Toptal is an exclusive network of top Affiliate Marketing experts, consultants, managers, and professionals. Top companies and startups hire freelance affiliate marketers from Toptal for their mission-critical marketing campaigns and projects.
Elmer is a hands-on strategist and a digital marketing leader with 18 years of experience in eCommerce and online marketing. His multidisciplinary marketing experience has resulted in solid knowledge of people leadership, branding, Google Analytics, and Google Ads. Elmer specializes in email and affiliate marketing, search engine optimization, Facebook advertising, website management, paid and organic media strategies, and online lead generation.
Joe has an MBA and over 15 years of experience in digital marketing. He has honed his ability to use analytics and data analysis to drive growth and revenue. His extensive expertise includes eCommerce, SEO, SEM, SMM, PPC, email marketing, affiliate marketing, and leading cross-functional, remote teams. Joe is skilled in designing content and marketing strategies, developing customer journey funnels, and executing organic, social, and paid advertising campaigns.
Justin is a digital marketing and eCommerce growth specialist with experience in the food and beverage, kitchenware, and outdoor industries. As a skilled digital marketing leader, he is able to drive traffic to eCommerce channels and influence conversion once they get there. Justin has special expertise in digital advertising, affiliate marketing, Amazon advertising and marketplace management, SEO, UX design, D2C eCommerce, digital merchandising, and Salesforce.
Emily is a seasoned content strategy expert with a wealth of experience in writing for over a dozen publications and brands. Her varied skills in crafting compelling narratives and strategic content have consistently driven engagement and growth across diverse platforms. With experience in affiliate marketing and content writing, Emily is a founding editor of the successful Wix Restaurants blog.
Sebastian has 17+ years of experience in digital marketing as a general manager focused on growth, performance, marketing, sales and management, business operations, and strategy. He has consulted for brands worldwide on their growth efforts as a country manager, global marketing director, head of performance, and growth director in numerous industries, including iGaming, retail, entertainment/gaming, affiliate network, edtech, and healthtech.
Paweł has been working on affiliate-related projects since 2010, focusing on various campaigns and always striving to understand his projects thoroughly. He quickly adapts to his environment and prioritizes the project's best interests to achieve tangible results. Paweł thinks outside the box and looks at problems from different perspectives to offer the best marketing solutions to each client.
Audrius is a seasoned senior affiliate and growth marketing manager with over ten years of experience driving results across various channels, including email, social, paid, and editorial. Skilled at building and nurturing strong partnerships with diverse publishers, Audrius excels at crafting data-driven strategies that boost brand visibility, drive conversions, and fuel growth.
Nour is a marketing professional with 5+ years of experience in D2C, B2C, and B2B marketing across the MENA region, including work with leading brands and Y Combinator-backed startups. With expertise across technology, eCommerce, food and beverage, logistics, and fashion, she specializes in growth strategies, product launches, and campaign management. Nour is skilled in brand building, data-driven marketing, and team leadership, delivering impactful results that enhance brand presence.
Johan started his content career at 15, writing a fanzine, and soon moved into journalism and videography. With a master's degree in film, he has gained experience as a linguistic QA tester, transcreator, and copywriter. In 2013, Johan took the first content strategy course offered online and has since led teams in senior roles across government agencies, NGOs, startups, and enterprises, achieving award-winning results.
Giselle is a growth marketing consultant with 10+ years of hands-on experience in digital marketing and developing and scaling paid media campaigns. She is data-driven yet creative and curious, blending both to execute growth marketing strategies effectively. At Mad Paws, Giselle built a foundation for their Meta channel's growth and boosted YoY sales by over 70%. Since the global pandemic, she has also helped 20+ local and international brands build and execute performance marketing strategies.
Emiliano is a global-minded marketing executive and former APAC region head of Microsoft's social media marketing (SCC). With over twenty years of experience running marketing functions in leading organizations ranging from Fortune 100 multinationals to VC-funded start-ups in the technology and eCommerce sectors, Emiliano is excited about his next challenge.
Affiliate marketing experts design and implement performance-based promotional campaigns with third-party affiliates, such as bloggers, review websites, and social media influencers. This guide to hiring affiliate marketing experts features best practices, tips for writing job descriptions, and interview questions that will help you identify the best candidates for your company.
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How to Hire Affiliate Marketers Through Toptal
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FAQs
How quickly can you hire with Toptal?
