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.I am looking forward to using affiliate programs, but I have a small question… what does the comission threshold mean? Does it mean that the maximum comission is $100 dollars (for [...]

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The following is what Debbie L. Johnsen of Rail Europe had to say in response to the question, What is the Future of Affiliate Marketing?
The number of online retailers and service providers with affiliate programs will only increase over the next few years.
Affiliate programs have become a major revenue stream for so many companies, [...]

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History is repeating itself for Affiliate Summit. Just as this past June when tickets sold out, they are now popping up on eBay.
There is, at least, one Affiliate Summit auction that started late last night, and it’s running for seven days.
Here’s the copy from the auction:
Affiliate Summit 2006 (www.affiliatesummit.com) is sold out, but I’ve [...]

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Affiliate Summit 2006, taking place January 8-10 at Bally’s Las Vegas, has sold out with 1,000 attendees registered.
This marks the fourth Affiliate Summit conference to sell out. The first event took place in November 2003 with a total of 200 attendees. In June 2004, the conference had a slight increase to 230 attendees. Then in [...]

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Anik Singal, the founder and CEO of Affiliate Classroom, has published a case study for affiliate managers on running competitions to activate and incent affiliates.
The case study from Anik covers the following areas:

Secrets to Boosting Affiliate Sales
Affiliate Business Boosting Method (ABBM)
Finding the Right Incentives
The Way to Maximize Results
Analyzing, Conceptualizing, Planning
Promoting the Competition
The Golden Formula
Your Blueprint [...]

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Back in November, there was much talk about Cyber Monday (the first Monday after Thanksgiving) being the big online shopping day of the year.
But as the numbers came in, Cyber Monday turned out to be more of a silly marketing ploy from Shop.org to get journalists to quote Scott Silverman, executive director of Shop.org.
According [...]

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Reuters has announced a new affiliate program that will enable blogs, news organizations and other online publishers to feature Reuters news video on their Web sites.
The video from Reuters will not require any installations from visitors to the affiliate’s sites, rather it will be embedded into the sites and compatible with Windows and Mac.
But here’s [...]

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Did you ever work with one of those people that openly made phone calls in the office for their job search? They were not happy with their current situation, and decided it was time to move on. Fair enough.
But their lack of discretion was always amazing to me.
I was reminded of that sort of behavior [...]

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Affiliates4u, the top affiliate marketing forum in the U.K., has expanded to Australia, Europe and the United States.
Each new area requires a new registration:

a4uforum.com: Affiliate Marketing Forum USA
a4ueuropa.com: Affiliate Marketing Forum Europe
a4uaustralia.com: Affiliate Marketing Forum Australia
I’d suggest joining and participating in all of these forums, so you can keep an eye on International trends in [...]

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I’m continuing a tradition that I started up back in the old century by collecting New Year’s Affiliate Resolutions.
I’d like to know where you see things heading, what you plan to do or change, forecasts, predictions, etc. That sort of thing. It’s quick and easy - no more than 100 words and the due [...]

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