Best Affiliate Marketing Directory

Where are the best places to look for online affiliate marketers?
Currently working for a company in Birmingham developing their sales strategy.
I’m considering routes to market for a fantastic software product that’s got some great clients already, but needs to find a larger-scale way of finding new customers.
It’s a software-as-a-service product which I think could work well for affiliate online marketing. But I’ve never used this approach myself before, does anyone have any tips for appointing affiliate marketers, any directories they can recommend, people they’ve used successfully before etc.?
As an affiliate manager I can tell you that there are many ways to find affiliates.
First of all you must target your research to affiliates that deal with the products you are trying to promote.
Once you have targeted your niche you can do:
1. Web intelligence: You can use several tools as whois.com or aboutus.com to find the owner of the affiliate site
2. Massive Recruitment: You can go to different forums and promote your affiliate program. (READ the rules of each forums they might ban you if you don’t follow them)
To recruit affiliates you need to have an organized system that will track, aid’s, orders, click’s and all the stats that you will need to clarify the affiliates status.
If your company has an online store they surely have a tracking system, you should ask.
Good Luck
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