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.Your site design could be holding you back from making bigger money as an affiliate. I’ve seen some really bad sites for big companies, and some amazing sites from individuals.
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I am often asked which is the best affiliate marketing message board. There are a number of them out there, and the answer is really subjective.
Different boards provide different functions. For instance, there’s Affiliates4U, that has a UK focus. And then there is Amazon.com’s Associates Central, which (you guessed it) focuses on the Amazon.com affiliate [...]

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The AD:TECH New York show, running November 8-10, 2004 at the Hilton New York, will include the 8th Annual AD:TECH Awards.
One of the categories in the competition is “Best Affiliate Marketing Campaign.” This is the first time in the eight years of these awards that they are including an affiliate marketing category.
That’s a nice nod [...]

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If you are conducting business online, the question is no longer whether or not you should have an affiliate program. The question now is how to set up a successful affiliate program.
Forrester Research recently published a report (New Affiliate Marketing Models) stating that affiliates deliver 13 percent of online retail sales today. By 2003, [...]

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Welcome to the AffiliateTip.com Newsletter for October 2004. This month I’ve got tips, opinions, stats, and the Top 10 Affiliate Programs list. Also, there is an online affiliate conference coming soon called eComXpo.

Affiliate Tip - Remember Your Logins
Direct Mail for Affiliate Marketers
eComXpo - Affiliate Conference Online
Affiliate Opinions: Communication is King
Affiliate Program News
Affiliate Stat: [...]

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FeedBurner, a very cool service that provides RSS feed syndication, has incorporated a new option for their feeds: the Amazon.com Associates Service.
The Amazon Associates Service enablers bloggers to automatically place items from Amazon.com related to their content directly into individual feed items, and it follows an insertion frequency plan that you control (i.e. an Amazon [...]

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According to the AffStat 2004 Report, 40% of affiliates actively promote 51 or more affiliate programs. That means a whole lot of affiliates are juggling a whole lot of affiliate logins.
Personally, I’m actively promoting affiliate programs through Affiliate Fuel, ClickBank, Commission Junction, CPA Empire, Kolimbo, LinkShare, MaxBounty, Performics, Primary Ads, Shareasale, plus a bunch [...]

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This is an article I wrote nearly five years ago when I was working at Refer-it. For nostalgia sake, I’m reprinting it as it was originally written, including the inaccurate statement that Amazon had the first affiliate program.

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In mid September, a bunch of affiliate managers got together in NJ to chat about various issues in the industry.
One topic we discussed was recruiting affiliates via email. There were a few of us that mentioned using Link Capture to identify and contact affiliates.
Link Capture is a useful tool, because it enables you [...]

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Performics today announced that it has been awarded the top position in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 list for Chicagoland, a ranking of the fifty fastest growing technology companies in the area by one of the nation’s leading professional services firms.
Rankings are based on the percentage of growth in fiscal year revenues over five years, [...]

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