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.

I am pretty new to Affiliate marketing. I watched your web seminar on StartupNation.com a couple months ago and started our affiliate program soon after. I offer a free Data Feed on ShareASale.com and now my affiliates are in direct competition with me on sites like Froogle, PriceGrabber, etc. I cant decide if this [...]

The following is what Peter Phillips of eTech Support had to say in response to the question, What is the Future of Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate market has been the popular method of promoting online business & has been used widely, and slowly realizing its potential.
It is a simple process where an affiliate is rewarded for [...]

Berkeley Heights, NJ – November 30, 2005 — The Affiliate Summit Conference (http://www.affiliatesummit.com) will be held January 8-10, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The popular conference is presented by Shawn Collins and Missy Ward and provides an opportunity for affiliate and search engine marketing professionals to gather and learn from one another in a cooperative [...]

I am part of a team working on the upcoming release of inclue! (www.inclue.com), an RSS reader in Beta that will enable users to get their subscribed RSS feeds in Outlook.
We are currently gathering some data from both publishers of RSS feeds and RSS subscribers, so we can optimize inclue! and try to [...]

I had someone contact me asking if there are any reputable loyalty/fundraising websites open to folks in the UK who want to shop online on behalf of a certain cause?
I am not aware of any cause related sites in the UK. But when it comes to loyalty sites, there is GreasyPalm, which is a cash [...]

We’ve gotten questions from Affiliate Summit attendees asking what affiliates/merchants want to know when meeting one another at the various networking opportunities.
So we’ve put together a very brief survey to give you an opportunity to anonymously share what you’d like to know or find out when meeting potential partners in Las Vegas.
Please take a moment [...]

New York, NY – November 28, 2005 — The AffStat 2006 Report (http://www.affstat.com) data is currently being compiled through surveys of affiliate managers. The 2006 report will be the fourth edition of this definitive study on the affiliate marketing industry.
Affiliate managers can fill out the survey at http://www.affstat.com/survey.htm on topics ranging from affiliate program management, [...]

The following is what Salvatore A. Conca of Puritan’s Pride had to say in response to the question, What is the Future of Affiliate Marketing?
I believe the future of affiliate marketing lies with the consumer. Merchants, affiliates and the like will all need to adapt to how people want to receive their content.
Consumers are [...]

The New York Times reports that businesses are spending “$50 million to $100 million this year on blog advertising and marketing.”
Many blog writers have signed up for Google’s AdSense program, which started in 2003 and pays Web publishers based on how many times advertisements on their sites receive clicks. Google places the ads on participating [...]

I am working part-time as an affiliate manager. The merchant wants to pay me performance-based with a percentage of all partner income. What percent do you think would be a fair deal for both sides?
Beware of any merchant that insists that you manage their affiliate program strictly on performance. Of course, the merchant prefers that [...]