This week’s Mastermind was all about affiliate recruitment—how to find, reach out to, and close top-tier affiliates for your Skool community. We covered: ✅ Why affiliates won’t magically show up (and what to do instead) ✅ How to create a "Partner Persona" and reverse-engineer where to find them ✅ Tools + tactics to scrape, vet, and contact high-potential partners ✅ How to write outreach messages that actually get replies ✅ What to say once they reply (so they actually start promoting) Dustin Howes revealed the exact systems he’s used to recruit affiliates for WP Engine, BigCommerce, and more—including the tools, email strategies, and CRM workflows he uses today. 👉 If you're ready to go from “hoping affiliates promote” to recruiting killers who drive sales—watch this. What’s one tactic you’re excited to try? PS - Shout out to @Chuck Ellis who attended live! 🔥

Mine was: Launch. Then build. It's exactly 6 months since I started my first Skool community. Prior to launch, I spent months obsessing over the offer, course, look and resources... Everything had to be JUST right. On Halloween 2024, I release my masterpiece into the world, promoting it to my email list. Some people join. But nothing significant. Our members struggled to understand what I was giving them and how it would benefit them. And it's not suprising. We helped 'everyone' do 'everything'. It felt like months of work, for nothing. I couldn't even make a single soul ascend to my paid community. After reflecting for a while, I came to the conclusion that we should start over. But this time, we would niche down from helping everyone to exclusively helping Skoolers grow with affiliates. And this time, we would build the plane as we're flying to make sure we're building something people actually want and understand. Fast forward to today, and we have a hyper specific offer, helping a small niche, and building out Affiliate Mastery WITH our members. This is the way to go, and it took me WAY too long to learn. 👉 Now, what was YOUR biggest AHA-moment on Skool?

Behind the curtains, we've secretly been running a contest in April that I'm now pleased to announce. We want to give back to our community and reward engagement 🔥 The criteria to win: - Be our most active member 🏆 And with no doubt, our MOST active member in April is @Marianne Suarez Sabugo! 🤩 Not only is Marianne the most active on the leaderboard, but she joins our weekly Live Masterminds, asks questions, share her wins and struggles, and applies what she learns! 🙌 With this sort of dedication, it's only a matter of time before she gets her first affiliate referrals to Kids Craft Club. What's the PRIZE, you ask? - A total MEMBER MAKEOVER 🎁 Live THIS Thursday, Dustin and I dive DEEP into your business to uncover EXACTLY what steps to take to overcome your struggles and break through with affiliates. Add it to your calendar: click me :) If you didn't win: don't worry. Tune in live and have your eyes opened by seeing us solve common problems. There will be numerous strategies you can implement in your community immediately! PS - We're running the same contest in May, so be sure to engage in Affiliate Mastery, apply what you learn, and you'll have the chance to win our next MEMBER MAKEOVER! 🔥

This is probably the most bang I've EVER gotten for my buck! (and now you're getting it for free) 🔥 It's a late evening and I'm sitting comfortably with my laptop in the living room couch... I'm scrolling through other communities, engaging in ones I like. I come across a post inside Skool legend @Ryan Duncan's 'Free' community... He's running a limited time offer roasting his members about pages for a BARGAIN (considering he's worked with numerous Skool Games winners and is Skool's #1 user) Needing to increase our conversion rate, I instantly pull out my credit card and make the purchase 💳 I wait for a few days in excitement, not knowing what to expect... Then, suddenly, Ryan sends me a 30 MINUTE video breaking down our entire about page in DETAIL... He covered: - How to make our offer more specific - Aligning our proof with our ideal customers dream outcome - The copy itself - Slides - VSL - And tons of other golden nuggets 👉 Now, you can watch this video for free. Check it out below or by clicking here! Increasing your conversion rate is crucial for making your affiliates (and yourself) more money. So spending 30 minutes to learn proven methods to increase your conversion rate is absolutely worth it. PS - I also recommend joining @Ryan Duncan's 'Free' community where he drops daily value and actionable tactics on growing Skool communities. Click here to check it out :)

Yesterday I worked on my affiliate toolkit and here is what it looks like. Am I missing anything? Is it clear enough? I will appreciate all the honest feedback! Thanks