What your Affiliate Manager can do for you
Author: chris | Filed under: Affiliate Marketing
If you are involved with affiliate marketing it is important that you have a good relationship with every affiliate company (Neverblue, Pepperjam, etc.) that you do business with. More specifically, you need to strike up a relationship with your affiliate managers.
Below are several things that your affiliate manager can do for you:
1. Point you towards the best offers. It goes without saying that you will always be on the lookout for high converting, high payout offers. No matter how much experience you have, make sure your affiliate managers know that you are interested in this type of information. Remember, they have access to all the stats that you need to tweak your campaigns.
You don’t have to follow every bit of advice given by an affiliate manager, but you should definitely consider what they have to say.
2. Are you looking for a better payout on a particular offer? While you may not be able to get it, asking your affiliate manager for help is the first step in the process.
3. Beginners need all the help they can get. When I first started out with affiliate marketing I did not know the first thing about choosing an offer, scaling my campaign, etc. Fortunately, I found that most of my affiliate managers were more than willing to help.
Don’t buy into the hype that affiliate managers only want to work with the “big boys.” Everybody has to start somewhere, and you should rely on your affiliate manager for help – no matter how much experience you have.
4. New offers. As an affiliate marketer it is important to get involved with the “next big thing” before everybody else. To ensure that this happens, you must have a great relationship with your affiliate managers. This way they will communicate new offers to you, as soon as they are available.
5. Technical support. Are you having a difficult time adding a banner to your site? Does it appear that your stats are not tracking properly? These are the types of issues that your affiliate manager can help you with. As you gain more experience you may not run into these problems as regularly. That being said, you never know when you are going to need a little bit of help.
Don’t ignore your affiliate manager. Instead, form a bond that can benefit you now and in the future.


