The Everflow Weekly: Tony's Nov 4 Fireside, Michael Cole on AI at Scale & Ryan Robinson on AI Visibility
A live fireside on the full buyer journey, plus where AI takes the weight off a growing program.
From the First Click to the Repeat Order
You pay to win every new customer. If they buy once and disappear, or drop off halfway to checkout, most of that spend is gone. That goes for partner traffic too: every shopper an affiliate sends is one you paid for.
On Wednesday, November 4 at 11 AM ET (8 AM PT, 4 PM London), Everflow’s Tony Cohn sits down with Paco Blanco, Co-Founder of MediaScale, the creative and tracking platform built for direct response media buyers, and Zachary Konopka of Behamics, the behavioral AI platform eCommerce brands use to turn browsers into buyers. Together they walk the whole buyer journey, from the ad to the repeat order:
- Win the Click: which ad creatives actually convert, and how to scale the media buying behind them.
- Save the Cart: using shopper behavior to close the gap between browsing and buying.
- Track and Retain: turning the traffic you paid for into repeat customers, with every conversion tracked to its long-term value.
Where AI Actually Helps a Growing Partner Program
Holding on to those customers takes a team that can keep up. At 50 partners, your team knows every affiliate by name. At 5,000, the same team is buried in reports, traffic audits, and payout tiers.
In a recent article for mThink Blue Book, Everflow® CMO Michael Cole lays out where AI takes that weight off:
- Flagging a partner’s conversion drop the moment it happens, so nobody spends the afternoon hunting for it.
- Scoring how closely each affiliate’s traffic matches your highest-value customers.
- Recommending higher payouts for the placements that bring in lifetime value, and pausing the ones that don’t.
His one requirement comes before any of it:
That is the real secret to using AI: It only provides truly useful intelligence and automation when it can access your internal data and understand how you need to use it.
Michael Cole · CMO, Everflow
Your Affiliate Program Is Secretly an AI Visibility Tool
Ask an AI assistant about your market and it names a few brands. Those picks come from the review sites, publisher roundups, and expert lists the models read, which means the sites AI trusts are often the same ones you could be partnering with.
Creator and founder Ryan Robinson says that makes your affiliate program a valuable lever: it gives you an ongoing relationship with those exact publishers, and the revenue it earns pays for the visibility. In his latest video, he walks through how to set it up, with a real-world example from finance company and Everflow customer, Unlock.
An affiliate program is the best way to build that direct line, and it doubles as one of the smartest AI optimization plays nobody’s running yet.
Ryan Robinson · Creator & Founder
Masterclasses · AI at work
Two founders on putting AI to work where partner programs break first.
Catch Compliance Issues Before the FTC’s AI Does
Regulators now use AI to scan affiliate networks around the clock, and the FTC holds the brand responsible for what its partners publish. Joe Campanella, CEO of Complily, saw it firsthand at his last company: an FTC investigation and a $2.5 million fine. His masterclass covers the violations the bots flag most and how to fix them automatically.
Scale Your Program Without Scaling Headcount
Every manager you add brings their own methods, and past a point the coordination breaks. Cristian Ionescu, Co-Founder and CEO of CatStats, shows how to hand routine partner work to AI: segmenting affiliates for one-to-one outreach, tying event spend back to the revenue it produced, and linking retention data to payouts.
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