A useful B2B affiliate can explain your product without turning it into a vague sales pitch. Their existing posts and videos show whether they can teach your audience.
This workflow finds LinkedIn educators and YouTube reviewers, then builds a sourced shortlist for your affiliate marketing program.
SocialListeningAPI searches public posts on LinkedIn and YouTube for the phrases you choose and returns normalized records with source URLs.
Step 1: Define the audience and teaching topics
Create a SocialListeningAPI account and claim the 100 free credits. Write down who buys your product, what they need to learn, and which adjacent tools they already use.
Search phrases may include:
B2B customer research tutorialsocial listening API reviewhow to monitor LinkedIn postsn8n market research workflowbest Reddit research tools
Search the lesson your buyer needs, not affiliate creator.
Step 2: Search LinkedIn and YouTube
for endpoint in linkedin/search-posts youtube/search-posts
do
curl --get "https://api.sociallisteningapi.com/api/v1/$endpoint" \
--data-urlencode 'query=B2B customer research tutorial' \
--header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'
doneEach phrase costs 3 credits across both sources. The LinkedIn search API and YouTube search API pages describe current coverage. You can also search through Claude or ChatGPT using the MCP.
Step 3: Group authors and channels
Save creator, company, platform, source URL, content topic, and review status in an external sheet. Group repeat authors and channels outside SocialListeningAPI.
Keep two or three relevant sources per candidate. One popular post does not show that the creator regularly serves your audience.
Step 4: Check the affiliate fit
Review topic consistency, technical accuracy, audience, sponsor disclosure, and claims. Exclude creators whose advice conflicts with your product or whose audience is too broad.
Contact lookup, audience verification, and affiliate tracking happen in separate tools.
Step 5: Send the affiliate marketing program proposal
Mention the post or video that created the match. Explain the audience overlap, commission, tracking, support, and disclosure rules. Give the creator room to reject a product that does not fit.
Conclusion
Search a few narrow workflow terms before adding broad category phrases. Narrow queries make the manual review much faster.
Your shortlist should contain educators who can explain the product accurately, backed by relevant LinkedIn posts or YouTube videos.
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