Your advocate account provides access to marketing materials, promotional tools, and support resources to help you successfully promote AWeber and maximize your earnings.
Referral Ads and Banners
AWeber offers a number of resources to help you advertise your referral link. Each of these is integrated with your advocate account, such that someone clicking on one of these banners, images, or web forms will be tracked under your referral link if they go on to purchase an account. In this article, we will review how to access our pre-made ads.
Step By Step Instructions
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Once logged in, under the "Ads" tab, choose which content type you're interested in (scroll down for a more detailed overview of your options).
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Scroll down the page until you find the item you would like to place on your site, and copy the HTML that we provide below it.
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Now, paste that HTML into the HTML of your website and save/upload the changes.
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Advocate Landing Page
If you don’t have a website, you can still promote AWeber using a Landing Page.
Note: To create a Landing Page, you will need to create an email marketing account . For more information on setting up an email marketing account, see: Getting Started with AWeber .
Step By Step Instructions
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If you’re still logged into your Advocate account, log out of your Advocate account and log into your email marketing account .
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Create a Landing Page and select the Advocate Template. You may need to scroll down or use the search option to locate this template.
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This Landing Page can be fully edited as needed. To ensure that you receive referral credit when a user signs up using a link on the page, you’ll need to edit any hyperlinks on text and buttons on the page to replace the links with your own referral link.
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Make sure to update the hyperlink on each of the 3 buttons on the page as well.
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Once the page is formatted the way you want and has updated hyperlinks, click “Save & Exit” to exit the editor.
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Publish your Landing Page to obtain a link that you can share with prospective referrals.
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Blog
AWeber's Marketing team maintains a blog that can be of great use to AWeber advocates looking to promote our service and earn payments.
What are the benefits of the blog?
Providing knowledgeable and easy-to-understand information is one of the best strategies for helping your prospective referrals learn more about how email marketing can benefit them. AWeber's blog is packed with information on all things email. With tips on digital marketing, list growth, monetization, and so much more, your referrals can learn everything it takes to become a successful online marketer in no time.
The blog is a particularly valuable educational resource on email marketing for our advocates:
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The information is entirely free
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It is regularly updated with relevant posts for business owners
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It helps to keep your prospective customers engaged
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It has information on a variety of topics relevant to anyone interested in the benefits of effective online marketing
How does this help boost my referral payments?
By continually educating and engaging prospective customers with relevant information, the blog can help build confidence in the benefits of AWeber, and give your referrals the guidance they need to be successful.
In turn, when they place an order, your referrals are ready to start building their business online immediately. The quicker a new AWeber customer can get their business up and running, the faster their list will grow, and the more referral payments you will receive.
How do I tag blog links with my advocate ID?
You can reach businesses who want to learn more about email marketing and AWeber by tagging links to our blog posts with your advocate ID. To do this, add "?id=XYZ" to the end of any link from our blog.
For example, if your ID is 99, you'll add ?id=99 to the end of any link from our blog. This would look like:
When we receive visitors through your advocateID-tagged links, we'll associate that visitor with your advocate account.
If they then sign up for an account (either on that visit, or on a subsequent one), you'll receive credit for that referral. When they upgrade from Free to Pro or they sign up for a Pro account, you'll start to receiving between 30% - 50% based on your previous 12 months of referrals.
Here is the commission payout structure:
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30% Commission - For referring 0 – 99 new paid accounts within a trailing 12-month period.
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40% Commission - For referring 100 – 499 new paid accounts within a trailing 12-month period.
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50% Commission - For referring 500+ new paid accounts within a trailing 12-month period.
Live Webinars
AWeber's free, live webinars provide our advocates an opportunity to promote a very valuable resource to potential customers.
Through the Customer Referral program, whenever a purchase is made, advocates receive 30% referral payment for that initial payment and any subsequent ones made on the account.
What makes webinars valuable to advocates?
Live Webinars are a free and valuable resource available for advocates to promote. Our marketing team offers a few different training sessions, each with it's own benefits.
Getting Started with AWeber Webinars
Some business owners who could benefit from email marketing might be hesitant to begin. Starting anything new can be intimidating, and learning a new technology is a big step.
Our getting started webinar helps potential customers move past these hurdles by:
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Giving them confidence, demonstrating that there are only a few steps necessary to set up a profitable campaign
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Walking them through a complete set up process from start to finish, with live video and audio from our marketing team
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Going beyond the step-by-step instructions to include strategic information as well as as tried-and-true ideas for what to write in messages
By covering material that builds confidence and allocating time for questions at the end of each session, we see potential customers learning more about the real benefits of email marketing, and leaving much closer to trying AWeber for themselves.
If advocates recommend prospective customers attend these sessions, they benefit too. When you're available to help your referrals grow with a new venture, they'll be more likely to recommend you to their networks.
Other Live Webinars
As AWeber's Customer Referral Program provides recurring referral payments, your success can grow as the longevity of each referral's account grows.
In addition to the live sessions on getting a basic account set up, our marketing team also offers live training on things like:
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How to optimize opt-in forms to get more subscribers
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How to send effective email newsletters that maximize opens and clicks
These sessions help new customers optimize their email marketing results quickly, and keeps experienced customers engaged with their accounts and for the long haul.
How do I promote a webinar?
One of the easiest ways to promote a webinar is through your direct contact with a potential new customer. If they are unsure of how to get started with email marketing, or just need some convincing to move further down your sales funnel, providing actionable tips via a webinar is a great way to help.