There's plenty of larger, more-established companies you could sponsor. But why not use your influence to truly glorify God, bless your audience, and change the world. You won't find a better deal than this! Who or what else could you recommend to your audience that would.....
Help Them Grow Spiritually. Our courses, community, training, even virtual 1-on-1 counseling and life coaching available, will help them become knowledgable, biblical, godly, spiritually mature disciples of Jesus. Why settle for helping them in some way, when you could help them in literally the most important way: to be more like Jesus!
Help Make Kingdom Impact. Our goal is to reach people all over the world; to partner with individuals, ministries, and churches; and make believers into disciples and disciples into leaders. Your involvement helps us equip average, ordinary people to be empowered, fulfill their calling, and make a difference, right in their own communities.
CUSTOMIZE IT FOR YOUR BRAND AND AUDIENCE
We don't have strict submission requirements at this time. You don't need a huge audience. We'd rather a small highly engaged, missional, niche Christian audience, than a massive unengaged, passive, lukewarm Christian following. If you think we'd be a good fit we'd love to talk with you.
The main reason we're looking for this is to cover the initial investment of our time creating a custom branded influencer page, listing you on our public influencer page, plus giving you complimentary access to a free Level 4 membership ($79/month value) for at least 90 days. It will only take a few courses or a few higher-level memberships to reach this sales goal, so it's certainly doable for anyone with a following. And we're here to help you be successful. However, if you still think it would be a stretch, you can still become a Level 3 member and take advantage of our Affiliate Vision Partner Program. It basically functions the same way. You will still earn 25% commission on referrals. The difference is that you don't qualify to receive a complimentary level 4 membership or a custom branded influencer page. Just get started today as regular Affiliate and reapply for our Influencer program in the future. Visit https://www.empowered365.net/pages/christian-affiliate-program for all the info.
You must continue to uphold our beliefs and values outlined on our "Mission and Beliefs" page. We must not see any evidence of in our discussion areas or community sections, or receive credible evidence from others reporting abuse, heretical teachings, or sinful beliefs or behavior from you. This is either on or off our platform. You are a representative of us. We will investigation all serious allegations and we reserve the right to remove anyone who does not meet our standards. Our priority is that you possess the qualifications of godliness and biblical theology, which is much more important than the revenue you generate for us. If you are ever struggling with temptation contact us for counseling before it becomes an issue. Just continue to be a good witness of Jesus and you will always be in good standing with us! :)
Yes, to cover the cost of your complimentary level 4 membership we do expect your referral commissions to exceed (and at least meet) the cost of this membership ($79/month). Since you receive a 25% commission our break-even would be you reaching monthly sales of $106 or more. We provide a 90-day grace period before we will reevaluate your account to make sure that we are a good fit. If you fail to meet this minimum, we may work with you to help you refine your approach to help you be successful. If we decide to discontinue your inclusion in the Influencer Program, you will still have the option to drop down to our standard Level 3 membership which includes our affiliate program. You will have to pay for it (standard price $29/month), but you will still receive commission on any referrals you've already established and be able to continue to grow your affiliate business. Once you build your business to sufficient numbers you're welcome to reapply for readmission into our Influencer program again.
In most affiliate programs, you as the referrer, only receive a percentage of products your referral purchases within a limited time window, typically 30 days. Any sales made after that window will not provide commission. By contrast, in our program, once a referral's new account is created (with you as their referrer) we maintain this relationship for the lifetime of both of your accounts. You will receive commission on all their purchases as long as you both have active accounts.
Yes! We're considering creating a Vision Partner Program course that will provide teachings, resources, and more to help you. Additionally, you can find lots of information online by learning about "affiliate marketing." Not only is this a well-established and reliable way to produce active and passive income, you can use it to fund and enhance your ministry goals and disciple-making efforts. We recommend going through our courses with people you refer so that you're helping to coach, disciple, and support them as well. You can ask any questions you have in our weekly live streams (The Empower Hour). Additionally, you can upgrade to a level 4 or 5 membership which includes monthly group coaching in our EQUIP workshops. We also have church+ consulting included in our level 5 membership.
We want this program to be extremely easy and convenient, providing tons of benefits to you with little or no drawbacks. It is 100% commission-based. You can make 1 video promoting our brand or 1,000 videos. There is no set deliverables that are required and no timeline that you have to follow. You are free to decide if, when, and how often you promote us.
