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 was just belatedly picking through my mail and I was surprised to see a Valentine from none other than Ben Ellis, the Affiliate Manager for KowaBunga!.

I’ve got to say that [...]

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In the beginning, I thought I had this great idea when I conceived the Affiliate Webinar. It was a free affiliate marketing conference that took place in December 2000.
It sounded sort of neat on paper — a conference that would bring together affiliates from all across the world. There was a virtual exhibit floor [...]

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I was reading a marketing message board today, and somebody was asking whether he should go with the program that had the highest EPC* in a category, even though it had a lower payout than another program.
The conventional wisdom there was that if a program is paying a lower percent commission than the competition, then [...]

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There’s a new affiliate marketing resource making the scene like an express locomotive. It’s a new project from Jeff Molander called the Affiliate Cluetrain.
Affiliate Cluetrain is assaulting the senses with a trinity of blog offerings: audio, text, and video blogs.
In addition to Jeff’s frequent takes on issues in the industry in his written blog, he’ll [...]

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Just as I published the Q&A from my affiliate communication presentation, I am also making all of the questions and answers from my affiliate recruiting session available below.
Affiliate Summit — when is it?
Affiliate Summit 2005 (www.affiliatesummit.com) is taking place June 13-14 at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. There is a special rate to attend [...]

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I gave a presentation on communicating with affiliates at the recent eComXpo, and I received a number of questions at the conclusion of the presentation.
For the benefit of anybody that wasn’t able to attend, here are the questions and answers from the Q&A after my presentation.
Do you have any tracking for your blogs to know [...]

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I gave a presentation on affiliate recruiting techniques at eComXpo today, and during my session, I asked some polling questions to get a feel for the audience.
As has been the trend since the early days of affiliate marketing, the affiliate managers are mostly relying on their networks to recruit for them, as well as making [...]

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There is a bit of confusion and sometimes a negative connotation placed on CPA networks, and their role in affiliate marketing.
Is a CPA network an affiliate, a network, a super affiliate, a sub-ID affiliate, a 2-tier affiliate. It’s enough to make your head spin.
Here’s my take on the whole situation: like any type of affiliate, [...]

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Affiliate Summit 2005 is less than four months away and the early bird price for registrations is no longer available.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t get a deal. All you have to do is follow some simple instructions and you can get a deep discount on the registration price.
Here’s the secret…

Buy an item from the [...]

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In the beginning, I thought I had this great idea when I conceived the Affiliate Webinar. It was a free affiliate marketing conference that took place in December 2000.
It sounded sort of neat on paper – a conference that would bring together affiliates from all across the world. There was a virtual exhibit floor and [...]

[Read more →]