Choose the Creator Network creators you want to recommend to your subscribers
If you're part of the Creator Network, you can recommend creators whose newsletters your subscribers may be interested in subscribing to. (Some creators will even pay you for each successful referral!)
To set up these Recommendations, follow the steps here to join the Creator Network if you haven't already.
After that, follow the steps below to add (or edit) your Free and Paid Recommendations, and customize the order in which you display your Recommendations to your subscribers:
Managing your Free Recommendations
Add a new Free Recommendation
Go to Creator Network under the Grow tab in the top navigation and click My Recommendations.
In the Creators tab in the left sidebar of the My Recommendations page, click + Add creator to add a new Free Recommendation.
We'll redirect you to the Discover page where you can browse creators in the Creator Network.
Click a creator's profile to check it out in more detail. If you've decided to recommend a certain creator, click the Recommend button and we'll add them to your list of Recommendations.
Remove a Free Recommendation
To stop recommending a creator, click the ✕ button next to their name in the Creators tab in the left sidebar of the My Recommendations page.
Click Remove in the window that pops up to confirm the removal.
NOTE: Removing all your Free Recommendations will cause you to leave the Creator Network and you will not be able to be recommended by other creators. Any Recommendations you've gotten from creators so far will become inactive.
You'll need to display at least one Free Recommendation if you want other creators to be able to recommend you.
Managing your Paid Recommendations
Add a new Paid Recommendation
To add a new Paid Recommendation, enable Paid Recommendations for your ConvertKit account first if you haven't already.
After that, click the My Recommendations page under your Creator Network settings, followed by Settings in the left sidebar.
Click the Edit in SparkLoop button.
In your SparkLoop Creator Network settings, click the + Add Paid Recommendation button.
You can then browse publications that will pay a referral fee for every subscriber you refer to them.
If a certain publication looks interesting, click the + Add button next to it.
More details of the publication's referral criteria will appear. You can optionally provide some reasons for recommending the publication, which will replace the publication's default bio in your Paid Recommendation. Like so:
Click the Accept Terms & Conditions and Add Publication button if you want to proceed with recommending the publication.
The publication will appear as a new Paid Recommendation on the My Recommendations page of your ConvertKit account.
⚠️IMPORTANT!⚠️ If you had connected an existing SparkLoop account when enabling Paid Recommendations in ConvertKit instead of creating a new one, you will additionally need to add your Paid Recommendations to Upscribe and set Upscribe to active.
(Set up the Upscribe widget first if you haven't already. You don't need to embed the widget on your website.)
Finally, customize your recommendation slots to display your Paid Recommendations! Otherwise, your Paid Recommendations will not appear. Learn how to customize your recommendation slots below.
Remove a Paid Recommendation
If you want to remove a Paid Recommendation, go to the My Recommendations page under your Creator Network settings, followed by Settings in the left sidebar.
Click the Edit in SparkLoop button.
In your SparkLoop Creator Network settings, you'll see a list of your active Paid Recommendations. Click the three horizontal dots on the right of the Recommendation you want to remove, followed by Remove recommendation.
Click Confirm to confirm the removal.
NOTE: If you change your mind about removing a Paid Recommendation, you’ll have to re-add the Paid Recommendation using the steps above. To temporarily turn off a Paid Recommendation without removing it completely, select Pause recommendation instead.
Customizing the number and order of your Recommendations
While you can have up to 100 active Recommendations, we'll display only up to five Recommendations on your Forms and Landing Pages at any time.
You can customize the number and order of your Free and Paid Recommendations by going to the Customize tab of the My Recommendations page in the Creator Network settings.
Customizing the number of Recommendations
The Recommendation slots bar lets you select the number of Recommendations you want to display:
For example, if you select "5," we'll display five Recommendations on your Forms and Landing Pages.
On the other hand, if you select "2," we'll display just two Recommendations on your Forms and Landing Pages instead.
Customizing the order of your Recommendations
Click each Recommendation slot to choose the type of Recommendation that appears there. The available options are:
Recommendation: The slot will display one of your Free Recommendations at random.
Paid Recommendation: The slot will display one of your Paid Recommendations at random. (This option will appear only if you have added Paid Recommendations to your Creator Network settings.)
Specific Free Recommendations: The slot will display a specific Free Recommendation of your choice.
NOTE: You cannot yet choose to pin a specific Paid Recommendation in a slot. Instead, we will show the best Paid Recommendation for the subscriber based on criteria such as available budget and subscriber location.
If you're done managing your Creator Network Recommendations and want to see who has recommended you to their own subscribers, you can learn how in this article 👇