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.Every once so often, somebody comes along to declare that affiliate marketing is dead. The latest instance comes to us from Rick Aristotle Munarriz in an article on The Motley Fool.
The [...]

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The Affiliate Summit group rate of $69/night at the Riviera Hotel ends on Monday, May 23.
When booking your room at the Riviera Hotel for Affiliate Summit 2005, please be sure to mention group code: AFFIL05.
You can book by calling toll free to Riviera Reservations at 800-634-6753 or online at http://www.rivierahotel.com/resnet/roomres.asp?ID=82
After 5/23, there [...]

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The following is what Nicole Russell had to say in response the the question, What is wrong with affiliate marketing and how can it be improved?
The one thing that I feel can be improved with affiliate marketing is communication.
There are now so many affiliate programs, and most affiliate marketers are working with dozens [...]

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The Affiliate Summit 2005 conference, taking place June 13-14 in Las Vegas, sold out last Friday. There are 450 people registered to attend the event.
Since then, we’ve been working to secure larger meeting spaces to enable more folks to register.
In the meantime, there are nearly 70 people on the waitlist for tickets, as of [...]

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According to The New Media Report newsletter (nee Adbumb), ThinkPartnership has filed suit against DirectTrack to get DirectTrack to continue to power PrimaryAds, a ThinkPartnership company.
KowaBunga! Technologies, the ThinkPartnership company that powers MyAffiliateProgram, competes with the DirectTrack merchant product.
The New Media Report newsletter quotes Jason Wolfe, CEO of Direct Response Technologies as saying “We find [...]

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The following is what Rexanne Mancini of Rexanne.com had to say in response the the question, What is wrong with affiliate marketing and how can it be improved?
My biggest gripe about affiliate marketing is that as affiliates, we are basically stuck with trusting the tracking and integrity of merchants.
While I’m assuming the majority [...]

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Affiliate marketers have been taking a victory lap to celebrate the vitality of affiliate marketing lately.
After all, the industry shows great signs of life with the Affiliate Summit conference selling out with 450 attendees (nearly double the attendance of last year’s show).
But when is a sell out not really a sell out? Well, on paper [...]

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One of the biggest challenges for an affiliate is to determine which affiliate programs to push and when.
You can guess and speculate, but that sort of scatter shot promotional effort will likely result in poor returns.
One of the keys to identifying and capitalizing on trends is to watch the headlines and leverage their [...]

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Come join the PartnerWeekly team for a Hawaiian Happy Hour! Enjoy a great networking environment with the look and feel of paradise! FREE top shelf drinks, gourmet food and a chance to win great prizes!
Join the festivities June 13th, 2005 after the Affiliate Summit show!
Riviera Hotel & Casino - Capri Room 102 from 5:00pm [...]

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The following is what Chris Park of Blair.com had to say in response the the question, What is wrong with affiliate marketing and how can it be improved?
No need to touch on the standards. You know… the topics on every board and in every e-zine. I’m talking about spyware, BHO’s, spam, cookie stuffing and [...]

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