Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins Affiliate marketing news and opinion from Shawn Collins, an affiliate marketer since 1997, co-founder of Affiliate Summit and author of Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants.

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Affiliate marketing blog fever – catch it!
It looks like the growth and popularity of the blogs over at ReveNews may have been a tipping point for the convergence of blogs and affiliate marketing.
Recently, Chris Sanderson rolled out RSS feeds for the affiliate programs managed by his company, AMWSO.
Danny Kautt of Rockler has a blog for [...]

It was more than five years ago that I started working for http://www.refer-it.com/, the first affiliate program directory. Back then, it was considered the key place to go in search of affiliate programs to join.
I had high hopes for the directory, and it was becoming a monster resource for a while. But as the folks behind [...]

The Free National Membership Organization For Moms Announces The Selection Of UnsubCentral To Provide Their Email Suppression Service To Affiliates
AUSTIN, TX (PRWEB) July 19, 2004 — ClubMom, Inc. (www.clubmom.com), the free national membership organization for moms and #1 affiliate program in June 2004,* today announced that its affiliate program will be utilizing the Affiliate [...]

Refer-it.com, the first affiliate program directory, publishes a top ten affiliate program list each month. ClubMom has been the top rated affiliate program for back to back months (May and June 2004
According to Refer-it, “The Top Ten programs are calculated by the absolute number of clickthroughs each program received on Refer-it.com.” This means that the [...]

I was curious about what sort of person becomes an affiliate marketing professional. I’d spoken with a handful of folks in the industry who were ‘Greek’ in college, and I wondered how many affiliate marketers were in fraternities or sororities.
So I ran a poll in the AffiliateManager.net forum to find out. To my surprise (not [...]

Benjamin Edelman, a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Economics at Harvard University and a student at the Harvard Law School, has done extensive research into 180solutions and the effects of the practices of 180solutions on affiliates and affiliate program merchants.
This is a very interesting read, and I’d urge all affiliates and affiliate managers to [...]

The Republican National Committee affiliate program was initially set with automatic approval of affiliates, which is contrary to the accepted best practices in affiliate marketing.
In general, it is suggested to manaully approve all affiliates, so as to limit the risk to your brand and minimize the chance of fraud (though you’d have to be a [...]

In the list of new advertisers on CJ, the newest of all is the Republican National Committee, who launched their program today.
Here’s a description of the program:
You can help build a better tomorrow for America by supporting the Republican National Committee! You can be a part of the team working with President Bush and [...]