THE INFLUENCER PLAYBOOK
Get Paid To Share. Build Distribution. Find Multipliers.
This is the page where ShareMerchant gets interesting.
Because the Internet already trained everybody to share.
- You tell people to find you on Facebook.
- You send somebody a YouTube video.
- You repost something on X.
- You recommend a business.
- You tell somebody about a website.
You do it all the time.
Usually the platform gets the economic benefit and you get nothing.
That’s their business model.
Fine.
I built Freak Sites differently.
If somebody you introduce makes a qualifying product purchase through your properly tracked affiliate path, you can earn a commission.
If connected people farther down the path create qualifying product activity, the current multi-tier structure can also pay qualifying connected positions.
Why?
Because if people help distribute and build the Islands, I don’t think the platform has to keep every dollar.
That’s the ShareMerchant idea.
1. Start With The Product
The basic Freak Sites product is a Parking Spot.
A standard Parking Spot currently costs $7.
It is a full-page advertising and publishing page built around something real.
- A car.
- A business.
- A race.
- A vacation rental.
- A trip.
- A property.
- A service.
- A product.
- A story.
Something somebody can actually look at and understand.
That matters because it gives you something real to share.
You are not starting with:
“Would you like to join my affiliate opportunity?”
You can start with:
“Look at this page. If you’ve got $7 lying around, what would you park?”
Much easier.
2. Share A Lot
This website is called ShareMerchant.
The name is not subtle. 😂
You can share:
- your Parking Spot;
- somebody else’s useful Parking Spot;
- your Garage or Channel;
- an Island;
- ShareMerchant.com;
- or your properly tracked affiliate path.
Share on:
- Facebook;
- LinkedIn;
- X;
- Instagram;
- TikTok;
- YouTube;
- Rumble;
- Reddit when appropriate;
- Facebook groups;
- forums;
- email;
- text;
- DMs;
- comments;
- and actual conversations with real humans.
You do not have to use all of them.
Use the places where you already have some kind of access or credibility.
And don’t spam.
That isn’t influence.
That’s just annoying.
3. Use Social Media For Distribution
I am not anti-social media.
I use it constantly.
I just don’t want social media to be the final destination for everything I create.
Create the page first.
Then use social media to drive people to it.
- Facebook can give you attention.
- X can give you attention.
- LinkedIn can give you attention.
- YouTube can give you attention.
The Parking Spot gives that attention somewhere to land.
That’s the difference.
4. Don’t Give Away The Whole Story
If you write a great Parking Spot and then summarize every interesting part of it on Facebook…
why would anybody click?
Tease it.
Make somebody curious.
Then give them the URL.
Something as simple as:
“We flew to California after buying my wife a Porsche. That part kind of went according to plan. Everything after that didn’t.”
Then the link.
Social media gets the click.
The Parking Spot gets the story.
5. Start With People Who Already Fit
You do not have to talk to everybody.
Look for people who already have something a Parking Spot could help.
- A race director.
- A vacation-rental owner.
- A car dealer.
- A mobile painter.
- A detailer.
- A realtor.
- A coach.
- A creator.
- A business owner.
Someone with an interesting story.
If the product fits, the conversation gets very easy.
“You keep explaining this service over and over on LinkedIn. For $7 you could build the whole thing once, add photos and videos, grab the URL and keep sharing it.”
That’s not a pitch.
That’s an observation.
6. Look For People Who Already Control A Market
This is where you should start thinking bigger.
Not everybody needs 900,000 followers.
Some people have access to a very specific market.
- A race director with an email list of 20,000 runners has distribution.
- A realtor with thousands of past clients has distribution.
- A Porsche club president has distribution.
- A vacation-rental manager with 100 property owners has distribution.
- A Facebook-group administrator with 40,000 members has distribution.
- A YouTuber with 250,000 subscribers obviously has distribution.
They already stand in front of a market.
That’s what you’re looking for.
Not just followers.
Access.
7. Land Influencers By Showing Them Something Relevant
People with audiences get pitched every day.
They do not need another message that says:
“I have an amazing opportunity for you.”
Hard pass.
Show them something that fits what they already do.
