#affiliate-marketing

#affiliate-marketing

Affiliate programs are often sold as "partnerships," but for most publishers, they function more like a long-shot gamble. You generate traffic, clicks, and conversions, and then wait to see if the brand's tracking system recognizes your contribution. Spoiler alert: it often doesn't. Ad blockers, private browsing, cookie restrictions, and platform bias all eat away at affiliate tracking. Even when a publisher does everything right - driving legitimate traffic to a partner brand - many clicks go unrecorded or uncredited.

For years, brands tried to split the difference by hiring a PR agency for visibility, an affiliate manager for commerce coverage and affiliate partnerships, and a media buyer for paid social scale. Seven years ago, I, in fact, was one of them as the former VP of Marketing and Founding Team at Ritual. On paper, it made sense. In practice, I found it created silos, competing agendas, and a lack of shared accountability and synergy across agencies and partners.

"Unlike transactional affiliate programs, Gap Inc.'s new social media advocacy platform is a centralized hub for creators to engage deeply across Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic, and Athleta," Gap Inc. indicated. "Modeled to create community, it will offer [creators] early access to new releases, product seeding, and exclusive promos, as well as content collaboration opportunities and the ability for creators and their content to be amplified across paid, social, and brand-owned channels."

They're moving spend out of paid media that they would have previously done on linear TV, like big ad spots, and chopping that up and using it to bolster and support the creator economy,

Joining the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program grants access to resources for building solutions on its platforms, fostering opportunities for passive income streams.

B2B brands that invest in growth hacking strategies don't focus on wide-reaching influencers with millions of followers. They typically focus on micro-influencer campaigns since smaller influencers likely have a much more targeted audience base that is aligned with your industry.

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Creating and selling online courses can yield significant income, as exemplified by one creator earning over $2 million from an affiliate marketing course.

In product management, relationships matter. It’s about investing time and genuinely caring about your work, which ultimately drives product success.

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Social media has made it easier for creators to earn 'passive' income through affiliate marketing, a sector expected to grow significantly in the coming years.