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.After the Affiliate Summit 2005 conference sold out a couple of weeks back, the black market for conference passes started up.
As the wait list for passes swelled beyond 150 people, a [...]

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The following is what Dave Trenck of had to say in response the the question, What is wrong with affiliate marketing and how can it be improved?
What’s wrong with affiliate marketing today is individual expectations. You’ll see on the affiliate message boards posts like “No sales in days” or “I only make half as much [...]

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The following is what Craig Danuloff of The Pre-Commerce Group had to say in response the the question, What is wrong with affiliate marketing and how can it be improved?

Far too many affiliates don’t add any real value – they have ugly sites without significant content – and just exist to get their commission because [...]

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I recently chatted with a gentleman named Asif Malik who has released a new affiliate tool called GoldenCAN.
The premise of GoldenCAN is that sites with high traffic volume can easily add GoldenCAN Store Integration or GoldenCAN Coupon Integration to their site with just one line of code.
The result is that the site then [...]

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The following is what Mike Allen of Shopping-Bargains.com had to say in response the the question, What is wrong with affiliate marketing and how can it be improved?
Affiliate Marketing is a powerful tool that creates a win-win situation for online merchants and webmasters. However, with most good things, there are some potential problems if relationships [...]

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Things are heating up in the CPA soap opera that is the lawsuit between ThinkPartnership and Direct Response Technologies.
On the heels of a May 17 press release from Direct Response, they are now trafficking an ad that touts DirectTrack as being “So Good, Our Leading Competitor Uses It.”
For clarification sakes, the “leading competitor” is KowaBunga! [...]

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The following is what Brian Appel of CPAffiliates.com had to say in response the the question, What is wrong with affiliate marketing and how can it be improved?
The problem with affiliate marketing is that there is too many seemingly scammy campaigns and fraudulent affiliates.
Everyone is looking for the quick buck. Every lame free [...]

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I’m wondering if I have the basic concept or plan of affiliate marketing right? This is my understanding to date.

Choose a concept or market to build a site for.
Do Keywords research to determine if there is a market for the topic you choose.
Find ways to monetize your site concept, through affiliate [...]

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The following is what James Green had to say in response the the question, What is wrong with affiliate marketing and how can it be improved?
I personally think there are two main problems with/facing the affiliate world.
Firstly, there tends to be disassocation of the affiliate program and the rest of marketing. At times [...]

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The following is what Nishank Khanna had to say in response the the question, What is wrong with affiliate marketing and how can it be improved?
The biggest thing holding back merchants from achieving record success and small affiliates from becoming super affiliates is… a lack of communication.
I’ve been on both sides of the [...]

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