Day in the life of an Affiliate Manager?

[HarveyJ]

Dunno about the others, but I do a couple hours of emailing, chats with a lot of my affiliates (some of these guys are hilarious) by IM and talking through ideas that might help them with their campaigns, maybe spend 2-3 hours on forums... Occasionally fixing problems like re-uploading defaced websites, or looking into why someone hasn't been paid right and basically doing exactly what Jon said (hyping offers in massively oversaturated markets because I get a better commission off the back of those sales).
Usually doing all this from a mall or cafe, and during slower times, I can just sit there people watching, sketching or trying to teach myself Japanese & French.

 

[jbartinla]

It is the same with Stockbrokers - if they really knew anything, they wouldn't need your crappy account with $10,000 in it.

They would just crush the market with their own money.

Most good affiliates are better than 99% of SEO Agencies and better than most "interactive" people in big companies.

The key is to keeping getting better and moving forward, because they are catching up.

 

[smaxor]

Talking to affiliates, finding out what they want so they can make more money, then either creating or finding the offer for them. Usually takes some negotiation and then diagramming the implementation to one of my guys. You'd be surprised how much time monitoring and talking to the advertiser, goes into having a custom email submit or landing page page created for someone takes.

Everything else is pretty meaningless and clerical.