The Uplevel Media Partner Program
Send your audience toward a LinkedIn system that produces press, podcasts, stages, and clients
— and get paid a flat amount every time one of them says yes.
What you’re actually sending people to
Borrowing the stage is the fun part, and it’s the part people repeat back to you. Get in front of audiences that already exist instead of spending three years building one from scratch. Podcasts, panels, conferences, someone else’s community, someone else’s article.
But it only works because of what sits underneath it, and that’s the part your audience will want to know about before they hand over three thousand dollars.
Underneath is a LinkedIn system. Not a content calendar, not a posting hack, not fifteen tips about the algorithm. A repeatable operating process for turning a LinkedIn profile into something that generates inbound opportunity, and a daily practice that keeps it generating.
If your people are sophisticated — and if they’re your people, they probably are — they’ll ask what the mechanics are. Here they are.
The System
Everything runs on one sequence: Seen → Known → Chosen.
Most professionals get stuck at Seen. They post, they’re visible, nothing happens. Visibility without positioning is just noise, and noise doesn’t convert into a keynote invitation or a board seat.
The four components below move someone through the whole sequence.
The Magnet — the profile as an attraction asset
A LinkedIn profile written as a résumé faces backward. It records what someone already did, aimed at a hiring manager evaluating an application.
But nobody applies for the opportunities that actually change a business. Nobody applies for the keynote. Nobody applies for the board seat. Nobody applies for the introduction that turns into a six-month engagement. Those arrive — which means the profile has to face forward and say where the person is going, not where they’ve been.
The Magnet covers headline construction, the About section as a positioning statement rather than a biography, Featured section strategy, keyword architecture so the right searches surface them, and the specific structural choices that make a journalist or a podcast booker reach out instead of scroll past.
In the Accelerator, this isn’t taught and left to chance — every student gets their profile professionally written. That’s worth saying to your audience explicitly, because “I’ll teach you to write your profile” and “we will write your profile” are different products and only one of them gets finished.
The Visibility Ritual — the daily practice
Fifteen minutes a day. Structured, specific, and the same every day.
Not “post consistently.” A defined sequence of actions — who to engage with, what kind of engagement moves a relationship forward versus what’s just noise, how to be present in the right conversations without living on the platform.
This is the piece that separates the people who get results from the people who took a course. Strategy without a daily practice decays inside a month. The ritual is deliberately small enough that busy people actually sustain it, which is the only quality that matters in a daily practice.
The Warm Open — outreach that isn’t a pitch
This is where most LinkedIn advice falls apart and where a lot of your audience has already been burned.
The rule: engage with something real and specific about the person before any ask. Something they actually posted, actually built, actually said. Then a genuine exchange. Only after that, if it’s relevant, the ask.
Never a pitch in message one. Not a template with a name merged into it. Not a compliment with a link stapled to the bottom.
Karen calls the alternative “pitch-slapping in a party dress” — the dressed-up cold DM that everyone recognizes instantly and everyone ignores. Your audience is receiving twelve of those a day. Showing them a method built specifically to be the opposite of that is a strong pitch on its own.
One thing worth knowing: this program does not teach or endorse AI outreach automation. That’s a deliberate position, not an oversight. The Warm Open doesn’t work at scale by design, because the thing that makes it work is that it isn’t scaled.
Borrow the Stage — the PR and media engine
The visible layer, and the reason people show up.
Getting booked on podcasts. Getting onto panels and conference stages. Getting quoted in articles. Getting into someone else’s newsletter, someone else’s summit, someone else’s community.
The mechanics covered: how to identify stages where the audience actually overlaps with the person’s buyer, how to research a host well enough that the pitch doesn’t read as a mass send, how to construct an ask that makes it easy to say yes, and how to convert a single appearance into ongoing authority rather than a
one-time hit.
Where PR fits. LinkedIn is where journalists, producers, and bookers verify people. A reporter gets a name from a source, a podcast host gets a guest suggestion, a conference organizer gets a recommendation — every one of them looks the person up before they respond. Being findable and obviously credible in that
thirty-second check is what converts a maybe into a booking.
That’s the honest version of the PR promise: this makes someone the kind of person who gets found, checked out, and chosen. Not a guarantee of placements. Nobody can promise those, and if a program does, that should worry you.
What that looks like in the Accelerator
Eight weeks of core curriculum, twenty-six videos, structured in sequence with milestone gates so people can’t skip ahead to the fun part before the foundation is built.
