Alan Rapoport - Datafeed Client Relationship Manager - FMTC

One of the greatest blessings I have from my career in affiliate marketing is to work with and get to know amazingly good people. Today’s guest is definitely one of those. Today I interview and chat with Alan Rapoport. Alan is currently the Datafeed Client Relationship Manager at FMTC and formerly the Co-Founder/COO/CFO and Director of Merchant Management at DealTaker.com. Alan has been in this business for 16 years and his background leads to some really great conversation. In today’s episode Alan lays out the necessity of having an Innovator AND an Implementer in any start up and organization. You need the vision, and then you need someone who can execute that vision. We talk about the lessons learned from selling your business to buying it back and then selling it again and then we dive into the issues advertisers have with affiliate deal sites. Alan has a tremendous amount of industry knowledge and experience and is one of the smartest guys I know. You definitely want to listen to this one all the way through. Check out FMTC and find Alan on Linkedin. In the intro and outro I talk about a free resource we have created for advertisers - our Affiliate Channel Accelerator Checklist. You need to scale your revenue and you need to do it profitably, but how do you know your program is set up to do just that? Well our checklist will help you identify the likelihood for profitable scalability. Check it out at www.jebcommerce.com/accelerator