Playbook

Become a customer before covering it

Pay for the product on your own account before publishing anything, and say so.

An affiliate who was never going to be believed as neutral becomes credible the moment the incentive to be right (their own money) matches the audience's. Fits when: The audience is used to being sold to and price-sensitive to the difference between a paid promo and a real user.

1 in the corpus using this

ElevenLabsAlec Wilcock

Became a paying user first, then covered the product in detail before most other creators had, with tutorials built around one specific workflow rather than a general pitch.