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.It was five years ago today that I penned the final words of Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants. Just three days before, I registered the domain, AffiliateManager.net, and launched it in [...]

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The following is what Richard Kohl of MyPartyMall.com had to say in response to the question, What is the Future of Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate Marketing as we know it today, will change over the next few years. One change I see coming is a single shopping cart for the affiliate site for all merchants. Consumers will [...]

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According to a report from the Associated Press, the National Security Agency’s (NSA) site has been placing persistent cookies (cookies that remain on a user’s computer until they expire or are removed by the user), despite strict federal rules banning most of them.
These cookies from the spy agency were outed by a privacy activist and [...]

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The Affiliate Summit 2006 conference program is now available in pdf format.
The actual program will be given to each attendee in magazine format, but we wanted to provide a sneak peek, as requested by many folks.
One thing that jumps out at me right away is the welcome note from Missy and myself where we mention [...]

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The following is what Valeriu Popescu of Internet Marketing Profits Center had to say in response to the question, What is the Future of Affiliate Marketing?
The future of affiliate programs? There is only one way: to continue their growing! And I’m thinking not necessary to the number of programs, as more business owner will discover [...]

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How do affiliate programs code their databases to keep sales from registering? I know it happens, I’ve been doing this way too long to not recognize it. What can I do to convince my largest providers to set my number so that I receive credit for ALL of my sales?
I can’t say definitively that this [...]

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There is an auction on eBay for an Affiliate Summit pass at face value.
The auction ends on Thursday, so if you are still looking for a pass, be sure to check it out.
Alternately, you can add your name to the Affiliate Summit wait list. In the event of cancellations, passes will be made available to [...]

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SEATTLE–Dec. 26, 2005–Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that the 2005 holiday season finished as its best ever, with the company’s Holiday Delight-O-Meter surpassing 108 million items ordered for the first time. The 2005 holiday season also brought another single-day record with the Delight-O-Meter tracking more than 3.6 million items ordered, or 41 items per [...]

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The biggest sales days of the year have come and gone, but that doesn’t mean it’s all over. Have you forgotten about the clearance sales?
You’ve probably received a bunch of e-mails from affiliate programs with post-Christmas creative. Especially those big box retailers. Take the hint and roll out those special offers.
It’s round two for online [...]

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Dear Santa -
I just wanted to thank you for giving new affiliates each year. I know some of my fellow affiliate managers don’t respect and appreciate affiliates - some even regarding them as a necessary evil. But I know the truth - they are the cogs in the affiliate marketing machine.
Without all of those content [...]

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