Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

Thanks for visiting the Affiliate Tip blog. Subscribe to my RSS feed or enter your e-mail on the top right to get updates by e-mail.What are your thoughts on whether affiliate marketing will work for a business selling a very cheap subscription service to other businesses? Or is affiliate marketing much more successful for B2C [...]

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As a gesture of thanks to the affiliate marketing community, Affiliate Summit gave a free pass for the upcoming conference (Jan 8-10 at Bally’s Las Vegas) to anybody who submitted a new definition to Affilipedia, the affiliate marketing encyclopedia between Monday, November 21 at 3 PM EST and Thursday, November 24 at 4 PM EST.
Fifteen [...]

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The following is what Daniel Schonfeld of PrimeQ had to say in response to the question, What is the Future of Affiliate Marketing?
As I wrote about in Adbumb this past month, the future of Affilate Marketing is in the hands of its sales staff.
Affiliate marketing is beoming ever so popular, but popular for what? [...]

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I put out a press release today about holiday gift ideas at InstrumentPro.com.
The purpose was three-fold. I wanted to get the name out there and in the minds of people as they were gearing up to buy gifts for the holidays, sell some product, and include a soft sell on the affiliate program.
But there was [...]

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Cape Coral, FL - November 22, 2005 — GoldenCAN.com, online marketing’s best and brightest new program, is offering thousands of affiliate marketers the power and versatility of Overstock.com’s data feeds with a simple click of a mouse. At no cost to affiliates, thousands of Overstock.com® products are now available for use on affiliate Web sites [...]

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I’ve heard from a number of marketing folks that I respect a lot about an event from Yanik Silver called the Underground Online Marketing Seminar.
I was kicking myself for missing it, but just heard that he’s putting on the Underground Online Seminar II next March in Washington, DC.
If you’re not familiar with Yanik, he’s something [...]

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Index analyzes actual search engine marketing programs; Q3 data suggests rising keyword prices and costs, more diverse goals, and other search trends
New York, November 22, 2005 – Performics, the performance-based marketing division of DoubleClick Digital Advertising Solutions, today announced the latest Search Trend Report, featuring the Performics 50 index, the only index of actively-managed, ongoing [...]

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I have been asked to consult for a European Sports Book Operator who is opening a poker room and a launching a new affiliate program next February. I’d like to find out where I can post questions to gaming affliates to find out their likes and dislikes of existing programs. I’d also like to find [...]

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New York, NY - November 22, 2005 — This Friday, traditionally known as “Black Friday” for the high-sales expectations of the nation’s retailers, kicks off the Christmas shopping season. Not only are people flocking to shopping malls for their holiday gift ideas and Christmas shopping, they are also doing some or all of their holiday [...]

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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.
This time around, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, we will not have a limit on [...]

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