The Honest Truth About Switching to Premium Affiliate Offers

Can I be real with you for a second?

Most people only share the after. 
The commission screenshots. The income wins. The highlight reel.

But nobody talks about the weeks before anything changed...

❌ The discomfort of waiting for it to not work. 
❌ The fear of letting go of something that was at least working a little. 
❌ The quiet dread of checking a commission report that you already know is going to disappoint you.

In today's episode Brandy and I are pulling back the curtain on what the switch to a premium affiliate offer actually looked like for both of us. 

The real version 🙌

If you've been sitting on the fence about making the switch this episode is going to be the thing that moves you.

Ready to step into your own Feminine Wealth? Start here!

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hey there and welcome to today's episode. And today we're talking about why I switched to high-ticket affiliate offers. And here's what changed in 90 days. And by I mean, of course, Brandy Shaver and myself. We're here, both of us today. But I want to tell you what happened in the 90 days after we stopped promoting low-ticket info products and switched to a premium affiliate offer. Not the version you see in the income screenshots, right? But the real version, including the weeks before anything changed. The time, like the first time I saw a thousand dollar commission notification. And the thing I didn't expect that turned out to matter most. So welcome to Feminine Wealth. My name's Carrie Hayam. And today I am joined by the lovely Brownie Shaver. And we are the co-founders. We've done over 25 million in online revenue between the two of us. And today we are both taking you behind the curtain of what this transition actually looked like. Because I think too many people only share the after, and the before and the during are where the real story is.

SPEAKER_01 1:07

Absolutely. So I have my own version of this story too. And together, I think they have complete picture of what the switch looks like. Not the highlight reel, right? But the honest one. So let me be honest about something first. I knew the offer was the problem before I did anything about it. Okay. I had a filling, the ceiling for months, right? Producing content that performed, building real relationships, doing everything right by every metric I could measure. And the income just wouldn't break through a certain level. Now I knew somewhere quiet that I had outgrown what I was promoting, but I kept finding reasons to stay, right? I had built familiarity with the product, my audience knew it. I had created so much content around it. Switching felt like dismantling something that was at least working a little bit or on some level, even if that level wasn't enough. And there was a pride piece to this too. Switching felt like admitting that I'd been doing it wrong, that I'd spent time on the wrong thing, which maybe I did, right? And I wasn't ready to face that. So I kept optimizing different hooks, different posting times, different captions, trying to squeeze more out of something that simply wasn't built to give more. What finally moved me was sitting down and doing the math properly. I calculated what I would need to earn $10,000 a month with my current offer structure. And when I saw the numbers of sales required every single month without fail, with no system running in the background, I couldn't pretend anymore. Like honestly, like I was like, whoa, that's gonna be a lot of work to get $40 sales that's gonna pay me $10 each, right? The offer was actually the ceiling. And so I had to choose between the ceiling and the income that I actually wanted.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

Yes. And I remember when I made the switch, like the first thing I want to tell you is that the first two weeks were uncomfortable. And not because it wasn't working, but because I was waiting for it to not work, right? Like I had so much conditioning around, oh, this seems too good to be true, that every positive signal felt like a setup for disappointment. Week one, I introduced the offer naturally into content I was already creating on social media. I didn't announce a pivot, right? Like I just shared it in a in the way I share anything I genuinely believe in. And through my own honest experience with it, through the problem it solves, through like what changed for me, all of a sudden a few DMs from women, they reached out, like they were curious, no commissions yet. And then in week two, I had more conversations. And women in my audience who had been following me for months were suddenly asking questions that felt different from the usual, oh, how much is it? questions. They were already in, they wanted specifics. The quality and the quality of the DMs shifted noticeably. And then all of a sudden, Brandy and I were drowning in like 50 DMs a day. I'll never forget it. I had my very first $1,000 commission come through. It was a single sale, and I genuinely sat like with my phone for a full minute because like I wasn't sure if I was reading the notification correctly. Not because a thousand dollars is unfathomable, but because I had been grinding for $30, $50 commissions for so long that seeing one sale produce that had an almost like surreal quality. And I called Brandy. I was like, Oh my gosh, I just got my first sale, and you had already had yours at this point. It actually worked, but then you know, the next few weeks, the income for the month was already higher than any full month with my previous offer, like same posting frequency, same audience, different offer. But and by day 90, I wasn't just earning more, I was complete showing up completely different. I had a confidence in what I was promoting that I hadn't felt at all in any of my previous offers. My content fell alive, and my audience could feel that shift before I ever mentioned a number.

