How to monetize your social media reach on Instagram, Tiktok, YouTube & Co? How to earn money from content creation without having access to relevant sponsors? How to profit from the own passion with a passive income?

The answer is combining a bio-site solution with referral/affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing has emerged as a powerful revenue-generating method for creators, influencers, and content marketers. If you're a creator and looking to partner with brands to grow your passive income, having a bio-link is the perfect solution to kickstart your referral marketing journey.

Did you ever come across a Linktree- or Beacons-link and wonder how these bio-links work? Basically, creators use bio-link-provider such as Linktree to aggregate their content (social media channels, websites, blogs, YouTube videos, Spotify music etc) and share their product recommendations (with referral or affiliate links) with their audience. So what is the difference between Linktree and cliqe?

Unlike Linktree, cliqe provides users access to more than 250 brand partners in order to enable creators to directly select and recommend their favourite brands and facilitate successful success-based marketing collaborations without having to source and apply for their own. In this blog post, we'll walk through the essential steps to start using cliqe effectively, empowering you to monetize your content and grow your social media profile.

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Step 1: Signing up on cliqe.bio (Signup and Onboarding Process)

To begin your content monetization with cliqe, you first need to signup for free at www.cliqe.bio and secure your individual bio-link domain, for example www.cliqe.bio/username to create your personal profile. For a faster and more convenient creation of your new bio-site, you can use our ‘Magic Signup’ in our onboarding process with your existing Instagram account or Linktree-page. You just have to enter your Instagram username or link to your existing Linktree-site and our Magic Signup creates your new bio-site based on the existing resources.

In the onboarding process, you can also apply for specific topics to promote relevant brands. Just add your socials (Instagram, Tiktok, YouTube, Twitch etc) and select topics related to your content to receive brands tailored to your niche. After quickly verifying your profile and content, your application will be approved in order to get access to all brands of the respective topics you applied for. In the meantime, you have already access to selective partner brands.

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Step 2: Start adding content to your individual bio-site

After the short onboarding, it's essential to create a compelling bio-site with cliqe. Highlight your channels, niche, expertise, and showcase your content by connecting your social media accounts. Add a personal profile picture and description to your bio-page. You can also personalize your bio-link page by adding your own personal content recommendations such as links to websites, blogs, embedded YouTube videos, Spotify podcasts or music playlist under the ‘Content’ section.

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Step 3: Selecting your favourite brands you want to recommend

Once your personal content for your bio-site is set up, you can explore the list of 250+ available brands and collaboration opportunities. Under ‘Earn’ > ‘Brand Programs’, you choose from six different main categories and over 20 sub-categories of brands ranging from finance over fitness to fashion that aligns with your content and audience to find suitable collaboration opportunities.

It's crucial to look for brands whose products or services resonate with your content and audience to ensure authenticity in front of your community. For example, it is most authentic when you recommend brands, products, and services that you already use in your daily life. When you find a brand align with your interests and criteria, you can add the brand to your bio-link page with one click. Your followers will find your recommendations on your bio-site through your social media profile descriptions. Once a follower follows your suggestion, you passively earn a passive compensation directly paid from the brand. Alternatively, you can also generate a short-link of your favourite brands and actively recommend it in your Instagram stories, for example, via user generated content (UGC) or share the link via alternative channels to reach your community.

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Step 4: Choose your personal design

With cliqe’s variety of available designs, you can customize your own unique bio-link page by selecting from over 20 themes, patterns and fonts. You can edit the design of your bio-page in the ‘Design’-tab in the menu bar. For the even more creative individuals, you can customize your own background with color codes, gradients, pictures, GIFs or even video. Moreover, you can also edit the font style and color of your bio-site.

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Step 5: Add legal information in the settings

One of the benefits of cliqe’s bio-site over traditional bio-site providers are the legally compliant features. With the holistic offering of cliqe, creators have a GDPR-compliant bio-site and can conveniently add their imprint information which is legally required under the European/German law and protects against expensive cautions by specialized law firms. If creators don’t want to state their private address for the required imprint, they also have the option to make use of our ‘Imprint-as-a-Service’-feature and pay a little subscription in order to protect their privacy. You can add your necessary legal information or book the optional ‘Imprint-as-a-Service’ via the ‘Professional’-plan in your profile settings.

For the payout of the compensation you will generate via your bio-site, you can add your bank details and tax information under ‘Profile’ > ‘Payout’. Once, the compensations are confirmed by the brand and have reached the minimum payout threshold of 50 Euro, you can trigger a payout at the beginning of the following month.

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Step 6: Share your bio-link and track your performance

Once you added personalized your bio-page with your content and brand recommendations, add your bio-link to all your social media profile in order to give your audience to access your unique recommendations.

Under the ‘Analytics’ page in your cliqe account, you to monitor the performance of your bio-page views, (affiliate) links-clicks, conversions, and earnings in real-time. Leverage the data and insights provided by cliqe's analytics to identify what works best for your audience. Adjust your content and recommendation methods to improve conversions and generate even higher earnings.

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Step 7: Generating earnings with your bio-site

When your audience clicks on your unique bio-link or promoted short-link via your Instagram story and follows your recommendation of a selected brand, product, or service, you will either earn a commission if they make in intend, e.g. newsletter signup, app download or similar (commission per lead) or if they actually purchase a product or service (commission per sale).

As a a small regard from your community, you also have the option to add your Paypal link above the "Earn" section and receive a small "coffee donation".

If you refer cliqe to a known creator who signups and successfully earns his/her first commission, you will additionally receive a 10 Euro for each successful referral. You can also passively promote your individual cliqe referral-link on your bio-site.

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Step 8: Creating compelling promotional content

To maximize the impact of your recommendation efforts, focus on creating compelling and authentic promotional content. Craft engaging posts, videos, or articles that showcase the brand's products or services and highlight their value to your audience. Transparency and authenticity are usually the key to build trust with your followers.

By following the steps outlined in this guide, you can seamlessly promote brands and monetize your influence while receiving the gratitude and trust for the useful recommendations from your audience. Remember that success in affiliate marketing comes with dedication, creativity, and understanding your audience's needs.

Embrace the powerful tools and features that we provide with our all-in-one bio-site solution to unlock your full potential as an authentic brand ambassador and watch your earnings grow as your audience. Happy creating and collaborating!

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