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.The following is what Vikram Vora of shaadi.com had to say in response the the question, What is wrong with affiliate marketing and how can it be improved?
The thing that is [...]

If I don’t have a Web site, can I make money in the affiliate business, and if so, how?
The short answer is yes. However, there is one basic thing that may trip you up as you get started.
Affiliate managers are conditioned to expect that an affiliate applying to their affiliate program is going to have [...]

The following is what Hokuto Kasai of the JAPAN.AffiliateSogo.com had to say in response the the question, What is wrong with affiliate marketing and how can it be improved?
My answer is that there are so many people who do NOT care about what is wrong, or what is right with affiliate marketing.
Win-Win relationship is [...]

Experience eComXpo, the Virtual Tradeshow for eCommerce Marketers being held online October 6-8, 2005.
The first 500 paid registrants will receive a gift box filled with tradeshow collectables.
And this time around, in addition to the concentration on affiliate marketing, there is also a search engine marketing track.
This event is really coming together with Platinum Sponsors such [...]

Wordtracker just published a Keyword Research Guide to help people get the most from Wordtracker.
The 75-page guide features leading experts in the SEO industry and asks them to provide keyword advice to a fictional company.
They created a fictional company, Virginia Veg and asked experts to provide real answers to the problems facing its CEO [...]

How can I best recruit talent to run an affiliate program for me, and what skills should I look for in that person?
There are some important factors that will influence your ability to recruit an experienced affiliate manager: competitive pay, brand name and reputation of your company, reputation of your affiliate program (if it already [...]

Feedster, a search engine and ad network for blogs and RSS feeds, has annouced the launch of the Feedster Top 500, a new ranking of “the most interesting and important blogs in the U.S.”
According to MediaBuyerPlanner, “the ranking is based on number of inbound links over time and whether the blog has been updated [...]

You’ve got an e-mail newsletter for your site, and it grows from day to day, but you want to see more people subscribe.
It’s a common problem with an uncommon solution. Sure, you could tweak the newsletter, add distribution by RSS, increase or decrease the frequency, but those things are not going to move the [...]

The following is what Bret Grow of the LinkMo Advertising Network had to say in response the the question, What is wrong with affiliate marketing and how can it be improved?
Speaking as an ad network, our bread and butter are the affiliates who run our offers. The trust sustained between a network and affiliate are [...]

After a somewhat topsy-turvy 18 months, where they shared headlines with no less than Eliot Spitzer, Microsoft, and Hormel, OptInRealBig.com’s CPAEmpire seems to be headed towards a bright future.
They just sent out the following email to recap some of their recent adventures:
We at CPAEmpire wanted to take a moment to express our sincere thanks to [...]