Typically, you can hire an affiliate marketer with Toptal in about 48 hours. For larger teams of talent or Managed Delivery, timelines may vary. Our talent matchers are highly skilled in the same fields they’re matching in—they’re not recruiters or HR reps. They’ll work with you to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics, and match you with ideal candidates from our vetted global talent network.
Once you select your affiliate marketer, you’ll have a no-risk trial period to ensure they’re the perfect fit. Our matching process has a 98% trial-to-hire rate, so you can rest assured that you’re getting the best fit every time.
How do I hire an affiliate marketer?
To hire the right affiliate marketer, it’s important to evaluate a candidate’s experience, technical skills, and communication skills. You’ll also want to consider the fit with your particular industry, company, and project. Toptal’s rigorous screening process ensures that every member of our network has excellent experience and skills, and our team will match you with the perfect affiliate marketers for your project.
How are Toptal affiliate marketers different?
At Toptal, we thoroughly screen our affiliate marketers to ensure we only match you with the highest caliber of talent. Of the more than 200,000 people who apply to join the Toptal network each year, fewer than 3% make the cut.
In addition to screening for industry-leading expertise, we also assess candidates’ language and interpersonal skills to ensure that you have a smooth working relationship.
When you hire with Toptal, you’ll always work with world-class, custom-matched affiliate marketers ready to help you achieve your goals.
Can you hire affiliate marketers on an hourly basis or for project-based tasks?
You can hire affiliate marketers on an hourly, part-time, or full-time basis. Toptal can also manage the entire project from end-to-end with our Managed Delivery offering. Whether you hire an expert for a full- or part-time position, you’ll have the control and flexibility to scale your team up or down as your needs evolve. Our affiliate marketers can fully integrate into your existing team for a seamless working experience.
What is the no-risk trial period for Toptal affiliate marketers?
We make sure that each engagement between you and your affiliate marketer begins with a trial period of up to two weeks. This means that you have time to confirm the engagement will be successful. If you’re completely satisfied with the results, we’ll bill you for the time and continue the engagement for as long as you’d like. If you’re not completely satisfied, you won’t be billed. From there, we can either part ways, or we can provide you with another expert who may be a better fit and with whom we will begin a second, no-risk trial.
Robert is a digital marketing and e-commerce expert who integrates performance marketing and analytics to develop creative brand solutions. His B2B and B2C brand strategy expertise includes the consumer goods, auto, education, and tech sectors, and he has led marketing campaigns and projects across global markets.
Increasing Demand for Affiliate Marketers Driven by Cost-effective Sales Outcomes
With an anticipated compound annual growth rate of 7.7%, the global investment in affiliate marketing is expected to nearly double to $36.9 billion between 2021 and 2030, according to a 2022 study by Research and Markets. This trend is driven by the cost-effective and sales-oriented outcomes of affiliate marketing campaigns. Affiliate marketing typically operates on a performance-based commission model where brands reward affiliate partners (such as a social media influencer, review website, or podcast) for attracting conversions or leads via trackable affiliate links or promotion codes. When strategically planned and managed by marketing experts with this specific skill set, these campaigns can be highly efficient methods of reaching larger customer bases without overspending on leads who don’t take the desired action.
Whether your company is looking to deploy affiliate campaigns for the first time or to optimize or scale your current practices, hiring an expert in affiliate marketing is a smart decision. These individuals are instrumental in building strategic relationships with the affiliates who, as third-party content creators, often view affiliate marketing as a way to make passive income by sharing commission-generating links or codes with the existing audience of their website, email list, or social media channel. A seasoned affiliate marketing expert can help brands make the most of these relationships by supporting the affiliate’s content development and ensuring adherence to digital marketing best practices. These experts can also help your company identify appropriate affiliate networks, design in-house affiliate programs, and systematically optimize campaigns based on performance data.
This comprehensive guide walks you through the process of identifying, selecting, and hiring qualified affiliate marketing consultants to lead campaign strategies or implementations. It covers writing a job description that attracts qualified candidates, crafting relevant interview questions, assessing a potential consultant’s expertise, and determining which candidate is the right fit for your business.
What Attributes Distinguish Quality Affiliate Marketers From Others?
