{"id":231264,"date":"2026-06-12T13:41:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/?p=231264"},"modified":"2026-06-12T13:41:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:41:36","slug":"affiliate-program-retention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/affiliate-program-retention\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Your Affiliate Program Has a Retention Problem (And What to Do About It)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most affiliate managers measure their program by the number of people in it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That number is easy to grow. Run another outreach campaign, and it goes up. Report it in a monthly update, and it looks like progress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The problem is that it tells you almost nothing about whether the program is working. You can have 500 affiliates and a retention problem. You can have 80 affiliates and a retention problem. The number of people with links says nothing about the number of people who are actively promoting your brand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let's discuss a faster diagnostic you can apply today. Divide your total affiliate revenue from last month by your total number of active affiliates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That number is your Revenue Per Affiliate, or RPA.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your RPA is growing quarter over quarter, it means your retention is working.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But if it's flat or declining while your affiliate count is rising, you're recruiting to fill a hole.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every new person you onboard is replacing someone who dropped off. While the top of the funnel might look busy, the bottom is leaking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This article is about the bottom.<\/span><\/p>\n    <div id=\"etpp_text\" class=\"action\">\n        <div class=\"etpp_ac-title etpp_ac-mobileText\">Read also:<\/div>\n        <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"239.215\" height=\"182.813\" viewBox=\"0 0 239.215 182.813\">\n            <g data-name=\"Group 690\">\n                <g data-name=\"Group 32\">\n                    <path data-name=\"Path 2\" d=\"m177.342 121.623-8.034-41.133a6.989 6.989 0 0 0 2.825-7.042l-1.643-8.414a6.989 6.989 0 0 0-5.267-5.463l-8.034-41.133a2.578 2.578 0 0 0-3.029-2.037l-.462.09a2.576 2.576 0 0 0-2.059 2.875c-6.53 22.359-73.295 40.829-73.295 40.829l-11.786 2.3a18.892 18.892 0 0 0-15.023 21.564c-1.887 1.5-3.655 3.169-4.085 4.422-1.01 2.943.344 9.864 2.384 12.209.913 1.049 3.358 1.962 5.786 2.657a18.922 18.922 0 0 0 15.8 11.829l.752 3.007-4.357 1.11a5.063 5.063 0 0 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5.56a18.511 18.511 0 0 0 17.167 5.617Z\" fill=\"#ffdfa6\" \/>\n                    <\/g>\n                <\/g>\n                <path data-name=\"Path 41\" d=\"M176.956 29.158 223.822-.085l4.17 13.654-42.398 18.888Z\" fill=\"#ffdfa6\" \/>\n                <path data-name=\"Path 42\" d=\"m193.608 41.953 35.491-4.794-2.19 11.267-29.617-1.109Z\" fill=\"#e3ccff\" \/>\n                <path data-name=\"Path 43\" d=\"m185.599 64.39 50.493 22.458 2.235-14.108-44.63-12.817Z\" fill=\"#b2eedf\" \/>\n            <\/g>\n        <\/svg>\n        <div class=\"etpp_action-content\">\n            <div class=\"etpp_ac-title\">Read also:<\/div>\n            <div class=\"etpp_ac-text\">\n                <p>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/affiliate-programs\/\">31 Best Affiliate Programs to Try If You\u2019re Looking to Build a Passive Income Stream<\/a><\/p>\n            <\/div>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/affiliate-programs\/\">Check it out<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n<h2><b>The Recruitment Loop That Goes Nowhere<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here's what the cycle looks like in most programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You onboard 50 affiliates. Send the welcome email, share the links, explain the commission structure. A handful post in the first two weeks. Pull up your dashboard three months later and eight of them are still active.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The instinct when this happens is to recruit more. More outreach, more people in the pipeline. It feels like the right move because, on paper, affiliate marketing is a numbers game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>More people posting = more reach = more sales.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But if affiliates are dropping off, adding more of them will never fix the leak. What happens is that you end up running an expensive recruitment loop: bring in 50, keep 8, recruit again, keep another 8. The math never improves because the problem is downstream of recruitment. Something happens after affiliates join that makes them stop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The brands that build affiliate into a real revenue channel are not recruiting better, or not only that. They spend as much energy on what happens after onboarding as they do on finding people in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>RPA: The Number That Tells You If Your Program Is Growing or Spinnin<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before getting into fixes, it's worth understanding what active means in practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A program with 500 affiliates, each posting once, is generating 500 pieces of content. A program with 50 affiliates who each post ten times a year generates the same output. But those two programs perform differently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second one compounds. An affiliate who posts repeatedly builds a track record with their audience:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first post is a mention.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fifth post is a recommendation that their followers have context for.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tenth is a habit for both the affiliate and the audience, paying attention to them.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trust builds with repetition, and affiliate marketing is fundamentally a transfer of trust between an affiliate and their community. One well-placed recommendation from someone an audience has followed for three years is worth twenty disconnected mentions from affiliates who posted once and disappeared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Affiliate marketing also costs nothing upfront.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You pay for impressions on Meta, for clicks on Google, and for sales through affiliates. Come to think about it, a dormant affiliate is a missed opportunity. And a churned affiliate is your sunk cost: the outreach time, the product you seeded, the onboarding call, and the relationship you built to get them started.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RPA captures all of this in one number. High RPA means your existing affiliates are earning and active. A low RPA with a large affiliate list indicates noise, and most of your affiliates have effectively left without telling you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The formula is simple:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><div class=\"quoteShortcode\">Total affiliate revenue \/ number of affiliates who drove at least one sale this period.