Top 10+ Tools For Affiliate Marketing
Our favorite Affiliate Marketing Tools to Boost Sales
What tools are needed for affiliate marketing? What affiliate marketing software, affiliate management software, or affiliate tracking software are successful businesses using today? Many articles that provide answers to these questions are aimed at helping affiliates work smarter. Think about Link cloaking and redirecting tools: to hide long and ugly affiliate links. Or Link management platforms: to track clicks and conversions. Instead we compiled a list of usefull tools from the affiliate advertisers’ perspective. Is that you? Complete your list of usefull tools and resources now!
10+ Tools Every Affiliate Marketer Needs
Discover if competitors are running an affiliate campaign
This free chrome extension highlights advertisers with affiliate programs in your broweser. Find all affiliate programs while searching Google and browsing the web.
Analyse link redirects to solve tracking issues
The most comprehensive (free) backlink analysis software you can find that will help you troubleshoot links issues such as redirect repair and link structure fixing.
Find new affiliates in specific content niches
Affiliate marketers are practically blind without proper SEO tools. Ahrefs is usefull for a lot of things, but mostly we use it for content gap analysis and keyword research.
An Intuitive CRM to Better Support & Manage Partners
In sales, spreadsheets and email tools are only a baseline. To drive sales consistently, you need advanced software solutions that will help nurture and grow partner performance.
Get the email addresses behind any website
This chrome extension lets you find professional email addresses from websites in seconds and connect with the potential affiliates that matter for your business.
Benchmark your affiliate offer with competitors
Founded in 2009 by affiliate marketers, OfferVault is the internet’s best resource for affiliates to find affiliate offers, connect with affiliate networks and verify their reputation.
A free-to-use online graphic design tool
Canva is a graphic design tool that allows you to create and edit stunning visual content for your affiliates such as banners, social media graphics, and more.
Engage with affiliates via smart email marketing
Easy to use automation & email marketing platform that will help you send the right message at the right time to activate affiliates and provide them with useful content.
Omnichannel Partner Marketing Platform
Affiliate management software that tracks every performance channel. It allows affiliate marketers to manage campaigns, track conversions, and analyze performance data.
Easily find and activate new partners
Crossbeam watches your partner ecosystem and automatically surfaces the data, people, and companies you need to grow revenue efficiently.
Quickly build and optimize your own landing pages
Create and optimize landing pages, pop-ups and sticky bars without the need for coding or IT assistance. Features include A/B testing, analytics, and integrations with email tools.
Best tool for analyzing affiliate marketing data
GA4 tracks data across websites and apps. Unique IDs that can be assigned to users, help affiliate marketers to understand how and where their platforms are being accessed.
Tracking-link crawler of existing programs
Publisher discovery crawls the internet in the search of existing affiliate links. If the matching or tracking domain is known, PD will tell you where these tracking-links from that are displayed. Use an direct competitor tracking domain to discover new affiliate partners.
New to the game? Get educated quickly.
There are less to none true affiliate courses on the internet. The most information on tech, publisher discovery, recruitment and engagement are self learned. Negotiation, profit/loss calculations with hands on exercise are provided at PXA for free. It is great for newbies and the seasoned affiliate marketeer.
Best tool for organizing affiliates
Agile CRM is a cost effective tool to organize your affiliate and partnership base. The standard subscription comes with news letters, email merge, auto replies, pipelines and unlimited storage for your documents. It is a supreme Sales tool. The service is very good and quick.
Project management
As an affiliate manager you will need to either visit venues, manage complex content projects, being busy with implementing tracking software or changing banners and or promotional assets. All these tasks need to be aligned and very well orchestrated. A project management software helps to keep track of things which need to be done (like booking hotels, tickets, arranging meetings delivering content)
Revolut Ultra-Plan
Depending on your niche, you will travel as affiliate manager. Revolut Ultra offers many tools and services like Airport Lounge excess, access to WeWork, Financial Times, Class Pass, Nord VPN (testing links), MasterClass (learn something new) extra insurance when paying with the Ultra Card. We all have Ultra as for WeWork (offsite meetings), Nord VPN and the Airport Lounge excess.
Video editing program
This might not be the tool for everyone, however moving content becomes more and more important, as the new generations are less reading, but watching. This means, basic Video editing skills are important to have. Understanding the structure, build and time-frame of videos on YouTube or TikTok is essential. DaVinciResolve is a free and very comprehensive video editing tool.