Quality affiliate marketing experts must be savvy decision-makers who can tune out the considerable noise in the marketing sector while remaining on top of trends. This is especially important given the wide range of options for affiliate networks, in-house affiliate marketing programs, and commission rates. Affiliate marketing is not as easy as simply enlisting new affiliates and then watching the leads or sales accumulate. Rather, companies should seek freelance affiliate marketing experts who have experience developing strong relationships with active affiliate publishers, helping them create well-optimized content, and using marketing data analysis to review campaign performance and update the strategy based on results. They must also possess integrity, along with values that match the business’s culture and strategic goals.
When narrowing down top-quality affiliate marketers for hire, you’ll want to consider the candidates’ proficiencies in the following domains:
Affiliate network management — Top candidates should have experience with a variety of affiliate marketing networks, such as Amazon Associates, ShareASale, CJ Affiliate (formerly known as Commission Junction), ClickBank, and Rakuten Advertising, and understand how to launch or maintain in-house affiliate programs. They should demonstrate a successful record of managing and optimizing relationships through these platforms and understand which options would be most appropriate for the brand.
Commission strategy and execution — Content creators often partner with brands on affiliate campaigns due to the reputation of affiliate income as a low-investment earning opportunity. The affiliate marketing expert you hire will develop and implement affiliate commission strategies that strike a balance between incentivizing affiliates with competitive commission rates and maintaining profit margins for the affiliate product or services being promoted. The expert should be capable of determining whether a flat rate, a percentage-based commission, or a hybrid would be most appropriate for a particular context. While affiliate marketing can be a cost-effective marketing strategy for brands, poorly planned commission contracts can result in negative ROI.
Tracking and analytics — Affiliate marketers must be well versed in using tracking software and analytics to monitor marketing performance. With an eye on metrics like ROI and conversion rates, expert candidates should be able to identify underperforming campaigns or platforms and make informed, data-based actions. They should also be able to identify and correct areas of manipulation and keyword abuse, which can cause added company expenses instead of rewarding qualified conversions.
Cross-channel integration — Brands should look for affiliate marketing experts with well-rounded experience using key digital marketing techniques, such as email marketing, social media, content marketing, and search engine optimization (SEO). This will allow the hire to implement campaigns that complement and support the organization’s overall digital marketing strategy. An expert with broad competencies in these arenas will also be better equipped to support affiliates.
Strong content development and awareness — Expert affiliate marketers must be able to discern which content would be most effective for current or potential affiliates and understand how to tailor messaging for different platforms and audiences. The talented freelancer you hire should be fluent in developing engaging media in formats like blogs, videos, or podcasts, regardless of whether the brand or the affiliate produces the final promotional materials.
Regulatory compliance and ethical practices — Affiliate marketers must ensure that campaigns remain compliant with relevant laws, such as disclosure requirements. Moreover, some affiliates use questionable techniques like cookie stuffing to get quick, illegitimate results that inflate their affiliate income. To avoid financial and legal risks, select a skilled professional who will take a rigorous approach to enforcing regulatory compliance and ethical best practices and invest time and energy in implementing long-term growth strategies.
Top-level communication and networking skills — Above all else, affiliate marketing requires positive, collaborative relationships to be successful. The affiliate marketer you hire should have strong networking skills and be able to work smoothly and patiently with members of your organization, as well as with affiliates, platforms, and other marketers.
Brands should also consider these more general characteristics when searching for a new affiliate marketer:
Passion and knowledge of your customer base — Experts with preexisting knowledge and passion for your industry may be better equipped to identify high-performing affiliates who will resonate with your target audience. Moreover, their enthusiasm may help them build more effective relationships with affiliate partners.
Adaptability — New affiliate marketing platforms, strategies, and tools pop up all the time. Therefore, a successful affiliate marketing expert must stay abreast of the latest offerings and demonstrate flexibility and responsiveness while also remaining cognizant of potential pitfalls (e.g., data security concerns) that could come from joining unvetted platforms.
How Can You Identify the Ideal Affiliate Marketer for Your Project?
When beginning the process of hiring a freelance affiliate marketer, take a step back and consider how the project aligns with your business goals. Here are a few questions to ask before creating a job description:
What is your main purpose for hiring this candidate? You may have seen positive results that affiliate marketing has delivered for other companies, but it’s important to understand that an affiliate marketing strategy that worked for another company may not align with your needs and priorities. Take the time to outline your key objectives for expanding into the affiliate marketing space. What would success look like?