We have no requirements for exclusivity. We understand that you may feel at times that certain content you make may better align with another organization's products and services more than ours. You are free to also promote the products of others if you feel you'll receive a better ROI doing so. We also do not have a problem with you representing similar ministry schools, Christian networks, Christian courses, books, etc. Your earnings are 100% commission-based, so it's up to you. The only thing we do require is that you do not partner with and promote the content of any organizations that would cause you to fall out of "good standing" do to the public moral or theological positions of those organizations. If you agree with our good standing policy (agree with our mission & beliefs statement, and adhere to godly living) then you shouldn't want to align your brand with such organizations anyways.
Yes, the most up-to-date version of our Affiliate Agreement will always be publicly available here:
Commissions will not stop as long as you're an active member in good standing. This is necessary to qualify and remain included in our affiliate program. If you cancel your membership, or if we have to disable it due to some form of disciplinary action, then you will forfeit any future earnings. For the foreseeable future we don't plan to set any cap on your earning potential. Should our policy ever change, you will be notified by email in advance. We want you to be very successful with our program and for people to use it as part- and full-time jobs, and even businesses with multiple employees. Your success would mean that our reach and impact are also expanding, so we're completely aligned to help you have every reason to keep promoting it. Not only would we not want to limit your potential, which would only discourage you from being all-in, we would want to further connect with you to see how we could help you even more. This is the main reason we provide Influencers a complimentary Level 4 membership so you can take advantage of our coaching and other features to help you grow your Christian business. We may even create a "premium" influencer course or program for additional support in the future.
We provide payouts through PayPal so that we can support influencers and affiliates all over the world. You can create an account for free, link your bank to it, and receive payments easily. PayPal has over 200 million accounts worldwide. It is available in more than 200 countries/regions, supports 25 currencies, and will convert your payments to a different currency than the US dollar if you would like them to. PayPal has versatile payment options, allowing affiliates to receive payments through their PayPal balance, linked bank accounts, debit cards, or even credit cards (though fees may apply). PayPal also has strong security features like encryption, fraud detection, and purchase protection for certain transactions, so you can have peace of mind. Verified PayPal accounts also generally have higher sending and receiving limits. We will calculate your earnings monthly and send transaction details and payment on the 1st of the following month. You can also view your financial reports anytime in your Affiliate Dashboard on our website. To receive payments just create a PayPal account with the same email address as your account with us.
Affiliate commission is always calculated as a percentage of the payment amount, excluding any taxes that might have been added to it. This ensures that commission is not earned on the tax portion of the payment. For example, if a 25% commission is to be earned on a product priced at $100, and $7 in tax is added to this payment, the commission to be paid to the Affiliate is calculated as 25% of $100.
We have only a $5.00 minimum payout threshold! Get even just single level 3 membership at our normal rate ($29/month) and you will already begin to receive commission on it!
I know, it seems too good to be true. For us, this makes sense for several reasons. One, it gives us a decent ROAS at 300% and CAC at 3:1. Return on Ad Spend (ROAS) refers to the amount of revenue that is earned for every dollar spent on an advertising campaign, or in the Cost of Customer Acquisition (CAC). Rather than paying Google or some other advertising company to find us customers we have decided to use Influencers to find us customers, and allow those Christian influencers to earn this money instead. This is our second reason: it's better stewardship. We're helping to keep the money within our own Christian ecosystem, not only helping fellow Christians but fellow Network members who share our vision and mission. Third, this is why we also extend this affiliate opportunity to every level 3 member and above. We want to attract people who will work together to build something that will help all of us accomplish our vision. We're hoping with this strategy that we also create a place that members will want to stay longterm, thus increasing another key business objective: the Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). This will be needed in order for our global vision to be reached. Should anything change to make this unwise as a long term strategy, we will lower the commission percentage only for future influencers. Our early adopters will benefit from getting this rate locked in now.
The first time the visitor accesses our site must be through your affiliate link. If it is the first time a visitor has accessed our site, a cookie will be saved in their browser that includes your Affiliate's referral code; this cookie will last for 30 days. The visitor must sign up for an account within 30 days in the same browser (with the saved cookie) to be associated with the affiliate. The affiliate cookie lasts for 30 days and is not overwritten or renewed if the visitor accesses your site through another affiliate link within that 30 days. The cookie expiration date will remain the same. The visitor does not need to make a purchase right away. If they simply sign up for our Forever Free Level 1 membership subscription, or any other free course we have available, but they need to actually create an account. If they do, they will still be associated with your Affiliate program as their Referrer for all future purchases. If the cookie has expired and the visitor returns to the site, a new cookie will be created. For example, if a student visits a site through an affiliate link and never signs up, then 31 days later, visits through the same affiliate link, a new cookie is saved that includes the Affiliate referral code.
