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.You spend a lot of time driving traffic to your site, but due to human error, some of that traffic is not making it to your site. One of the reasons [...]

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By Shawn Collins
iMediaConnection
There is an immoral minority in affiliate marketing who wreck havoc and cause headaches to affiliate managers. They stuff cookies, spam blogs, redirect affiliate links, and commit a whole assortment of dirty deeds.
We could go the Travis Bickle route and hope that someday a real rain will come and wash all this [...]

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I am frequently asked questions about various aspects of affiliate marketing by affiliates and affiliate managers, and I do my best to respond with thoughtful answers.
Since many people have the same sorts of questions about how to succeed in affiliate marketing, I am going to start answering questions and posting them publicly to benefit all.
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The general perception of affiliates is that they run banner ads on their sites. But one of the biggest segments of affiliates are those who run targeted opt-in lists.
According to data from the AffStat 2004 Report (below), 60% of affiliates have opt-in lists.

In the past, I’ve recommended Constant Contact, Opt-in Pro, and Topica, and I’ve [...]

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Over the weekend of November 6-7, Beth Kirsch (Audible) and myself conducted the first Affiliate Manager Boot Camp in the Pocono Mountains of PA.
It was an interesting blend of per lead and per sale affiliate programs, as well as some independents and network programs.
Here is an action shot of the attendees discussing affiliate marketing up [...]

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It’s a tough job creating a Web site that is going to make your visitors want to come back. It’s not easy and it’s not cheap to build in features like message boards, e-mail forms, mailing lists and vote casters.
Well there is a really useful Webmaster resource site that’s been around for quite a [...]

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Welcome to the AffiliateTip.com Newsletter for November 2004. This month I’ve got tips, opinions, stats, and the Top 10 Affiliate Programs list. Also, there is a newsletter with the top CPA offers, and a special deal for an online affiliate conference called eComXpo.

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Winning the New Affiliate Game
Special Offer: [...]

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A couple of weeks back, I wrote about the favorite affiliate marketing forums of affiliates.
Since then, I’ve come across an interesting new forum for the community, Revenue Source.com.
Aside from the typical features on an affiliate marketing forum, Revenue Source also enables affiliates and affiliate managers to earn points, based on their posting habits, and [...]

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Following the theme of the recent reprint of my affiliate marketing year end recap from 2000, here is some similarly vintage coverage of the once thriving Affiliate Force conference. This summary is from the first of these events back in the spring of 2000 in Miami.
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I was talking to a friend of mine recently about [...]

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Many affiliates have more than one site (or newsletter), and they would like to track their affiliate links from these multiple sources.
Also, affiliates that provide rewards or incentives to members need to distinguish which person referred a given action.
If this applies to you, you can break out the tracking for multiple Web sites, [...]

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