Is your business well suited for affiliate marketing? Affiliate marketing tends to work best for B2C companies that offer goods and services through an online sales platform. For B2B companies, affiliate marketing is harder to track and implement, as the customer journey generally takes longer and requires additional steps. Businesses without a strong online presence may also struggle to achieve positive results from affiliate marketing services.
How will the affiliate marketing efforts integrate with the rest of your marketing team? Affiliate marketing campaigns always intersect with other marketing efforts, such as social media, SEO, public relations, and content writing. Be sure to clearly define responsibilities for your new affiliate marketing freelancer and determine how they should mesh with the rest of your team.
Do you want the affiliate marketing expert to focus on strategy, implementation, or both? If your company does not have team members with experience in the affiliate arena, you will need a well-rounded, independent professional who can handle both strategy and implementation. In some cases, however, an existing marketing strategist may be able to handle the big-picture campaign development while delegating implementation tasks to a freelance affiliate marketing hire. Larger companies, or those that are highly dependent on affiliate sales, may need a management-level individual who can focus exclusively on affiliate strategy.
Affiliate Marketer Experience Level Breakdown
Once you determine your use case for an affiliate marketer, the next step is to determine which experience level you need.
Junior affiliate marketers are best for companies that already have strong digital marketing employees who can effectively manage the new talent in their work. These individuals may have little experience with the strategic development of affiliate campaigns, but they should be familiar with key affiliate platforms, affiliate agencies, commission structures, and related digital marketing techniques. These candidates can undertake day-to-day implementation of existing campaigns.
Mid-level affiliate marketers should have a proven background of at least two to three years in affiliate marketing, either for their own brand or for another company (preferably similar to yours). With this experience, they would have leveraged a variety of affiliate networks, platforms, and tactics that generate sales results via click-through links and promotion codes. They should possess analytical skills and be capable of making strategic campaign optimizations based on actual performance.
Senior affiliate marketers are preferable for larger companies, those in sensitive industries, or ones dependent on affiliate link sales generation. The candidate should have a track record of at least five to seven years in affiliate marketing and show positive results at companies that have achieved strong affiliate growth. They should be organized and analytical, demonstrate high integrity, and bring a plan to achieve definable tracked sales for your business.
Complementary Skills for Affiliate Marketing Roles
Affiliate marketing experts must have well-rounded capabilities with digital media marketing channels like social media, websites, email, and search engines. The expert is responsible for developing collaborative relationships with affiliates and consistently optimizing campaigns across channels to attract potential customers and facilitate conversion. Look for candidates who have experience in the following domains:
SEO — Affiliate marketing experts should understand SEO tactics for driving organic traffic and enhancing brand visibility via search engines. They should have experience with SEO tools in the Google ecosystem, such as Search Console and Keyword Planner (as well as some third-party ones, like Ahrefs or Semrush). This SEO knowledge will allow the experts to support affiliates in developing engaging, high-quality content that leverages strong keywords and builds on a network of high-quality backlinks.
Email marketing — Newsletters are a common way for affiliate publishers to promote products or services to a targeted audience on their email list. Brands will benefit from a marketing expert who can help affiliates maintain consistent brand messaging, ensure accurate tracking, and implement data-based campaign optimizations based on testing and analysis.
Social media marketing — Influencers and other brand affiliates often use social media platforms to share affiliate product recommendations and showcase their expertise. Affiliate marketing experts can support these efforts by supplying brand marketing materials, ensuring accurate attribution, and monitoring compliance with advertising standards (e.g., disclosure of paid advertising).
Content creation — An affiliate marketing expert must be capable of evaluating content quality and help with developing campaigns that will resonate with the target audience. The expert provides ongoing support and feedback to the affiliate and often supplies branding guidelines, templates, imagery, and optimized promotional copy for blog posts, social media, and other content marketing channels.
Influencer marketing — Affiliate marketing experts may collaborate with influencers (among other affiliate types) to enhance the brand’s reach, supporting them with tactics like audience targeting, content integration, and campaign monitoring. The ideal candidate needs to be able to identify and propose proper influencers based on the company’s marketing budget and brand personality.
