Useful Tools
Universal Ad Package Templates for Photoshop
The Interactive Advertising Bureau offers a free plug-in for Adobe® Photoshop® which will help your banner ad designer to create compliant ad units (aka "banners") by selecting one of the pre-defined templates:
http://iab.net/standards/uap/index.asp
Google AdSense Ad Formats
Many of your Publishers will try to advertise for you via Google's AdSense network of websites. Make that easy for your Publishers by offering banner ad formats consistent with Google AdSense standards:
https://www.google.com/adsense/adformats
"Super Affiliate" Spiders
Affiliate spiders are software programs that crawl the internet, find websites and forums that use a selected keyword, and then compile a list of potential Publishers. Your Affiliate Manager may want to use a spider program when searching for Publishers to recruit. Here are a few of the most popular spider programs, which are sometimes marketed for other purposes:
Link Capture: http://linkcapture.com
Internet Success Spider: http://scamfreezone.com/spider
ARELIS: http://axandra-link-popularity-tool.com
Affiliate Marketing Power Tools
Find end-user advice and reviews of the latest Affiliate Marketing tools at Best Web:
http://forum.abestweb.com/forumdisplay.php?f=145