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We're excited to announce that iAffiliate Management will be attending iPX Austin 2026!

Understand the lesson from Amazon’s 2020 commission cuts and evaluate direct brand programs, partner relationships and a more diversified revenue mix.

Create a workable home-office routine with clear priorities, reliable equipment, realistic hours, useful team communication and regular breaks.

Improve ROAS by aligning brand messaging, optimizing your site and promotions, and activating performance partners to drive incremental sales.

Instagram's in-app checkout reduces friction for social selling—learn what merchants, influencers, and e-commerce teams should prioritize to capture sales.

Prepare for Apple ITP 2.0: understand how Safari’s stricter cookie rules will limit affiliate tracking and what immediate attribution fixes to implement.

Meet Homer and Shamus in this August 2018 iAffiliate Management feature, with stories of office visits, cross-country moves, and memorable road trips.

Acknowledge internal clients—treat coworkers like external customers to boost teamwork, accountability, and company-wide results.

Revisit the July 2018 launch of iAffiliate Management’s #iAMadventures series, featuring Nell Cole, Taylor Strege, and their Minnesota weekend adventures.

Revisit our July 2018 preview of Affiliate Summit East in New York, including Adam Dahlen’s planned partner meetings and the event’s educational focus.

Revisit iAffiliate Management’s July 2018 question about influencer marketing priorities, with a guide to the differences between referral, affiliate, and influencer programs.

Learn what Chrome 68 changed, what HTTPS protects, and how ecommerce teams can improve checkout trust, secure partner journeys, and remove customer uncertainty.

Review the June 2018 Wayfair ruling, the majority and dissenting views, and why the decision mattered to online retailers and affiliate program operations.

Revisit iAffiliate Management’s sponsorship of the Sanneh Foundation’s 2018 Gala4Goals fundraiser and its commitment to supporting local community organizations.

Align search and affiliate agencies with clear rules, monitoring, and a single communications lead to protect brand bids and maximize combined channel ROI.

Understand GDPR’s relevance to affiliate programs, including personal data, lawful grounds, partner roles, individual rights, and practical privacy review.

Understand Chrome’s ad filtering, the Better Ads Standards and how publishers can review and address ad experiences that create problems for visitors.

Prepare for voice and conversational searches with clear answers, accurate product information, useful partner content and a mobile experience that supports action.

Revisit iAffiliate Management’s January 2018 message reflecting on client growth, new team members, work-life balance, and a commitment to community.

Give your ecommerce marketing a summer checkup with practical questions about mobile experience, affiliate strategy, email, loyalty and conversion.

Stop intentional cart abandonment: use targeted retargeting, unique codes, and non-discount incentives to recover lost sales and protect margins.

Revisit iAffiliate Management’s Affiliate Summit East 2017 highlights, including Q4 planning, the Meet Market and conversations with industry partners.

Adam Dahlen outlines practical Q4 affiliate prep and multi-channel attribution tactics to secure placements, promos, and measure true channel impact.

AI is reshaping online marketing—see practical uses from chatbots and voice search to recommendations and automation that boost efficiency and conversions.

Mary Meeker’s 2017 Internet Trends reveal mobile dominance, ecommerce and PLA growth, streaming and esports opportunities for DTC marketers.

Mobile search now drives the majority of clicks—optimize sites, keywords, and attribution to win voice and conversational queries on the go.

Affiliate marketing gains budget share as brands shift to performance channels — survey-backed trends and actionable insights to optimize acquisition mix.

Online back-to-school shopping keeps growing: 2017 ecommerce surged, led by younger shoppers buying apparel, electronics and supplies.

Google Attribution links cross-channel touchpoints to reveal affiliate value, helping merchants align ad spend with conversions beyond last-click.

Increase average order value with tactics like free-shipping thresholds, personalized recommendations, bundles, upsells, and loyalty incentives.

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.

Pick the top affiliate marketing conferences that deliver actionable networking, vendor access, and program growth—choose events that match your goals.

Assess your readiness for affiliate marketing: know costs, team roles, tech needs, and integration steps to launch a profitable, scalable program.

Pinpoint common affiliate marketing hurdles—team silos, narrow partner mixes, and attribution gaps—and actionable steps to scale customer acquisition.

Justin Zwack, Client Development Manager at iAffiliate Management, serves as a Peace Corps Business Advisor in Namibia, teaching entrepreneurship.

Apply affiliates’ customer-first tactics to align offers, unify channels, reduce silos, and boost conversions with behavior-based retargeting.

Define affiliate ROAS clearly, handle returns accurately, align commissions with margin, and reconcile duplicate orders without overlooking partner terms or profit.

Revisit iAffiliate Management’s announced plans for Affiliate Summit East 2015, including Rick Gardiner’s vendor-affiliate panel and PMA Meet Market participation.

Optimize Black Friday & Cyber Monday affiliate campaigns using mobile-first tactics, social deep links, and early-deal strategies to boost sales.

Share Black Friday deals early, verify links, and give affiliates direct contact to prevent problems and keep promotions running smoothly.

