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.There’s a fascinating article at Business 2.0 under the banner, What’s Next.
The article, The Merchant of Margaritaville, by Dan Shoeffler, introduces readers to the wild idea of bidding on terms [...]

I hear a lot about ‘mini’ sites and ‘content’ sites. One camp says, you need content - the other says whip out 1-4 pages and move on. I’m new at affiliate marketing as a business, so I’m totally lost. On my new site, I started just wanting to share information with people in my niche, [...]

Think of banner ads as the spice in your affiliate diet. Sprinkle them around, but for a heartier helping of sales, you’ll need something more solid! Learn to give your visitors longer, more descriptive pre-sales text. Revamp your affiliate advertising using these simple steps:
Pull the Reader in
To convince your audience that your text is [...]

The following is what Gerry Graham of 4 Adjustable Beds, 4 Lift Chairs and 4 Wheelchair Lifts & Ramps had to say in response the the question, What is the Future of Affiliate Marketing?
We are a small Internet sales and marketing company. Current revenues are $2.4 million. We sell mobility products to the handicapped over [...]

In the past, articles have frequently asked CEOs and CMOs what the future holds for affiliate marketing. These have pretty much been the sole voices of the future.
I’d like to hear some different voices - how about the opinions of the people in the trenches of affiliate marketing? What do you think is going to [...]

I was pouring through my logs this morning, and I was curious about the locations of visitors to my affiliate marketing related sites.
Taking a look at the visitors to affiliatetip.com, affiliatemanager.net, and affstat.com, an overwhelming portion of the traffic came from the U.S., as one might expect.
Next up were Canada and the UK respectively. Rounding [...]

I’m going to be heading to ad:tech NYC on Monday, Nov. 7 and possibly Tuesday, Nov. 8. If you’ll be there, I’m always interested in meeting up with other affiliate marketers.
Let me know if you’ll be there, and maybe we can get together for a meeting, lunch, concktails, etc.
Shoot me an e-mail at shawn(at)affiliatetip.com and [...]

I will periodically give away passes for Affiliate Summit 2006 to the first person to answer a question I post to this blog. Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed to see the questions as soon as they are published.
There is going to be an optional session at Affiliate Summit 2006, the Explode Your [...]

Do you know where I can find information on the size of the industry and general information, or a positive article on the state of affiliate marketing?
There are a number of resources where you can find information and statistics on affiliate marketing. MarketingSherpa and Internet Retailer routinely publish converage of the industry.
Also, you can [...]

By Anik Singal, Founder, Affiliate Classroom
Do you upsell? If you’re like most affiliates, you’re not. And that means you’re leaving money - a LOT of money - on the table. The right kind of upsell can generate 1200% more revenue from just one affiliate sale!
An upsell is one of the best “super-monetization” strategies [...]