PartnerCentric's team of affiliate managers recruited 3,275 new affiliates in the first quarter of 2008 for the merchants whose affiliate programs they manage.

Through the course of the affiliate recruitment drive, which began in January and concluded on April 1, the PartnerCentric team also activated 1,682 of the new affiliates, meaning those affiliates are now generating traffic and clicks for the merchants whose affiliate programs they promote. Also recruited and activated were 131 CJPs, or members of the CJ Performer™ program. CJPs are top performing affiliates within the Commission Junction affiliate marketing network (www.cj.com).

PartnerCentric's team focused on research at the beginning of the recruitment drive in order to target website publishers who would make for strong affiliate marketing partners.

"Bloggers are increasingly successful as affiliates because they are profilic writers who drive lots of traffic and sales to the programs they promote," said Samantha Morris, Director of Client Services at PartnerCentric. "We focused a considerable amount of energy reaching out to bloggers for this very reason because we know they are going to make amazing affiliates."