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.In days gone by, Scott Richter was known as Spam King, or as he referred to himself on The Daily Show, a “high-volume email deployer.”
But times have changed. According to Steve [...]

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I have written an e-book that I feel will be a sure fire seller on the Internet. Am willing to pay a fair commission for referrals leading to sales, however have no idea how to go about it. Another big factor: I have a zero marketing budget. What to do next?
I am not sure [...]

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What is your #1 strategy for finding, attracting and enrolling new quality affiliates into your program?
Over the years, I’ve come to find that there is no single method that is effective across the board for recruiting affiliates.
Each program has certain attributes and value propositions that can be highlighted in the affiliate recruiting process, but the [...]

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The following is what Tracy Allen had to say in response the the question, What is wrong with affiliate marketing and how can it be improved?
There isn’t anything wrong with affiliate marketing!
I laughed out loud when you talked about being met with “blank stares”!
Most people don’t know what it is and therefore it [...]

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The following is what Tracy Allen had to say in response the the question, What is wrong with affiliate marketing and how can it be improved?
There isn’t anything wrong with affiliate marketing!
I laughed out loud when you talked about being met with “blank stares”!
Most people don’t know what it is and therefore it [...]

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Last week, I mentioned that I was going to test out the free of BetterPPC.
They created a patent pending test process to simplify the testing and refining of your PPC campaigns.
Anyhow, I tried it out to compare the results I was seeing in a campaign I’ve been running for quite some time.
I’d tweaked it here [...]

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How do you get your affiliates to become more active?
In order to get your affiliates to be more active, there are some basics you have to cover first.
Your affiliates want to be viewed as an important partner for your company and should be treated as such. So if an affiliate has a problem or question, [...]

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The following is what Charlotte Kornev had to say in response the the question, What is wrong with affiliate marketing and how can it be improved?
One of the biggest problems with affiliate marketing is the web sites we refer to.
We do our jobs getting the click throughs, but one of my highest CTRs has [...]

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There are three certainties of life: death, taxes, and affiliate forums hating parasites.
But what is a parasite? It depends on whom you ask. According to DOXdesk, they coined the term “as a catch-all term to cover the range of unwelcome software” or “unsolicited commercial software.”
Generally, affiliates consider an attribute of a parasite to be an [...]

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Affiliate marketers and bloggers have been buzzing about rumors that Microsoft was going to acquire Claria.
Looks like all the hand wringing was taken into account by the folks in Redmond, WA.
Microsoft has ended its acquisition talks with behavioral targeting firm Claria, ClickZ News has learned from a source close to the discussions. Another Microsoft source [...]

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