Geno Prussakov

CEO & Founder of AM Navigator – an award-winning OPM agency. Founder & Chair of Affiliate Management Days conference. Author of numerous books including "Affiliate Program Management: An Hour a Day" (2011) and "Quick Start Guide to Affiliate Marketing" (2013), international speaker, marketing consultant, affiliate and influencer marketing evangelist.

Search Engines and Online Reviews Represent Affiliate Opportunities

Earlier today eMarketer has published some interesting data on the sources that consumers use in their pre-purchase product research. Two reasons why we couldn’t miss this: (1) the data was from our client, Compete.com, whose affiliate program we manage, and (2) if you look at the below data carefully, you […]

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Affiliate Management: Prussakov's Fall 2012 Speaking Engagements

My favorite season of the year is coming, and while there’s still time for you to plan your trips to the conferences where I will appear, I’d like to highlight the two at which I am set to speak this autumn. In both cases I will tackle affiliate program management

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Are Outsourced Affiliate Managers Better Than In-House Ones?

A recent blog post from the Harvard Business Review reveals that remote workers (or workers of virtual teams) are, actually, more engaged than people who work in company office(s). In his above-referenced post Scott Edinger says that this makes “perfect sense” on the following 4 reasons: Proximity breeds complacency; Absence

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Outsourced Online Marketing Agencies and Non-Compete Agreements

Definitions first: Non-Competition Agreement — A legal agreement in which one party is restricted from working as a direct rival to the employer for a specific time and place. The purpose of non-competition agreements is to prevent an ex-employee from exploiting resources, knowledge and/or leads that were gained from a

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Possibly the Best Way to Boost Affiliate Program Performance

———————————- UPDATE [of 8/23/2012; 7:32 pm ET]: By the end of Day 8, we’ve had 2 more affiliates react to the follow-up email which bumps success rate to 42%. ———————————— As an outsourced affiliate program management agency we have recently took aboard an aged affiliate program. Having analyzed their current

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Your Personal Invitation to Affiliate Management Days East 2012

It’s hard to believe, bu we are now less than seven weeks (48 days, to be exact) away from the second Affiliate Management Days conference which will take place at beautiful Hyatt Regency Bonaventure Conference Center & Spa in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Conference Preview Guide has just gone live,

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7 Affiliate Coupon Feed Solutions to Automate Integration

Every major affiliate network offers coupon feeds. Here are just a few examples: Commission Junction has a Coupon-Only Offers RSS Feed Google Affiliate Network has its Orange Links LinkShare’s LinkLocator is an equivalent API solution LinkConnector’s Coupon/Promotions Feed ShareASale  offers a Deals Database Feed AvantLink has its Dynamic Coupon Feed

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5 Keys to Building High-Impact Relationships in Affiliate Marketing

Earlier this week I participated on an exciting Affiliate Summit East 2012 panel [announced earlier here] where Eva Klein, Tony Pantano, Brook Schaaf, and yours truly discussed the importance of building high-impact relationships in affiliate marketing. Tony was looking at things from an affiliate standpoint, Brook was focusing more on

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Top 10 Affiliate Summit East 2012 Sessions for Affiliate Managers

Affiliate Summit East 2012 is just around the corner, and looking through the conference’s agenda I couldn’t help but highlight affiliate management-related sessions on it. There is a number of really promising ones to look forward to, and today I’d like to bring you my (chronological) list of the top

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