To make it easier, cleaner, and more professional your landing page will be a URL like https://empowered365.net/yourbrand. When we set up this URL you will notice that it is actually a redirect. When a person types this, or clicks on a link for this, it will actually go to https://empowered365.net/influencers/yourbrand-yourcode.
When a user first visits our website, we place a cookie in their browser. If they came in through an affiliate link, that information is recorded in the cookie, which lasts for 30 days. If that same user returns at any point over the next 30 days, the cookie is not modified or updated; only the first visit is relevant. After 30 days, the cookie expires, and their next visit will create a new one, following the same rules. When that user creates an actual account on our site, we check the cookie to see if they should be associated with an existing Affiliate. So in order for a student account to be associated with an Affiliate, they must have visited our site for the first time from your Affiliate link. If our student visited the site previously on their own, without signing up, but returned within 30 days via an Affiliate link, they will not end up associated with that Affiliate. The account does not need to make any purchases, or even enroll in any products; the link between account and Affiliate is made as soon as the account is created, and persists indefinitely. Finally, keep in mind that cookies are browser-specific, and the cookie will only be checked when the actual account is made.
Each Affiliate has a unique referral code, which we use to create and track their associations. The code appears at the end of the existing affiliate links and is also used to build custom affiliate links. For Influencers, we also create a custom promo code referrals can enter when purchasing, just to make sure that they will be assigned to you. To see your links, just login to your account at the top-right of this website. Once logged in, hover over your name, then click "Affiliate," then click "Your Affiliate Links."
No, it is not currently possible to manually assign an affiliate to an existing student account. Similarly, it is not possible to remove an affiliate association, once it is created. For this reason, it is imperative that they use your link and create an account (even if just a free one). You can also highly recommend that they use your custom promo code when signing up. This will help ensure that they are assigned to you.
Remember, the tracking cookie only cares about the first visit (in a 30 day period), an Affiliate will not get credit for a student sign-up if that student had already visited our site prior to engaging with the affiliate. This is true even if the student later uses the affiliate link when actually enrolling in the course. Also, because cookies are browser-specific, you can run into problems if the visitor eventually signs up from a different browser than the one they were using when they first visited. This will only be a problem if they do not find the site via the same Affiliate link on the new browser. If the student ends up having to clear their browser cache or otherwise reset their cookies at some point between first visiting the site and signing up, then returns to the site without using the original Affiliate link — e.g. because they have bookmarked it, intending to sign up later — they may not end up associated with the Affiliate.
Yes. If you are having repeated issues with a particular Affiliate, or just want to check that things are working properly in general, we also recommend Testing the Affiliate Links yourself. https://support.thinkific.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055324893-How-to-Test-an-Affiliate-Link
No, in most MLM's, people have to first purchase a bulk order of products from the parent organization, becoming a type of sub-business, and then selling to others just to recoup back some of their original investment. And their real earnings in an MLM are not in getting other people to buy products/services but rather to become a contractor "business" for the parent company, buying their products and then selling them to others, etc. With our partner program, you don't buy or sell anything; just being an active member gives you access to our program. Additionally, in multi-level marketing a person earns a percentage of all of their "downstream sales" pipeline. The goal is to keep creating more "levels" of people selling to other people, and often the main thing being sold is the ability to sell itself. In an MLM you earn a percent of what those under you earn, a percent of what those under them earn, and so forth. In our program, there are only two levels: us and you. The referrals you bring in may also choose to become affiliates for us but you won't earn any percentage of what they do. Their relationship is entirely with us. However, there is still an upside for you if they become an affiliate. If they continue to grow their own business it ensures that they will remain a member so you can rely on their membership every month. Additionally, if they eventually upgrade their membership to a level 4 or 5, or purchase courses or products outright, that will increase the revenue you earn from their account. So, you are incentivized to be in their life and help them grow and be successful in their ministry and affiliate business.
No. The gospel is the message about who Jesus is, what He did, and how to be saved. We don't charge for this. We provide this free everywhere (websites, public videos, articles, social media, etc.). Charging for Christian-related content, services, or membership programs is not "charging for the gospel." Charging for the gospel means you're preventing people from hearing about who Jesus is or how they can be saved unless they pay you first. We agree, that would be evil. We charge for our developed content and courses, community platform, and personal coaching. If you are doing the same then you are not sinning and there is nothing wrong with earning a living from helping believers grow in their faith. It isn't wrong to charge for Christian teachings, products, or even one-on-one deliverance or counseling. Pastor Brian responded to the topic of Christian ministries charging money in detail here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq_JTiSOiA&list=PLQ9f2Vgc0BAwL6U86jceJ_d7lSTRoHbSX&index=26&t=8032s