An expert affiliate marketer must be able to make informed decisions grounded in marketing analytics. They must also be able to accurately track conversions to ensure affiliates are accurately compensated for their efforts. Be sure to vet potential candidates for a background in the following areas:
Performance marketing — Both affiliate and performance marketing are results-driven approaches focused on measurable outcomes. The experienced affiliate marketer you hire must work collaboratively with partners on campaign tracking, performance optimization, and ongoing testing initiatives.
Conversion rate optimization (CRO) — Successful affiliate marketing campaigns require CRO testing and analysis strategies to maximize the effectiveness of promotional efforts and ensure a smooth, intuitive experience for potential customers. Determine whether affiliate marketing candidates have experience implementing common CRO techniques, such as A/B testing on email newsletter campaigns, as this knowledge will allow them to support affiliates in testing and developing content that appeals to their email lists and drives conversions.
How to Write an Affiliate Marketer Job Description for Your Project
Once you understand the different affiliate marketer experience levels and the related skills, you’ll be able to put together a job description to attract a strong pool of potential matches who could fulfill your business goals. The job description should include detailed requirements (e.g., technical expectations) while leaving room for flexibility, so as not to chase away qualified potential candidates due to a nonessential requirement.
Here is an effective structure that business owners and hiring managers can use when creating a job description for a new affiliate marketing opportunity:
Clear job title — Create a role title like “Affiliate Marketing Manager for [Industry/Company]” to set the expectations upfront. Instead of the term “manager,” you could use “specialist,” “consultant,” “strategist,” or “expert,” depending on your preference and whether you are looking for someone to lead strategy or implementation.
Introduction — Begin with a brief introduction about your company, industry, and mission. This will give the applicant a clear idea of what the business does and if it is a good match for them.
Job summary — Share the primary objectives of the role based on the planning undertaken in the earlier stages of this hiring guide. Be sure to include your website platform (e.g., Shopify, WordPress) and the main marketing tools and applications that you use, especially those related to the affiliate marketing field.
Key responsibilities — Include the affiliate marketing expert’s key tasks and responsibilities. Use the following responsibilities as a starting point:
Develop and execute affiliate strategies that drive sales
Recruit new high-quality affiliates and manage relationships
Monitor and analyze the performance of affiliate programs
Manage and adjust affiliate marketing budget allocation
Create and distribute content that is effective and complies with legal regulations and platform rules
Required skills and qualifications — Outline the mandatory skill requirements for your business. You may want to put how many years of specific affiliate experience they should have (preferably between two and seven, depending on the level you require). Here, you can also describe required competencies in areas such as SEO, Google Ads (and other pay-per-click ads), Amazon Associates, content creation, and building client relationships. If you have other specific affiliate marketing tools you use, you may include them here. However, don’t be overly restrictive about requiring experience with individual tools, as a strong background with similar tools often transfers easily.
Preferred skills and characteristics — In this part of the job description, include additional characteristics that an ideal candidate should have. Here, you can be more specific, recognizing that a candidate is unlikely to be a perfect fit for all of them. These preferences could include specific experience in your industry or with your target customer market, a strong background with existing tools and apps that you use (e.g., ShareASale, ClickBank, Shopify affiliate apps), a particular geographic location, previous affiliate content writing samples, or other background points that would be a “dream” match.
What Are the Most Important Affiliate Marketer Interview Questions?
Freelance affiliate marketers should have relevant experience and technical understanding, so focus on asking questions during the interview process that encourage job candidates to speak about previous accomplishments and demonstrate their real-world problem-solving abilities. In addition, you’ll need to gauge the candidate’s credibility, cultural fit, and enthusiasm for the role, as these factors can determine whether the candidate will mesh well with your business and other employees over the longer term. As with any job interview, use the same structure and questions for all of the candidates to get a fair evaluation, and try to schedule the interviews when you’ll be able to focus.
Start the interview with an introductory question about the candidate’s professional journey working in affiliate marketing, including why or how they got into it. Then, discuss their experience with affiliate program management in greater depth, asking for specific project examples and defined results. Be sure to bring up some of the key required terms mentioned above and gauge their confidence in discussing them. Here are some questions that you may consider asking:
Can you provide examples of the marketing tools and technology you have used in previous affiliate marketing roles and describe how the tools contributed to the success of your campaigns?