SPEAKER_01 5:03

Well, and I think too, the energy that comes with that, right? Like when you go from making $10 off a $40 offer to making $1,200 off a premium offer, like you're like, like, holy crap, you know, like I don't have to work as hard to make the kind of money that I want to make. So looking back with everything I know, here is what I would change about how I made the transition. Number one, I would commit more fully and more quickly. Okay. I spent the first few weeks hedge posting, still promoting the old offer alongside the new one because I was I was scared to be honest, right? To fully let it go. In retrospect, that diluted everything the energy, the messaging, the income. When you are promoting two offers simultaneously, you are not fully present for either. So pick the premium offer and commit to it. I would trust the infrastructure sooner as well. One of the biggest revelations of the first few weeks was realizing how much of the conversion process was handled by a back-end system. The follow-up, the sales sequence, the objection handling, none of that was on me. I spent weeks worrying about how I would close sales that the system was already closing without me. That worry was wasted energy. And I would stop treating the quiet days as evidence that it wasn't working. In the low-ticket model, you see small commissions almost daily. It creates a constant drip that feels like momentum, even when the numbers are small. With the premium offer, the gaps between sales are longer, but the sales are real and the amount of money that comes in, right, is a bigger deal. So learning to trust the model during the quiet days was the most important psychological shift that I could have in my brain. The switch is simpler than the fear of it suggests. And the fear almost always is bigger than what is actually happening.

unknown 6:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:45

Uh that reminds me, Brandy, of that post, the ad that you had running that you're like, oh, it's just it's not really doing anything. And you were like, no, mentors were like, keep it on, keep it on, right? And then all of a sudden you got like three thousand dollar commissions in a day. Yeah. So it's like you went like a long period of time of not having any, and then it was just boom, boom.

SPEAKER_01 7:05

Yeah, and that actual post that that content, it actually made me $158,000, like when it was all said and done in the first, you know, in the first like three, four months that it was up, right? Because content shifts and all those things. But I went back because I actually was um like highlighted from the affiliate company for doing that, right? And I had to go back and like like assess what actually happened and all the things. So that's what we ended up making. It was like $157,000 from that one piece of content, but but that's only possible with the premium offer, right?

SPEAKER_00 7:38

Like, if had you not had a premium offer, you might have made that in a whole year, you know, with a low-ticket offer.

SPEAKER_01 7:46

There's no way.

SPEAKER_00 7:46

Yeah. So I want to talk about the thing that surprised us most because I think sometimes we talk about premium offers in purely financial terms, and we missed the shift that actually matters most. So the thing neither of us expected was how much lighter the work would feel. Like we had been carrying something we hadn't fully named. It was like a quiet, low-level anxiety that lived in the background of everything we did. Like the uncertainty of whether this month would be enough, the mild dread of checking your commissions report. Like there, like, oh my goodness, with those low ticket commissions, I didn't even open my eye back. My back.

SPEAKER_01 8:24

Yeah, why would you, right? You're like, oh, it's like $10, $10 for today. Okay. Well, hopefully it adds up at the end of the month, and I hopefully make three grand, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:32

Yeah. And like the tension of promoting something we weren't completely sure would deliver for our buyers. Like, we had become so used to carrying that weight that we stopped noticing it. But when we shifted to the premium offer, the offer was right. When we were promoting something with real results, real infrastructure and commissions that reflected our effort, that weight lifted. And the absence of it was the most noticeable thing of all. Like we showed up differently. We created from a place of like genuine excitement rather than obligation.

SPEAKER_01 9:07

And our content because it was real, it was genuine excitement. Like when you see a $1,200 commission come through instead of a $10 one, you're like, holy crap, right?

SPEAKER_00 9:15

Like, yeah, it's lighter, it feels more fun. Like, and I almost want to say, like, it shifts your identity. Like, all of a sudden, you're like, I'm a premium person delivering a premium value. And because the identity shift alone makes that weight go away. And that is the thing that screenshots don't show. Like the feeling of alignment of your business finally matching who you actually are and what you actually believe in, that is worth far more than any single commission notification I've ever got.

SPEAKER_01 9:48

Yeah, and it's so fun. That's what makes it way, it makes it better because it's so much more fun. Because you're actually making money. Making money is fun. When you're like, oh, it's a $10 commission, that's gonna pay for my coffee. But when you get a $1,200 commission, you're like, holy crap, I can almost pay my house payment with that, right? So let me give you a realistic picture of what 90 days with the right premium offer could look like for someone at your level. In the first 30 days, you introduce the offer naturally into content you already create. The conversations in your DMs shift in quality. The women reaching out feel more ready, more intentional, and can may not dramatically change yet, but you will notice the difference in how the conversations feel. In days 30 to 60, your first premium commission is going to arrive. Each one landing differently than a low-ticket sell ever did. Okay. Now the math starts to click in a way that motivates rather than exhausts, like we were talking earlier, right? Like you get that gives you that boost. You're like, oh, I'm closer to my Disneyland trip, right? Or whatever. You stop doing the depressing calculations. Like day 90, the income for the quarter will very likely exceed what you produced in longer periods with your previous offer. Not because you worked harder, because the lever changed. You don't need 90 days of hustle, you need 90 days of aligned intentional effort behind the right offer that is available to you right now.

SPEAKER_00 11:09

Yeah. So if this episode resonated with you, I want you to sit with one question. What would your income look like if every sale you made this month paid a thousand dollars instead of 30? Like how many sales would you need to hit your goal? And how different would your month feel? Because that's not a fantasy. That's the model. And it starts with the affiliate success playbook at femininewealth.com forward slash playbook. We recommend you download it, walk through the framework, and take that first step toward a business that actually pays you for what you've built.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

You've done the hard work, you have built the audience, you've earned the trust. It's time the income reflected all of that. And it's it's your turn, right? So let us know if you got value from today's episode. And we'll see you on next time.