If they create automotive content, show them a CoolCarGuy.com or CarsFreak.com Parking Spot.
- If they run races, show them Runner Freak.
- If they own vacation rentals, show them Travelers Freak.
- If they work around housing, show them Housing Freak.
Then ask:
“What could you do with this?”
That is a much better conversation.
- They might create one Parking Spot.
- They might create fifty.
- They might share it with their audience.
- They might become an affiliate.
- They might do absolutely nothing.
Nothing is guaranteed.
But pretending somebody with a large relevant audience has no more distribution power than somebody with 25 followers would be ridiculous.
8. Build A Small Group
This is another part people can overcomplicate.
I am not talking about collecting 1,000 affiliate registrations so you can brag about your “team.”
I would rather have ten people who actually understand the product.
Ten people who create Parking Spots.
Ten people who share them.
Ten people who each understand a different little market.
Maybe:
- one knows race directors;
- one knows car dealers;
- one knows vacation rentals;
- one knows real-estate professionals;
- one runs a Facebook group;
- one has a YouTube channel;
- one knows small-business owners;
- one is connected to runners;
- one works around travel;
- one just happens to know everybody.
Now Freak Sites isn’t depending entirely on:
my followers;
my contacts;
my time;
or my ability to personally explain the product to everybody.
That’s distribution.
9. Why The Multi-Tier Structure Matters
If you introduce somebody who understands the product, why should your economic interest necessarily end with their first seven-dollar purchase?
Maybe they create more Parking Spots.
Maybe they introduce somebody.
That person introduces another person.
Now qualifying product activity is moving through a distribution path you helped start.
That’s why the current Affiliate Program has connected positions.
- 20% — Direct affiliate
- 15% — First connected position
- 10% — Second connected position
- 5% — Third connected position
- 5% — Fourth connected position
On a standard $7 Parking Spot, that can distribute:
- $1.40 direct;
- $1.05 first connected;
- $0.70 second connected;
- $0.35 third connected;
- $0.35 fourth connected.
The person making the immediate qualifying referral does not receive all five commissions.
The applicable commissions follow the properly connected path under the current program terms.
The tiers are not the product.
They are how Freak Sites can share some of the revenue with people helping distribute the product.
10. Why Should The Platform Keep All The Money?
Think about the normal Internet model.
- You invite people to Facebook.
- You tell people to follow you on X.
- You send people to YouTube.
- You create the posts.
- You upload the photographs.
- You create the videos.
- You make the comments.
- You invite your friends.
All that activity gives the platform something to monetize.
Businesses spend huge amounts of money advertising around it.
And what do you usually earn because you introduced another user to the platform?
Nothing.
Again, that’s their model.
I’m not complaining.
I just built mine differently.
If somebody helps introduce a customer who makes a qualifying purchase, I think there’s value in sharing some of the revenue.
If connected distribution farther down that path also produces qualifying purchases, the current program can recognize some of those positions too.
The platform doesn’t have to keep every dollar.
That’s the entire logic behind ShareMerchant.
11. One Person Is Good. A Multiplier Is Better.
Find one customer.
Great.
Find somebody who can introduce ten customers.
Better.
Find ten people who each understand a different market.
Now it starts getting interesting.
Find somebody with a large audience who genuinely sees how a Parking Spot fits the people they already reach?
Of course that matters.
The job is not to obsess over one $1.40 commission.
The job is to find multipliers.
- People.
- Businesses.
- Organizations.
- Creators.
- Groups.
Anybody who already has access to a market where the product makes sense.
12. Stop Building The 25-Follower Box
This matters here too.
Suppose your X account has 25 followers.
That does not mean X only works for accounts with 25 followers.
It means that’s where your account is today.
There are people on the same platform with hundreds of thousands or millions.
Do not turn today’s number into tomorrow’s ceiling.
The same thing applies here.
One Parking Spot.
One affiliate.
One $1.40 commission.
Those are starting numbers.
They are not necessarily the capacity of the system.
Start small.
Think bigger.
Then see what actually happens.
13. Build Your Own Garage Or Channel
You can promote Freak Sites without creating your own Parking Spots.
