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Chris Field

Will you please create an Affiliate Program or Referral Program? I would LOVE to send a bunch of my podcast friends over and most of them would be Team Users or Enterprise Users. I'll send them over anyway, but selfishly, I'd love to share in the wealth. Thanks!

October 17, 2019

Paul K Saunders

I would say that the industry standard is a 40% commission so that if you refer 3 your basically getting your own for free and this should be on-going meaning if I refer 10 I woulod earn 40% of their subscriptions for as long as they remain subscribers after its just Customer Aquistion Costs

Tamara

Whomever heads up your biz-dev really should jump on this. I don't do any affiliate programs (never have) but I'm beyond interested in doing some form of affiliate program, or something more detailed, with your product.

Edmund Amoye

@Andrew Mason: a good model is what @ajlkn does with @carrd. He built his from scratch. The system offers a 30% referral cut which is stored in my account and is applied when I need to renew or upgrade to another level.

Andrew Mason

What would you like us to give you in exchange for referring customers, and how much of that thing? Is there another affiliate program that you use and is a good model for what you'd like to see us offer?

Eric Hunley

@Andrew Mason: I think personally the best program would be for referrers to have a discount applied to their own subscription. If they refer enough people, they get it free. This only reinforces the loyalty.

If they refer more beyond, 5-10% while the referral stays on would be great.

Sean McCabe

@Andrew Mason: 30% recurring. See ConvertKit affiliate model for example. Credit toward own bill, as another commenter stated, is too low of a ceiling for me. I’ve referred over a hundred signups, and was planning to run more campaigns and events specifically designed around getting people to sign up for Descript, but at that scale, it only makes sense to do for a commission.

Bradley Keyes

@Andrew Mason: convertkit is the best/most generous model I’ve seen.
It works for businesses who train people in podcasting and and/or in your product because it’s a reccurring payment as long as their subscription lasts. 
This encourages creator to keep talking about your product and keep their audience interested in it, rather than a one off plug. 
Because of convertkit’s model I am drawn in more to write more blogs, emails and videos about it. It’s a great product and a great referral model.
Chat to them and see how they feel about it. I’m sure they are very impressed with their user driven/affiliate  leads.
Please don’t do in app credits.

Athena Simpson

@Andrew Mason: agree with below. if you end up referring a lot of people then money off subscription doesn't cover it if you get so many people it's more than your sub cost. I'm seeing a lot of the other platforms offer lifetime % back as long as someone you referred is subscribed and even another level of % back if they refer anyone. Have seen rabid referrals on those platforms because of this. In any case, I think it's crazy not to have SOMETHING given all of us are content creators and get asked how we do it.

Henk Werner

@Andrew Mason: I have been able to get 8 people to use Trello (free) and as reward, I got 8 months of Trello Gold. It's not super exciting, but it's still nice. If people sign up topaid subscriptions, then it would be nice to be rewarded for this. But I will simply go with the flow on this one.

Brentney Parks

@Bradley Keyes: I agree ConvertKit has a good set up.

Santi

@Sean McCabe: I completely agree with this! Funnily enough I am a paying member of Descript thanks to @Sean McCabe who introduced me and many others to Descript (hey Sean lol)

Trista Polo

I have recommended a LOT of people to try Descript and they have abandoned their current edit process and started using yours. I'd like to be financially incentivized to do this =) I would be much more proactive in my recommendations and referrals if you had an Affiliate program.

Matt Hughes | King of Video

Another vote for this

Andy Wang

One more vote for an affiliate program!

Camden Boyd

I really hope this becomes a thing soon! I want to share Descript with my friends and guests, but don't have a feasible way to do so without a program like this. This software is INCREDIBLE and I'd love to share it with the world! (I mean I definitely still am, just wish I had further incentive to do so)

DLKR

Agreed. Once the affiliate program is set up, register it with Skimlinks to get more reach and virality (incentivizes bloggers to link to descript.com).

Kia Kamgar

I'd love this too 🤓👍

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