Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

Thanks for visiting the Affiliate Tip blog. Subscribe to my RSS feed or enter your e-mail on the top right to get updates by e-mail.The days of pop-ups being effective are pretty much over with the widespread use of pop-up blockers. But there’s a neat method to pop a ‘Sticky Note’ at the center of [...]

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I was on 1-800-flowers.com this morning, and I noticed that they had a section for Patriot Day - 9/11.
Now maybe I’m overly sensitive, having been in the city on 9/11, but this comes across as pretty crass to me.
When I think about that day, I don’t generally have a compunction to send “Iced [...]

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The first Affiliate Manager Boot Camp, sponsored by ReveNews.com and Shawn Collins Consulting, will be taking place over the weekend of November 6 (noon) - November 7 (4 pm) in the Pocono Mountains (Bushkill, PA).
The purpose of Affiliate Manager Boot Camp is to provide an intensive workshop for a small group of affiliate managers. [...]

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The Web Publishers’ Code of Conduct was created by Commission Junction/Be Free and Performics in December 2002 (and updated in February 2003 and July 2004) to help protect affiliates against badware.
The Code of Conduct is intended to protect affiliates against the redirection of their affiliate links, and the system seems to be working. But [...]

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The Alexa Toolbar enables you to create a customized version that you can distribute from your site. Your logo is built into the web browser. So you will get more repeat visits and more loyal users. And when those visitors come to your site while using the Alexa Toolbar, they will help to improve your [...]

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Back on 9/11, I was running a Yahoo Group called the USAMC (United States Affiliate Manager Coalition), and on 9/11 and the days after, the affiliate managers discussed the attack and ultimately ways to help the victims.
You can see a compilation of the posts from that period of time at http://www.affiliatemanager.net/remember.pdf.

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There’s a great space for advertising that most people leave barren - the space below their e-mail signature.
When you send out e-mail to your site visitors, subscribers, friends, or whoever, take advantage of that white space at the bottom of the page, and mention a relevant opportunity.
Rather than put in the raw affiliate [...]

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Have you ever wondered how Super Affiliates make the big bucks? Well, they use some key tools (and don’t tell anybody about them!).
One of their techniques is to transform a hard to remember, long, complicated affiliate link into a short, easy to remember domain name. And then forward that domain name to an affiliate [...]

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There is a useful, free tool for affiliates called Link Popularity Check (LPC) version 3.0.
Link Popularity Check allows you to check the link popularity of your site(s) on many search engines (AllTheWeb, AltaVista, Google, Inktomi, MSN, Teoma, and Yahoo) at once.
The numbers that show in LPC reflect the number of web pages that point [...]

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Do you know how many of your newsletter subscribers have AOL addresses? AOL has approximately 24 million subscribers, so it’s likely that a good portion of your subscribers are getting your e-mails at an AOL account.
I checked one on my own opt-in lists, and twenty-five percent of the subscribers to my list were using [...]

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