Zimmerman, MN. | Phone: 952-426-2269 | Email: contact@dannykautt.com
I am a highly experienced affiliate marketing manager and more recently, as an affiliate network administrator. I have worked at direct marketing companies like Rockler Corporation, NordicTrack and Sportsman’s Guide. I have most often been in a client facing role and managed multiple programs for software and hardware brands while developing an advanced working knowledge of internet tracking technologies and methods. I became a supporting resource for other program managers working in the DirectTrack platform. Due to a reorganization in 2014, I took the role of Network Administrator, with primary responsibility for all network operations. At the same time I launched and managed another program on the CJ.com platform and helped several new program managers along the way. In the final two years, I accepted an offer to manage the newly integrated partnership between Radius by Impact and Digital River commerce where I successfully launched many programs, provided ongoing support for account managers and managed monthly financing.
Throughout each working day I focus on earning “Thank You’s” from colleagues, advertisers and partner marketers.
Highly motivated. Yet, service oriented, personable, entrepreneurial, and active in the general affiliate marketing community for networking and continual learning. I Love to build new programs, fix issues and get things done!
March 2019 – March 2021 – SR. Affiliate Marketing Manager – Mycommerce.com – Digital River GMBH
Responsible for piloting and managing agency type affiliate marketing business unit in a partnership with Impact.com and commerce services provider.
Developed and implemented knowledge of Radius by Impact platform Advertiser and Agency interfaces.
Provided ongoing platform services, and marketing consultation for software advertisers, or their Account Managers based locally and in Asia Pacific or Germany.
Performed monthly forecasting, invoice payment processing, and commission payment funding within Impact.com for 20 affiliate programs, as a client service.
January 2014 – February 2019 – Network Administrator – MarketForce Agency /OneNetworkDirect.com – Digital River Inc.
Responsibile for network operations, technical solutions, communications and internal reporting of OneNetworkDirect.com (now closed), consisting of ~50 programs averaging $5-$10M monthly gross sales.
Responsible for assuring timely affiliate payments through monthly reporting to Finance Team. Utilizing SQL queries, Vlookups and pivot tables in a manual process, resulting in month-end commission and billing reports due by monthly deadline. – Never missed.
-Daily network inbox email response.
-New affiliate application queue approve, or reject.
-New Programs set up, tracking setup, testing and launch.
-Send network newsletter emails to +200K affiliate accounts.
*Western Digital Affiliate Program, setup, testing, launch and managed on CJ.com
May 2012 – (November 2014) MyCommerce/Digital River GMBH. – SR. Affiliate Program Manager
Continuance of below roles for a different business unit during corporate reorganization.
April, 2007 – May, 2012 oneNetworkDirect.com (oND) – Digital River, Inc. Minnetonka, MN. – Affiliate Program Manager
Providing Affiliate marketing program management, analysis and consulting services for 7-10 global software brands.
Conducted weekly, or bi-weekly scheduled strategy conference calls with above clients and expedited response to their inquiries, system support, reporting, banner/link management, promotional offer strategy and management. And Co-ordination of program’s HTML Email newsletter sending.
Providing consultation for internal Client Success Managers assigned for commerce services from Digital River. And contributed affiliate performance reporting for quarterly review presentations.
Weekly meeting and planning with internal Affiliate Managers to activate my client’s promotional offers.
Supporting sales team in presenting OneNetworkDirect to new and existing client prospects. I helped close multiple affiliate program hosting deals by providing “walk-through” live presentations of the network interface and answering questions asked about the platform and network.
Developed and launched 40+ new affiliate programs.
Planned and executed program migrations to our network from a different platform. Ultimately, leading to more new affiliate and commerce business with client.
Assuring client onboarding process is compliant with company internal policies. From contracts and deliverables procurement. To program launch and client training. Also program and advertiser account deactivation process.
Software Brand Clients: Acronis, Carbonite, Big Fish Games, Norton, PC Tools, McAfee, Kaspersky, Sonic Roxio, Uniblue, Stopzilla, Laplink, Stellar, Nucleaus, Kernel, Lepide, Eltima. Corel, IMSI, Parametric Technolgies, Techsmith, Avast, Enigma, and several others.
Hardware Brand Clients: Sling Media, Sandisk, Western Digital. Logitech, BlackBerry, Jawbone.
Software Experience: MS Office Suite applications, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, ACT, Adcenter, AdCycle, Fireclick, Blue Hornet, Urchin, SAP, Media Rails, eRaid, ServiceNow, mysql, TOAD, Salesforce, Service Now, Agile(light).
Affiliate Platform Experience: DirectTrack/Smartchannel, Impact.com (Radius), CJ.com 2017 Ambassadors, SAS/AWIN.
Ecommerce Platforms: Global Commerce Certification, Regnow, Esellerate, e5/shareit (MyCommerce).