<\/div><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Track it every quarter.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why Affiliates Stop Posting<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Churn rarely comes down to one thing, but the reasons show up in patterns:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl>\n<dt><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1001\" src=\"https:\/\/s.influencermarketinghub.com\/imaginary\/convert?type=webp&url=https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/19adc799-image2-1024x1001.png\" alt=\"affiliate posting drop-off\" class=\"size-medium alignnone wp-image-231265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s.influencermarketinghub.com\/imaginary\/convert?type=webp&url=https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/19adc799-image2-1024x1001.png 1024w, https:\/\/s.influencermarketinghub.com\/imaginary\/convert?type=webp&url=https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/19adc799-image2-300x293.png 300w, https:\/\/s.influencermarketinghub.com\/imaginary\/convert?type=webp&url=https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/19adc799-image2-768x751.png 768w, https:\/\/s.influencermarketinghub.com\/imaginary\/convert?type=webp&url=https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/19adc799-image2-1536x1502.png 1536w, https:\/\/s.influencermarketinghub.com\/imaginary\/convert?type=webp&url=https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/19adc799-image2-65x65.png 65w, https:\/\/s.influencermarketinghub.com\/imaginary\/convert?type=webp&url=https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/19adc799-image2-810x792.png 810w, https:\/\/s.influencermarketinghub.com\/imaginary\/convert?type=webp&url=https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/19adc799-image2-1140x1115.png 1140w, https:\/\/s.influencermarketinghub.com\/imaginary\/convert?type=webp&url=https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/19adc799-image2-150x147.png 150w, https:\/\/s.influencermarketinghub.com\/imaginary\/convert?type=webp&url=https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/19adc799-image2.png 1999w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>There's nothing to work toward.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A flat commission rate is enough to get someone through the door. It is not enough to keep them posting six months later. If there's no milestone to hit, no tier to unlock, no sense of progress, posting starts to feel optional. People deprioritise optional things.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>They can't see how they're doing.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> An affiliate who can't check their clicks, commissions, and progress toward the next milestone is posting into a void. They don't know if what they're doing is working. They don't know how close they are to anything. Over time, that absence of feedback kills momentum.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>The experience you built for them has friction.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A clunky dashboard, login details they have forgotten, a link they have to email someone to get, or a commission structure that takes three reads to understand: all increase the cognitive load of posting for your brand. And when it feels like admin work, people find reasons not to.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>They don't trust they'll get paid.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> An affiliate who has had to chase a payment, or who knows someone else who did, deprioritizes that program. Active affiliates often run partnerships with multiple brands at once. The ones that feel professional and predictable get their attention. The ones that require follow-up to claim commissions already earned do not.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><b>Give Affiliates a Ladder<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A commission rate is a floor. It's the minimum someone needs to say yes. What keeps people posting six months in is having somewhere to go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first milestone is the most important to get right. It needs to be achievable for a brand-new affiliate, not only your top performers. If the first reward unlocks at 100 sales and most of your affiliates average eight, nobody bothers trying for it. The goal is for a new affiliate to hit something early, feel the reward, and want to repeat the behaviour.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A practical structure looks like this:<\/span><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Milestone<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Reward<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First $100 in sales<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free product or $50 cash bonus<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$1,000 in cumulative revenue<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commission moves from 15% to 20%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$5,000 in cumulative revenue<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$500 bonus + early product access tier<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Time-bound challenges work well when layered on top of this<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To give you an example:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Post three times in the next two weeks while our summer sale is running and earn a $200 bonus\"<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> gives affiliates:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a defined target<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a reward, and<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a deadline that creates urgency.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">... that drives short-term activation during the moments when you need it most.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The top commission number matters less than the distance between the rungs. Each step should feel one level away from where someone currently is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A tool like<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysathi.io\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SATHI<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> lets you set these rules once inside your campaign settings and automate them from there. You can define the trigger (like: sales crossing a threshold, a number of orders, posts in a set period), choose the reward (like: a cash bonus, a free product, a tier upgrade), and the platform tracks and executes it without manual intervention from your team. When a milestone is hit, the affiliate is automatically notified, and the reward is triggered.