{"id":97,"date":"2022-12-19T08:26:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T16:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2022-12-19T08:26:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T01:26:13","slug":"high-touch-affiliate-marketing-how-to-get-paid-to-play-matchmaker-in-your-niche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/19\/high-touch-affiliate-marketing-how-to-get-paid-to-play-matchmaker-in-your-niche\/","title":{"rendered":"High-Touch Affiliate Marketing: How to Get Paid to Play Matchmaker in Your Niche"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/R2-00663.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/R2-00663.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/R2-00663-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/R2-00663-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/R2-00663-650x418.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Being in the position to turn away work as a freelancer or consultant is an enviable place to be, but being in the position to turn away that work AND get paid for it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even better!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Doherty had spent years working in the digital marketing space, both as an employee and a freelancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As his SEO consulting business crew, he reached the capacity of how much he wanted to work, and started essentially selling leads to friends and colleagues he trusted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That little\u00a0<em>side<\/em>\u00a0side hustle is now John\u2019s full-time focus, and today\u00a0GetCredo.com\u00a0is generating $500-600k worth of deals for its partner digital marketing agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the connector and facilitator of those deals, John takes a commission. It\u2019s affiliate marketing, just with a bit of a twist from\u00a0the kind we\u2019ve covered before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI purposely set out to build a brand that is outside of just me,\u201d John said. \u201cI\u2019m really trying to make this a high-touch service to really help businesses connect with the right agencies for their needs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tune in to hear how John earned his first finder\u2019s fee, how he\u2019s built up both sides of the Credo marketplace, and how he\u2019s priced his service in this high-touch affiliate marketing model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong>\u00a0John\u2019s model is perfect to generate a passive income arm for your freelance or consulting business. Here are a bunch of\u00a0affiliate programs that pay recurring commissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being in the position to turn away work as a freelancer or consultant is an enviable place to be, but being in the position to turn away that work AND get paid for it? Even better! John Doherty had spent years working in the digital marketing space, both as an employee and a freelancer. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-97","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-consulting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehustleera.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}