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192
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Oct 2026
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Partnership marketing enthusiasts and affiliate marketing gurus are sharing their best strategies for affiliate program growth. New guests every week will come to discuss hot topics in the industry and what latest growth hacks working right now.
Alfie: https://dustinhowes.com/alfie and use code DUSTIN30 for 30% off your first month For more tips on how to scale your affiliate program, check out https://performancemarketingmanager.com
Adults with ADHD are 60% more likely to be fired from a job. I’m no stranger to that. In this episode, I sat down with Kyrus Keenan Westcott . He was diagnosed at 35 after spending decades thinking he was just lazy. He blocks time in his calendar for scheduled incompetence. It's one reason he can hold down a demanding job as head of paid media with an ADHD brain. #ADHD #ADHDatWork #Neurodiversity #AffiliateMarketing #AffiliateNerdOut #Nerdatorium Alfie: https://dustinhowes.com/alfie and use code DUSTIN30 for 30% off your first month Go to https://dustinhowes.com/alfie to set up your account with a 30-day money-back guarantee For more tips on how to scale your affiliate program, check out https://performancemarketingmanager.com
I signed up for an affiliate tracking tool live on camera. Never touched it before. 15 minutes later, it was tracking every click on my site. If you’re an affiliate, you know the routine: log into Impact, then CJ, then Awin, then the next one. Check stats. Copy numbers. Repeat. It eats your week. So I brought Jorge Barbosa back to Affiliate Nerd Out (third time, he’s officially a regular) to set up wecantrack from scratch while I drove. In the video, you’ll see: 1. Connecting a network in a few clicks 2. Getting tracking live on a WordPress site 3. Seeing which traffic sources and articles actually drive sales 4. The free bonus feature that could replace a tool I pay $300+ a year for 5. The link trick that made me say, “Oh my God, that’s a huge time-saver” 🎥 Watch the full episode here and see if you can beat 15 minutes: https://youtu.be/PSf1VieO0ZA?si=ASd4_K848XZUyxRO Affiliates, how many dashboards do you log into every week? Tell me in the comments 👇 #AffiliateMarketing #AffiliateTracking #AffiliatePublisher #ContentCreator #wecantrack Alfie: https://dustinhowes.com/alfie and use code DUSTIN30 for 30% off your first month For more tips on how to scale your affiliate program, check out https://performancemarketingmanager.com
Have you ever recommended someone to a client, then watched them drop the ball right in front of that client? 😬 That’s what happened to Christen Evans (she/her) It was an enterprise brand with millions on the table, and it should have been an easy yes. Instead, she got three weeks of pushback, with the client watching the whole time. The client’s take: “It’s almost like they don’t even want our business.” So how do you fix it without throwing anyone under the bus? Christen and I get into it on this Real Talk Friday. Full episode below ⬇️ #AffiliateMarketing #PartnerMarketing #AffiliateNerdOut #AgencyLife #RealTalkFriday Alfie: https://dustinhowes.com/alfie and use code DUSTIN30 for 30% off your first month For more tips on how to scale your affiliate program, check out https://performancemarketingmanager.com
I have been burned by the word "unlimited" more times than I can count. Most pricing pages promise the moon, right until a surprise bill hits your inbox. So I put Martin Demiger , the founder of Trackdesk , on the hot seat in the Nerditorium. I asked him straight out: what does "unlimited" actually mean at your shop? I am not going to spoil his answer here. But he shared a wild story about a brand begging their best partner to stop sending traffic just to avoid insane platform fees. Imagine telling your best horse to stop running because the barn charges you by the stride. Want to hear his exact math and see where the real ceiling hides? 👇🏻 Listen to the full episode to find out. What is the worst "unlimited" fine print you have ever found? Tell me in the comments. #AffiliateMarketing #AffiliateManagement #SaaS Alfie: https://dustinhowes.com/alfie and use code DUSTIN30 for 30% off your first month For more tips on how to scale your affiliate program, check out https://performancemarketingmanager.com
3 million shoppers across Asia want to buy from US brands. Most can't, because those brands don't ship to them. What if you could reach them without changing a single thing about your shipping? I sat down with Jeff Unze , North American GM at Buy&Ship , to talk about how brands are doing exactly that. He also shares which product categories this audience goes after, and why it's not what you'd expect. 👉 Follow Affiliate Nerd Out for more publisher highlights and conversations on growing your affiliate program. #AffiliateMarketing #CrossBorderEcommerce #PartnerMarketing #PublisherHighlight #AffiliateNerdOut #Buy AndShip Alfie: https://dustinhowes.com/alfie and use code DUSTIN30 for 30% off your first month For more tips on how to scale your affiliate program, check out https://performancemarketingmanager.com