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl>\n<dt><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/s.influencermarketinghub.com\/imaginary\/convert?type=webp&url=https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8f299a8e-image1-1024x683.png\" alt=\"sathi affiliate tool campaign gamification \" class=\"size-medium alignnone wp-image-231266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s.influencermarketinghub.com\/imaginary\/convert?type=webp&url=https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8f299a8e-image1-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/s.influencermarketinghub.com\/imaginary\/convert?type=webp&url=https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8f299a8e-image1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/s.influencermarketinghub.com\/imaginary\/convert?type=webp&url=https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8f299a8e-image1-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/s.influencermarketinghub.com\/imaginary\/convert?type=webp&url=https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8f299a8e-image1-1536x1024.png 1536w, https:\/\/s.influencermarketinghub.com\/imaginary\/convert?type=webp&url=https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8f299a8e-image1-810x540.png 810w, https:\/\/s.influencermarketinghub.com\/imaginary\/convert?type=webp&url=https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8f299a8e-image1-1140x760.png 1140w, https:\/\/s.influencermarketinghub.com\/imaginary\/convert?type=webp&url=https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8f299a8e-image1-150x100.png 150w, https:\/\/s.influencermarketinghub.com\/imaginary\/convert?type=webp&url=https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8f299a8e-image1.png 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A UK-based beverage brand running a 500-affiliate program used SATHI to add milestone bonuses tied to their summer campaign. Three posts in 30 days unlocked a cash bonus. Their affiliate activity rate went from under 25% to above 60% during that window, and held above 40% for the two months that followed. Their affiliate count barely changed. What changed was how many of their existing affiliates consistently posted each month.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Make Their Performance Visible to Them<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transparency is an underused retention lever, and one of the cheapest available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When an affiliate logs into their dashboard and can see:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their clicks and conversion rate<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commissions earned this period<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Distance to the next milestone or tier<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What they need to do to unlock the next reward<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">...they have a reason to check back in. That visibility creates a feedback loop that self-reinforces: good performance shows up in the dashboard, the affiliate sees it, they post more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When that information is hard to find, buried behind a forgotten login or requiring a request to your team, the program becomes a black box. They're posting into something they can't see. That is when they start to drift.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Fix the Friction Before Anything Else<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Audit your affiliate experience the same way you'd audit a checkout flow. Every unnecessary step is a step they might not complete.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three things worth checking first:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Link access.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Can an affiliate get to their link without emailing anyone? If the answer is no, fix this before anything else. A difficult link-retrieval process does not just waste 2 minutes. It signals that the program is not particularly well-run, which affects how much effort an affiliate puts in.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Commission clarity.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Can a new affiliate, in under sixty seconds, answer the question \"what do I earn and when?\" If the structure requires interpretation, simplify it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Payout timing.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Is there a stated payout schedule? Does it run automatically? Affiliates who have had to chase a payment once remember it. The ones running partnerships across multiple brands will quietly route more of their attention to whoever pays them without friction.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">None of these is an exciting improvement. But they are the foundation on which everything else rests.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Pay Automatically, Every Time, Without Being Asked<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the baseline. Everything above it is optimization. Below it, nothing else matters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Affiliates who are active across multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/brand-deals-explained\/\">brand partnerships<\/a> allocate their efforts to the programs that feel professional. A payout that required a follow-up email tells an affiliate something about how seriously you take the relationship. They remember it, and they do not prioritise you the same way afterwards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automated payouts that run on a predictable schedule, without anyone needing to trigger them manually, remove the single most common reason affiliates start to question whether a program is worth their time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is also a compounding effect that's easy to overlook. Affiliates who trust that their payment is coming do not have to think about it. That attention goes toward posting, which is exactly where you want it.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The Check-Up Your Program Needs Every Quarter<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Come back to RPA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take your total affiliate revenue for the quarter and divide by the number of affiliates who drove at least one sale during that period. Compare it to last quarter.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>RPA is rising:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> your retention work is compounding. Existing affiliates are posting more, earning more, and staying in the program.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>RPA is flat while affiliate count grows:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you have a replacement problem. New affiliates are substituting for ones who dropped off, not adding to the program.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>RPA is falling:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> your program has structural issues that recruitment will not solve.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A large program with a low RPA is a list, not a growth asset. Most of the people on it have already moved on. The right response is to identify your ten or twenty highest-performing affiliates, understand what's keeping them active, and build the program around what's working for them. That might mean:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rethinking the first milestone so it's achievable in week one.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rewriting the affiliate dashboard so performance is visible at a glance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automating payouts that currently require manual intervention every month.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The specifics will vary by program but the signal is the same. If your RPA is not growing, a leak is confirmed, and recruiting harder is not going to close it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most affiliate managers measure their program by the number of people in it. 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