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Vetted GrowthMentor mentors who run affiliate and partner programs for a living. Every mentor below wrote their own take on the work.
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Serhat Hocazade
5.0 · +9 more
Blaine
Founder · Permit Hound
"I don't want to walk through an uncleared minefield without someone who has walked it before."
Hamel Shah
Co-Founder · CarrotsAndCake
"GrowthMentor enables us to swiftly get a world-class expert to give us guidance on any marketing issue or…"
Lena Sesardic
Product Manager
"Knowing I can always book a call to help me clarify what I'm doing is the best feeling in the world."
Minh
Solo Founder · SEOmatic
"I like to set my own strategies and then get help from experts to improve on them and check if I'm on the…"
Nicola Rubino
Growth Marketing Consultant · nicorubino
"It gave me fast access to expert-level insights that I couldn't get from academic research or user surveys…"
Annie Chen
Head of Marketing · DOWN Dating App
"Sometimes I'm stuck at one step and all I need is someone who can share experiences of what they did when…"
Carlos Terol
Co-Founder · Bagmaya
"I enjoy having pretty much instant access to a pool of worldwide, expert mentors who are keen to share their…"
Luka Karsten Breitig
Co-Founder · The Happy Beavers
"Imagine a world where everything you read was written by a subject-matter expert."
Flora Bui
Co-Founder · Acie
"My favorite thing about GrowthMentor is how it allows me to expand my network globally in a very short time…"
Maria Ledentsova
Digital Marketing Manager · magier
"Whatever problem I have, there's a friendly and incredibly helpful mentor ready to help."
Kate Bojkov
Head of Growth · EmbedSocial
"How quick and easy I can find somebody who had my problem and is willing to talk with me and openly share…"
Supriya Agarwal
Co-founder · BiosectRx
"Being able to connect with any expert across the globe at the click of a button. No network or previous…"
Anastasia Rubleva
Head of Growth · Rapid Dev
"I love the ability to receive valuable feedback from mentors who have been in the industry for decades."
Andrew McBurney
CEO & Co-founder · Review Robin
"You should cut out 99% of the things that you're thinking about."
The mentors, in their own words.
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Serhat Hocazade
Hands-on GTM Leader ex Amazon, Facebook, LinkedIn and Start-ups raised over $100M
Worked hard to create win-win opportunities for the partners and I. What I found work is to start small but set up expectations (KPIs) ver clear so everyone can build upon that.
Louis Camassa
Director of Product Management @ Rithum | Expertise in 0-to-1 & Scaling Enterprise SaaS | 2 Successful Exits
Mastering partner marketing is about crafting win-win relationships. My team's success in sealing a one-million-dollar deal with a partner exemplifies this, benefiting us, our clients, and the partner. This collaboration not only fueled our platform's upgrade but also introduced new features to our clients and expanded our partner's user base. Such partnerships are essential for mutual growth and success in the dynamic market landscape.
Eugen Ilie
Growth Marketing | Digital Marketing | Revenue Growth | 20+ Years of Experience
I bring extensive experience in affiliate marketing, having been an innovator in the space since 2002. From launching successful programs to refining strategies, I’ve consistently leveraged cutting-edge tools and creative approaches to drive measurable results. My expertise includes affiliate platform setup, strategic partnerships, and performance optimization to fuel sustainable growth.
John Foundis
Growth & Digital Marketing Strategist | Entrepreneur | Fintech MBA Candidate | Community & Emerging Tech Advocate 📈🚀
Over 10 years of expertise with a strategic focus on impactful collaborations. At Echofin and Owiwi, developed key partnerships driving growth and engagement. For FashionFreaks, led collaborations with brands like H&M and Diesel, boosting brand visibility. As Head of Partnerships for Startup Europe Week, connected VCs, global brands, and startups through alliances that supported the local startup ecosystem. Skilled in creating strategic alliances that align with business goals & deliver results.
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I work closely with global partners and distributors to strengthen digital visibility and generate qualified leads. Through co-branded campaigns, shared content strategies, and performance tracking, I help partners align marketing goals with business growth — creating value on both sides of the collaboration.
Catherine Gao
CEO, Founder of Rubik Technologies & Abundant Science (Prev VP of Growth), GTM Lead at VC
Partnership skills include: - how to find the right partnership and get ahold of them - how to create, negotiate and structure a partnership program - I've closed $M partnership deals
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What an affiliate marketing mentor does
An affiliate marketing mentor has already lived through what the last two years did to this channel. You get a 1:1 call with someone who has built affiliate revenue, watched an update or a rate cut take a bite of it, and rebuilt it on ground that doesn't move.
- Diagnose the dependence. Most affiliate income rides on one traffic source and one program. A mentor maps where your revenue actually comes from, and how much of it one algorithm change or one commission email can erase.
- Redo the income math. Rates that were 10% are 4% now, and AI answers take the click before the visit. A mentor reruns the numbers before you spend another quarter producing at a loss.
