Gain an insider’s perspective as we burrow into the transcription of our engaging conversation with Dustin Howes. Discover the strategies, anecdotes, and wisdom that have fueled Affiliate Nerd’ success, all captured in this in-depth transcription.
In Conversation with Dustin Howes, Founder of Affiliate Nerd:
Brett:
Welcome special guest here today, baseball reference.com expert Dustin Howes. We were just talking as we came on the podcast. Dustin’s a guy, I told our podcast producer, Hey, we got to get him on because in the influencer marketing world today, you’re seeing this kind of collision worlds collide between affiliate, traditional marketing, commission-based stuff and this influencer creator type of marketing efforts. They are really kind of turning into one and the same thing, and we need bulgaria telegram screening to talk to Dustin to figure out where things are going. So we’re going to get to that in a moment. But first, Dustin, welcome and we want to get your origin story. So tell me a little about yourself and I need you to include the poker room into this one also, so let’s make sure we talk about everything.
Dustin:
No problem. Dustin Howes here. I’ve got 13 years of affiliate experience and just like any high schooler, I came dreaming of being in the affiliate marketing management world, which is never true. Nobody comes into this world saying, I want to go into affiliate marketing. No, I wanted to be an umpire coming out of high school. And then I joined the Marines and then I became a professional poker dealer and then a professional poker player. And then I went broke and decided I’ve got to get a full-time job with my college degree and affiliate marketing kind of fell in my lap. I got my first job at CJ doing network compliance and eventually I got into being very passionate about this industry and managing programs, and I found that a vertical of affiliate management resources was pretty limited in the field, and I figured this out about six, seven years ago. And besides going to conferences and learning from other experts, there just wasn’t enough material out there. So that fired up the course that I created. It’s called Performance Marketing Manager, and it is a course that goes through every intricate step of being a good affiliate manager and what that entails, and that’s what I do. I sell that course, I help people. I do constant consulting calls and coaching to help people grow their affiliate program the right way.