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Shawn Collins has been an affiliate marketer since 1997.
Shawn Collins Consulting is Shawn’s affiliate marketing agency, which offers affiliate manager and merchant consulting.
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.
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.
He publishes the annual AffStat Report, a research, analysis, and benchmarking report for the affiliate marketing industry. The data in the AffStat series is widely quoted by trade publications, including Internet Retailer and Jupitermedia properties.
Shawn writes a daily blog on affiliate marketing news and opinion at his Affiliate Tip site, and posts regularly to his Affiliate Tip TV channel on YouTube.
In June 2006, Shawn won the LinkShare Golden Link Award for Performance Marketing’s Most Vocal Advocate.
AffiliateDinner.com roasted Shawn on January 20, 2007 and presented him with their First Ever Guest of Honor award.
On February 6, 2008, Affiliate Classroom issued an honorary Affiliate Manager Certification to Shawn.
And Affiliate Summit was honored as the “Best Service to Industry” in the annual ABestWeb “Best of 2007″ Awards.
Additionally, Shawn has been quoted in numerous publications, including Entrepreneur Magazine, Internet Retailer, Inc. Magazine, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
Shawn has spoken or will be speaking at the following affiliate marketing events:
- Affiliate Summit 2008 West
Las Vegas, NV, February 24-26, 2008 - Affiliate Summit London 2007
London, England, September 28, 2007 - NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies
New York, NY, June 27, 2007 - Affiliate Summit Webinar Series
Online, May 15, 2007 - ad:tech San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, April 24-26, 2007 - eComXpo
Online, March 20-22, 2007 - Affiliate Summit 2007 West
Las Vegas, NV, January 21-23, 2007 - ReadyTalk Web Seminar Series
Online, November 15, 2006 - zanox Academy
New York, NY, November 7, 2006 - NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies
New York, NY, November 1, 2006 - eComXpo
Online, October 24-26, 2006 - zanox Academy
Chicago, IL, July 25, 2006 - Affiliate Summit 2006 East
Orlando, FL, July 9-11, 2006 - eComXpo
Online, April 4-6, 2006 - Affiliate Summit 2006 West
Las Vegas, NV, January 8-10, 2006 - eComXpo
Online, October 6-8, 2005 - StartupNation.com Seminar
Online, September 7, 2005 - Affiliate Summit 2005
Las Vegas, June 13-14, 2005 - AD:TECH
San Francisco, April 25-27, 2005 - Affiliate Manager Boot Camp
Bushkill, PA, February 26-27 2005 - eComXpo
Online, February 17-19, 2005 - Real Estate Connect ‘05
New York City, January 9-11, 2005 - Affiliate Manager Boot Camp
Bushkill, PA, November 6-7, 2004 - Fulfillment Management Association Conference
New York City, September 22, 2004 - Performics Client Summit
Chicago, July 20-21, 2004 - Affiliate Summit 2004
New York City & Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 24-28, 2004 - Direct Marketing Club of New York Luncheon
New York City, February 12, 2004 - MarketingSherpa CAN-SPAM Guidance for Marketers & List Owners Teleseminar
Phone, January 15, 2004 - Affiliate Summit 2003
New York City, November 3, 2003 - DMD New York Conference & Expo
New York City, June 2, 2003 - AffiliateFORCE 2003
Miami, Key West & Cozumel, Mexico, April 24-28, 2003 - Fulfillment Management Association Luncheon
New York City, April 16, 2003 - The Evolution of Affiliate Marketing (E-Commerce SIG)
New York City, March 6, 2003 - Performance Marketing Summit
New York City, November 7, 2002 - AffiliateFORCE 2002
Miami & the Bahamas, March 15-18, 2002 - IIR All-Star Performance Marketing
New York City, August 20-21, 2001 - i-Marq Partner Up: Affiliate Marketing in Action
Web Conference, June 21, 2001 - AffiliateFORCE 2001
Miami & the Bahamas, April 20-23, 2001 - IIR Online Allies
San Francisco, January 24-25, 2001 - Affiliate Webinar
Online, December 6, 2000 - Affiliate Solutions
New York City, September 27, 2000 - Affiliate Solutions
San Francisco, June 15, 2000 - Be Free’s Semester at Sea
Boston, June 6-7, 2000 - Be Free’s East Coast Customer Briefing
New York City, April 11, 2000 - AffiliateFORCE 2000
Miami, March 15-17, 2000 - Affiliate Solutions
New York City, December 2, 1999
Shawn’s first book is entitled “Successful Affiliate Marketing for Affiliates” (ISBN: 0789725258) by Que Publishing. Shawn received a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University of Maryland at College Park.
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