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.Today marks my final day as the affiliate manager for ClubMom. My tenure with ClubMom began on Valentine’s Day in 2000, and I launched the affiliate program on March 13, 2000.
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What do the San Antonio Spurs, U2 and the Affiliate Summit conference have in common? Stumped? In the month of June 2005, scalpers sold tickets to all three on eBay. That’s right, Affiliate Summit 2005 passes went for as much as 50 percent over the face value of $1,495.
It’s certainly a healthy sign for affiliate [...]

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How do you set up a datafeed?
Unfortunately, there is not a single answer to this question. As a bit of background for anybody that is not familiar with datafeeds, they are databases of all of the products and associated details for a given company.
This file contains a number of data points an affiliate [...]

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Vladimir Lenin once said that a useful idiot is worth a hundred trained agents. The useful idiots in this case were well intentioned folks that perpetuated Communist Russian propaganda in the United States.
In reading a recent blog posting from Connie Berg (The Affiliate List Under Fire), it seems that there are plenty of useful idiots [...]

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Pittsburgh, PA – June 27, 2005 – Direct Response Technologies, Inc., (DRT) a leading provider of online media and technology solutions, announces settlement of its lawsuit with PrimaryAds, a client utilizing DirectTrack® (Direct Response’s proprietary affiliate and ad serving technology) as the back bone for their network. PrimaryAds is a wholly owned subsidiary of Think [...]

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NORTHBROOK, Ill.–June 27, 2005–CGI Holding Corporation d/b/a Think Partnership Inc. (”THK” or the “Company”) announced that its PrimaryAds Inc. subsidiary has settled its lawsuit against Direct Response Technologies, Inc (”DRT”). The principal terms of the settlement include the following:

DRT shall provide PrimaryAds with a duplicate of its Business Information and Data.
DRT shall continue to provide [...]

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Performics’ top tier advertisers are now available through the Dynamic Product Showcase Creator.
The Dynamic Product Showcase Creator, hosted by AffSolutions, provides an easy-to-use, web-based tool that creates affiliate link encoded product showcases with just one click.
You can use the Dynamic Product Showcase Creator through Performics to select items directly from an advertiser’s feed [...]

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The following is what David Fortino of the NetLine Corporation had to say in response the the question, What is wrong with affiliate marketing and how can it be improved?
People. WE are what’s wrong with affiliate marketing.
Good old human nature continues to drive AM’s towards the easy cash without thinking about the larger opportunities. [...]

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The following is what Richard Kohl had to say in response the the question, What is wrong with affiliate marketing and how can it be improved?
As a new publisher to Affiliate Marketing I would like to see a higher commission pay out.
With an Affiliate Program, the merchant does not need many other forms of [...]

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You thought that Google was all about bots checking around to determine the quality of content on sites, didn’t you? Well, according to a report in the AssociatePrograms.com newsletter, Google employs people at a rate of $10 to $20 an hour to check search results at Google every day.
There is a criteria guide for the [...]

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