Does anyone know if Adwords had any sort of a partner program? Like with Webtrends if you introduce a customer you get a percentage of their spend. Does anything like this exist with Adwords?
No there is nothing that exists. Google used to give Adwords account managers a percentage of the budget spent but people began to abuse the system and this stopped in January 2009. If you had someone in your MCC (My Client Centre) but didn't even manage their account, then you would get the % of the budget. But there is nothing like this now.
I was contacted by a company in Toronto that was reselling Adwords but I opted out. I rather do it myself. It's weird that google would allow them to operate.
There was referral program for adsense previously, before they introduced adsense for rss. Never heard they have any referral programs for adwords before.
how much did google used to give anyway for that program? I never recalled them having a program that gives you a commission of a percentage of an advertisers budget