The Affiliate Playbook: Free Affiliate Marketing Course
How to Earn Your First $100?
Get paid for the recommendations you already make. No need for a bigger audience, no experience required.
A free, 5-module online course to learn how affiliate marketing really works, which programs are worth your time, how to find the audience you already have, and how to create content that converts.
Then follow a step-by-step plan to earn your first $100
Affiliate Marketing Fundamentals
How affiliates actually get paid, and why it’s not the same as being an influencer.
The real difference between affiliates and influencers
How tracking links and codes make sure every sale is credited to you
Cookie windows, commission structures and payouts, explained simply
How some of the world’s biggest affiliate programs work
What Makes a Good Affiliate Program
Learn to spot the programs that deserve your time.
Why recurring commissions tend to pay off more than one-time payouts
The tracking and attribution features to check before you commit
What good affiliate support looks like
The industries with the strongest affiliate programs
A side-by-side look at social media SaaS affiliate programs
Checklist: 14 questions to score any affiliate program
Finding Your Niche and Audience
Recognize who your audience is and what they need.
How to identify the audience you already have, whatever its size
How to match products to your audience by relevance, fit and consistency
Why a smaller, engaged audience can convert better than a big one
Why social media tools are one of the most sustainable niches for affiliates
Guide: what to promote and where, across 10 industries
Content That Converts
Create useful content that actually drive conversions.
Evergreen vs. time-sensitive content, and how to balance both
18 places to share your affiliate link, from newsletters to Notion pages
How to recommend products naturally, without hard-selling
How to repurpose content and use AI to create it faster
Bonus: a Claude agent that helps you build carousels faster
Getting Started as a Metricool Affiliate
Become an affiliate today and make your first $100.
What Metricool is, and why it’s relevant to almost any audience
How the program works: the Associate and Partner tiers
How to create your affiliate links and 30-day free trial codes
How to track clicks, signups and earnings in your affiliate dashboard
How and when you get paid
Your step-by-step plan to earn your first $100
This Course Is for You If
You create content or run a community,
and people keep asking for your recommendations.
You’re a social media manager, freelancer or agency,
and you already use Metricool or social media management tools.
You’re already part of affiliate programs
but want to learn what you’ve been missing and where to focus.
You want income that builds over time,
not one-off brand deals.
No, you don’t need to be an influencer
Affiliate marketing is one of the most accessible ways to start earning from your content, even with a small audience.
Influencers:
Affiliates:
What You’ll Take Away
Unlimited, on-demand access to all 5 modules
Downloadable resources
A Claude carousel agent to help you create content faster
Video tutorials, including how top affiliates drive sales
A certificate of completion
The affiliate marketing course made by Metricool
Metricool is the social media management platform trusted by more than 4 million professionals, agencies and brands.
Most of what you’ll learn in The Affiliate Playbook applies to any affiliate program. In the final module, we will show you how to put it into practice with ours:
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