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This was by far the most impressive Affiliate Summit to date with tons of fresh ideas, appearances from every industry leader, and powerful exhibitions. If you didn’t get a chance to chat with many exhibitors, I’d like to share the ones that stood out in my mind.  I hope this gives you a quick idea of the exciting stuff going on in the industry right now. 

As affiliate networks grow, managing new affiliate applications and relationships can get pretty time consuming.  Especially as a network grows in popularity, sifting through the fraudulent affiliates and empowering new affiliates to get up and running can drain a lot of resources.  As the leading affiliate management software, it is our job to provide all the tools you need to simplify the process of working with new affiliates, but tools don’t do a lot of good if you don’t know what they are and how they can save you time.  So, for all you budding affiliate networks out there or networks looking to make improvements, here is a run down of the top 8 ways to quickly increase your efficiency with managing new affiliates.

Over the past couple of weeks, one of our engineers has secretly developed a special add-on designed to maximize affiliate activity. We call it the Promotional Platform for affiliates.  We have since implemented this Promotional Platform on our own affiliate network for promoting the HasOffers platform. This break-through in affiliate interfaces is proven to drive substantial sales, empowering affiliates to promote products through their social media relationships.

Building trust with an affiliate network is extremely important.  You should never do business with a network that you know nothing about, and there are plenty of ways to scout out new networks before moving all of your traffic over.  Here are five simple steps you can take to start building trust with a new network. 

Cookie based tracking is the most popular among affiliate marketers because it is so simple to implement.  Though it is not 100% accurate, many networks choose to use cookie based methods anyway for the shear convenience.  Plus, piggybacking third party pixels is also extremely simple with iFrame pixels and Image pixels.  However, there is a fall back strategy for when cookies don’t work, giving you the benefits of cookieless tracking while keeping with the simplicity cookie-based tracking pixels.