StretchLearn Course

Turn your audience's trust into recurring affiliate income

A beginner path to programs, disclosures, link placement, and commission tracking

Beginner9 hrSelf PacedRegistered

Course Overview

What this course is designed to develop

This course teaches content creators how to turn audience trust into affiliate revenue without coding or paid ads. You will compare networks like Amazon Associates, ShareASale, Impact, and PartnerStack on cookie windows and payouts, write disclosures that satisfy the FTC, and integrate links into YouTube descriptions, ConvertKit newsletters, and blog posts. Every module uses named tools, worked commission math, and checklists you can apply to your next upload or send.

Learning Outcomes

What the learner should be able to understand, build, or execute.

Select affiliate programs using EPC, cookie window, commission rate, and payout terms

Write FTC-compliant disclosures for YouTube, email, and blog placements

Place affiliate links in YouTube descriptions, pinned comments, and end screens

Insert and label affiliate links inside newsletters without triggering spam filters

Build blog content that earns clicks using comparison, tutorial, and resource formats

Track clicks, conversions, and commissions across networks with a unified dashboard

Curriculum Preview

Inside the curriculum: a structured path from fundamentals to execution.

Preview the course structure, see how the modules build on one another, and understand the path this program is designed to take you through.

Module 1

Module 1: Choosing the Right Affiliate Programs

Understand how affiliate programs pay, then compare networks and individual programs on the numbers that actually decide your income.

3 lessons

How Affiliate Marketing Actually Pays YouContent · 45 min

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Networks vs Direct Programs and Where to Find ThemContent · 45 min

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Vetting and Shortlisting Programs With a ScorecardContent · 45 min

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Module 2

Module 2: Disclosure and Staying Compliant

Meet FTC and platform rules with disclosures that protect you and keep your audience's trust.

3 lessons

What the FTC Actually RequiresContent · 45 min

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Disclosure Wording for YouTube, Email, and BlogsContent · 45 min

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Platform Rules and Avoiding Account BansContent · 45 min

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Module 3

Module 3: Placing Links That Get Clicked

Integrate affiliate links into YouTube, newsletters, and blogs in the spots and formats that actually convert.

3 lessons

YouTube Descriptions, Pinned Comments, and End ScreensContent · 45 min

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Affiliate Links Inside NewslettersContent · 45 min

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Blog Formats That Earn Affiliate ClicksContent · 45 min

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Module 4

Module 4: Tracking Commissions and Scaling Income

Build a unified view of clicks and commissions across networks, then double down on what works.

3 lessons

Tracking Links, UTMs, and DashboardsContent · 45 min

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Reconciling Payments and Handling TaxesContent · 45 min

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Doubling Down on What WorksContent · 45 min

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Built for Application

A complete learning path, not a one-off inspiration hit.

This program is designed around progression: focused lessons, structured modules, applied resources, assessments, and a course rhythm that turns information into usable capability.

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