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’ve been reading a lot lately about affiliate link hijacking and link cloaking. Do you recommend any particular link cloaking software or technique and/or are there any particular ones to steer [...]

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MarketingSherpa’s E-mail Marketing Summit is coming up soon — April 21-22 in Chicago. The vast majority of the speakers will be marketers (not vendors), so it’s a good opportunity for affiliate marketers to learn from the real players.
MarketingSherpa’s Email Summit includes 21 Case Studies from real-world email marketers (big and small) including American Airlines, IBM, [...]

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The February 2006 issue of I was just reading Anik Singal’s Affiliate Classroom magazine is now available.
The feature story is Inside European Affiliate Marketing, which starts out with the bold declaration that the European market is potentially as lucrative as the U.S. market for affiliate marketing.
There are some compelling arguments there. For instance, the article [...]

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I would like to ask a couple questions about affiliate recruiting software: have you used them and what kind of results can I expect? I hear these are the top solutions: Affiliate Finder Pro, Super Affiliate Tracker, Internet Success Spider, and Link Capture. The prices are all very different, there seems to be no gauge [...]

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KowaBunga! has announced a new service for online businesses that wish to utilize the power of blogs to bolster their online efforts, whether it’s for brand building, communication with their customers, or to simply help sell more of their products and services.
The new service, KB! Blog Services from KowaBunga!, was built to help merchants [...]

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I was reading a thread in a forum the other day where a new merchant lamented, “why won’t any affiliates join my affiliate program”?
This is one of the most frequently asked questions by newbie affiliate managers, and it’s high time somebody explained the situation to them.
The reality that too many folks don’t realize is that [...]

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Registration is now open for the next Affiliate Summit, taking place July 9-11 in Orlando. Register now at affiliatesummit.com
The conference is taking place at the Hilton, located in the WALT DISNEY WORLD® Resort, and the Affiliate Summit discounted rate is $112/night.
Rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Ask for the “Affiliate Summit Rate” / [...]

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My goal is to make 25 to 30 different Web sites on different topics - each having 500 to 700 odd pages per Web site. Through these 25 Web sites, I want to gross US $60 to $80 per month promoting different category products, as well as having Google AdSense income on each Web site. [...]

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If you’ve attended previous Affiliate Summit events, you know the information shared there through the educational tracks has been first rate.
After each event, I’ve noticed a number of people blogging about what they learned at the event, and many people have clearly profited by what they’ve learned about SEO, legal, marketing, PPC, and [...]

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The next Affiliate Summit show will be held July 9-11, 2006 in Orlando, FL, and speaker proposals are currently being accepted. The deadline for speaker proposals is February 28, 2006.
Educational sessions at the Affiliate Summit will be in the following formats: debates, panel discussions, solo presentations, and roundtable discussions.
Affiliate Summit will have two tracks, one [...]

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