A practical affiliate application guide written from the vendor's side of the table, by someone who personally reviews hundreds of applications a month. See the real mistakes vendors encounter, understand what they may look for, and give yourself a much stronger chance of approval.
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Most affiliates assume their applications are fine. Sometimes they are. Sometimes they are missing information, contain mistakes, or simply give a vendor too little to work with. We know, because we read them.
I review hundreds of affiliate applications every month across our WarriorPlus product range. And the same problems appear, over and over, from applicants at every level of experience.
These applications can make it much harder for a vendor to say yes, and in some cases they may be declined without the applicant ever understanding why.
The frustrating thing is that most of the affiliates sending them probably have something genuine to offer. They just don't know how to show it.
Hi Nick & Kate, My name is [Name]Still a placeholder and I run [Brand / Website URL]Never filled in
I serve an email list of [X] subscribers and an active social following of [Y].Both blank
Past performance: conversion rates around [6%] and [2000+] sales.Our figures, not theirs
Thanks, [Name] [email address]Including a personal email... why?
Names and identifying details redacted. Every annotation is ours.
There's no shortage of affiliate marketing advice out there. Almost all of it is written by affiliates, for affiliates.
This guide was written from the vendor's side by me (Kate James), who reviews affiliate applications for all areas of our online business at eShowcase and MarketingTips.com. I've spent years on the receiving end of applications, first in recruitment and now in affiliate management. As you can imagine, over the years I've seen what helps an applicant make a strong case and what repeatedly creates problems.
This isn't theory. Every bad example in this guide is real. Every annotation is based on what we saw in the original application. Every model application was written with the review process in mind; that is the perspective we bring to it.
Whether you're applying to promote our products or anyone else's, the same principles apply. Get your application right, and you give yourself a stronger chance. Get it wrong, and you may never know which part of the application caused a vendor to hesitate or decline.
The guide covers the full journey, from setting up your WarriorPlus presence to writing an application note that vendors actually want to approve.
This guide focuses on WarriorPlus, but the principles apply to affiliate applications on any platform. If you apply to promote products anywhere, the advice here is relevant.
Across eShowcase and MarketingTips.com, Nick and I receive affiliate applications for our whole product range. Over the years we've seen the same mistakes appear again and again, and we've also seen the applications that make it easy to understand who the affiliate is and how they plan to promote.
I'm Kate James, Co-Owner and JV & Affiliate Manager for eShowcase and MarketingTips.com, and I handle affiliate relations and application review day to day. Every example and annotation in this guide comes from a genuine application we've received, and the model applications are built on that same real-world experience.
Before this, I spent almost 12 years in specialist recruitment, placing candidates into healthcare and clinical research roles and building two recruitment departments from scratch. It's a different setting, but the same job: reading what someone sends you and deciding whether to put them forward.
That's what this guide gives you: a look at your application through the eyes of the person deciding, before you hit submit.
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Getting approved is the first step. Once you're approved, you'll want to start promoting, and this is how you do it without ever staring at a blank screen. Inside you'll find templates for:
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The examples and screenshots are from WarriorPlus, but the underlying principles apply to affiliate applications on any platform. If you apply to promote products anywhere, the advice here is relevant.
Yes. One of the four model application notes inside is written specifically for someone with zero sales and no audience yet. The guide also covers what to build first if you're starting from nothing.
It's a PDF. As soon as your order is complete you get instant access through our online portal, so you can read it on screen or print it out.
24 pages: long enough to be thorough, short enough to read in one sitting. It's a practical, working reference; not padded to look bigger than it is.
No guide can guarantee that; individual vendors make individual decisions. What this does is remove every avoidable reason for a decline, so your application is judged on genuine fit rather than a mistake that could have been fixed in five minutes.
You've got 30 days to decide. If it doesn't help, email us and we'll refund you; no questions asked.
You have 30 days to try it. If it doesn't help, email us and we'll refund you: no questions asked.
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A complete, practical guide to understanding what vendors may look for, avoiding common application mistakes, and giving yourself a stronger chance of approval. Includes 15 real annotated examples, 4 model application notes and a 15-point checklist, as a 24-page PDF.
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Yes: I Want to Get ApprovedP.S. Every mistake in this guide is one I've seen in real applications... and every one of them can be avoided. Read it in a single sitting and you'll have a clear checklist to work through before your next application. And if it doesn't help, you have 30 days to ask for your money back, no questions asked. So the only real risk is sending another application and never knowing why it was declined.
Kate