I sit down with Brian Blancho from TicketSmarter to break down everything that went down at CJU. We are talking about an honest, no-holds-barred review of the event, covering the good, the bad, and our official star rankings. If you are trying to figure out where to invest your budget and how to recruit affiliates in the performance marketing space, you can't sleep on live events. But is CJU actually worth the heavy price tag? Tune in to hear our raw take on the experience, the ROI, and what you need to know before booking your ticket for next year. We jump into all the major categories, including the networking quality, venue layout, expo booths, food, sessions, giveaways, and standout parties. We also pull back the curtain on some major pain points, like the absolute disaster of an event app and the brutal 15-minute meeting schedule that wrecks your whole day if you fall even five minutes behind. Subscribe to this channel for more affiliate program growth tactics and insider reviews. Start your 7-day free trial and see how Alfie can transform your affiliate recruitment process today! https://www.alfie.io/ Connect with Dustin Howes on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustinhowes Alfie: https://dustinhowes.com/alfie and use code DUSTIN30 for 30% off your first month Go to https://dustinhowes.com/alfie to set up your account with a 30-day money-back guarantee For more tips on how to scale your affiliate program, check out https://performancemarketingmanager.com
It's go time for Q4. 🚨 If your Q4 plans aren't locked in yet, consider this your sign to finalize them this week. On this Real Talk Friday edition of Affiliate Nerd Out, Christen Evans (she/her) and I cover: 1/ Why I'm heading back to CJU after 10 years 2/ The question that made a 10-year industry vet walk away from me 3/ Affiliate leaderboards: motivating or discouraging? 4/ How a 30-minute webinar turned into 60 minutes and 1,000+ views 5/ The one person to follow if you want to know how many days are left until Black Friday 👉 Coming up: my Affiliate Recruitment Masterclass. It's built from interviews with hundreds of affiliate managers about what's working right now. #AffiliateMarketing #PartnerMarketing #Q4 #BlackFriday #CJU #AffiliateNerdOut Alfie: https://dustinhowes.com/alfie and use code DUSTIN30 for 30% off your first month For more tips on how to scale your affiliate program, check out https://performancemarketingmanager.com
Not leads. Not "maybe" contacts. Full profiles: contact info, why Alfie thinks they're a fit, fit score, traffic type, reach, and even soft signals like age and gender skew. Stuff that used to take me hours of manual prospecting just... populated itself. In this episode of Affiliate Nerd Out I gave a live look at Alfie's new Advanced Campaigns feature, built directly from user feedback. You can now: 1/ Target by influencer type, traffic source, and category 2/ Adjust age/gender demographics 3/ Filter by country I've been in affiliate marketing for a long time, and I genuinely don't know why it took the industry this long to build something like this. It's not just faster; it's finding the right partners, not just more partners. Christen Evans (she/her) and I also dug into Q4 prep, the Rakuten → Impact migration chatter, and a fine jewelry program that's been an absolute rocket ship (30/60/90 numbers included). Alfie: https://dustinhowes.com/alfie and use code DUSTIN30 for 30% off your first month For more tips on how to scale your affiliate program, check out https://performancemarketingmanager.com
This week's episode got a little spicy. We're talking about the newest MegaLag video calling out people in our own industry, the ShopMy drama nobody's fully unpacked yet, and why I ditched TikTok for an app that teaches me Claude instead. Plus, I recorded something with one of the smartest AI guys I know, the same guy who helped build out my Claude agents, and it turned into a two-part series. Part one breaks down what AI tools actually matter right now. Part two, we're doing a live build so you can watch exactly how it's done. If you're in affiliate or partner marketing, some of this is going to hit close to home. #AffiliateMarketing #PartnerMarketing #AffiliateNerdOut #AI #Claude #MarketingPodcast Alfie: https://dustinhowes.com/alfie and use code DUSTIN30 for 30% off your first month For more tips on how to scale your affiliate program, check out https://performancemarketingmanager.com
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