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on the top right to get updates by e-mail.The comments below are nearly five years old, so please be forgiving on any outdated notions and dated references.
I think it’s interesting to see that a handful of these [...]

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I recently had a conversation with Rok Hrastnik, manager and Editor in Chief of MarketingStudies.net, about RSS & Blogs and Affiliate Marketing.
You can read the exchange at http://www.marketingstudies.net/blogs/diary/archive/000160.html

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The big party this year at Ad:Tech is the ‘Big Conversion Party‘ sponsored by Adteractive, CPA Empire, Direct Response, Internet Traffic Pros, PrimeQ Solutions, Rextopia, and Super Leads.

The party is taking place on Monday, November 8 at crobar.
Address: 530 West 28th Street (between 10th/11th)
Party starts at 9pm - open bar until midnight.
RSVP at http://www.directresponse.com/adtech/form.html

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KowaBunga! has created a couple of publications that are Holiday Quick Tips & Strategies guides.
Quick Tips & Strategies for MyAP Merchants (pdf)
Find out how to quickly, and easily boost your holiday affiliate sales using the standard features in MyAP.
Quick Tips & Strategies for Online Merchants (pdf)
A similar report detailing tips and tricks for [...]

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One of the most effective ways to build traffic to your site is to collect opt-ins for an email newsletter.
There are two important components to a successful email newsletter: compelling content and a continually growing opt-in list.
The more folks that opt-in to receive your newsletter, the greater chance you’ll have to drive targeted [...]

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KowaBunga! Technologies, the industry leader of private affiliate tracking and management solutions for online merchants announces a successful soft launch of the first “open” affiliate network, Kolimbo.
In only three months, Kolimbo has already generated over 35,000 new relationships and $2 million in new sales for KowaBunga!’s clients. Overall, Kolimbo is growing at a pace [...]

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MyReferer.com, leading provider of “private” affiliate tracking an management solutions, today launched MyReferer.Network (www.myreferer.net) a Free Network for Affiliates working with MyReferer’s Merchants.
This new offering reflects MyReferer’s continuing efforts to be a leader in the development of affiliate marketing software and services. Unlike traditional Networks, MyReferer.Network does not take “network commissions”.
It is beneficial to Affiliates [...]

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Paid search has come a long way from the penny-a-click days of the late ’90s. What’s ahead? To start, think of vertical, personalized and geocentric technologies.
It was the summer of 1998 when GoTo.com launched its pay-per-click (PPC) program in a fairly straightforward way. Back then, there were few competitors and the bids were low. [...]

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The fourth issue of Revenue magazine is out.
This is the holiday issue and the cover story is the Holiday E-Tail Wrap-Up. This article discusses how affiliates and merchants can make the holiday season a lot happier with the right mix of products, design, promotion and pizzazz.
Plus, tips for promoting apparel, electronics, toys, games, books, music, [...]

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The CPA Tipline is an opt-in email newsletter that comes out a couple times a month and lists the latest, best, and most profitable cost-per-acquisition (CPA) and cost-per-lead (CPL) opportunities.
I like this newsletter, because none of the listings are two tiers (making the listings more objective), and it’s not just for one CPA network. Offers [...]

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