Vertive
Vertive was founded in 2003 by Internet marketing veteran Steve Schaffer to provide search engine marketing consulting services. By 2004, the company began to provide affiliate marketing on a direct-linking basis. Soon the company moved away from consulting to focus full-time on affiliate marketing.
A Recognized Leader
Vertive is a recognized leader in performance marketing. The company is a top performer with its partners and has received recognition and won industry awards.
- Vertive and Offers.com received the Publisher of Year award at the 2010 CJYou Awards.
- Founder Steve Schaffer received a LinkShare GoldenLink Award for Performance Marketing’s Most Vocal Advocate
- Offers.com received the prestigious People’s Choice award at the 2009 CJYou Awards.
- Offers.com was named Innovative Publisher of the Year at the LinkShare 2009 Golden Link Awards.
- Linkshare Golden Link Award Winner: Best Performance-Based Search Strategy 2008
- American Express outstanding New Affiliate 2007
Vertive and Offers.com is a Charter Corporate Member of the Performance Marketing Association (PMA), and CEO Steve Schaffer served as the first president of the PMA board of directors. Vertive and Steve Schaffer are members of a number of other marketing and business organizations including:
- Austin IMA (Interactive Marketing Association)
- SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization)
- AMA (American Marketing Association)
- EO (Entrepreneurs Organization)
Experienced Team
Vertive’s success is driven by a great team of technologists and marketers. The company is led by an accomplished management team and includes leading Web developers, programmers, designers, writers, marketing managers, analysts and more. It features many graduates of The University of Texas and other top schools including The University of Michigan, The University of Oklahoma, Texas Sate, The Imperial College of Science and Technology, Oklahoma State University.
Vertive’s founder, Steve Schaffer, is a recognized thought leader and is a speaker at many industry conferences. Vertive’s achievements have garnered it membership on Affiliate and Industry Advisory boards.
- Commission Junction Affiliate Advisory Board
- LinkShare Search Advisory Board
- Yahoo! Affiliate Program Advisory Board