# affiliate-recruitment-outreach

A skill that drafts outreach copy and a sequence plan for recruiting new partners into a commission-based affiliate program.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 13400 installs · ★ 2
- Author: Maya-Beth Finotti
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/mbfinotti/partnerships-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/affiliate-recruitment-outreach/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-14
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/affiliate-recruitment-outreach

## What it does

The skill handles active recruitment: it qualifies prospects, tiers them, brainstorms a pitch angle, writes the first-touch email and a follow-up sequence with a breakup touch. Reference files cover prospect sourcing, outreach compliance, pitch anatomy and cadence. It works for B2B SaaS and B2C ecommerce/DTC programs.

Before drafting, the skill runs an interview: program type, product value prop, the already-decided commission, target affiliate categories, where the list came from, geography, brand voice, which CTA you can honor, who signs, the deadline and the effort ceiling. The last three questions decide every ranking downstream, so they come before any draft. Every ranking is a default, not a law — after the answers, the skill re-ranks and says what moved.

A manual brand-safety screen runs before outreach: trademark bidding, coupon injection and adware, spam sites. Canadian and German prospects get flagged — no cold email to them without a documented consent basis. If you cannot show that basis, that is a reason to check the segment before sending, not after. The skill communicates the commission; it never designs or adjusts it. For pitching one individually vetted creator, use `influencer-outreach` instead.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/partnerships-skills --skill affiliate-recruitment-outreach -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/affiliate-recruitment-outreach/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/affiliate-recruitment-outreach/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/partnerships-skills --skill affiliate-recruitment-outreach -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/affiliate-recruitment-outreach/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/partnerships-skills --skill affiliate-recruitment-outreach -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/affiliate-recruitment-outreach/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mbfinotti/partnerships-skills affiliate-recruitment-outreach
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/affiliate-recruitment-outreach/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/partnerships-skills --skill affiliate-recruitment-outreach -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mbfinotti/partnerships-skills --path skills/affiliate-recruitment-outreach
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/affiliate-recruitment-outreach/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/partnerships-skills --skill affiliate-recruitment-outreach -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/mbfinotti/partnerships-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/affiliate-recruitment-outreach/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- qualify a prospect list and split it into tiers
- pick a pitch angle for a specific affiliate category
- write a first-touch email with one verifiable detail about the prospect
- build a follow-up sequence with a breakup touch
- screen prospects for brand safety and jurisdiction compliance

## Example prompts
- help me recruit affiliates into our affiliate program
- draft an outreach plan for affiliate recruitment
- write the first-touch email and follow-up sequence for this prospect list

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: affiliate-recruitment-outreach
description: Draft the outreach copy and sequence plan used to recruit new affiliates into a commission-based affiliate program - prospect qualification and tiering, pitch angle, first-touch recruitment email, follow-up sequence with a breakup touch, channel mix, and outreach tracking. Covers B2B SaaS and B2C ecommerce/DTC programs. Use whenever the user mentions recruiting affiliates, affiliate sourcing, or pitching content and review sites, coupon and cashback partners, newsletter operators, communities, podcasters, or agencies to join a program, even if they never say recruitment. Do NOT use for pitching one individually vetted creator - use mbfinotti/partnerships-skills@influencer-outreach instead.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Maya-Beth Finotti
  version: "1.4.5"
---

# Affiliate Recruitment Outreach

Draft the copy and sequence plan an affiliate program manager uses to actively recruit new affiliates. This skill owns active outreach only.

Affiliate recruitment has no canonical named industry framework. The only affiliate-native vocabulary with broad adoption is the active/passive recruitment split, coined by practitioner Geno Prussakov:

- _Passive_ recruitment makes the program findable.
- _Active_ recruitment reaches out to identified prospects.

Vendor and course models circulating in this space (five-P flywheels, "perfect partner" lists, 20-60-20 splits) are individual commercial programs, not industry standards. Never present one as a standard.

## Interview

Ask before drafting anything. One question per message; offer multiple-choice answers when possible. Skip any question the user already answered.

- Is the program B2B SaaS or B2C ecommerce/DTC? (Or both - then segment everything downstream.)
- What makes the product worth promoting - the value prop an affiliate's audience would actually care about?
- What is the already-decided commission, exactly: rate/model, cookie or attribution window, payout terms? This skill communicates the commission; it never designs or adjusts it.
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