Definition:

This is the person in charge of looking after an online affiliate program for an affiliate merchant.

Information:

Common duties are as follows:

• Hire fresh affiliates and filter applications
• Offer client assistance to present affiliates
• Sustain the creativity sections and marketing
• Chronicle the activity of the affiliate initiative
• Look for novel strategies to maximize performance using the channel of affiliate marketing

Affiliate management can either be out-sourced (utilizing a 3^rd-party professional) or in-house (employing the organization’s own workers). For the former, bigger schemes might require a full-time position of the affiliate manager; In some cases, a committed team of affiliate management. Organizations having minor affiliate schemes might allocate the job of affiliate management to a digital-marketing expert. They may also engage with an out-sourced affiliate-administration organization. Such out-source organizations solve the problem of sticking to a suitable number of workers and offering expertise and engagements inside the affiliate marketing industry.

Tools:

iDevAffiliate:

This affiliate management tool comes with brilliant features of cloud hosting and Self Hosting.

Articles:

5 Questions For Top Affiliate Manager Josh Spaulding
Marketing Land (July 27, 2012)

Related Terms:

affiliate marketing, affiliate merchant, affiliate network, affiliate software, Affiliate.