Hey, it's Cindy 🌱 This is the full setup from the reel. By the end you'll have your link, you'll know exactly where to put it, and you'll have turned the videos you have already posted into something that can earn. It takes about fifteen minutes.
Read this before anything else. This is not passive income and it is not fast. It pays on volume, which means the person posting twice a week for three months will out-earn the person who posts once and checks their dashboard for a fortnight. Everything below is built around making the volume cheap for you, because you are already making the content. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling you a course.
the terms
What you actually get 💡
Up to 25% revenue share On every plan. For context, the median affiliate commission across SaaS programs sits around 20%, with 20 to 30% recurring treated as the healthy band, so this sits at the upper end rather than being wildly unusual.
12 months of recurring commission This is the term that actually matters. A lot of programs pay you once on the first purchase and stop. Someone who signs up through your link in January is still paying you in December.
Up to 50% off for your audience The reason this is worth posting about at all. You are not asking anyone to pay more so that you can earn, you are handing them a discount on a tool you already use.
No minimum, no application No follower threshold and nothing to be approved for. The barrier is not access, it is whether you post consistently enough for it to compound.
start here
Get your link 🔗
- 🔑 Sign up to the affiliate program. Go to higgsfield.ai and join the affiliate program from the footer or your account settings. You do not need an existing audience and there is no approval queue to sit in.
- 🔗 Copy your unique link. Your dashboard gives you a tracked link. Everything you post routes through that one link, so anything that converts is attributed to you. Save it somewhere you can grab it in two seconds, because friction here is what kills consistency.
- 📌 Put it in three places. The caption, a pinned comment, and your DM automation. Most people do one and wonder why nothing converts. See the next section for why the third one does the heavy lifting.
- 🔁 Then go back through your old posts. This is the step almost nobody does, and it is the highest-return fifteen minutes in the whole process.
the fastest win
Retrofit what you have already posted 🌱
If you have ever posted a video about Higgsfield, or about AI video generation generally, that post is still being watched. It is still getting saves and shares. It just has no way of paying you.
So before you make anything new, go back through your grid and add your link to every relevant post that is already live. Three places, in order of how well they convert:
DM automation The strongest by a distance. A keyword CTA ("comment LINK") turns a comment into a private message where you can explain the offer properly. Comments also push the post further, so the CTA earns you reach as well as clicks.
Pinned comment Survives caption truncation, sits at the top of the comment section, and you can edit it later without touching the post. Good for older videos you do not want to disturb.
The caption Lowest conversion of the three because links in captions are not clickable on Instagram, but it costs nothing and it catches the people who screenshot or search.
Link in bio Worth having as a catch-all destination, but treat it as backup. The people who go to your bio were already going to convert; the DM flow is what reaches everyone else.
what to make
The content that actually converts 👩💻
The accounts doing well here are not inventing formats. They are taking a format that already works and running it repeatedly with different outputs. That is the whole strategy, and it is why this rewards volume rather than creativity.
Four shapes worth rotating:
The result first Open on the finished output, then show how it was made. The output has to carry the hook, so only use your genuinely good generations here.
The before and after A rough or plain input against the polished result. Works because the gap is the value, and it needs no explanation to land.
The prompt reveal One specific prompt, typed on screen, and what it produced. Highly saveable, which matters more than likes for reach.
The honest test You trying something and reporting what worked and what did not. Converts better than pure hype because people believe you, and it is the easiest to make repeatedly.
If you want help turning one video you have already made into several angles, this prompt does it:
🎬 the repurpose prompt
Here is a video I already posted about an AI tool: [paste your caption and a description of what the video showed].
Give me five completely different angles I could use to make this same subject again, without repeating the structure of the original. For each angle, give me the hook line, what the first three seconds show on screen, and which of these four formats it fits: result first, before and after, prompt reveal, or honest test.
Make at least two of them contrarian or honest-limitation angles rather than pure demonstration, because those tend to be more believable and I do not want five versions of the same enthusiastic video.
know the edges
The honest limits ⚖️
Three things worth knowing before you build expectations around this.
Commission is "up to". The headline rate is the top of the range, not a flat rate across every plan. Check what your dashboard actually reports against a real conversion before you do any maths on it.
It compounds slowly, then not slowly. Recurring commission means your first month looks like almost nothing and month eight looks completely different, assuming the people who signed up stay subscribed. If you judge it on week two you will quit at exactly the wrong time.
Disclosure is not optional. If you are earning from a link, say so. In most places that is a legal requirement rather than a courtesy, and audiences are far more forgiving of a disclosed affiliate link than of a discovered one.
🔁 The compounding version of this: every time you make a video about a tool you use, adding the link costs you ten seconds. Do that consistently for six months and you have built a small back catalogue that earns while you make the next thing.
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