Merchants and Advertisers - Start or Grow Your Affiliate Program - Whether you have a program or are looking to start one, training your employees on the strategy can help maximize your return on investment.
Networks and Agencies - Remove the "trained human resources" obstacle from your growth strategy. Our training will prepare your employees for client management and dedicated affiliate support.
Save Time - Our automated, online course trains new employees for you so that you and your senior staff don't have to put business on hold to ramp up new staff.
Make Better Hires - You can hire sharp, motivated marketers - even if they don't have any affiliate marketing experience. You choose the people that best fit your organization and our course will teach them what they need to know to successfully manage your affiliate channel.
Ensure Results - Testing guarantees that employees have completed training and are ready to manage your affiliates.
How it Works
The entire course is delivered through a simple online interface. When your employees are ready to learn, they simply login and begin.
They'll be able to view their progress, check their test results and manage their profiles using the online admin section.
You'll have an admin screen of your own where you can:
Assign seats to employees
View employee progress
Review employee test scores
Manage your job listings and pre-hire communications
The Course
The AC Certified Affiliate Manager Training Course will teach your employees everything they need to know to launch and manage a successful affiliate program. The is broken up into 10 complete modules that cover:
Fundamental affiliate marketing concepts.
Affiliate tracking and management technology.
Launching or re-launching an affiliate program.
Affiliate recruitment, training, communication and motivation.
Reporting and program analysis.
Affiliate marketing legal issues.
Your employees will navigate through the course by reading pages like the one above, watching short video clips and listening to audio interviews.
The system will guide them along the way telling them what's coming next, where they are in the course and when it's time to take a quiz - like the one on the right.
At the end of the course, they'll be presented with a final exam. A passing grade on the final is 80%. When they achieve a passing grade, they'll be awarded with their official Affiliate Manager Certification.
Certification
When they complete the course and pass the final exam, your employees will earn their Affiliate Manager Certification. We'll provide you with a certification logo to place on your site, and we'll list the employee names in our database of Certified Affiliate Managers.
You can proudly display your employee's certifications to show your customers, prospects and potential employers that you have people on staff who know how to effectively run an affiliate program.
Plus, when a qualifying number of your affiliate management staff is certified (based on a percentage of your total staff), we'll award your company with an official certification. This will add your company name to our database of certified professionals and allow you to advertise that your company has acheived official certification.
Training and Certification Pricing
Individual certification through the Affiliate Manager Certification Course is $1,500. The price includes:
One seat in the Affiliate Manager Certification Course
Affiliate Manager Certification for 1 year for each individual who passes the final exam
Inclusion for each individual in our list of Certified Affiliate Managers (after they pass the exam!)
An AC Certified "stamp of approval" for each individual to place on your website
Company certifications granted with qualified number of individuals participating
Additional seats may be purchased at volume-discount rates. Please contact us for more information about volume discounts.
To preserve the quality of these materials and of the certification distinction, the course is setup in such a way that students must complete each section in order. Once a section is complete, the section may not be viewed again. The course and the pricing are specifically designed for training one individual per seat.
Career Center Pricing
Post your open positions in our Career Center to be matched with qualified, certified Affiliate Managers. This highly-targeted portal is dedicated to placing Affiliate Managers.
Each open position you post is priced at $300/month. Contact us for more information.
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Company Managers - Click here now to register your staff for AC Certified Affiliate Manager Training and Certification.
Brook Schaaf
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 .....more
Debra Rabin
The Affiliate Marketing industry is a new and growing industry, when I first began working in it I felt I was witnessing the days of the Wild West. There didn't seem to be a sheriff in town, and whatever code of honor may have .....more
Shawn Collins
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 .....more
Save time and ensure that your employees are receiving accurate, proven techniques for successful affiliate program management.
When they complete the course and pass the final exam, your employees will earn their Affiliate Manager Certification. We'll provide you with a certification logo to place on your site, and we'll list the employee names in our database of Certified Affiliate Managers. 
