Earn 15% Lifetime Commissions

At this time, we are not using affiliate tracking links or cookies to connect referrals to our referral partners. The buying decision time for larger services like website setups or SEO support are just too long to fairly depend on a browser cookie, since many folks are increasingly browsing in incognito mode or clearing their caches at least every few months.

If you are wanting to promote our services on a blog or podcast, then we may be willing to create a unique promo code for you to share with your audience. Just reach out to us to learn more.

We have worked with businesses of all shapes and sizes. But it honestly just depends on the project needs of each specific referral. When in doubt, we suggest putting us in touch. If we're not a great fit, we'll be the first ones to let the referral know that.

We don't like biting off more than we can chew, or taking on projects where we aren't certain of successful outcomes. That's a big part of why we tend to have happy clients that stick around with us! Basically, don't worry too much about whether your referral seems like a good fit or not. If they need marketing help (especially digital marketing), then just put us in touch and we can handle the rest!

Affiliates are not considered employees.

We currently don't allow affiliates to run paid search campaigns, as these may compete against our own efforts.

We are currently working with partners to build up a library of approved brand assets. While we are happy to support any new marketing collateral ideas, we want to make sure that our brand standards are being enforced. So if you have a new web page idea or presentation deck that will be using our logo or namesake in a way that appears as if it's coming from our team, then you'll need to have it approved by our team.

It depends on the campaign. While we are generally happy for affiliates to leverage automation and current technologies to help expand their reach, we do not want the GlideStep brand being associated with spammy bot campaigns. That's why we ask about your intended methodologies for outreach during initial affiliate application. Ongoing campaigns that try to leverage scaling technologies will generally need to be approved by our team beforehand. But if you have questions, just let us know!

Yes, you may stack a "Managed Website" ongoing and setup commissions with commissions for any "Agency Services."

However, if that referral also goes for an ongoing Agency plan, we will only pay the "Agency" commission once. And just as with the normal "Agency" plan commissions, we will typically wait three months to make the payout to you in order to give us time to collect the revenue from the client.

This means you can currently stack commissions up to a max of $1,200 per referral.

Signup bonuses and setup commissions will be paid as soon as we get paid by the client.

We will not withhold any taxes from commission payments, since affiliate partners are not considered employees. So yes, you are responsible for paying taxes on whatever referral commissions you earn with us.

Yes! If your referral needs a monthly service and a website setup, then you will be eligible to receive the one-time signup bonus for the monthly services as well as the commission for the website setup. So the commissions do, in fact, stack.

While we are currently only offering referral commissions for select services (SEO Support, and Website Setups), you are certainly welcome to refer people for our other services (Managed Website Hosting, Direct Mail, Feedback/Reviews, and Paid Search). If your referral ends up later ordering one of the eligible services within their first year of being a client with us, then we will be happy to pay referral commissions.

Technically, we do not have a ceiling on what an affiliate can earn in this program in the long-term. We do, however, have some degree of production capacity restraints since we are a small team that isn't outsourcing all of our work to the cheapest bidders overseas like some agencies are doing these days. So if you run a successful blog and refer 500 new sign-ups to us in a single week then there is a chance that not every referral will be fulfilled right away. If you have questions about this though, best to just get in touch with us so we can discuss.

Unfortunately, we typically do not pay affiliate commissions if the affiliate has an existing official relationship with the referred client (employees can't get a commission for referring their own companies, basically). If you have any questions about whether a referral you have in mind will be acceptable based on your relationship, we encourage you to ask us before making the referral. Of course, you're still more than welcome to put us in touch with your own company since we'll likely make you look good in the long run!