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Reditus Academy · Track 5 · Months 4 to 12

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Replicate what works and scale the channel: the checklist

Turn a working program into a channel with a number attached: tiers that reward the affiliates who carry it, a paid-ads policy you can enforce, affiliates equipped to win search and AI answers, and a report a board understands.

Print it, or save it as a PDF, and work down it. Each step says how much counts as done. Full lessons at getreditus.com/academy/scale

By the end of this track you have

  • A public tier ladder that promotes on paid-referral count, and a private tier for your originals before any public rate comes downTheir terms changing under them is how your best early affiliates go quiet.
  • A paid-ads and brand-bidding policy you can enforce, set from your own conversion on paid trafficAllowing it is a policy decision, not automatically fraud. Some programs turned their own ads off because affiliates run them on a percentage.
  • A one-page truth document affiliates can write from, and a content campaign for list and comparison articlesAI answers absorb the clicks and keep the citations. Fresh list and "versus" articles are what gets you cited.
  • One slide a board understands: affiliate share of new revenue, the cost lines, and paybackGood programs get 20 to 30% of new revenue from affiliates. That number, with its costs, is the channel.

Lesson 1

Design your tier ladder, and move your originals to a private tier when you lower the public rate

Build public tiers that promote on paid-referral count, use private tiers for agencies, consultants and communities (their own rate and duration, a client discount code, closer contact), and protect early affiliates when the public rate comes down.

  • Design the public ladder on paid-referral count, from your own top-fifth numbersTarget: A ladder your top 20% would climbTiers reward the affiliates who carry the program. A ladder nobody reaches is decoration.
  • Create a private tier for your original affiliates before you touch the public rateTarget: Originals moved firstLowering the public rate without a legacy tier is how the people who built the program go quiet.

Step-by-step in the help centre

  • How to Set Up Tiered Commission Structures in Your SaaS Affiliate Program · getreditus.com/help/tiered-commission-structures-saas-affiliate-programHow to set up tiers.
  • How to change the tier of an affiliate · getreditus.com/help/how-to-change-the-tier-of-an-affiliateMove one affiliate to another tier.
  • Tracking referrals with coupon codes · getreditus.com/help/tracking-referrals-with-coupon-codesCoupon codes for private-tier partners.

Lesson 2

Decide paid ads and brand bidding as a policy, not as fraud

Choose between no paid ads, one whitelisted paid-ads partner, geographic carve-outs, or open paid ads, based on whether your funnel converts paid traffic, and enforce it with the tools you actually have.

  • Check your own conversion on paid traffic before you decideTarget: Visitor to paid, from your own adsIf paid traffic does not convert for you, it will not convert for an affiliate either, and you will pay commission on nothing.
  • Set the policy and write down how you will check itTarget: One policy, one checkA policy you cannot enforce is a policy you will discover from your own ad costs.

Step-by-step in the help centre

  • Setting up your paid ads policy · getreditus.com/help/paid-ads-policySet the policy in your program settings.
  • Allowed vs Restricted Affiliate Promotion Channels · getreditus.com/help/allowed-vs-restricted-affiliate-promotion-channelsWhich channels you allow.

Lesson 3

Help your affiliates win search and AI answers, the compounding play

Give affiliates what gets them cited: fresh listicles and comparison articles more than raw domain authority, a truth document of what they can say, titles that match how buyers ask, and a content campaign that pays by outcome.

  • Write the one-page truth document: what affiliates can and cannot say about you, with the numbers they may useTarget: One page, shared with every affiliateAffiliates write with AI like everyone else. Without your facts they publish a confident, wrong article under your name.
  • Run a content campaign for list and comparison articles with the titles buyers actually searchTarget: A campaign with the titles attachedLLMs weigh freshness and list or "versus" formats more than domain authority. Give them the format.

Step-by-step in the help centre

  • How to create affiliate campaigns? · getreditus.com/help/how-to-create-affiliate-campaignsThe content campaign mechanics.

Lesson 4

Report the channel to a board with a number attached

Present affiliate revenue as a share of new revenue with its cost lines and payback, use the ROI sheet for the forecast, and drop the vanity metrics that make the channel look busy instead of profitable.

  • Build the one slide: affiliate share of new revenue, commissions paid, platform and payout costs, payback monthTarget: One slide, updated monthlyGood programs get 20 to 30% of new revenue from affiliates. Activity metrics do not survive a board meeting; that number does.

Step-by-step in the help centre

  • Affiliate program reporting and analytics (SaaS) · getreditus.com/help/affiliate-program-reporting-analytics-saasThe reports the numbers come from.