Anyone applied to be a poker room affiliate manage

[SmackDog]

It seems that people are having more and more trouble with their poker room affiliate managers lately. Anyone tried to become an affiliate manager with one of these companies?

I know there are alot of people on here who know alot about this business, so I was just curious.

HEll, sometimes a noob like me could do a better job than some of the people I need to communicate with.

Thanks,
SmackDog

[hoursurfing]

Stephen or and AM out there,

Can you answer this for us. What do poker rooms look for? Is it competitive to get the job? Where do you have to work from? Is the compensation pretty good.

Thanks,
Roger

[Stephen]

Hi Guys

Hard to say what we specifically look for. It's a marketing position, so we woudlbe looking for hard-working marketing/sales personnel, that would enjoy the position.

Location is always going to be an issue - you would never have a Department scatered around the world, so you'd likely need to be whereever the office is.

Stephen

[SunPoker.com]

I think many affiliates would make great AM's. They are self-motivated and know a great deal about the industry already. In terms of getting into the position, I have no idea how many of these rooms hire people. As in the regular business world, many times it's who you know and not what you know.

If you're interested in AM positions, I know there is this company in the UK that is a recruiter for gaming companies. I can not remember what it's called, but if I come across it I'll let you know.

Mark

The name of that company is pentasia. I beleive it is http://www.pentasia.com/

[Stephen]

There is also the Sports recruitment Company:

http://www.sportsrecruitment.co.uk/.

Stephen

[boingboing]

I was actually called to an interview by a recruiter for a position as an affiliate manager based upon my posts at a forum for webmasters. This was for Ongame which runs pokerroom.com, unfortunally I didn't get it. After reading this forum it seems as they might have made a mistake, AM at pokerroom.com aren't really held in the highest regards here

Or well, I guess I didn't get it, I haven't got an answer but the interview was a couple of months ago. Guess their recruiting company is as bad as Ongame at PR

This was for their office in Stockholm, Sweden.

[boingboing]

Whoops, just read the Pokerroom-thread again, and it seems I was wrong in my comment about things at pokerroom. It seems as they've made right choices with their recruitment