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.I just came across a credit card offer that ought to pique the interest of most any affiliate marketer out there. Advanta has launched a credit card just for affiliate marketers.
While [...]

The Affiliate Summit exhibit hall passes are all gone. And it looks like the full conference passes are going to be gone by Christmas.
As we saw last year, after tickets sold out, they went for 50% higher or more on eBay. Currently, you can register for $1,449 for full conference access, including speed networking, lunches, [...]

The following is what Franklin Banker of BBL Media had to say in response to the question, What is the Future of Affiliate Marketing?
I believe the future of affiliate marketing is good, and the model will continue on as a successful way for merchants to bring targeted buyers into their sites for a reasonable ROI. [...]

The December 2005 issue of Affiliate Classroom magazine is now available, and it’s an interesting read. The feature story is about trends in affiliate marketing for 2006.
According to Anik Singal, Founder and CEO of AffiliateClassroom.com, we’ll see better relationships fostered between affiliate managers and affiliates in 2006, a new breed of merchant that cares about [...]

By Linda L. Goodman, Esq.
Recently, an e-mail marketer and its owners paid over $621,000.00 to settle a Federal Trade Commission Complaint that charged the Defendants and their affiliates with practices that violated federal laws.
The settlement included an injunction preventing the company and its affiliates from future violations of the CAN-SPAM Act and requires [...]

The registrations are just about closed for the next Affiliate Summit, taking place at Bally’s Las Vegas from January 8 to 10, 2006. We’re closing in on 1,000 attendees (up from 550 attendees at the June 2005 Affiliate Summit event).
The exhibit floor has more than tripled in size from June 2005, too. Look for that [...]

I recently put together an overview of various technologies related to the Internet that can help bridge the digital generational divide within families.
One product that I found to be very interesting was the MSN TV 2 Internet & Media Player. It’s sort of the next generation of what you knew as WebTV years ago.
I think [...]

In just a few weeks, Affiliate Summit 2006 will be taking over Las Vegas, and one of the many highlights promises to be the panel on the future of affiliate marketing.
The moderator for the panel is Peter Figueredo, CEO of NETexponent, and the panelists are…

Todd Crawford, VP of Sales, Commission Junction
Steve Denton, Senior Vice President [...]

Jeff Molander reported yesterday that Commission Junction is kicking AzoogleAds out of the CJ network.
While the reason given from CJ in removing AzoogleAds was that AzoogleAds was not compliant, there is speculation whispering about that CJ considers MPORT (a relatively new affiliate network from AzoogleAds) as a competitor - if not now, perhaps in the [...]

The following is what Vikram Vora of Shaadi.com Matrimonials had to say in response to the question, What is the Future of Affiliate Marketing?
In Affiliate Marketing, the 80 – 20 rule applies (i.e. 80% of your revenue comes from 20% of your affiliates).
It is advisable to work with a selected group of affiliates and [...]