With Amazon's latest cuts to commissions, now is the time to establish direct relationships with merchants and diversify your marketing channels.

Affiliate Summit West 2017 is January 15-17th at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and is another sold-out event with over 6,000 digital marketers in attendance.

Improve the Return on Ad Spend (ROAS) of your affiliate marketing program by addressing three areas that can add hidden expenses to your affiliate channel.

iAffiliate Management CEO Rick Gardiner to speak at Affiliate Summit East 2015 in New York on How Vendors & Affiliates can Partner in 2015 and Beyond.

The Avangate affiliate network is a leading affiliate network for software, SaaS and digital goods. Our how-to guide shows how to become an Avangate affiliate.

Avangate affiliate network is a great place for merchants and affiliates that specialize in software and digital goods. Let's talk about 4 key features that make Avangate's affiliate network stand out.

Affiliate program management fundamentals get overlooked or forgotten. Here's 5 things affiliate managers should avoid as affiliate program management best practices.

As Affiliate Managers, our #1 job is to make life easier for all our publishers. Sure, affiliate management covers a wide range of activities from helping affiliates optimize their sites to making barrels of cash for everyone! There are loads of tips, tricks and best practices for achieving any and all of the above. Yet, still to this day, some affiliate managers spit in the face of convention and see their programs spiral into oblivion.

Cookies are an affiliate's best friend. In fact, without them, many affiliates would probably pack it in. Affiliate cookies play an important role in tracking the performance of most affiliate program.

Offering affiliates coupon codes can be a controversial subject. Some merchants and advertisers feel as though coupon affiliates are getting credit for sales they would have made regardless of whether the coupon was available. While others rely on coupon codes to drive sales. What's the best approach? Let's talk coupons.

Many advertisers and merchants assume that once an affiliate program is built, it can run on auto-pilot. But that is far from the case. Leaving your program on auto-pilot leaves your brand and program revenue at risk.

Affiliate programs fail for a variety of reasons. You could be on the wrong network, working with the wrong affiliates, or have an inexperienced affiliate manager making simple mistakes that frustrate your affiliate partners. Here's a glance into the 10 reasons your affiliate marketing program is failing.

What types of affiliates will be best for your affiliate program? Understanding the types of affiliates that can drive traffic for your affiliate program includes understanding your target audience, the types of affiliates you want to work with, and how they add value.

Social media is a great way to communicate with your affiliates. While most affiliate

How do you keep from making similar mistakes as other merchants that have come and gone before you? Simple. Learn from their mistakes!

Retaining an affiliate management agency means you've got experienced affiliate managers working for you that could end up bringing in loads more revenue than you ever could have done on your own.

For any affiliate manager, knowing how to effectively communicate with affiliates is key to building long-term relationships with affiliate partners. Each affiliate has communication preferences and it is important for the affiliate manager to know this.

To make an affiliate program a huge success takes real innovation. You've got a tremendous amount of competition out there, so how do you make it fly? By working closely with your affiliates.Here's a look at some key ways to drive innovation into your affiliate program.

With recent Cyber Monday sales setting all kinds of records and holiday weekend e-commerce sales in the U.S. reaching approximately $2.86 billion, the trend towards shopping online for the holidays is only going to keep heading skyward.

Affiliate Management Agency can support your affiliate marketing efforts in a variety of ways--from managing the entire channel to helping you work more efficiently and strategically with the publishers promoting your brand.

Launching an affiliate program is no small task. It's important to make sure you have everything in place to ensure a successful program launch. iAffiliate Management has compiled a list of 5 things to consider when launching an affiliate program.

We've talked all about launching a new affiliate program before. But what happens when you already have an affiliate program? One that's been around for a number of years, or rather for roughly a decade. After a good five or 10 years of running the same thing, how can you possibly grow a mature affiliate program?

SEM affiliates can actually help your program, rather than hurt it. In fact, if you're not careful, they just might add some real value to your affiliate program.

Your affiliate channel metrics could be telling you a very different story than other online marketing channels. Here's a quick breakdown of affiliate channel metrics that you need to care about that will help you understand the big picture of what's happening in your affiliate program.

Growing an affiliate program can be challenging task. But how do you grow an in-house affiliate program where you can't rely on the marketplace or tools you have at your disposal running your program on an affiliate network?

With 2014 underway, now is the time to get your affiliate program in order to ensure affiliate sales in exceed 2013 results. Here are 5 things you can do to make sure you're setting your affiliate program up for success in 2014.

3 Mistakes Internet Retailers Should Avoid with Affiliates this Holiday Season.

Affiliates do more than just bring in extra dollars, though. They can add some real value to your e-Commerce business in a number of critical ways.

The 2013 holiday shopping season is upon us once again and this time it's going to be even crazier than previous as internet retailers are stretching the limits of cyber holiday promotions. Let's talk about how to survive the 2013 holiday shopping season and come out on top as an internet retailer.

Every industry has its own glossary of commonly used terms. Some are obvious, while others may require a secret decoder ring to figure out.

You need to build and grow your affiliate base. How do you find the right affiliates and where do you find them?

Many affiliate networks offer their own internal email systems, or if you prefer doing it yourself, there are dozens of highly rated systems and companies to help you out. So which way is the better method: using affiliate network email tools or handling it all on your own?

Working in affiliate marketing definitely has its advantages but like anything else, it's a job. In reality, it's actually a lot tougher and more work-intensive than most people think.

There are still a ton of things that many affiliate managers do that just drive me up a wall. In the hopes of giving some insight to you affiliate managers out there, please take this constructive criticism as a wishlist of things not to do.

Whether you call it the Internet Tax, the Amazon Tax or the Affiliate Nexus Tax, they all have the same horrible effect: they're hurting affiliates. If you're unfamiliar with the Affiliate Nexus Tax, let me briefly explain.

Our affiliate how-to guide shows how to join Impact Radius as a media partner, join merchant programs and run different reports in the Impact Radius interface.

So which option should you choose for your affiliate program? Well, that all depends on what you're looking to do. Both have their advantages

A look at the biggest and best affiliate marketing industry conferences to keep an eye on in 2013. These conferences provide valuable affiliate marketing insights into the latest trends, challenges, and provide great networking opportunities for affiliates and merchants alike.

A comprehensive guide on how to thrive and survive at Affiliate Summit

Switching your affiliate program to a new network can go well...or not-so-well. Understand how to switch affiliate networks without losing your historical data, affiliate partners, or your mind.

Affiliate activation is an essential piece to growing an new or established affiliate program. When it comes to most affiliate programs, it truly is quality, not quantity. Since the bulk of your revenue will come from a fraction of your entire affiliate pool, it's important to always be reaching out to potential new affiliates. Just imagine if the majority of your revenue comes from just three or four major affiliates. Then imagine two or three of them leave your program for a competitor's. Or maybe they just shut down their business for good.

Affiliate activation is a challenge for every affiliate manager. Knowing how to effectively use newsletters helps with affiliate activation campaigns and requires testing messaging, send frequency, and paying attention to the details.