Are you still manually hunting for partners like it's 2010? If you aren't using artificial intelligence to handle the heavy lifting, you aren't just working too hard; you're actively falling behind. In this episode of Affiliate Nerd Out, I'm sitting down with a true legend in the performance marketing world, Matt Frary. He's built and exited six companies, and now, he's officially my new boss.

We're pulling back the curtain on Alfie, our new recruitment super tool that's designed to give affiliate managers their lives back. We're talking about saving ten hours of grunt work every single week. Imagine what you could do with an extra ten hours. You could spend more time with your family, focus on high-level strategy, or finally stop staring at spreadsheets until your eyes bleed.

Matt breaks down how we're using Claude and autonomous agents to index everything in our universe (emails, Slack, Google Drive) to make recruitment smarter and faster. If you're wondering how to recruit affiliates without losing your mind, this is the blueprint. We aren't looking to replace the human element because robots talking to robots isn't how business happens. Instead, we're building an assistant that handles the data analysis and outreach so you can focus on the real human connections that actually drive revenue.

We also get into some personal wins, including Matt's son choosing Baylor and a wild last-minute trip to the Final Four. Whether you're a director of marketing or a solo affiliate manager, you can't sleep on these tools. Check out what we're building over at https://www.xpflow.app/ and see how we're changing the game for operators.

00:00 AI Or Get Left Behind
00:33 Meet Matt Frary
01:57 Alfie And The Acquisition
03:33 Building For Family Time
05:50 Final Four Weekend
08:13 Matt's Entrepreneur Journey
09:58 Autonomous Agents In Practice
13:16 Upskilling With Notion AI
14:22 Wrap Up And Goodbye

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Have you heard about Inflektion yet? They are changing the game in Affiliate marketing.The only platform with personalized funnels to scale partnership marketing for brands, agencies, influencers, and affiliates. Catering to the health and wellness space, this tracking soluition is helping build landing pages for partners in a manner of minutes instaead of weeks. They have social listening to capture all the content your brand is creating so that you can find more partners talking about y

For more tips on how to scale your affiliate program, check out https://performancemarketingmanager.com

Moving from consulting to a steady job is a big change. In this recent episode of Affiliate Nerd Out #RealTalkFriday, Christen Evans (she/her) and I talked about the realities of that transition—from the relief of a stable paycheck to the risks of poor tracking and why some businesses should wait before launching an affiliate program.

Topics we covered:

1. Consulting vs. in-house stability
2. Tracking mistakes that waste budget
3. Attribution gaps and reporting issues
4. Why some brands should wait to launch

Consulting can feel like constant pressure to generate revenue from the next client. A structured organization can offer stability many independent professionals miss.

One big takeaway: integrity means helping brands avoid bad investments, even when it means turning down business.

What do you miss most about being an employee when you work for yourself?

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Have you heard about Inflektion yet? They are changing the game in Affiliate marketing.The only platform with personalized funnels to scale partnership marketing for brands, agencies, influencers, and affiliates. Catering to the health and wellness space, this tracking soluition is helping build landing pages for partners in a manner of minutes instaead of weeks. They have social listening to capture all the content your brand is creating so that you can find more partners talking about y

For more tips on how to scale your affiliate program, check out https://performancemarketingmanager.com

In this Affiliate Nerd Out episode, Nedarator Dustin Howes interviews Jorge Barbosa from WeCanTrack about common publisher pain points with Affiliate Conversion Tracking, including lacking aggregation, logging into multiple networks, relying on manual sub IDs, and struggling to attribute transactions to sessions, landing pages, and traffic sources. Jorge explains how WeCanTrack pulls transaction data from networks like CJ, Awin, and Impact into one dashboard with hourly updates, compares performance periods, matches conversions to clicks and traffic sources, and pushes commission and conversion data into tools like GA4, ads platforms, and BigQuery to optimize paid campaigns for real sales, CPA, and ROAS.

The episode also covers setup steps for WordPress and non-WordPress sites, performance alerts, benefits for affiliate manager relationships, and advanced features like link testing, link building, and link monetization, plus a 15-day trial link.

Simplify your affiliate tracking—get started with WeCanTrack using the link below!
https://wecantrack.com/affiliate-dash...

00:00 Affiliate Tracking Pain
00:44 Show Intro Guests
04:45 Publisher Blind Spots
07:12 Attribution By Channel
10:53 One Dashboard View
12:44 Quick Setup Tutorial
15:19 GA4 And BigQuery
17:08 Future AI Alerts
24:14 Getting Started Steps
25:46 Advanced Publisher Tools
27:49 Trial And Wrap Up

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The hottest affiliate recruitment tool of 2026 is Alfie. There is a 7-day free trial and a no-risk 30-day money-back gaurantee

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Have you heard about Inflektion yet? They are changing the game in Affiliate marketing.The only platform with personalized funnels to scale partnership marketing for brands, agencies, influencers, and affiliates. Catering to the health and wellness space, this tracking soluition is helping build landing pages for partners in a manner of minutes instaead of weeks. They have social listening to capture all the content your brand is creating so that you can find more partners talking about y

For more tips on how to scale your affiliate program, check out https://performancemarketingmanager.com