The ExclusiveLink journal
Playbooks, honest comparisons and real numbers for creators who want the bio link to earn. Written by the team behind the link in bio that sells.
Comparisons
Print sellers need direct listing links, portfolio artists are best served by Carrd at $19 a year, and artists who sell tutorials, process videos and commission slots to followers need paid links, email capture and scheduling.
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If one shop is your whole income, put its URL in your bio. If you want ShopMy collections on the page, Komi and hoo.be embed them. If you earn across LTK, ShopMy and Amazon, you need click source data and your own domain.
Comparisons
Stan Store costs $29 a month at 0%. Pillar costs $39 with a 5% seller fee on monthly billing, or $29 at 0% yearly, and is stronger on media kits and brand deals. Neither gives you your own domain on its entry plan.
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Linktree's Shopify app puts a few products on your Linktree for free. If your store needs its own domain, clicks tracked by creator, timed drops or more than Shopify, here are five alternatives compared.
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Linktree launched Payment Lock in 2022 to put a price on a link. If you want to charge for access from your bio today with a lower fee and your own domain, here are five tools compared.
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Flodesk's link in bio is a good free signup page with a 10-link cap. If your bio link now has to sell, gate several offers or live on your own domain, here are five alternatives compared on price, fees and email capture.
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Later only sells Linkin.bio inside its scheduling plans, and the page cannot take a payment or gate a link. Here are five alternatives compared on monthly price, seller fees, custom domains and gating.
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Stan Store does not let you connect your own domain. Here is what its forwarding workaround actually does, where it falls short, and which tools put your storefront on your own name, with prices.
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A UGC link in bio is read by brand managers, not fans. Here is what they look for, which tools handle portfolios, rate cards and pitch tracking, and what each one costs.
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Fitness influencers earn from three places: brand deals, affiliate codes and their own programs. Here is which bio link tools handle all three, what each one costs, and where the seller fees add up.
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Amazon bans automatic redirects but allows a page people click through. Here is what that means for your bio link, which tools track clicks properly, and what each one costs.
Pricing
Pillar now costs $39 or $129 a month, not the $16 to $79 older reviews quote. What each plan includes, where the 5% seller fee stops making sense, and what the domain and 0% fee cost elsewhere.
Pricing
You cannot buy Later's Linkin.bio on its own. It comes with the scheduler at $25, $50 or $110 a month. Here is what each tier includes, what is missing if you sell from the page, and what a standalone link page costs.
Comparisons
Linktree says outright it does not offer custom domains. Stan Store says the same. Here is which link in bio platforms actually let you use your own domain, and which only offer a redirect.
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Stan is $29 with a 0% fee; Linktree only hits 0% at $35 and takes 9% to 12% below that. The full fee table, the breakeven point, and the thing neither one gives you.
Guides
The exact taps to get a clickable link in your Instagram profile on any device, how to fit more than one, and what to put behind it so the clicks pay.
Guides
The one-link limit is a platform rule, not a technical one. Here is the real cap on each app and how creators route dozens of destinations through a single slot.
Guides
The one clickable link a social profile allows, expanded into a whole page. What it is, why the platforms limit you to one, and what a good one earns.
Guides
Nine reasons a bio link stops working, from a missing https:// to shadowban flags, each with the specific fix and how long it takes to clear.
Playbooks
Four ways a bio link earns, ranked by what actually pays, with the arithmetic that shows why a percentage fee quietly costs more than a subscription.
Guides
A careful seven step migration that keeps the old page working while you move, plus an honest note on when you should just stay put.
Strategy
Total clicks rewards the loudest post, not the one that earned. Four numbers tell you what the page is actually worth.
Comparisons
Three platforms, three fee structures, three very different answers to the same question: how much of your money do you keep?
Guides
The exact steps to get a clickable link on your TikTok profile, plus what to put behind it so the taps turn into sales.
Inspiration
Seventeen page structures that turn profile visits into clicks, subscribers and sales, organized by creator type.
Playbooks
Presets, guides, templates and courses all sell through the same funnel: one link, one gate, one clean checkout moment.
Strategy
The gate is the moment a follower becomes a lead or a buyer. Here is how to place it without losing the room.
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