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 heard a very low buzz that there is a new affiliate network on the way. Not a lot of detail to report so far, except that the project is well-funded [...]

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ADBUMb (”The no. 1 Online Advertising Newsletter”) is collecting data on affiliate marketing and CPA Networks. You can take the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=69265937508
The ADBUMb survey is asking the following questions:

What is your choices for the best Affiliate or CPA Network?
Who is your choice for the best affiliate manager?
What is the best affiliate technology system you’ve [...]

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Every time I send out an affiliate newsletter or some other kind of communication to affiliates, I am barraged by challenge/response emails.
Challenge/response a type of anti-spam service designed to shift the filtering workload from the recipient to the spammer. While that part sounds good, it is inherently flawed in that the only people actually [...]

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When I’m advertising in Google Adwords, I want to change my ‘Destination URL’ to direct to an alternate landing page, how do I do that? And how do I do that without losing my affiliate ID in the original path? ‘The original path’ meaning: the link given to me by the Merchant with my affiliate [...]

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I was just compiling the data I collected for the AffStat 2005 Report, and I came across a curious comment by one of the affiliate managers that completed the survey:
“I would love to have the answer to why ABW affiliates denounce ‘parasites’, yet continue to partner with companies that are clearly listed in the apps?? [...]

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Congratulations to Mark Southgate for getting the correct answer to the question, according to the Amazon.com Associate Program FAQ, how many Associates are in their program?
Mark wins a free pass to Affiliate Summit 2005 for his correct answer. Affiliate Summit 2005 is taking place June 13-14 in Las Vegas. Flights and hotel rooms are cheap, [...]

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I am starting up a new feature on the Affiliate Tip blog, where I will periodically post an affiliate marketing trivia question, and the first person with the correct answer will receive a free pass to Affiliate Summit 2005.

That’s a value of $1,295 - after April 13, the price goes up to $1,495.
The affiliate marketing [...]

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I am working on a dating directory site that will be geared to affiliate links. Any suggestions? Am I crazy?
I’d suggest that you start by checking out the Matchmaking category on AffiliateTip.com.
In that list, you can see details from over a dozen dating affiliate programs on the various affiliate networks.
In addition to general interest [...]

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I was just reading the Digital Moses Confidential newsletter, and I came across the Tip of the Week from Jason Wolfe, head honcho at Direct Response Technologies.
He had this to say:
“Seems like CGI Holdings, aka Think Partnership has been aggressively acquiring firms in our space. It reminds me of the days when others did the [...]

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I am a owner of a company and currently a merchant of an affiliate network. I have been with the network for about two months now. I have about 100 affiliates, but I am not getting any results mainly due to the quality of the affiliates. I have read your book but I could use [...]

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