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Intermediate
Sales
Marketing
Lead Generation
Outreach

Build a Partner and Affiliate Outreach System

Identify, research, and reach out to potential partners and affiliates at scale — with personalized pitches that don't feel templated.

Time Required

3–5 hrs

Expected Result

A list of 50 qualified partnership prospects with personalized outreach emails drafted and queued in your email platform.

1

Define Your Ideal Partner Profile

Use Claude to write your partner ICP: audience size, content type, audience overlap with your customers, and complementary (not competing) products.

Claude
2

Source Partner Prospects

Use Perplexity and Ahrefs to find newsletters, podcasters, and content creators in your niche whose audience matches your ICP. Build a list of 100 candidates.

Perplexity
Ahrefs
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3

Research Each Prospect

For your top 50 prospects, use Perplexity to pull their recent content, audience size estimates, and any existing affiliate relationships they mention.

Perplexity
4

Write Personalized Pitches

Use Clay or ChatGPT to generate a personalized first paragraph for each pitch referencing something specific about their content or audience — then attach your standard partnership offer template.

Clay
ChatGPT
5

Send and Track

Load the outreach into Instantly.ai or Lemlist and send in batches of 10 per day. Track replies and route interested responses to a CRM pipeline.

Instantly.ai
Lemlist
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