If you are an affiliate manager you know that there are a myriad of projects that need to be done every day to keep your affiliate program healthy and growing. Website Magazine has a good article by Geno Prussakov that offers some practical tips for making your affiliate management tasks more manageable.

Streamline Your Affiliate Program Management

Affiliate program management and managing individual affiliates can often get in the way of the actual success of an enterprise. But there are powerful tools and methods that will dramatically cut down on time spent on day-to-day operations, and bolster overall performance.

Start by grouping your program management tasks into the following three clusters: (1) affiliate recruitment and activation; (2) affiliate program support; and (3) affiliate policing. While many other tasks are involved in affiliate program management, these three groups can be effectively automated to save time.