Where you put the door decides how many people walk through it, and the best placement is not the same on every platform.
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Choosing campaigns your audience actually wants
The highest-paying campaign on the page is rarely the best one for you. What matters is whether the people who trust you would want the thing being offered.
Getting paid
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Approved conversions, and why they get reversed
A reversal is not a penalty and it is not a judgement about you. It is what happens when the network that pays for an action decides, after checking, that the action did not hold.
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How rand payouts work
Networks pay in US dollars. You are paid in rand, by EFT, at a rate that is set once for each payout run and recorded so that the number cannot move afterwards.
Doing it right
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How to label a paid link in South Africa
If you are paid for a link, the people who follow it are entitled to know. Being open about it costs you almost nothing and protects the thing that made the campaign worth running in the first place.
Ready to try it?
Applying is free and every application is read by a person. You need to be 18 or older, and you need at least one active channel we can look at.