— a straight-up deal
We'll Run Your Email Promos. You Pay Us a Cut — Only When It Works.
We take your monthly promotions off your plate — strategy, copywriting, sending, the whole thing. Our fee is a cut of the revenue we actually generate. If we don't print money for you, you don't pay a dollar.
15-minute call. No pitch. Zero obligation.
before we show you the receipts —
Four confessions from inside
the email agency business.
We know the playbook because we used to run it. Four things no retainer agency will ever put on theirs:
01You're not the client. You're the subscription.
They sell you "strategy." What they're actually selling is a recurring fee to themselves. Campaign results aren't the product — they're a byproduct. The business doesn't need your sales to go up. It needs your card on file.
02Open rates are makeup.
Your monthly report is a deck of percentages — open rates, CTRs, "engagement trends." Pretty numbers. Notice what never appears on those slides: revenue this agency generated for you, this month, in dollars. Because the real number would end the meeting in four minutes.
03You are a row on a spreadsheet.
Retainer overhead is brutal — office, account managers, Slack seats, the whole machine. They need ~30 clients to keep the lights on. Your "custom campaign" is a junior with a template, 45 minutes between two other clients' promos, and a Tuesday deadline. Not a project. A row.
04The contract isn't a commitment. It's a trap.
3-to-6 month minimums aren't there to "align incentives." They're there because by the time you realize it isn't working, you've already paid $18K–$60K. Sunk cost keeps you. Not results. They know this. It's priced in.
here's the part nobody wants in writing —
A fixed paycheck makes your results optional.
That's the entire scam. We unfixed ours.
— we've run both models. one is a con. the other is this.
↓ here's what the other one produces.
the receipts — from our side of the model
Real revenue.
Real screenshots.
No slide decks. No open-rate trophies. Just the messages clients sent us after the promos cleared.
from ONE email →
best month. ever. →
← "dead" list woke up
fired their agency →
48 hours. that's it. →
300K+ followers →
yeah, THAT Alex →
Upfront cost to start.
Performance-based.
Spots per month.
let's do the math
How Much Money
Is Sleeping In Your List?
Drag the sliders. See the number you should've been making. Then book a call and we'll actually make it.
You'd make / month
conservatively. this is the floor, not the ceiling.
12-month projection
watch it compound →Your keep
$11,880
Our cut
$2,970
Annual
$142,560
Based on 0.3% conversion rate, 2 campaigns per month. Real numbers usually run higher.
simple as it gets
How It Works
From "hey, let's talk" to money in your Stripe — exactly what happens.
first things first
We Audit Your List — Free.
Book a 15-minute call. We look at your list, your offer, your past campaigns. Then we tell you — honestly — how much revenue is sitting there untouched. No pitch. If it's not a fit, we'll say so.
then we go to work
We Take Over Your Promos.
Strategy, copywriting, sending, A/B testing, reporting — all of it. You stay 100% hands-off. We ship one to four monthly campaigns. You keep running your business.
this is the deal
You Pay Us From The Profit.
We take a pre-agreed commission on revenue our campaigns generate. You see every dollar tracked. If we make you $50K, we get a cut. If we make $0, we get $0. No revenue, no invoice.
the playbook, line by line
Why This Deal Is Unfair — For Us.
You just read how the retainer model actually runs. Here it is next to ours — row by row, no spin:
we only survive if you thrive. it keeps us honest.
let's qualify each other
Is This For You?
✓ Yes, if you…
- ✓ Have an email list of 5,000+ subscribers
- ✓ Sell a real, proven product or offer
- ✓ Are tired of paying retainers for "reports"
- ✓ Would rather ship than babysit campaigns
- ✓ Want a team whose incentives match yours
✗ No, if you…
- ✗ Don't have a list yet (we don't grow them)
- ✗ Don't have a real product — just "ideas"
- ✗ Expect overnight 10× returns guaranteed
- ✗ Want to approve every comma before we send
- ✗ Just want to "pick our brains" for free
a quick note from the founder
Look — you read the memo. Here's the rest of it, in my own words.
Commission-only email isn't a new idea. It's the oldest, most aligned deal in marketing. Almost nobody offers it — and now you know why. A fixed paycheck pays better than an honest one.
Most agencies can't actually produce revenue on demand. They need the retainer to survive. A $5K/month check from you covers their rent, their Slack seats, their juniors — whether their emails work or not. That's not a business. That's a subscription to the appearance of effort.
We don't run that way. If our emails don't convert, we don't eat. That forces us to do exactly one thing, and do it obsessively: write promos that print money.
So here's the deal — same one we've been pitching the whole page: book a call. If there's money to unlock in your list, we'll both know in 15 minutes. If there isn't, I'll tell you straight up. Either way, you leave with a clearer plan than you came in with.
— The team behind CommissionBasedPromos.org
the stuff you're thinking
Questions, answered.
No catch. We take a pre-agreed % of revenue our specific campaigns generate. We only onboard clients we're confident we can make money for — which is why we vet every applicant on the audit call. If we don't think we can move the needle, we'll tell you, and we won't take you on.
Depends on your list size, offer, and expected volume. Typically 15% to 30% of revenue generated by our campaigns. We quote an exact number on the audit call — and it's fixed before we start.
Every campaign uses unique tracking links, coupon codes, or UTM parameters (depending on your stack — Klaviyo, Mailchimp, ConvertKit, etc.). You see exact revenue per email in your own dashboard. No "trust me bro" math.
No — that's the point. You're busy. We send a calendar of what's going out at the start of each month. If something needs flagging, you flag it. Otherwise we ship. Most clients stay completely hands-off after month one.
First promo usually ships within 10–14 days of signing. That includes audit, strategy, writing the first sequence, and warming up your domain if needed. No 6-week onboarding drama.
Then you don't pay us. That's the whole model. You risk nothing but your time. We risk our writing, sending infrastructure, and opportunity cost. If our promos flop, we absorb the loss. That's why we're picky about who we take on — and why we rarely miss.
Short agreement defining the commission %, attribution tracking, and payment terms — but no minimum term. End the engagement any time. Most clients don't.
your list is sitting on this
Stop Letting Your List Rot.
Let's Unlock It — Together.
Book a free 15-minute call. We'll tell you exactly what your list is worth, what we'd send, and what commission we'd take. No pressure. No pitch deck. Just honest numbers.
Only 3 new client spots open this month.