
Nancy Harnett
Head of Growth Partnerships at Instantly.ai, leading affiliate, referral, creator, and strategic partnerships; formerly led Global Growth Partnerships and offsite AEO at HubSpot.
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Jul 30, 2026
How to Build a B2B Affiliate Program from Scratch
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Nancy HarnettGUEST
But essentially what we did was we pulled every single bit of data that we possibly could out of our partnership platform.

Nancy HarnettGUEST
So we had to pull it from both platforms, match them up and figure out what was what.

Nancy HarnettGUEST
What we were able to do then is essentially use AI to map out each individual partner using their URL, figure out what bucket they fit in.
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Dustin HowesHOST
When you're starting from scratch with zero brand recognition in the affiliate space, how do you convince your first 10 partners to take a chance on your brand?
SaaS Clas EP2: From Single Digits to 25% of Pipeline: The SaaS Partner Playbook | Nancy Harnett, Guy Yalif, and Tye DeGrange
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Tye DeGrangeHOST
Maybe Nancy can give us a little bit of a framework of some of those levers at the next level of figuring it out.

Nancy HarnettGUEST
Yeah, this is actually very timely because I've been speaking to people over the last number of weeks about activations.

Nancy HarnettGUEST
And Ultimately, like activation flows are sometimes where partner programs go to die just simply because people, someone asked me the other day, I had a networking call with someone at B2B SaaS the other day and they asked me, like, how do I activate my partners? I created this this recruitment center thing.
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SaaS Class EP 1: AEO is the New SEO — How HubSpot & Webflow Are Winning AI-First Discovery | Nancy Harnett & Guy Yalif
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Nancy HarnettGUEST
Yeah, I think local search is very, very easy to gain right now because you're able to go in and you're able to create that real, real specific content touching on, hey, I'm a small business owner in London based with 10 employees, etc.

Nancy HarnettGUEST
And you can write pieces of content to speak directly to those, but On the broader sense, you need to look at, like you said there, Guy, run the LLM over your gone calls.

Nancy HarnettGUEST
Look at what your actual prospects are asking and start writing the content for them.

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Different publishers are going to perform better because that's what their audience is looking at.

Nancy HarnettGUEST
So for us, when we're thinking about authority and depth and everything in between, we're also looking at the actual performance of their blog.