- Move to ground you own. Email lists, direct merchant deals, an audience that knows your name. A mentor helps you turn the traffic you still have into assets no update can take.
You also leave with a record. After each call, the takeaways are written down for you, ready to keep or skip:
Daniil KopilevychAffiliate site triageStop publishing new reviews this month. Twenty of your pages still get real traffic, put an email capture on every one of them before that's gone too.
Your top five money pages earn 80% of the income. Move those off the 4% network rate and onto the merchants' direct programs this week.
KeepSkipYou have an audience problem, not a content problem. A thousand true readers on email beats fifty thousand strangers from a results page.
KeepSkipWhat people bring to these calls
Affiliate got hit twice in one year: Google updates and AI Overviews took the traffic, then Amazon and TikTok Shop cut commissions with no warning. Almost every call lands in one of these:
- The traffic cliff. an update or AI answers took your clicks, and you need the recover-or-rebuild call made with someone who has seen both endings.
- The rate cut. a program halved your commission overnight, and you need income that survives someone else's pen stroke, direct deals, better programs, more than one leg.
- The plateau. you did everything the course said and you're stuck at a few hundred dollars a month. Usually the niche, the traffic or the monetization is broken, and each has a different fix.
- The audience with no engine. you're a creator with real followers and a link page, unsure which mix of marketplace, creator platforms and brand deals earns most without burning trust.
- The inherited program. brand side, you just got handed the affiliate channel, and the job is recruiting partners who produce and waking up the dormant ones.
The ask is usually a symptom. "I need my traffic back" is mostly "one rented channel owned all my income." A mentor who has built affiliate revenue recognizes the pattern underneath, and that's the thing worth fixing.
When to book a call
You do not need a polished question. Bring the site, the dashboard or the program, your numbers, and the thing you're stuck on. You can also run it in reverse: post what you're stuck on as a help request, and mentors raise their hands to take it.
Why GrowthMentor
Every mentor on GrowthMentor is vetted before they are accepted. Fewer than 5% of applicants get in. That bar matters more in affiliate than anywhere else, because this niche's expert economy runs on screenshot income claims and hidden-price masterminds. These are operators with verifiable track records, their calendars are open, and because the same mentors also carry SEO, email marketing and partnerships, you get help with the channels around the program too, which after this year is usually where the real decision lives.
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GrowthMentor enables us to swiftly get a world-class expert to give us guidance on any marketing issue or question in a matter of days.
Hamel Shah · Co-Founder
Read Hamel's storyKnowing I can always book a call to help me clarify what I'm doing is the best feeling in the world.
Lena Sesardic · Product Manager
Read Lena's storyI like to set my own strategies and then get help from experts to improve on them and check if I'm on the right track.
Minh · Solo Founder
Read Minh's storyIt gave me fast access to expert-level insights that I couldn't get from academic research or user surveys alone.
Nicola Rubino · Growth Marketing Consultant
Read Nicola's storySometimes I'm stuck at one step and all I need is someone who can share experiences of what they did when they were in my situation.
Annie Chen · Head of Marketing
Read Annie's storyI enjoy having pretty much instant access to a pool of worldwide, expert mentors who are keen to share their expertise and help others.
Carlos Terol · Co-Founder
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What people ask before their first call.
The money says yes: affiliate spend keeps growing double digits. What died is one specific playbook, the SEO review site funneling to marketplace links. People are still building real affiliate income on owned audiences, direct programs and creator channels. A mentor helps you tell which side of that line your plan is on before you invest another year in it.
Sometimes, slowly, and usually only partially. Cosmetic fixes like fresh dates and added paragraphs consistently fail, and real recoveries often return a fraction of the old traffic. The more useful question is whether recovery or rebuilding on channels you own is the better use of your next six months. That's a judgment call a mentor who has seen both outcomes can make with you against your actual numbers.
Start with your top-earning pages, not your whole site. Most products have direct merchant programs or niche networks paying a multiple of the marketplace rate, and moving your five biggest earners can offset the cut on its own. A mentor who has made this migration can save you weeks of program-by-program trial and error.
Pick one surface that fits your niche and go deep: YouTube, a newsletter, Pinterest, or the communities where your buyers already gather. The common mistake is planting a thin flag on five platforms at once. And whatever you pick, capture the traffic you still have into email first, because that's the asset no update can take.
Yes, and it's one of the most underserved asks in marketing. Recruiting partners who actually produce and reactivating dormant ones are exactly what an operator who has run programs can work through with you, along with terms that keep good partners and reporting that protects the budget. Bring your program dashboard to the call.
Bring the real thing: your site or channel, your traffic and commission numbers, and one specific problem, the update that hit you, the rate cut, the plateau, the program you inherited. GrowthMentor is a membership, so once you are a member calls are included. Browse the mentors above, read their reviews, and book a 30-minute video call on their calendar.
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