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.I’ve just concluded the data collection for the AffStat 2005 Report, and I was anxious to compare some of the figures from two years ago to here and now.
One of the [...]

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The details have been set and Affiliate Summit 2005 will take place at the Riviera Hotel & Casino.
The group rate will be $69/night. Here’s some info about the hotel:
Question: Is there a shuttle service from the airport to your hotel?
Answer: There is a shuttle service which drops off at the Riviera. It is Bell Transport [...]

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On the affiliate solution provider side, it is very encouraging to see that a proactive stance is being taken against fraudulent affiliates.
Be Free
“Be Free has been doing a lot on the technology and services side to combat fraud,” according to Tom Gerace, founder and chief marketing officer of Be Free.
“Antifraud initiatives [...]

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Many companies run “affiliate” programs: Post an ad provided by Amazon.com or Lands’ End, for example, and receive a small commission every time your readers click that ad, go to the company’s Web site and end up buying a book or splurging on a down parka. Referral fees — the cash you get from these [...]

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Fraud! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again!
If you are running a pay-per-click or pay-per-lead affiliate program, there are people out there trying to rip you off. Fraud is widespread in affiliate marketing, and it comes in all shapes and sizes, from pimply 13-year-olds who repeatedly click a link on a [...]

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Pop-ups are finished, right? Well, that’s sort of right. The old school pops have been sufficiently thwarted by the various pop-up blockers, but just as the big companies create a blocker, the evil genuiuses devise a workaround.
And guess what, there’s a bit of a pop-up renaissance. The reason is that most pop-ups have been killed, [...]

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AffiliateTip.com is giving away four passes to Affiliate Summit 2005. That’s right, we are giving away fully-paid conference passes (value: $995 each) to four lucky people.
Affiliate Summit 2005 is taking place at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on June 13-14.
The free pass to Affiliate Summit 2005 includes:

Conference attendance
Conference materials
Cocktail parties [...]

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I have many domains, but don’t have time to develop them. I would like to sell them, but if not, then run some profitable affiliate content. Please have a look at my domains and suggest what I should do.
If you don’t have time to develop the domains, you’re not going to make [...]

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I am developing a product in the UK that I want to sell online (initially to the UK, but then further afield later). I am trying to locate an affiliate system that I can purchase, install on my server, so that it allows people to sell my product via their website (and automatically calculate commission [...]

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You’ve got an email newsletter and you’re gathering email addresses from folks that want to hear from you. But that’s not enough.
While you have the attention of these people, make a pitch for more information.
More specifically, ask them for their instant messenger name, so you can send them special updates, deals, news or [...]

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