Strongest Free Affiliate Marketing and KOL Database for Global Selling? Shopify Collab Guide! 99 Shopify Tips (17)

What is Affiliate Marketing? In one sentence: find "influencers" to sell your products, and they earn commissions through selling your products, creating a win-win situation.

(This "influencer" is a general term, specifically including social media KOLs/Bloggers/Youtubers/Group Admins, etc., people with sales ability)

And this process requires a system to help you build the entire chain. Functions in this chain include: how do we track which "influencer" made the sale? And when they make a sale, how should we distribute commissions to them? And so on.

So there are many affiliate marketing platform tools on the market, including Uppromote, Goaffpro, etc. Honestly, these tools have basically similar functions because essentially they all just help you build the chain.

Don't fantasize that using a certain affiliate marketing tool will explode your sales; don't waste time and energy excessively researching which affiliate marketing plugin is better. Remember, they are just building tools. They cannot help you efficiently and accurately find suitable distributors.

Shopify Collab

I currently use Shopify Collab consistently. This tool is what I started using in the early stages of building my site. I've used it to freely reach many mid-tier Instagram influencers (although it didn't directly help with conversions).

Overall, it has 3 major free functions:

1. Build affiliate system
2. Free KOL database, paired with Shopify Email for bulk sending collaboration emails
3. Free brand database, Shopify Collab Network, where creators (distributors) can see eligible brands in the Network and apply to become distributors

1. Build Affiliate System

Actually doesn't need much explanation, overall very simple. Similar to all affiliate marketing tools, create exclusive links and exclusive discount codes for distributors through the tool.

2. Find Influencers

Step 1: Filter requirements.

Step 2: Bulk export influencer information.

Step 3: Organize spreadsheet, import to Email, mass send emails, wait for replies, done.

3. Shopify Network

(Requires store to reach 10K USD in sales). After applying, some KOLs will actively apply.