About Shawn Collins

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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 and Founder of GeekCast.fm.

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.

Industry accolades:

• LinkShare Golden Link Award for Performance Marketing’s Most Vocal Advocate to Affiliate Summit (June 2009)
• EzineArticles.com Platinum Expert Author
• TiECON/Chitika Blogpreneur Contest 2008 Award (May 2008)
• ABestWeb “Best of 2007″ Award: “Best Service to Industry” to Affiliate Summit (April 2008)
• Affiliate Classroom Honorary Affiliate Manager Certification (February 2008)
• AffiliateDinner.com Guest of Honor Award (January 2007)
• LinkShare Golden Link Award for Performance Marketing’s Most Vocal Advocate (June 2006)

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:

• Tax Talk & Crab Feast
  Baltimore, MD, July 9, 2009
• Inbound Marketing Summit
  Dallas, TX, May 27-28, 2009
• NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies
  New York, NY, May 6, 2009
• Affiliate Summit West 2009
  Las Vegas, NV, January 11-13, 2009
• PubCon 2008
  Las Vegas, NV, November 11-14, 2008
• Blog World Expo
  Las Vegas, NV, September 20-21, 2008
• Affiliate Summit East 2008
  Boston, MA, August 10-12, 2008
• eTailXpo
  Online, July 9-10, 2008
• Affiliate Summit West 2008
  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 West 2007
  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 East 2006
  Orlando, FL, July 9-11, 2006
• eComXpo
  Online, April 4-6, 2006
• Affiliate Summit West 2006
  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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