Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins Affiliate marketing news and opinion from Shawn Collins, an affiliate marketer since 1997, co-founder of Affiliate Summit and author of Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants.

Thanks for visiting the Affiliate Tip blog. Subscribe to my RSS feed or enter your e-mail on the top left to get updates by e-mail.We are pleased to announce the release of a new store generator script called DySE::InstrumentPro that is designed to display products based on the InstrumentPro.com datafeed.
InstrumentPro.com (http://www.InstrumentPro.com) offers approximately 7,000 musical [...]

I was reading through the March 2005 issue of Internet Retailer and was glad to see a few full page ads from companies engaged in affiliate marketing.
Since I’m a subscriber to Internet Retailer, as well as an affiliate and merchant, I figure each of these ads is targeted at me to varying degrees.
Here are my [...]

I came across this funny tool called Google Fight, where you can compare the number of results for two competing keywords. So I figured I would stage some fights among the affiliate program solution providers to see who would come out on top.
Let’s get ready to rumble affiliate style!
After a bloody showdown where Commission Junction, [...]

Welcome to the AffiliateTip.com Newsletter for March 2005. Be sure to check out the AffiliateTip.com blog for the latest news and information at http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/

Affiliate Landing Pages: How to Convert More Clicks to Sales
Ask Shawn Collins: Becoming a Super Affiliate
Affiliate Tip - Confuse the Spambots
Affiliate Program News
Do affiliate return days cookies matter?
Top 10 Affiliate Programs [...]

How does requiring at least one active customer per month affect an affiliate network, especially if the requirement is tied to commission earning? We’ve recently set up a clause in which we require that our % of net losses affiliates generate one active account in order to be legible for pay. We immediately had a [...]

CGI Holding Corporation, which plans to seek shareholder approval to change its name to Think Partnership Inc. (AMEX: THK) (”Company”), today announced that the Company has acquired KowaBunga! Marketing, Inc. (”KowaBunga”), a provider of Internet marketing software technologies, including software for affiliate marketing, search engine marketing and opt-in email marketing (see www.kowabunga.com). The terms of [...]

Affiliates are always looking for tools to increase their affiliate sales. One set of tools that all affiliates should try out are the scripts from c3scripts.com.
You can integrate these affiliate scripts into your existing website or use them to create standalone websites.
These affiliate scripts enable you to feature data feeds from leading sites, [...]

I’ve heard conflicting opinions on the significance of affiliate return day cookies. Some people maintain that the vast majority of transactions take place in the first few days after initially visiting a site. Others claim that it can be weeks before the consumer pulls the trigger.
This makes return day cookies a big issue among affiliates, [...]

Blogads recently conducted a reader survey for blog advertising, and there is some really interesting stuff in there.
The data in the Blogads survey is based on responses from a whopping 30,079 blog readers.
Interestingly, the age of blog readers is increasing. Last year, 61% of responding blog readers were over 30 years old. This year, 75% [...]

Just the other day, I was blogging about the impact of landing pages, and if that got you all worked up into a sweat, I have good news for you.
There’s going to be a free teleseminar on March 24th at 4 pm EST: “Affiliate Landing Pages: How to Convert More Clicks to Sales,” presented by [...]