Lori Winkler of Direct Response Technologies has just completed her AC Certified Affiliate Manager Training.  She’s now a Certified Affiliate Manager!

We’re happy that Direct Response Technologies chose to work with us to help train Lori.  We are confident that she has learned everything she needs to know to launch and manage a successful affiliate program through our 10 Module course!

I’ve just gotten life back in order since Affiliate Summit West ‘09 in Las Vegas, and the long weekend. Let me tell you something - working at Summit was more fun than my long weekend!

In case you weren’t able to attend, I’ll recap some of my favorite moments and stories from the event.

1. First, I thoroughly enjoyed the chatter about Joel Comm’s ridiculously successful iphone application, ifart.  His application recently reached the coveted #1 position of the iphone app downloads.  It would be far from the truth to say that I find myself too grown up to enjoy fart jokes.  Although juvenile, I find them hilarious.  Congratulations to Joel for finding a way to make money out of “thin” air!
2. I got to see some big names in the industry that I have long heard of but never actually met.  Jim Lillig and Rosalind Gardner were pretty easy to pick out of a crowd after spending so much time in my early days watching them in training videos  Summit is a great place to come face to face with some of the marketers and bloggers out there that you read about every day.  Last year I was awe struck by the likes of Sean Collins, Amit Mehta, Jim Kukral, and even Anik Singal…
3. Aside from the Exhibit Hall which brought a constant stream of new people to meet, my favorite event was the Shareasale sponsored 80s party on Sunday night.  It was a great opportunity to network, make friends, and see my boss (our very own Rachel Honoway) in her prom dress!  Behold:

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Yesterday, I sat down and chatted with Wade Tonkin of Christian Affiliate Marketers for his podcast series. Wade and I go waaaaaay back to early 2000’s when we worked together at KowaBunga! Technologies.

We talked about our upcoming Affiliate Manager Workshop and all of the great fun we’ve had at past workshops and Affiliate Summit events.

You can listen to the podcast here:

 http://christianaffiliatemarketers.com/cam-blog-podcast-13-rachel-honoway-of-affiliate-classroom-live/

Jim Kukral of JimKukral.com and The Daily Flip has reviewed AC Certified. Watch the video:

AC Certified Advisory Board Member, Peter Figueredo of NETexponent talks about his views on AC Certified. Here’s what he has to say:

“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. “

Linda Woods of Partnercentric has reviewed AC Certified. Here’s what she has to say:

“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! “

Andrew Wee of WhoIsAndrewWee.com interviewed our VP of Marketing, Rachel Honoway for his Friday Podcast. They discussed various topics in affiliate marketing covered in AC Certified including:

• 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

Listen to Andrew’s Friday Podcast here.

Shawn Collins of Affiliate Summit and recipient of our Honorary Certification award has this to say about the AC Certified Course:

“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!”

Brook Schaaf, CEO of Schaaf Consulting and member of the AC Certified Advisory Board has this to say about the AC Certified Affiliate Manager Training Course:

“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.

Matt McWilliams of HometownQuotes, one of our Honorary Certification recipients has this to say about the AC Certified Affiliate Manager Training Course:

“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!”