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.Attendees of the Affiliate Manager Boot Camp (last November or this February) are entitled to a 10% discount off the registration price at Affiliate Summit 2005.
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I just came across an amusing site called Googlism, where you can find out what Google.com thinks of you, your co-workers, your industry, etc.
I was curious about what Google thinks of affiliate marketing. Here’s a sampling of the the answer…
affiliate marketing is old hat… so now what?
affiliate marketing is a referral program
affiliate marketing is a [...]

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If you haven’t heard about the upcoming eComXpo event, it is going to be the first-ever Affiliate Marketing Online Virtual Trade Show.
I’ve got to admit that I was skeptical about the interest in an online trade show, but I’ve been happily surprised at the impressive job by the organizers of bringing in all of [...]

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Could you discuss the use of RSS feeds within affiliate marketing? How are merchants applying this technology for their affiliate programs? And how are affiliates using RSS to generate commissions and traffic? It seems everyone is really excited about RSS but no one has quite found a use for it outside of the blog world.
There [...]

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The keynote speakers for Affiliate Summit 2005 will have been announced. On the first day of the conference (June 13, 2005), Declan Dunn, CEO & Founder of the Dunn Direct Group and lead generation guru, will present the keynote.
The keynote address for day two (June 14, 2005) of Affiliate Summit 2005 will be Fredrick [...]

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What do you think about the state of affiliate marketing? What is right or wrong these days?
I am compiling opinions, ideas, complaints, suggestions and whatever else is on the minds of affiliates (through 2/28/05). Share your input for this report - it will be published in March and will be made free to all. [...]

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By Jaime Gottlieb
Outside of the political spectrum, there aren’t too many names these days that can produce a fierce response from a broad array of individuals. But after a series of recent conversations with a few industry insiders, I hit on one name that seemed to fit the bill.
“If you ever want to [...]

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I think it’s safe to say that we’ll all remember where we were when we heard the news. I was tapping away at my keyboard back on that fateful day of January 6, 2005 when an email hit my inbox with the ominous subject: Google AdWords Announcement: Affiliate Policy Change.
The announcement began “In January [...]

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Today at the LinkShare Executive Marketing Summit, Stephen Messer, Chairman and CEO of LinkShare, made an announcement that affiliates have been waiting to hear for a long time… affiliates will be able to get consolidated checks and ACH (Automated Clearing House aka Direct Deposit).
Here’s a timeline of events for the rollout of the consolidated payments [...]

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By Kevin M. Ryan
Don’t say I didn’t warn you about this. Google launched a whole new way to treat (or mistreat, depending on who you talk to) search marketers last Wednesday. Of course, the blogosphere was abuzz with speculation in how the new interaction will take place between user, paid placement search results, and oh [...]

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