“The Affiliate Marketing Industry is severely lacking in qualified affiliate manager talent. Companies looking for experienced managers now have an unbiased 3rd party accreditation service to help them identify solid candidates. AC Certified provides a comprehensive certification program that evaluates the experience of affiliate managers across many key areas. I am confident that this service will benefit advertisers and publishers by identifying well qualified affiliate marketing personnel. “

“I finally got a chance to review the training materials in depth, and I have to say, I am really impressed with the detailed content, easy to read format, simple explanations for complicated concepts and a very well thought out curriculum to know what any beginning affiliate manager (and even some veterans!) need to know to do their jobs well. Good stuff! “

• Affiliate recruitment
• Industry terms and definitions
• What it means to be an Affiliate Manager
• The role of networks in affiliate marketing
• Understanding super affiliates
• Web 2.0/Community affiliates

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“I can see why it took you two years and a full cast of affiliate marketing experts to create this. It’s like a college course on Affiliate Marketing. With sections like How to Launch an Affiliate Program and Affiliate Program Viability, it’s obvious that you had true, experienced, veteran affiliate managers like Brook Schaaf, Heather Paulson, Sam Harrelson and Peter Figueredo working on this. I was really intrigued by the sections on Strategy and on Trending - I have to assume that the former network executives on your team, Lisa Riolo and Rachel Honoway, were instrumental in developing those.

Overall, great job! I’m looking forward to seeing a lot more Certified Affiliate Manager buttons at the next Affiliate Summit!”

“While there is a large body of content (blogs, forums, books, etc) dedicated to affiliate marketing management, I am not aware of any other organization that offers a comprehensive guide for managers. This coursework, which is really great quality, covers all the basics and best practices for affiliate marketing management. It is a HUGE time saver and I highly recommend it to any company.

“There is no one better than the Affiliate Classroom team to put together and maintain a system such as this. Anyone who goes through this will truly be trained and ready to be a great Affiliate Manager. I look forward to sending future employees through this.  I just hope they don’t try to take my job!”

“I have really had a great time with this. I’m keeping my notes in a handy place because I know I will be referring to them again and again. I was able to utilize some of the tips and tools I learned on my very first day back to work and a few of the reference links that were provided in the course will save me hours of work in the future!”