Have you taken a look at AC Certified yet?

We’ve created a demo walkthrough of the system that shows you everything from signup to the course, to tests and the career center.

Signup for demo on our homepage www.accertified.com

Here’s a look at what you’ll see inside the AC Certified Affiliate Manager Training and Certification Course.

This first screen is what you’ll see when you’re logged into your account - it’s kind of like “Command Central” with access to the course, your profile and the Career Center:

Here is a picture of the first page of the course - check out the left-hand side that lists all of the modules and what they’re all about:

Visit our new website for more information about getting yourself and your staff trained and certified!

 Matt McWilliams of HometownQuotes officially accepts his Honorary Affiliate Certification in this video. Watch as he delivers a great speech and introduces us to other staff members that support affiliates - including the CFO who, as Matt points out, is the guy that writes those affiliate checks!

 Watch the video:

This time, Linda Woods interviews our CEO, Anik Singal, in her Affiliate Marketing Insider show recorded live on the floor of Affiliate Summit.

Listen to hear what Anik tells Linda about AC Certified. Plus, hear what’s new with several other top industry experts including AC Certified Advisory Board Member Brook Schaaf and Honorary Certification Recipient Jamie Birch.

 Listen now: http://www.webmasterradio.fm/Affiliate-Marketing/Affiliate-Marketing-Insider/On-Location-from-Affiliate-Summit-West.htm

AC Certified was launched at our LIVE Affiliate Manager Training Workshop on Saturday, February 23rd!

Learn more and signup now: http://accertified.com/

Our VP of Marketing, Rachel Honoway, was interviewed by Linda Woods on the Webmaster Radio show “Affiliate Marketing Insider”. Listen in:

http://www.webmasterradio.fm/Affiliate-Marketing/Affiliate-Marketing-Insider/Affiliate-Classroom.htm

Our third round of Honorary Certifications is here! Watch the video!

Stu McLaren of MyIdeaGuy.com recorded this acceptance speech after learning that he had been awarded with an Honorary Affiliate Manager Certification. Watch the video!

Our CEO, Anik Singal, was interviewed on “Affiliate Thing Podcast” hosted by Shawn Collins of Affiliate Summit and Lisa Picarille of Revenue Magazine. He gives some great information about AC Certified!

Go to Shawn’s Affiliate Tip blog to check it out.

Our friend, industry expert and a featured speaker at our upcoming Affiliate Manager workshop, Amit Mehta of SuperAffiliateMindset.com mentioned our new AC Certified program in a blog post today. He said:

My good friend Anik Singal, founder of the hugely successful Affiliate Classroom and PPC Classroom, has done it yet again.

Through Affiliate Classroom, Anik is launching a program where affiliate managers can get trained and certified!

Imagine, actually having a AC Certified Affiliate Manager that actually knows what they’re talking about!

No offense to many of the brilliant affiliate managers out there, but let’s face it, there are TONS of affiliate managers who have NO idea what they’re talking about.

I’ve dealt with my share.

I think having a standard certification program for affiliate managers is a GREAT idea, and is a BIG step in moving our industry towards a new level of professionalism. Enough with the booth babes and porn hustlers! We, as a community need to clean up our act and get the respect we deserve for the larger business community.

Kudos, Anik for taking the initiative and doing this!

Anik is looking to nominate some outstanding affiliate managers for Honorary AC Affiliate Manager certifications.

So if you have an outstanding affiliate manager, please nominate them here & tell them how much you appreciate everything they do.

We were intrigued by a few of the comments that his readers left:

Tom Beaton on February 13th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Good concept, A recognised body with a certification program goes a long way towards making the industry more transparent and “proper”.

Tyler DeWitt on February 14th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Amit,

I would have to agree granted I’m not a PPC master mind like I am with organic search, but I can say this from me talking with them and etc I can tell they really don’t know there talking about or I should say there just saying what there trained to say.

What dazzles me is you would think they would be pretty good at what they do speaking they talk with affiliate marketers all day, but then again I guess the Google AdWords Reps are the same way :).

You can read the full post and more of Amit’s affiliate marketing opinions and advice at:
http://www.superaffiliatemindset.com/is-your-affiliate-manager-ac-certified/