Every seat includes a professionally written LinkedIn profile, a professionally written authority article published under the student’s name, and a full year in the Visibility Salon.
Not a bonus stack. That’s what’s in it.
What You Can Promote
Two programs. Both pay a flat amount per student rather than a percentage, so you know exactly what a sale is worth before you send the email.
The Visibility Salon — $47/month
The membership where the work stays consistent after the strategy is set. The daily visibility ritual with accountability, live training, profile feedback, and a room of women doing the same work at the same time. Annual option is $497.
Your commission: $12 per member, per month, for up to 12 months. The annual pays $144.
This is the one partners underestimate. At $47, a far larger share of your audience says yes — and a year of $12 across a handful of members will out-earn a single big-ticket commission, from the same one email. Send this to your whole list, not to the few people you assume have budget.
The She’s LinkedUp Accelerator — $3,000
The full system above, delivered in cohorts. Three-payment option at $1,150.
Your commission: $600 per student. Paid in full, that’s $600. On the three-payment plan, it’s $200 released as each payment clears — same $600 either way.
Flat rather than percentage on purpose. A percentage would pay you more for a payment-plan buyer than a pay-in-full buyer just because the plan totals more, and that’s a distortion that serves nobody.
Cohort dates are in the partner portal.
How collected revenue works
Commission follows collected payments — money actually received, not sales booked.
If a buyer defaults after the second installment, you keep the $400 already earned and the third $200 doesn’t pay out. If a Salon member cancels in month four, you’ve earned $48 and it stops there. If anyone refunds inside the refund window, the commission reverses.
Standard across every affiliate program, and stated here plainly because knowing it before you promote is fine and finding out afterward is not.
One related note: every Accelerator seat includes a year in the Salon, and that bundled year is part of the $600 — it doesn’t separately pay the $12/month. If someone joins the Salon first and upgrades inside the cookie window, you earn the $600 and the Salon monthly ends at the upgrade.
What isn’t in the program
The Mastermind and Private Advisory are hand-sold and invitation-only. They sit outside the affiliate program entirely — no links, no tracking, no public promotion. If someone you sent ends up there, reach out directly and it gets handled personally.
How It Works
Apply. The program is application-based. Not because we’re precious about it, but because this only works when a partner’s audience actually overlaps with ours, and a bad fit wastes your time more than ours.
Get your link. Tracking runs through Ontraport. Your link carries a 60-day cookie on first-touch attribution, and it holds across devices because the referral attaches to the contact record at signup — someone can register on their phone and buy on a laptop and you’re still credited.
Send what you want, when you want. Every partner gets a swipe pack: emails, LinkedIn posts, a DM script that doesn’t make anyone feel pitch-slapped, story slides, and graphics. Edit all of it. The partners who do best rewrite the swipe in their own voice and add a paragraph about why they personally vouch for the work.
Get paid. Commissions are calculated on collected revenue and approved after the refund window closes. Payouts go out monthly on the 20th, via PayPal or ACH.
The Rules
Short list, and they’re all firm.
No income claims. Not yours, not ours, not implied, not in a testimonial you screenshot. Talk about opportunities — stages, seats, engagements, visibility. Not dollars.
No manufactured urgency. Real deadlines only. Don’t invent a spot count, don’t run a countdown to something that isn’t actually closing.
No bidding on brand terms. No paid search or paid social against “Karen Yankovich,” “She’s LinkedUp,” “Category of One,” or close variants.
No pitch-slapping. If you’re doing outreach to promote this, engage with the person first — specifically, about something they actually posted. A generic compliment with a link stapled to it is exactly the behavior this entire method exists to replace, and doing it while promoting us is a bad look for everyone.
Don’t rewrite the offer. Prices, inclusions, and dates are what they are.
Break one of these and you’re out, with commissions forfeited. It has almost never come up, and stating it plainly is how it stays that way.
Who This Works For
Partners who do well here tend to be one of these:
Podcast hosts and newsletter writers whose audience is women running service businesses
Coaches and consultants serving corporate women planning an exit into consulting, fractional work, or board seats
Community leaders and membership owners with an audience that’s accomplished but under-visible
Former clients who’ve done the work and want to send people to it
If your audience is early-stage, pre-revenue, or looking for a side hustle, this isn’t going to land, and we’ll tell you that rather than let you burn goodwill on a bad match.