In amongst the recent Please Stop Begging discussion over on A4U was a passionate and somewhat direct response from ex-Wolverine lookalike and new superhero to every affiliate manager Neil Mitchell. Neil outlined his day as an affiliate manager and how we should be open “to give Account Managers their 5 minutes of glory to build their cv’s up and get recognised for the work they do”.

I think that’s fair enough.

I’ve been having some issues of late which has resulted in a good merchant becoming a terrible one. Admittedly I’ve given the AM involved a hard time but if you go from a few quid commission each month to nothing it can be just that tad annoying. However, it’s not the AM’s fault that they’ve been landed with an inept new system. Hopefully it’ll be sorted!

As an affiliate you want to feel that the AM is on your side and when it feels you’re beating your head against a wall or being told stupid answers then it shouldn’t be a surprise that occasionally things can get heated. After all you’re just trying to get things sorted so everyone can go back to earning a living.

Anyway, all this got me thinking… what actually is it like to be an affiliate manager? Are all affiliates really ungrateful so and so’s who berate the affiliate managers and make their lives a misery? What would it like to be an affiliate manager for a day?

Perhaps it’s time networks or agencies encouraged affiliates to see things from their side of the fence with a kind of “bring an affiliate work day”!

Anyway the above video is especially for Neil, who having shaved off his trademark facial hair, is now modelling his hairdo on a young Nik Kershaw!

     

Grow back the Wolverine whiskers man!

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