Slate Creek has established an affiliate program to allow like-minded individuals and businesses to carry the Slate Creek offerings. With the user experience of the client as the focus, as an affiliate you can use your showroom, shop, lodge, or even your boat to provide your clients with best-in-class products and services.
By utilizing the Slate Creek network, you can access the best products and services available with very little overhead.
Advantages of the Slate Creek affiliate program are:
- No need to carry large inventory. After your opening order rods can be built to your customer's order and shipped direct. Alternatively you may stock what you require. It's your choice.
- No fees. Slate Creek doesn't charge any branding fee.
- Flexible entry requirements. Our program provides the option of starting small and growing over time.
- Favorable pricing for premium equipment. Our rods our built from premium Sage blanks using only quality components.
Today, affiliates of Slate Creek have access to rods and reels at discounted prices. In the near future, the range of products and services will grow, and affiliates will grow with us.
Program Details
The program is simple.
- An affiliate makes an initial purchase of some number of rods.
- The number of rods determines the discount level, both for the initial order and for all subsequent orders.
- Affiliates will have access to all our product offerings, currently Slate Creek rods and Sage reels.
- Annually, Slate Creek will re-evaluate an affiliate's discount level based on volume of rods purchased during the prior year. Re-evaluation occurs on January 1.
The discount level is determined as follows. Discount is applied to Slate Creek retail.
| Discount Level | A | B | C | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening Order (rods) | 5 |
10 |
15 |
20 |
| Discount Percentage | 10% |
15% |
20% |
25% |
Affiliates of Slate Creek are partners of Slate Creek. As a partner we welcome creativity and innovative thinking.
What else can we offer?
- Custom logos. Re-brand our rods with your logo.
- Links between your website and ours.
Interested in becoming a Slate Creek affiliate? Apply here and we'll begin the process. There is no obligation to apply.
The Vision
SCFRC’s approach to partners is to allow us to do the heavy-lifting, partners focus on the client. With the user experience of the client as the focus you can use your showroom, your shop, your lodge, or even your boat to provide your clients with best-in-class products and services; by utilizing a ‘virtual’ model, companies such as guides, lodges, and fly shops can access the best products and services available without traversing the corporate network on their own. This decreases the need for you to apply capital and credit to invest in, stock, and store items and increases your ability to focus on the client, holistically. Together we are stronger than alone.
"The ability to provide products and services in a massively scalable model without having to pre-commit capital and credit will change the playing field of our industry. Traditionally, being a ‘dealer’ of products required you to focus on what to stock and when to stock it to the primary benefit of manufacturers. Collectively we will apply best practices and a focus on the client by delivering to our clients products and services in new ways and by new service providers," said Todd Ferguson, CEO of Slate Creek Fly Rod Company. "It also will allow access to the newest technologies and techniques that are high client value and be accessed collectively, not by stocking everything. These scalable resources provided by Slate Creek will enable those companies who specialize on a specific component of the fly fishing experience to expand without significant risk, cost, or market exploration, allowing us all to focus on the client."Interested in becoming a Slate Creek affiliate? Apply here and we'll begin the process.
