Turn on the onboarding emails and put your affiliate offer in the first one

Reditus gives every program a set of automated onboarding emails, and they are off until you save them. That is the whole reason this lesson exists: a surprising number of programs run for months with a default sequence that has never been enabled, and every affiliate they approved in that time got nothing.

How the sequence works

Each email has a trigger, a delay, a subject and a body, and an enable toggle. The trigger is an affiliate joining your program; the delay is immediate or a number of days after. Disabled emails are not sent. The body takes dynamic values, so it can carry the affiliate's first name, their personal link, their coupon code and the link to your resources without you writing anything twice. Send-and-open stats update once a day.

For reference, the sequence Reditus runs on its own program is a welcome email immediately, and a "how to promote" email three days later. Two emails, both with an ask.

What goes in email one

The offer for their audience, and the first ask. If you give affiliates a discount to pass on to their readers or clients, it belongs in the first email, with the coupon code filled in, because it is the thing they can act on that day. Then the one action from the last lesson, with the link to the material. That is it. Not who you are, not how great the product is; they applied, they know.

Email two, a few days later, is the how: the angles that work, where to find the assets, what the best affiliates in the program do. Later emails, if you use them, each carry one more ask. An onboarding sequence is a series of asks with help attached, not a welcome brochure.

The test that costs nothing

Sign up to your own program as an affiliate with a second address and read the sequence the way they will. If the first email you receive is about you rather than about what they can do, rewrite it. If you receive nothing, the toggles are off.