I scrapped 2 months worth of work on a headless front end application for Siren, and went server-side with PHP. In doing so, I literally built the entire interface in 3 days.
Why are we still so stuck on headless?
Project Siren
Siren is a pay For performance platform For WordPress. You can think of it as "An affiliate program on steroids". Learn more about Siren here.
How Siren Promotes Collaboration Among Your Affiliates
Siren allows you to create more than one reward program on your site. This creates unique opportunities for your affiliates to work together. This post explores some ways different programs can combine together so that everyone wins.
Do The Woo: Re-imagining Affiliate Programs for Your Woo Biz with Alex Standiford
In this episode, I emphasize the importance of developing strong, personalized relationships with affiliates, moving away from the traditional affiliate link model and exploring more collaborative and multifaceted approaches. The conversation also leads into the potential drawbacks of traditional affiliate programs, highlighting the need for a more nuanced and individualized approach to maximize success for both the affiliate and the business.
Siren’s Tracking System Is Bananas
Old Affiliate plugins use “visits” for tracking. I realized that we can do so, so much better. By calling them “Opportunities”, Siren makes it possible to track anything, from visitors, to bug reports, and anything in-between.
Maximize Course and Coaching Revenue Through Partnerships with Siren Affiliates
Chris Badgett invited me on the Lifter LMS podcast to talk a little about how Siren is changing how WordPress sites can look at not only affiliate programs, but partnerships in-general.
Let's talk about how Siren will allow you to incentivize people who aren't affiliates. One example - you could pay content writers a bonus based on how much traffic they drive to your site. This video explores that concept a little bit.
I think it sucks that affiliate programs almost always only pay out a commission to the last person who referred that person. I think this is a limitation of most modern affiliate management plugins, and it stifles any collaborative opportunities between your affiliates.
What if you could share the engagement among everyone who ever referred that person? What if you could pay the person who referred the individual the most? How about this, what if you could pay someone based on the percentage of times they referred that person?
Affiliate programs as you know them today are so limiting. Siren's gonna fix that.
I made some progress on the Siren's Add Program screen recently. This is one of the key differentiators of Siren - of course you can do affiliate programs, but it's just one of many types of programs that you can create. Programs are tracked based on any number of different events, and the way they're paid out can be based on different incentive structures. You can have as many programs as you need.
This also highlights a key touchpoint with integrations like LifterLMS! 🧜♀️🚀
The interface is coming along. There's still a lot I want to do to improve this screen (filters, search, etc), but as a barebones starting point with fully-supported CRUD operations, I'm pleased with the results.
A Nerdy Note - There's a lot going on under the hood, here. This app is platform agnostic, so it can be changed to run as a mobile app instead - with complete extensibility of the interface from the server. I'll get into how all of that works someday.
