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.Rather than making money as an affiliate of different programs, I have been thinking of other ways to try to make money by encouraging merchants to set up affiliate programs, as [...]

Affiliate Summit 2006 will include 2+ days of sessions, networking and event this year, plus optional workshops before and after the conference.
One of the optional workshops, which will cost an additional $199 to attend is Multiplying Your Google AdSense Income!, which will be run by noted Google AdSense authority, Joel Comm.
Below is a description of [...]

MyAP merchants with a program on Kolimbo can now access a new tool to distribute coupons and/or promotions to affiliates. The tool will launch to affiliates in a couple weeks.
Merchants can login to the Kolimbo Coupon Manager at http://kolimbo.com/coupons/index.asp with their MyAP username and password.
The Kolimbo Coupon Manager is an interface to add or edit [...]

On Tuesday, ZDNet reported that “a class action complaint against adware company 180solutions was filed today in an Illinois United States District Court by attorneys Shawn M. Collins and David J. Fish.”
The Chicago Tribune, Jeff Molander, NewMedia Report and others also spread the news.
That led to a number of e-mails, phone calls and IMs [...]

Last week, I participated in a Webinar on affiliate marketing with Joel Welsh of StartupNation. The session consisted of a half hour interview and a half hour Q&A session.
If you couldn’t make it to the live broadcast, it’s now available in the StartupNation archives at http://www.startupnation.com/pages/webinars/OS_Affiliate-Marketing-Boost-Website.asp
The Webinar covered how to set up affiliate marketing relationships, [...]

I was doing a periodic check of who is bidding on certain phrases unique to me the other day and noticed that search results for affiliatesummit and affiliatetip were displaying the following ad in Google:
Affiliate Programs Suck
My affiliate program makes
millionaires. The rest are useless.
www.TheRichJerk.com
I’ve been reading about The Rich Jerk in forums, and his/her bidding [...]

MarketingSherpa just released a very useful report, Search Marketing Benchmark Guide 2005-2006: SEO & PPC Tactics & Results Data.
The guide breaks out how SEO (search engine optimization) results and costs compare to PPC (pay per click) search ad results and costs, plus lots of conversion rate data for visits-to-lead-generation and visits-to-sales.
There is also pricing [...]

I’ve often labored over the creation of forms and designing images for my sites. I eventually get it done, but if often takes an extended amount of time for these projects.
Those days are gone for me. A friend mentioned Rent a Coder to me the other day. Rent a coder is an International marketplace [...]

Affiliate Summit 2006 is going to take place at Bally’s Las Vegas on January 9-10, 2006. One of Las Vegas’ most recognized mega resorts; Bally’s is positioned at the center of The Strip, boasting an unrivaled location next to Paris Hotel and Casino.

Heralded as the longest running show on The Strip, Jubilee is Bally’s [...]

I am going to be setting up an affiliate program for a client. Do you know of any good resources in which to find information on legal aspects of acting as a consultant? Are there any good resources for contracts and what is included in the consultant affiliate mangager - merchant [...]