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’ve frequently encouraged affiliates to make use of their 404 error pages by serving up some relevant affiliate links to capitalize on the traffic that accidentally hits those pages.
Having over 100 [...]

Yanik Silver is thowing his second Underground Online Seminar in late March in Washington, DC and the tickets are almost sold out.
I was just chatting with him, and he mentioned that he only has 79 seats left (total) and registrations before January 31 get a discount, plus a one-on-one photo with Mini Me. It’s got [...]

I stopped by the booth for Return on Affiliate towards the end of Affiliate Summit 2006 in Vegas, and I don’t know how this neat idea has been under my radar for so long.
Return on Affiliate is sort of like LinkedIn or one of the other broad social networking communities, but it’s specific to affiliate [...]

Dave Taylor, a top-rated business blogger, has published his observations on the Affiliate Summit conference.
Dave is a 25 year technology veteran, author of twenty business and technology books, a lifelong entrepreneur who has built and sold four companies and a consistently top-rated speaker and presenter. He also runs three popular weblogs: The Intuitive Life Business [...]

Revenue Magazine, the Performance Marketing Standard Magazine, has recapped the Affiliate Summit 2006 conference.
Lisa Picarille, Editor of Revenue Magazine, touched on the education, networking, and fraternization that took place at Affiliate Summit 2006.
The Affiliate Summit 2006 in Las Vegas earlier this week was great. I met tons of interesting people doing innovative things. I think [...]

Back in December 2003, there was much ballyhoo at a press conference from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer about a case he was bringing against Delta Seven Communications, OptInRealbig.com and Synergy6.
At the press conference, a reporter asked Eliot Spitzer, “One of the issues here seems to be a question of affiliates. The Richter [...]

Jay Weintraub, Director of Market Strategy for Revenue.net, wrote an interesting piece for Digital Moses on some data that came out of Affiliate Summit 2006:
In her opening keynote address at Affiliate Summit, Anne Holland of Marketing Sherpa, said that affiliate marketing bounties and commissions will reach $6.5 billion in 2006, or roughly 40% of projected [...]

I’ve had lots of folks ask me how many affiliates attended Affiliate Summit this time around. A quick check of the attendee statistics revealed the following:

Affiliates - 23%
Merchant / Advertiser - 31%
Affiliate Network / Advertising Network / CPA Network - 34%
Vendor - 5%
Staff - 1%
Press - 2%
Service Provider - 4%
The affiliate number is actually higher [...]

I have had a sports betting website for about 14 months. I knew nothing about online marketing, SEO, html, nothing at all. I have done pretty good with it. My high month was $1,250. I have, for personal reasons, decided to get out of the gambling business. I’m just not feeling good about making money [...]

MarketingSherpa has released a recap on Affiliate Summit. They’re just back from the show and they’ve put together their notes on a number of topics, including:

Search marketing & affiliates
Blogs: two best tactics
Staffing - hiring a good manager
How the networks are competing
Anne Holland starts off with the story of one of the success stories that attended [...]