HubSpot affiliate program tiers
HubSpot has three distinct affiliate program tiers, depending on how much success you’ve achieved in your affiliate journey. These tiers include the HubSpot Affiliate, Super Affiliate, and Elite Affiliate:
As you can see, each tier comes with its own set of benefits and commission structures, providing increased perks and opportunities to grow as an affiliate partner. Let’s take a closer look at each one:
#1 HubSpot Affiliate
Best for → new affiliates who are just getting started with the HubSpot affiliate program.
This is the entry-level tier for all new HubSpot affiliates, and realistically—the tier that most individuals and businesses with smaller audiences will be a part of in the near future, given the huge criteria for progressing to the next level.
While some of the extra perks such as website audit and optimization recommendations and performance reports are not available for affiliates in this tier, they will have everything needed to start earning consistent commissions.
Key benefits:
- 30% recurring commissions for every referral that converts into a paying customer;
- Marketing materials like images, videos, and email templates to support promotion efforts;
- 90-day cookies, ensuring you receive your commission even for sign-ups that occur weeks after the initial referral page visit;
- Special affiliate challenges with opportunities to earn more money in the process.
#2 Super Affiliate
Best for → affiliates who have demonstrated strong performance by driving higher volumes of qualified traffic, and have generated 100-200 signups per month.
Super Affiliate marketers is the next tier in the HubSpot affiliate marketing program, and it’s available to those who’ve established a proven track record with their promotional efforts.
As a result, they are entitled to several extra perks such as website audit and optimization recommendations and guest blogging opportunities with HubSpot’s huge traffic-generating blog.
Key benefits:
- Everything from the HubSpot Affiliate tier;
- Personalized support from HubSpot’s affiliate team for website audits and optimization recommendations
- Guest blogging opportunities;
- Access to special events like webinars and advanced training sessions;
#3 Elite Affiliate
Best for → top-tier performers who generate significant referral revenue, usually surpassing the 200+ signups per month criteria.
Finally, we have the top Elite Affiliate tier for the high-traffic website owners, publishers, and businesses that consistently deliver exceptional results for HubSpot through their affiliate promotion efforts.
Getting here is quite tough, to say the least, but once achieved—you unlock additional perks that only make it increasingly easy to generate more referral traffic and signups, creating a snowball effect of recurring revenue for both you and HubSpot.
Key benefits:
- All the benefits of the Super Affiliate tier;
- Customized commission plans tailored to your unique business model;
- Invitations to exclusive HubSpot events and networking opportunities with industry leaders;
- Regular check-ins from a dedicated affiliate manager along with early access to new affiliate tools and resources;
- Detailed performance and optimization reports as well as co-branded marketing materials.
HubSpot affiliate program commission
The HubSpot affiliate program commission structure is very straightforward and transparent, and in my opinion, highly rewarding.
Affiliates earn a fixed 30% recurring commission for each and every successful referral purchase. By recurring, we mean that as long as your referred customers continue paying for HubSpot’s product(s), you will continuously receive the 30% cut for each monthly transaction.
It’s worth emphasizing again that affiliate partners in the Super Affiliate and Elite Affiliate tiers are eligible for extra financial bonuses:
- Both Super Affiliates and Elite Affiliates are qualified for additional cash bonuses based on hitting specific referral milestones that are agreed upon with HubSpot’s affiliate team;
- Elite Affiliates also get the benefit of customized commission structures, meaning that due to increased referred customers, they will receive even more appealing commission structures, depending on their unique affiliate performance.
HubSpot commission structure example:
Let’s imagine that you run a digital marketing blog with substantial organic traffic.
Since you’ve started adding your affiliate link in certain CTAs throughout your articles, you have successfully referred your first customer for HubSpot who signed up for their ‘Marketing Hub Professional’ plan priced at $790/month.
- You will earn $237 each month (30% of $790) for as long as the referred customer remains a subscribed HubSpot user;
- After a year subscription, this will result in $2844 of total earnings for you, just from 1 referred customer! Now imagine if you manage to refer 100 or 1000 customers over the course of a year!
As you can see, this recurring revenue model makes HubSpot’s affiliate program particularly attractive for those looking to build a long-term passive income stream.
HubSpot product summary
Now that we’ve covered everything on the affiliate program, let’s explore a brief overview of the actual product that you’ll be promoting.
HubSpot is positioned as both a CRM and a fully-fledged lead management software, but in reality, it entails much more than both those categories. It offers a full suite of separate products that help businesses automate and streamline their marketing, sales, and customer service efforts under one roof.
The two most popular HubSpot products and use cases are:
- Marketing Hub → AI-powered marketing software that empowers businesses to automate marketing campaigns, generate leads, and grow their audience. Noteworthy features include inbound forms, social media management, and marketing campaign analytics.
- Sales Hub → AI-powered sales automation that helps businesses build a fully functioning sales pipeline, from prospecting to closing deals. Noteworthy features include deals management, conversational intelligence, powerful analytics, and sales coaching.
Though HubSpot’s products are great standalone tools for sales and marketing tools, the real advantage lies for those businesses that create an entire HubSpot ecosystem rather than relying on individual products.
For instance, if you’re a small-to-medium-sized business exclusively looking for a sales automation platform, reputable standalone tools like Reply.io may be a better fit.
By focusing the entire product on sales, tools like Reply.io often perform better in their specific domain compared to platforms that span across multiple business operations like HubSpot.
In fact, here’s how Reply.io compares to HubSpot in the battle of features for those interested.
In summary, here’s what users can enjoy with a standalone sales suite like Reply:
- Native lead database with over 1 billion live contacts
- AI SDRs that generate personalized multichannel outreach at scale, handle responses, and book meetings on your behalf
- AI Chat that captures, qualifies, and nurtures inbound sales leads
- Premium email deliverability tools to ensure all your emails reach their intended inboxes
- Dedicated agency plans for lead generation/sales agencies with unique features
- Seamless integrations with other leading tools including HubSpot
and that’s just the tip of the iceberg!