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 currently mechants with Tradedoubler in the UK and Linkshare in the USA. We are a UK based company and we have just launched a site in Germany. I have [...]

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

It’s an Affiliate Thing, You Wouldn’t Understand
Affiliate Summit Registrations Close on Friday, May 13
Affiliate Tip - Data Feeds for Newbies
Affiliate Program News
New Place for Affiliates to Ask [...]

Most any affiliate marketer has tried to explain to family and friends what they do for a living, and they inevitably are met with blank stares.
I suppose the uniqueness of this space plays a role in the various tight knit online communities for affiliate marketers. Nobody else knows what we’re talking about.
So anyway, I’ve created [...]

The registrations for Affiliate Summit 2005 are closing on Friday, May 13.
The conference is rapidly approaching the maximum capacity of 450 attendees.
This marks the third year in a row that the Affiliate Summit conference has sold out well in advance.
The 2005 show is approximately twice the size of the event that took place in 2004.
Sponsorships [...]

BlogKits now offers bloggers the ability to run blog specific ads from Overstock through the BlogKits BlogMatch Network.
The BlogKits BlogMatch Network enables bloggers to run targeted advertising in ad unit sizes unique to blogs.
Here is a sample 350×25 BlogKits ad for Overstock:

The Overstock program through BlogKits pays out up to 7% commission on a broad [...]

Data feeds are a great tool for affiliate marketers to build robust sites dedicated to an individual merchant. The data feeds enable affiliates to create database driven sites with up to date product information for a company.
The catch is that it’s not easy. There is a learning curve to either use an off the [...]

I’ve been meaning to contact you regarding a company I’ve been researching for quite some time now. They developed an affiliate tracking and reporting solution called Link Connector, which I’ve become an affiliate. I was thinking of doing business with them but before I do, I wanted to see what you thought about them?
I’ve worked [...]

Affiliate Summit 2005, taking place June 13-14 at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, is close to selling out for a third year straight.
There are over 400 folks registered so far, and we’ve got to cap it at 450, as that’s the capacity of our general session room.
It’s great to see the excitement being generated [...]

The AffiliateManager.net Forum, which has functioned as a closed community for affiliate managers over the years, has added a public discussion area for affiliates, networks, affiliate managers and anybody else to join the conversation.
The public affiliate marketing discussion is located at http://www.affiliatemanager.net/forums/index.php?showforum=9 and it does not require registration to start a topic or to reply [...]

The days of building a Web site, slapping it on the Internet and expecting people to magically tune in are long gone for real estate companies and agents. With three quarters of home buyers starting their searches on the Web, online lead generation plans now require much more strategy.
One way of throwing a wide net [...]