Learn how to apply to Avangate, choose software partners, create useful tracking links, evaluate reports and confirm the payment terms for your account.

Finalize BFCM offers, secure affiliate placements, and audit links and creatives now to maximize holiday affiliate sales and avoid downtime.

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.

Keep your affiliate program healthy with dependable payments, useful communication, partner reviews, accurate order adjustments and current links.

Build stronger affiliate relationships with ten practical principles for communication, testing, payments, creative, support and confidential information.

Understand how affiliate cookies differ from attribution windows, what can interrupt tracking, and how to align program terms, privacy review, and commission reporting.

Choose affiliate coupons that fit your margins, define code and link-based attribution, communicate accurate terms, and test the full checkout experience.

Turn affiliate recruitment into useful activity with the five Cs: creative, communication, coupons, calendars, and clear conditions for a dependable program.

Diagnose weak affiliate results by reviewing partner fit, commissions, tracking, channel rules and the management habits that support sustainable growth.

Compare eight affiliate models, from content and coupons to loyalty, email and apps, and learn what to assess before adding each to your partner program.

Use social updates, partner groups, visual resources and live Q&A to support affiliate communication, with clear ownership, current information and privacy boundaries.

Avoid common affiliate program mistakes in partner selection, offers, creative, management and communication. Build a useful operating plan for steady improvement.

Compare in-house, agency and hybrid affiliate management. Define responsibilities, evaluate fit and choose support that matches your program’s growth needs.

Improve affiliate communication with researched outreach, tested partner links, complete promotion details, useful calls, and a reliable process for updates.

Improve your affiliate program through useful tools, collaborative content, focused incentives and training built around the needs of your partners.

Build a seasonal affiliate plan with timely creative, relevant offers, partner incentives and enough lead time to support the moments that matter.

Compare affiliate agency proposals through seven practical criteria: experience, reputation, strategy, accountability, industry knowledge, value and fit.

Plan an affiliate program around competitive research, the right management model, sustainable commissions, a first-year roadmap and practical resources.

Find growth in a mature affiliate program by auditing performance, reactivating relevant partners, testing economics, improving resources, and listening to publishers.

Evaluate paid search affiliates with clear brand-bidding rules, useful destinations, coordinated tests, and measurement that considers total search economics.

Understand affiliate impressions, clicks, conversions, CTR, conversion rate, ROAS, active partner ratio and average order value, with practical formulas.

Strengthen an in-house affiliate program with a clear proposition, inbound discovery, targeted recruitment, partner support, and deliberate platform decisions.

Plan your affiliate channel around mobile shopping, fair attribution, useful visual content, clear messages and partners matched to specific customer needs.

Keep holiday affiliates informed, equipped and engaged. Avoid three common mistakes in partner communication, seasonal creative and publisher relationships.

Discover how relevant affiliate partners can support market expansion, better customer experiences, and new audience opportunities when goals and economics align.

Revisit the 2012 PMA Industry Report interview announcement with Rick Gardiner, covering affiliate education, knowledge sharing and the role of case studies.

Prepare your affiliate program for holiday demand with a budget, gift guides, incentives, a promotion calendar, shipping details, gift-card rules, and ready-to-use links.

Learn common affiliate marketing terms, including CPA, CPC, commission, conversion rate, cookies, OPM, revenue share, ROAS, tracking and attribution.

Find relevant affiliates through targeted outreach, industry relationships, content and discovery tools. Build a recruitment process that leads to activation.

Compare affiliate network email tools with your own platform by audience data, design, deliverability, cost and reporting. Build a reliable partner workflow.

Explore five common myths about performance marketing work, from flexible schedules and easy earnings to professional standards and responsible promotion.

Build stronger affiliate relationships by researching partners, preparing useful ideas, checking details, respecting decisions and responding promptly.

Andrew Kardon’s publisher perspective highlights what makes an affiliate agency useful: access, flexibility, creative support, clear approvals and reliable coverage.

Read Andrew Kardon’s historical account of affiliate nexus rules, the business decisions they affected and the context needed after the Wayfair ruling.

Understand current and legacy affiliate network names, including Awin, CJ, Rakuten, AvantLink and Avangate, and evaluate the right fit for your program.

Get started as an impact.com partner with practical steps for account approval, brand applications, tracking links, reports and payment readiness.

Compare private and public affiliate programs by discovery, partner control, resources and trust. Choose an access model that supports your growth goals.

Explore our archived 2013 affiliate conference calendar, including Affiliate Summit, NMX, SMX and events focused on partner management and networking.

Explore our archived Affiliate Summit East 2013 guide to meeting plans, session selection, networking, packing and follow-up at the Philadelphia event.

Plan an affiliate network migration around business goals, contracts, data, tracking tests, partner communication, payment obligations, and a controlled transition.

Re-engage inactive affiliates with a targeted activation campaign. Define the audience, offer, timeline, communication and measures before you launch.

Write affiliate newsletters with clear actions, complete offer details, useful links and a tested cadence that helps partners promote your brand.