skills/channels/partnerships/creator-program/SKILL.md
When the user wants to plan, implement, or optimize creator program strategy. Also use when the user mentions "creator program," "creator partnership," "content co-creation," "creator ambassador," "creator economy," "creator collaboration," "UGC program," "creator incentives," or "creator community." For influencers, use influencer-marketing.
npx skillsauth add kostja94/marketing-skills creator-programInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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Guides creator program strategy for AI/SaaS products. Long-term partnerships with creators for content co-creation and brand building. Differs from affiliate (sales focus) and influencer (paid promotion focus).
When invoking: On first use, if helpful, open with 1–2 sentences on what this skill covers and why it matters, then provide the main output. On subsequent use or when the user asks to skip, go directly to the main output.
Check for project context first: If .claude/project-context.md or .cursor/project-context.md exists, read it for product, audience, and content needs.
Identify:
| Dimension | Creator Program | Affiliate | Influencer | |-----------|-----------------|-----------|------------| | Goal | Brand + content co-creation | Direct sales | Brand exposure | | Incentive | Credits, free use, revenue share | Commission | Paid, product | | Content | Must use product to create | Links | Influencer original | | Relationship | Long-term | Transactional | Flexible |
| Model | Use | Examples | |-------|-----|----------| | Credits | AI tools; cost control | Credit-based AI tools | | Payment | High-quality content; budget available | Paid creator programs | | Hybrid | Credits + commission, brand partnership | Common for SaaS | | Marketplace | Template/plugin sales; revenue share | Design tools, CMS marketplaces |
| Phase | Weeks | Tasks | |-------|-------|-------| | Plan | 1–2 | Goals, incentives, application form, resources | | Launch | 3–4 | Landing page, promotion, tracking | | Recruit | 5–8 | Screen applications, outreach, onboarding | | Co-create | 9–12 | Content publishing, support, promotion | | Optimize | Ongoing | Metrics, feedback, incentive tweaks |
| Principle | Use | |-----------|-----| | Value for all | Each participant (creators, content, integrations) gains value—not just the platform | | Integrations | Product must integrate with upstream/downstream tools; enables solution bundling | | Multi-product | Form solution suites; support partners including you in their stacks |
Creators + community: Free tools + high-quality creator content; mutual promotion; user-generated quality often exceeds in-house.
| Challenge | Solution | |-----------|----------| | Content quality | Clear standards; review; suspend non-compliant | | Brand consistency | Guidelines; content review; unified tags | | Measurement | UTM; KPIs: applications, approval rate, content output | | Cost control | Credit model; tier incentives; limit creator count |
testing
When the user wants to create, audit, or optimize sitemap.xml. Also use when the user mentions "sitemap," "sitemap.xml," "sitemap index," "lastmod," "changefreq," "priority," "URL discovery," "URL discovery for search engines," "single source of truth," "URL config," "unify sitemap IndexNow," or "reduce duplicate maintenance." For IndexNow, use indexnow.
development
When the user wants to configure, audit, or optimize robots.txt. Also use when the user mentions "robots.txt," "crawler rules," "block crawlers," "AI crawlers," "GPTBot," "allow/disallow," "disallow path," "crawl directives," "user-agent," "block Googlebot," "fix robots.txt," "robots.txt blocking," or "search engine crawling." For indexing, use indexing.
testing
When the user wants to create SEO pages at scale using templates and data—including AI-assisted, grounded copy for per-URL differentiation (vs rigid mail-merge templates). Also use when the user mentions "programmatic SEO," "programmatic SEO pages," "template pages," "scale content," "location pages," "city pages," "comparison pages at scale," "X vs Y pages," "integration pages," "pages from data," "automated landing pages," or "programmatic landing pages." Uses a playbook matrix aligned to skills under skills/pages. For user-facing template galleries or marketplaces (browse → use), use template-page-generator.
data-ai
When the user wants to add or optimize Twitter Card metadata for X (Twitter) link previews. Also use when the user mentions "Twitter Card," "twitter:card," "twitter:image," "twitter:title," "X preview," or "tweet preview." For Facebook/LinkedIn previews, use open-graph.