One free report. Recurring checks. How Fixity Ambassadors do it.

I want to describe a Tuesday.

Not a fantasy Tuesday. A regular one, the kind most of us have after 50, with coffee, a little mail, maybe a doctor’s appointment in the afternoon.

On this Tuesday, a woman I’ll call Carol sits down with her laptop around nine. She is 63, retired from a hospital billing office, and she has a short list on an index card. Three names. A cousin who just got a blood pressure diagnosis. A neighbor who complained about his knees at the mailbox last week. A fellow from church who mentioned his eyes aren’t what they were.

Carol opens her email, writes three short notes, and in each one she pastes a link. The link goes to one of Fixity’s free health reports, the one that fits that person. That’s it. Fifteen minutes, maybe less. She closes the laptop and goes about her day.

That is what a Fixity Ambassador actually does. I want to walk you through the rest of it plainly, because I’ve seen too many of these things described with fog and fireworks, and this one doesn’t need either.

Where the free reports go

Fixity Health publishes a set of free health reports. Plain-English guides on joints, eyesight, energy, sleep, blood pressure, the things people after 45 actually ask their doctors about. They cost the reader nothing. No card, no catch. We give them away because a person who reads one tends to trust us a little more than a person who sees an ad, and trust is the only thing that has ever mattered for us.

An Ambassador gets their own link to those reports. It’s tracked. When Carol’s cousin clicks Carol’s link and reads the blood pressure report, our system notes that this reader came through Carol.

That’s the whole mechanism. Carol doesn’t carry inventory. She doesn’t hold anything. She doesn’t ask anyone for money. She puts a free report in front of somebody who needs it, and the report does the talking.

How the credit follows the reader

Here is the part people ask me to repeat.

Once a reader comes in through Carol’s link, that reader is credited to Carol. Not for thirty days. Not for the first purchase. For as long as that person stays a Fixity reader.

If the cousin reads the report in March, does nothing, and then in September decides to try one of our products, Carol earns on that. If the cousin keeps ordering the following year, Carol keeps earning. Fifty percent of the profit on anything that reader later buys, for the life of the reader.

I set it up that way on purpose. Most referral arrangements pay once and move on. I wanted something that rewards the person who made the introduction the same way a good introduction is rewarded in real life: for a long time, quietly.

So Carol’s three emails on Tuesday aren’t three chances at a one-time payment. They are three readers, each of whom may be credited to her for years.

What the first check looks like, and when

Let me be concrete, with an illustration, not a promise.

Say Carol starts in January. Over her first six weeks she puts reports in front of maybe forty people. Her index cards. Her Sunday school class. The folks in her walking group. Most read it and that’s that. A few go on to buy something.

Fixity holds earnings for 45 days after a purchase. That’s a plain safeguard: if a reader returns a product, there’s no profit to split, and I’d rather hold than claw back. Once the 45 days clear and her balance reaches $25, Carol is paid on the 1st of the following month.

So her first check might arrive around the 1st of April. It might be $31. It might be $140. I’ve seen both. It comes by paper check, to her mailbox, with her name on it. Before we can mail it, she fills out a W-9, because the IRS requires one from anybody we pay. (There’s a separate article in this column on the W-9, and it’s less scary than it sounds.)

The check after that is where it gets interesting, because now the readers she introduced in January are still credited to her, and the ones from February and March are joining them. That is what I mean by recurring. Not a guarantee of a check on any particular 1st. A growing pool of readers whose purchases keep crediting back to the person who brought them.

What it costs, and what you get for it

Becoming an Ambassador is $97 a year, or $297 once for lifetime. For that you get the tracked link, a private back office that shows which readers came through you and what has cleared, the reports themselves, and some plain-worded notes you can use when passing a report along if you don’t like writing your own.

Why charge anything? Two reasons. People who pay for something tend to actually use it, and I’d rather have a hundred Ambassadors who put reports in front of people than ten thousand who signed up for free and forgot. And the fee pays for the tracking and the back office, which are not free to run.

The honest caveats

Now the part I insist on including.

• Results vary a great deal. Some Ambassadors earn a few hundred dollars in a year. Some earn more. Some earn nothing at all, usually because they signed up and never put a single report in front of anyone.
• Every number on this page is an illustration. Carol is a composite. I cannot tell you what you’ll earn, and anyone who says they can is guessing.
• It takes about 15 minutes a day of actually putting reports in front of people who need them. Not once. Most days. The pool only grows if you keep adding to it.
• The 45-day hold and the $25 minimum mean your first check is weeks away, not days.
• The reports have to go to people who have the problem the report is about. A knee report to someone with good knees helps nobody and earns nothing.

Who this is not for

I’d rather lose you here than have you unhappy later.

It’s not for anyone who needs money this month. The hold alone rules that out.

It’s not for anyone who wants to pitch, pressure, or persuade. There is nothing to pitch. If you find yourself trying to talk somebody into a free report, you’ve already gone off the rails.

It’s not for anyone looking to sign up other Ambassadors underneath them. There is no underneath. You earn on readers you introduce, full stop. Nobody earns on you, and you earn on nobody else’s Ambassadors.

And it’s not for anyone who’s uncomfortable with the idea that the people they help might eventually buy something. That is how the 50% comes to exist. If that sits wrong with you, it’s better to know now.

Who it is for

It’s for the person who already is the one people call about health questions. The one who clips articles. The one who gets asked what do you take for that at church. The one with an index card and fifteen quiet minutes on a Tuesday.

If that’s you, I think you’ll find it a natural fit. The reports are good. They are free. Passing one along to someone who’s worried is a kindness whether or not a check ever follows. The check, when it comes, is the thank-you.

Read the full Ambassador invitation.