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SMEMinds
Growth marketing

Affiliate Marketing

Performance partnerships that drive qualified, intent-led traffic — paid on outcome, not on promise.

The problem

What actually goes wrong

Affiliate programmes get launched and then left to accumulate coupon and brand-bidding partners who cannibalise sales you would have made anyway.

Why this matters. An affiliate programme is only incremental if it is actively curated.

What we manage

What SMEMinds does

  • Partner recruitment against content and audience quality
  • Commission structure and incrementality rules
  • Brand-bidding and coupon policy enforcement
  • Tracking, attribution windows and validation
  • Amplification of top-performing partner content through paid
  • Programme-level incrementality reporting

Who this is for

Brands with a D2C store and a category served by content publishers.


Deliverables

  • Programme design
  • Partner shortlist
  • Policy framework
  • Incrementality report

How we run it

  1. 1Audit
  2. 2Plan
  3. 3Execute
  4. 4Measure
What each step involves
Business outcomes

What changes.

Stated as changes in how the business runs, because those are the ones we control.

01

Incremental sales

Not commission on sales you already had.

02

Qualified traffic

Intent-led audiences from content partners.

03

Policy enforced

Brand terms protected.

04

Measured ROI

Validated, not self-reported.

Every recommendation shows its arithmetic.

Spend judged against contribution margin, so a campaign that raises revenue and lowers profit is visible in the same report.

See the tools

Or learn to run it yourself.

The models behind this service are taught in the Amazon Advertising Playbook — in Hinglish and English, with the calculators included.

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FAQ

Questions we get about this service

Through unique tracking links shared by affiliates across content platforms; a commission is earned when a customer purchases via the link. We optimise the whole ecosystem — partner selection through to performance tracking.

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Next step

Let's look at your account.

Tell us what the constraint is and we will tell you whether we are the right people to fix it.

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