The candidate should outline their experience with a variety of digital marketing tools, such as
affiliate tracking platforms (e.g., Refersion, Post Affiliate Pro), analytics software (e.g.,
Google Analytics), email marketing automation tools (e.g., HubSpot, Mailchimp), content
management systems (e.g., WordPress, Shopify), SEO tools (e.g., Ahrefs, Semrush), and social
media management platforms (e.g., Hootsuite). The candidate’s examples should demonstrate their
ability to adapt to new technologies and integrate tools seamlessly and effectively across
digital channels.
Can you describe a successful incentive and reward program you have implemented for affiliates? What were the outcomes?
Affiliate marketing experts should be proficient in designing and implementing incentives and
rewards that motivate affiliates, drive engagement, and enhance campaign performance. The
candidate should demonstrate a familiarity with reward options for popular affiliate networks
(e.g., Amazon Associates, CJ Affiliate) and understand how to set affiliate commission rates
that are mutually beneficial for the company and the partner. The candidate’s past experiences
should showcase their knack for sustaining strong collaborative relationships with affiliates.
After this series of questions, you can give the candidate an overview of your company’s needs for the role and key objectives in growing sales and reach. It’s a good idea to ask the candidate if they have reviewed your site (they should have) and their thoughts about what affiliate marketing strategies they could implement to help achieve your goals. This is also a chance to view their passion for your project, industry, and customer base, and not just their technical skills. Additional questions to round out this comprehensive discussion include:
How do you incorporate SEO strategies into your affiliate marketing campaigns?
It can be advantageous to inquire about the candidate’s understanding of SEO for affiliate
marketing, as SEO plays a vital role in driving organic traffic and improving visibility for
affiliate-promoted content to potential customers. The candidate’s response should demonstrate
expertise in keyword research, on-page content optimization, backlink development, and other
aspects of SEO.
Performance optimization is one of the key responsibilities of this role. Can you walk me through the key strategies or tactics you have used to improve conversions and drive results with affiliate campaigns?
The candidate’s explanation should illuminate their proficiency in areas like data analysis, A/B
testing, CRO, content refinement, audience targeting, and affiliate management tactics.
Additionally, the candidate’s examples should demonstrate a high capacity for data-driven
decision-making.
How do you ensure regulatory compliance and ethical practices in your affiliate marketing activities? Have you ever needed to navigate a compliance challenge or ethical dilemma?
You’ll want to discuss your company’s culture and mission to help ensure the candidate will fit
well with your business culture and other employees over the longer term. Credibility and
honesty are very important for an affiliate marketer role, so be sure to assess their ability to
navigate ethical challenges. A skilled affiliate marketer will know that the job comes with a
certain amount of risk. Affiliates may use deceptive tactics, such as improper keyword use and
cookie stuffing, to overrepresent the clicks or conversions through their affiliate links; they
may even use stolen or fake user information or violate paid promotion disclosure requirements.
This question aims to assess the candidate’s understanding of compliance requirements, along
with their commitment to ethical conduct and ability to address conflict effectively.
Do you have any questions?
Finish off the interview process by asking the candidate if they have any questions. Explain the
rough hiring timeline and next steps for the role if there is a potential fit, especially if
they are a professional freelancer you’d like to get on board.
Why Do Companies Hire Affiliate Marketers?
Companies hire affiliate marketing experts because they want to unlock and grow trackable, cost-effective affiliate sales channels. The typical pay-for-performance structure, in which brands only reward affiliates for producing confirmed sales or leads, can make affiliate marketing seem like an easy, low-risk marketing strategy. This isn’t necessarily the case: To make the most of an investment in affiliate marketing, brands need a skilled professional who understands the complexities of affiliate network management, in-house affiliate marketing programs, affiliate commission and reward structures, and data-backed optimization techniques that can maximize results for the companies and offer improved customer experiences.
Affiliate marketing can be especially appropriate for brands that have already achieved positive growth through digital marketing strategies like SEO and paid social advertising, given that the affiliate marketing expert must develop campaigns with third-party affiliates and integrate them within the brand’s broader marketing framework. This tends to work best when the existing strategy has borne results, allowing the affiliate marketing expert to focus on helping affiliates adhere to similar digital marketing best practices while also optimizing and scaling campaigns to reach new potential customers. This role requires a specific skill set that many companies don’t have on their bench, so hiring experienced affiliate marketers can ensure your brand can maintain core marketing activities while relying on a designated expert to achieve the greatest potential from affiliate campaigns.