In this blog article, we'll show you how to conveniently and appropriately include cliqe short-links in your content and thus increase your success earnings. First, we introduce our short link feature, explain in a step-by-step guide how to best use it, and then give a best practice example of how finance content creator @aktienmann successfully used the short link feature in his self-created content (user-generated content, short: UGC) and was thus rewarded by high compensation.

If you're a content creator looking to monetize your social media reach and conveniently partner with your favorite brands, cliqe's organic link offers the perfect solution to earn passive income from your passion. cliqe offers content creators access to over 250 brands, so you can quickly and easily choose your favorite brands and share your recommendations with your community.

With cliqe's solution, not only do you have the ability to link to your favorite brands and recommendations via your bio-page on your social media profiles and wait for prospects to click on your bio-link via your profile, but you can also link to your favorite brands directly in your content using Instagram Stories, for example. The whole thing is possible with our Short Link feature, which allows you to simply copy the links to your favorite brands and share them directly with your community.

Previously, long, unattractive URLs could affect the readability and handling of the link and look anything but professional in Instagram Stories, for example. In turn, short-links look much more minimalist and elegant in your content. The short link feature allows you to strengthen storytelling by making it easy to include your own content (UGC) about brands and product recommendations in your social media content or share it directly with your community via Messenger services. The short link works in such a way that it leads to the selected brand or product and is much shorter than the actual target link behind it.

How you can benefit from the cliqe short link function, you will learn in the following steps:

Step 1: Select your favorite brand

First, select the brand you want to recommend to your community via the "Brands" tab in the menu bar. Here you will discover a large selection of brands that you can filter by different categories.

Step 2: Copy short link

Have you found your brand? Then click on the "Short-Link" button on the right to copy the link. Alternatively, you can get more information (description, compensation, cookie tracking, etc.) about the brand in the detail view by clicking the "i" icon and copy the short link at the bottom of the button.

Step 3: Create authentic content

Create appropriate UGC content to give your community more context to your recommendation. This can be, for example, an introduction to the brand/product or your own experience/benefits you see in it. You can hold the product up to the camera or include it in your content, as well as show yourself and authentically describe your own experience.

Step 4: Insert a short link

Once you have created suitable content, you can then insert the link on your social media channels. On Instagram Stories, for example, you can do this by clicking on the sticker icon at the top right and then on "LINK". Then you just have to paste the URL into the empty field. With the short link, the displayed link is automatically shortened and it is only shown to your community as a short link compared to the actual target link. Alternatively, you can easily share the short link with your community groups or individuals via your messenger.

Step 5: Share your content and track performance

Finally, you can share your content with embedded short link on your social media channels. If someone from your community follows your recommendations, you earn on every successful lead or sale you generate. You can track your performance and success via the analytics in your cliqe profile, which allows you to see key indicators such as link clicks, the number of leads/sales, and the amount of compensation you've earned.

Best practice examples from a cliqe user

How to successfully use the short link function of cliqe and which best practices you can be inspired by, we describe below using the Finance Content Creator @aktienmann as a prime example.

As one of the most decisive factors, the finance influencer recommended brands and products that he himself used in everyday life. This comes across much more authentically and credibly to one's own community than if their role model recommends a different product every day that he/she does not stand behind 100%. As a result, influencers can significantly increase conversion rates and are thus rewarded through higher compensation.

As another best practice, the Finance Creator published a Q&A session using the Q&A feature on his Instagram story to interact with his community and respond to their questions. In this way, he was able to respond directly to the questions and needs of his followers with concrete solutions and recommendations. Someone from his community asked him how to get a grip on his finances. To this, @aktienmann replied with a recommendation and short description of the app of the brand "Finanzguru" as well as the appropriate short link, which he received via cliqe.

Another successfully used practice was to present the app with specially created content (user generated content, or UGC for short) for his community. In doing so, he went into particular detail about the individual functions with screenshots and showed which features were particularly useful for him. The whole thing @aktienmann has repeatedly underpinned with the linking of the short link to the Finanzguru app and thus enabled his followers that they can quickly and easily follow his recommendation and get to the app with one click without having to search for it themselves. Increased linking also increases the likelihood that more people in the community will follow the recommendation, as some prospects only click on the short link after the second or third story, again increasing overall conversion rates and creator rewards.

Finally, the Financial Influencer has marked the content on its recommendations as "advertising" in a legally compliant manner. This is legally mandatory in Germany for consumer protection, which allowed the Creator to prevent warnings or similar. It is important to always mark recommendations as "advertising" if they are aimed at compensation or other benefits (free products, etc).

We hope that with this blog article, we were able to give you valuable insights into our short link feature as well as best sample practices to help you get more out of your passion and content creation in the future!