Originally Posted by shermsshack

My thoughts exactly... How can a rep work with affiliates if they've never been in their shoes? It should be a pre-req that an affiliate manager can do more than just speak. If I owned a program and were hiring an afffiliate manager, I'd make sure that that manager knew how to generate traffic, and in a variety of ways. Even if his/her job isn't to generate income for the company, they need to at least know how to deal with affiliates sending a variety of traffic: free sites, mgp/tgp galleries, blogs, mail, etc.