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.When KowaBunga! announced a price increase for their MyAffiliateProgram technology, some smaller companies were concerned that they could no longer afford to power their affiliate program with MyAP.
However, I have just [...]

Whenever I go to industry events and participate in message boards, I come accross a variety of synonyms for affiliates. They are sometimes publishers or partners or associates or whatever other name du jour.
This muddy semantic landscape can be confusing for outsiders and insiders alike. So I thought I’d ask a bunch of affiliates if [...]

Back in early August, there were whispers that a significant entity in the affiliate and search space had plans to launch a message board. All the chatter was for real – eComXpo has rolled out their new forum at http://forum.ecomxpo.com/ in the lead up to their second online conference.
I would expect that this board [...]

Affiliate Summit 2006 is going to have two tracks, one targeted to affiliates and the other to merchants, rather than going with the one size fits all agenda we’ve had in the past.
We are now accepting proposals for presentations and panels for Affiliate Summit 2006.
Based on overwhelming feedback in favor of Las Vegas, [...]

Ad:Tech is going to be in NYC this coming November 7-9. If you want to get an exhibit hall pass, they are free online, but you’ll have to pay if you wait to register until you are on site.
You can see the list of exhibitors at http://www.ad-tech.com/exhibitors1.asp?subevent=4
Register for ad:tech at http://www.xpressreg.net/register/adte115/start.asp

Pittsburgh, PA – August 30, 2005 – Direct Response Technologies, Inc., (DRT) a leading provider of online media and technology solutions, received a motion from PrimaryAds, a client utilizing DirectTrack® (DRT’s proprietary affiliate and ad serving technology) as the back bone for its network, on August 26, 2005 which will force both companies back into [...]

The introductory prices for advertising ($500 for a display ad and $125 for a text ad) in the Affiliate Summit Real Deal newsletter are ending.
The August 31 issue will be the last one with these prices. After that, the display ads will run $1,000 and text ads will be $250.
However, if you wish to book [...]

NORTHBROOK, Ill.–Aug. 29, 2005–CGI Holding Corporation d/b/a Think Partnership Inc. (“THK” or the “Company”) (AMEX:THK – News) announced that its PrimaryAds Inc. subsidiary has filed a motion in the Court of Common Pleas in Pittsburgh, PA, seeking immediate enforcement of a Consent Decree issued June 24, 2005 in connection with PrimaryAds’ prior litigation against Direct [...]

For the past many years, affiliate marketing has been in something of a downsize phase, at least as far as the affiliate networks go.
It was six years ago this time that I was involved in my first affiliate marketing conference. I was working at Refer-it.com, and we were putting on Affiliate Solutions ‘99 at the [...]

The following is what Cayce Daye had to say in response the the question, What is wrong with affiliate marketing and how can it be improved?
Affiliate marketing is a very powerful promotional tool that when implemented correctly can be extremely profitable for both merchants and vendors alike. That said, affiliate marketing has flaws that could [...]