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Black Friday, Zhu Zhu Pets, and Lisa’s Little Blue Toy
Posted by Shawn Collins on November 24th, 2009 | 0 CommentsThanks for visiting the Affiliate Tip blog. Subscribe to my RSS feed or enter your e-mail on the top left to get updates by e-mail.
This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about the lead up to Black Friday, Zhu Zhu pet fever, and the acquisition of Tracking202.Also, Lisa’s blue [...]
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Two Months Until Affiliate Summit West 2010
Posted by Shawn Collins on November 17th, 2009 | 0 CommentsAffiliate Summit West 2010 starts on Sunday, January 17, 2010 in Las Vegas, so time is getting short to make your plans to get out there.
We’re expecting about 4,000 attendees, which will make this the largest of the 14 Affiliate Summits.
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Rae Hoffman on the Most Common SEO Mistakes
Posted by Shawn Collins on November 16th, 2009 | 0 CommentsI ran into Rae Hoffman, CEO of Outspoken Media (@sugarrae) at Pubcon in Las Vegas last week, and she shared her advice on the most common SEO mistakes.
She discussed the use of internal linking and bad site architecture.Rae will be joined by Greg Boser, President of 3 Dog Media, LLC (@GregBoser); Michael Gray, President of [...]
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Pubcon Las Vegas 2009 Recap
Posted by Shawn Collins on November 16th, 2009 | 0 CommentsI was at Pubcon Las Vegas last week for my 7th and final conference in fall 2009.
We had an Affiliate Summit booth at the conference, and I also spoke on a panel, “Will Performance Marketing Save the Advertising Industry?“.
Unfortunately, flu bugs took out a couple of our panelists, and it was looking like it would [...]
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Bloggers – The New Super Affiliates
Bloggers – The New Super Affiliates presentation from Affiliate Summit West 2007, which took place January 21-23, 2007 in Las Vegas, NV.
Jim Kukral, CEO, JimKukral.com
Super affiliates today are essentially the webmasters from 5-10 years ago. Bloggers are the next wave of super content producers, soon to be turned super affiliates; this session will discuss [...]
Companies Increased Social Media Efforts in 2010
Most companies are planning to invest more in social media next year but are struggling to find the time and resources to manage their activity, according to new research from Econsultancy.
The Social Media and Online PR Report, published by Econsultancy in association with bigmouthmedia, is based on a survey of more than 1,100 companies and [...]
I am Thankful to People Who Fight Cancer
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Today is a day where people feel compelled to state to whom or what they are thankful. Well, I’ll jump on that train and say I am very thankful to people who fight cancer.
It’s our mutual enemy and we all stand to benefit when there is more research to fight it.
So, [...]
Find Out When Sold Out Items are In Stock at Amazon.com
I’ve been a little obsessive about trying to sell Zhu Zhu pets as an affiliate and buy them for my kids lately. They seem to be out of stock or scalped for 6x or so their retail price everywhere I look.
But then I saw a Tweet from @peterkoning this morning that may be the solution [...]
Find Vertical Affiliates, Merchants, and Networks at Affiliate Summit West 2010
There will be a new networking opportunity at Affiliate Summit West 2010 called the Vertical Exchange.
The Vertical Exchange will be an opportunity for affiliates, merchants and networks to find one another by vertical to network and work our deals.
There is no sponsorship or anything – we will have designated areas for verticals, so anybody interested [...]
Shawn Collins on YouTube
After a couple failed attempts, I’ve become a YouTube Partner. This is something I’ve been interested in for a while for a couple reasons.
The YouTube Partner Program enables me to brand my channel on YouTube, as well having an option to activate revenue sharing in my videos.
And since I’m a YouTube Partner, my videos [...]
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About Shawn
Shawn Collins has been an affiliate marketer since 1997.
Shawn is a co-founder of the Affiliate Summit, the leading industry conference for affiliate marketing, which regularly sells out and features the biggest names in performance marketing.
He is also the Co-Editor-in-Chief of FeedFront Magazine.
His book, 'Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants' is the best selling book in the space, and it is considered to be required reading by affiliate managers.