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b2b-affiliate-program-playbook
Use this skill when building or fixing a B2B SaaS affiliate program — "set up an affiliate program", "our affiliate program is live but drives no revenue", "find affiliate partners for us", "what commission should we pay". The complete system - ideal partner personas via buyer-journey reverse-engineering, commission structure from the Allowable CAC formula, cookie windows, a gated application, an outbound partner-recruitment engine, a 4-email onboarding flow, launch-challenge activation, top-20% partner development, and twice-yearly audits with fraud removal. Built on the operating thesis that affiliates aren't links, they're people - programs win on recruitment quality and activation, not signup volume.
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Use this when a B2B SaaS company wants affiliates to become a real revenue channel — whether starting from zero or fixing a program that's been "live" for a year with nothing to show. The output at each step is concrete: partner personas, a commission model with the math shown, a recruitment pipeline, onboarding and activation sequences, and an audit cadence. The core thesis holds the whole system together: affiliates aren't links, they're people. A program with 1,000+ signed-up affiliates can still drive almost nothing — winning programs treat every partner like a person: onboarded, trained, given a real reason to show up.
## 1. Define ideal partner personas (IPPs)
Reverse-engineer the buyer journey: where do the ideal customers hang out online, and who influences them there? Those are the ideal partner profiles — typically micro-influencers on LinkedIn and YouTube, agencies and consultancies serving the ICP, niche communities, newsletters, content and review sites, and high-performing partners of competitors. **Ignore coupon sites** — they attract deal-hunters, not high-value buyers, and take credit for sales that would have happened anyway.
## 2. Set the commission structure from unit economics
Use the Allowable CAC formula: **Allowable CAC = LTV × (1 / target LTV:CAC ratio)**. Example: $8,000 LTV with a 4:1 target = $2,000 allowable CAC. Then pick the model — CPA, revshare, CPL, or hybrid — to fit the motion: strong unit economics can afford aggressive flat CPA (even 100–200% of first-month revenue); freemium products with slow conversion suit tiered revshare (capped at 12 months) plus cost-per-free-signup for trusted content partners, which rewards partners early instead of making them wait. One flat tier for everyone under-rewards the partners who matter.
## 3. Set the cookie window
Longer than the conversion cycle — 90 days minimum. A window shorter than the sales cycle silently robs partners of credit and kills trust.
