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.One bit of feedback that came out of the last Affiliate Summit was that many people could never find somebody on the staff when they needed them.
Since we were wearing white [...]

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I wrote about a company called Instant Attention last year, as I was impressed by their slick, effective technology for beating pop-up blockers.
At the time, I was touting this new breed of pop-ups that were using DHTML to get the pop-ups to pop past the blockers.
Recently, they rebranded as AdImpact, and their “floating layer technology” [...]

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Wayne Porter recently revealed that FaceTime Security Labs identified and reported a new threat affecting instant messaging (IM) applications. This has wide reaching implications on the affiliate marketing community.
According to Porter’s blog, “E-Commerce’s Worst Nightmare- Dual BotNets- Stolen Bank Accounts,” criminals are using botnets (collection of software robots, or bots, which run autonomously) to steal [...]

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Welcome to the AffiliateTip.com Newsletter for March 2006. Be sure to check out the AffiliateTip.com blog for the latest news and information at http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/
Topics in this issue:

Should You Go to the Next Affiliate Summit?
Affiliate Tip - Create Custom Error Pages
Affiliate Summit Speaker, Kevin McCormick, on CBS/The Early Show
Affiliate Program News
Social Networks, the New [...]

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Kevin McCormick, the creator of DressKevin.com and mydrobe.com, was featured on CBS/The Early Show on Tuesday, March 14.
Kevin works with a number of affiliate programs that sell clothing. He runs some banners and has integrated product feeds into his sites. He also has Google AdSense running in content rich areas.
Kevin’s site, DressKevin.com, [...]

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I have a potential merchant with a travel site - they want to utilize cost per sale campaign with me but they don’t want to pay our affiliates per booking (they call it creative revenue) - they only want to pay when the visitor uses the booking (they call departed revenue). I am happy to [...]

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I was just looking over a press release for a new affiliate tracking software, AffPlanet.com, and the claim in the headline of their announcement caught my eye.
Their press release proclaims that they are the “World’s First Free Professional Affiliate Tracking Software”. Interesting. Provocative. False.
Back in 2000, a guy named JB McKee started up an affiliate [...]

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Is Google AdWords still viable for newcomers? Is e-mail and e-zine marketing a better option?
In my opinion, there is a distinct barrier to entry for succeeding as an affiliate. The barrier keeps back all who are not innovative, creative and hard working.
If you can figure out a new way of doing things and really put [...]

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Google has been the darling of affiliate marketers for years with both Google AdSense and Google AdWords. But are they now losing the war for hearts and minds in the affiliate marketplace?
The combination of increased competition, legal woes, and shortfalls in 2006 sales projections seems to be resulting in a perfect storm against Google.
Yahoo! Search [...]

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Nick Smith, who filled the role of Publisher of Revenue Magazine since it’s inception, has stepped down from his post.
According to a post on the Revenue Magazine blog by Editor Lisa Picarille, Nick will “be working on an innovative television project with a new media component. His new job as sales director at Morphogenix is [...]

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