Recruit Campus Ambassadors Paid in Resume Perks, Not Cash
Recruit Campus Ambassadors Paid in Resume Perks, Not Cash is a partnerships & affiliates tactic for getting your first users: Knowing students were a perfect fit but being years removed from campus, the founders openly recruited six student ambassadors and paid them with networking, mentorship, a LinkedIn credential and a reference letter instead of money.
It's a strong fit for teams of almost any kind, and works especially well for Products with a clear campus or niche-community fit. As a partnerships & affiliates play, plan for medium effort and expect results to arrive at a steady pace, all grounded in 1 linked primary source.
- Channel: Partnerships & affiliates
- Best for: Products with a clear campus or niche-community fit
- Effort: Medium
- Speed: Medium
- Sources: 1 linked primary source(s)
Why does partnerships & affiliates work for this?
Insiders distribute to peers you can't access, and status-based pay keeps costs near zero.
The exact steps (5)
The full step-by-step this founder ran, what they posted, where, and in what order, plus the watch-outs, is part of the library.
Sources
- Source — IndieHackers · indiehackers.com