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.We get a bit one dimensional with the way we promote affiliate sites at times. Sure, affiliates come in all shapes and sizes.
You’ve got pay per click search engine arbitrage [...]

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Back in October, I spoke with Rok Hrastnik, manager and Editor in Chief of MarketingStudies.net, about RSS & Blogs and Affiliate Marketing.
Since then, he’s been working on a new ebook, Unleash the Marketing & Publishing Power of RSS that provides a great primer on RSS and how it can benefit your business.
If you’re not familiar [...]

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We’ve had an affiliate program for 4 years through a network. Up until now, it’s been a fairly passive project & we are now thinking of bringing it in-house and really trying to grow it. Can you give me any tips, resources or ideas on taking a program in-house?
Since you are already setup with a [...]

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What do affiliates think of adware (and affiliate programs that permit adware affiliates)? Well, I asked a bunch of them, and here are some of the responses:
‘Most merchants do not care who gets paid - it’s about the sale. Only a few go after and remove commission stealing web sites.
I have seen them give [...]

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I mentioned earlier this month that I was going to be donating 100% of the affiliate program commissions from my site, BabyLounge.com, to the tsunami relief effort for Janaury 2005.
For the first ten days of the month, the donation to the tsunami victims is currently at $824.28.
Please - if you are going to shop online [...]

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The Hilton Hotels affiliate program has launched, and it is being managed by myself and the rest of the Converseon affiliate program management team.
Commissions start at 3% for consumed commissionable bookings. Hilton Hotels affiliate commission rates increase with volume of bookings referred.
The Hilton Hotels portfolio includes Hilton®, Conrad®, Doubletree®, Embassy Suites Hotels®, Hampton Inn®, [...]

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What do you do if you have a great product, but no money?
There are two things you can do in affiliate marketing without a budget: apply lots of ingenuity and elbow grease or run a crappy affiliate program.
I’m sure everybody intends to do the former, but more often than not, I see the latter for [...]

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I have some sites that I can’t seem to get going. They are shopping sites, so I can’t get them on DMOZ, and they have 0 PR with Google, so people aren’t interested in link exchanges. What can I do to get them going? They have been around for a few years. I make about [...]

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Welcome to the AffiliateTip.com Newsletter for January 2005. This month I’ve got tips, opinions, news, and the Top 10 Affiliate Programs list. Also, there is information on speaking at the Affiliate Summit 2005 conference.

Affiliate Tip - Write Content
Google Affiliate Policy Change
Free Data Cleaner Tool from AMWSO
Affiliate Tip - Stop Traffic Leaks
Affiliate Program News
Affiliate Summit [...]

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