Influencer marketing for accounting and finance software
Your buyer is a busy small-business owner or an accountant who already has a tool they tolerate. We get real creators they trust to show why switching is worth it, so the demo request feels like their idea, not your ad.
Real campaigns in the wild
What B2B SaaS influencer marketing actually looks like.
1Password × The Diary Of A CEO
Podcast mid-roll on a business-security angle with a dedicated tracked link.
Security · 13.4M subs
Jump to the sponsor readHostinger × Fireship
Read tied to the video's own topic, dev-specific link, seasonal discount.
Web hosting · 4.04M subs
Jump to the sponsor readLinear × The Pragmatic Engineer
Newsletter-grade read to engineers, product-led modern-dev framing.
Dev tools · 174K subs
Jump to the sponsor readHubSpot × bycloud
Free lead-magnet offer instead of a discount, a gated AI resource.
Marketing CRM · 205K subs
Jump to the sponsor readmonday.com × ForrestKnight
Partial-video sponsorship with a quick workflow demo and a tracked link.
Work management · 674K subs
Jump to the sponsor readFramer × Taylor Bell
In-context build demo with a free-month-of-Pro offer.
No-code web · 769K subs
Jump to the sponsor readSquarespace × This Week in Startups
Founder-podcast read, code-based ten-percent off a first site or domain.
Website builder · 335K subs
Jump to the sponsor readDescript × Behind The Diary
Tool-fit read (edit faster) to a creator audience on an affiliate link.
Video editing · 353K subs
Jump to the sponsor readClickUp × Charlotte Fraza
Productivity-workflow demo, free start plus a first-year discount, creator code.
Work management · 133K subs
Jump to the sponsor readWhat we do
You sell accounting software, so you know the buyer is hard to reach. Owners are running payroll, chasing invoices, and closing the books at 11pm. Accountants are heads-down through tax season. A cold B2B ad lands in the worst possible moment, and most of them scroll right past it.
The tired play is a webinar nobody attends and a banner ad that gets a 0.1% click. We think the better path is the person they already follow. A bookkeeper on YouTube walking through their month-end. A small-business creator showing the exact app that saved them an afternoon. That is a recommendation, and recommendations move people in a way a feature list never will.
We build the affiliate and creator program for you from zero. We find the creators whose audience is your buyer, write the brief, handle the disclosure and the FTC side, set up tracking so every signup ties back to a creator, and keep the ones who perform.
Finance software has its own rules. No promises of guaranteed savings you cannot back up, clear ad labeling, honest claims about what the tool does. We brief creators so the content stays compliant and still sounds like them, which is the only way it converts.
We have not run the brands below. We studied their public campaigns from the outside to learn what worked, then we build the same kind of program for you. Start small, keep what pays, and let the numbers decide the next move.
Accounting & Finance Software, results we run on
Accounting & Finance Software, results we run on
1,200%
more paid customers
Xero campaign we analyzed from the outside; 89 to 1,200 over an 18-month build
$0.38
cost per click
Intuit QuickBooks campaign we analyzed from the outside, against a $1.75 target
434.7M
impressions reached
Intuit QuickBooks campaign we analyzed from the outside
48.7%
lower cost per signup
Xero campaign we analyzed from the outside; $778 down to $399
Why this category is different
Why creators sell accounting software better than ads do
Accounting software is a trust purchase. You are asking someone to hand over their bank feeds, their payroll, and their tax numbers. They will not switch on the strength of a clever headline. They switch when a person they already trust says it works, and shows them.
That is the gap a creator fills. In one Xero campaign we studied from the outside, an affiliate and creator program built from zero across several platforms grew paid customers 1,200%, lifted total signups 700%, and pulled cost per acquisition down 48.7%, from $778 to $399. The conversion rate moved from 16% to 60% over the same 18-month build. Those are public numbers from their program, not ours, but they show what the right creators can do for software like yours.
Intuit QuickBooks ran a similar idea at a bigger scale. Instead of more B2B ads, they let real small-business owners and accountants tell the story. The campaign we analyzed reached 434.7M impressions and 2.9M paid link clicks at a $0.38 cost per click, well under their $1.75 target. The lesson is simple. Put the message in the mouth of someone the buyer already listens to, and the cost to win each customer drops.
You won't have to fill out a form, wait two days, and then receive a generic slide deck. Instead here is how we work:
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You start by booking a call with us
You book a call with us and 12 other agencies.
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We send you everything before we talk
You get all the info before the call. If something looks off, please cancel. We don't waste your time and you don't waste ours.
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On the call we cover three things
What do you want? Can we deliver it? If not, we refer you to one of our 24+ agency partners who can.
Not ready to talk to us?
Next issue, every Monday
We found the best performing creators for Jun 29 → Jul 5.Hand-picked, not the same five names.
Plus the Influencer Advisory Consultant GPT.
FAQ / 005
Common Accounting & Finance Software questions
They are on social, just not looking for accounting ads. They follow bookkeepers, finance YouTubers, small-business creators, and tax pros for tips. We place your software inside that content, so it shows up as part of advice they already trust. The QuickBooks campaign we studied reached 434.7M impressions by using real owners and accountants as the storytellers instead of running standard B2B ads.
Accounting & Finance Software playbooks + guides
Know the rules of this category.
Plain guides on what to say, what to skip, what gets pulled, and what passes.
Meet the team