But I think you are leaving a lot on the table if you never use the product yourself.
One page is one page.
Ten pages start becoming a library.
Fifty pages can start looking like your own little Channel.
Now you have more things to share.
More URLs.
More ways for somebody to discover the Island.
More demonstrations of what the product can do.
You are building distribution around something you actually own inside the platform.
14. One Real-Life Event Can Feed More Than One Island
This is another way to increase your output without inventing fake content.
Suppose you fly to California to pick up a Porsche and run a marathon while you’re there.
That same trip could legitimately become:
- a Runner Freak Parking Spot about the marathon;
- a CoolCarGuy.com Parking Spot about buying the Porsche;
- a CarsFreak.com Parking Spot about servicing and repairing the car;
- a TravelersFreak.com Parking Spot about the trip itself.
Same real event.
Different perspective.
Different Island.
Different audience.
That is leverage too.
15. Use AI To Increase Production
AI can help you:
- turn rough notes into a draft;
- brainstorm headlines;
- organize a story;
- write social teasers;
- find different angles;
- clean up grammar;
- adapt one real event for different relevant Islands;
- and simply finish pages faster.
But AI should not manufacture the substance.
Give it the real stuff.
The photos.
The facts.
The experience.
Your opinion.
Your personality.
Then beat the AI out of the final draft until it sounds like you again. 😂
AI is the wrench.
It is not the business.
16. Use ShareMerchant As Your Funnel
You should not have to explain all of this every time somebody asks what you’re doing.
That’s why ShareMerchant.com exists.
Send somebody here.
Let the website explain:
- what a Parking Spot is;
- how the Islands work;
- how to get started;
- how the Affiliate Program works;
- why connected positions exist;
- how to use AI;
- how to build pages;
- how to find multipliers;
- and how distribution can scale.
Then say:
“Read ShareMerchant.com. If it makes sense to you, use my link.”
That’s it.
Let them investigate it themselves.
👉 Use This Site As Your Funnel
17. Product First. Income Engine Second.
This whole thing falls apart if the Parking Spot itself isn’t worth seven dollars.
That’s the foundation.
Nobody should buy a Parking Spot because an affiliate gets paid.
They should buy it because they want the page.
Maybe they want to sell something.
Promote something.
Showcase something.
Document something.
Or build a Channel around a niche they care about.
Good.
That’s the product.
Then, if users help distribute that product and qualifying purchases occur…
that’s where the Income Engine comes in.
👉 How The Freak Sites Income Engine Works
18. Repeat What Works
Create something.
Share it.
Watch what happens.
Did people click?
Did somebody comment?
Did somebody contact you?
Did somebody create a Parking Spot?
Did one person introduce ten more?
Did one particular Island work better for you?
Did one creator turn out to be a multiplier?
Do more of what works.
Stop doing what doesn’t.
This isn’t complicated.
The Influencer Playbook In About 30 Seconds
Find a useful Parking Spot.
Or build one.
Share it.
Use social media for distribution.
Talk to people who actually fit.
Look for people who already have access to markets.
Find influencers.
Build a small active group.
Help them understand the product.
Let them build their own distribution.
Use the multi-tier Affiliate Program to stay economically connected to qualifying product activity across the path.
Use AI to produce more without sounding like AI.
Use ShareMerchant as the explainer.
Look for multipliers.
Repeat what works.
Get Paid To Share.
Advertise. Build a Channel. Create Income.
For the Lawyers
The Freak Sites Affiliate Program is free to join. Commissions are paid only on qualifying purchases that are properly tracked and attributed under the current Affiliate Program terms. Product pricing, commission percentages, connected positions, payout requirements and other program terms may change.
Nothing on ShareMerchant.com guarantees views, followers, audience growth, traffic, leads, customers, sales, commissions or income. References to influencers, audiences, distribution, connected groups, multipliers or scale are educational examples of possible marketing structures and are not promises or projections of results. Actual results vary and may be zero.
Affiliate commissions are generated by qualifying product purchases, not merely by registrations, referrals, group size or the addition of affiliates. Parking Spots should be purchased because the advertising or publishing product itself is useful to the purchaser, not because of any expectation of affiliate earnings.