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Amazon Terminates CO Affiliates, Monetizing the Oscars, and Panties.com in a Bunch of Trouble
Posted by Shawn Collins on March 9th, 2010 | 0 Comments[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about Amazon terminating affiliates in Colorado, monetizing the Oscars, and affiliates upset with a contest from panties.com.Also, data feeds in WordPress, the ShoeMoney System, and Affiliate Marketing 101 from Jonathan Volk.
Show LinksDirty Affiliate Contest from [...]
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AOL Sells buy.at, White Castle Burgers, and Hockey Gold for Canada
Posted by Shawn Collins on March 2nd, 2010 | 0 Comments[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about snow blowers, Digital Window acquiring buy.at, and the PPV advertising debate.Also, egg cracking made easy by Wendy the Snapple Lady, the latest on the advertising tax, free book marketing at Affiliate Summit, and the CEO [...]
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Epic Beard Man, QR-Codes, and Affiliate Summit Keynotes
Posted by Shawn Collins on February 23rd, 2010 | 0 Comments[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about Epic Beard Man, advertising tax updates, LinkShare coupon finder, and the winners of the ABestWeb Awards.Also, the keynotes for Affiliate Summit East 2010, QR-Codes, mobile affiliate marketing, and the difference in writing headlines for newspapers [...]
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Jim Kukral to Keynote Affiliate Summit East 2010
Posted by Shawn Collins on February 19th, 2010 | 0 CommentsI am honored and excited to announce Jim Kukral as the keynote speaker at Affiliate Summit East 2010 on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at the Hilton New York in New York City.
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For almost 15-years, Jim Kukral has helped small businesses and large companies like Fedex, Sherwin Williams, Ernst & Young and Progressive Auto Insurance understand [...]
Affiliate Nexus Database
Affiliate nexus laws are being discussed in many states, and this sort of advertising tax legislation could be around the corner in any of the other states, as well.
It’s vital for affiliates to know which merchants could potentially drop them if an advertising tax is instituted in their state.
GTO Management, an outsourced affiliate management agency, [...]
SES NYC Happy Hour for Affiliate Marketers
There is an open happy hour for Search Engine Strategies NY attendees (and anybody else in NYC) on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 from 5:00pm – 7:30pm.
The happy hour is taking place at Dave and Busters in Times Square (234 West 42nd Street), so swing by to network, have a drink, and play a few games. [...]
ShoeMoney System Theme Song Contest
There is a theme song contest for the ShoeMoney System, a program from Jeremy (ShoeMoney) Schoemaker that helps new affiliates learn how to make money online.
Jeremy has posted a video about the ShoeMoney System theme song contest that features some unique vocal styling.
Highlights include some auto-tune work and a Miley Cyrus cover.
In order to enter, [...]
Advertising Tax Will Worsen Budget Problems, Deter Business
The Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, has released a special report indicating that expansive nexus standards burden interstate commerce and harm economic growth.
This report follows an article by the Providence Business News about how the advertising tax, also known as the Amazon Tax or Affiliate Tax, has not generated revenue for the state of [...]
Amazon Terminates CO Affiliates, Monetizing the Oscars, and Panties.com in a Bunch of Trouble
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about Amazon terminating affiliates in Colorado, monetizing the Oscars, and affiliates upset with a contest from panties.com.
Also, data feeds in WordPress, the ShoeMoney System, and Affiliate Marketing 101 from Jonathan Volk.
Show Links
Dirty Affiliate Contest from [...]
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.