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.It’s time to make your business a business. If you’ve been using your social security number when you join affiliate programs and conduct other business, you may want to rethink things.
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It sounds like the just ended Ad-Tech San Francisco was a big success. Insane growth has been a hallmark of the conference for years, but making the leap from hotels to the Moscone Center - that’s big.
There are some recaps of the show up on ReveNews. Beth Kirsch, who pinch hit for me on the [...]

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Performics has announced that they are now providing network level data for advertisers in the ConnectCommerce SM interface.
The network level statistics now available in ConnectCommerce are Earnings per Click (EPC) and Payout Rank. See example below.

3-Month EPC: Three Month Earnings per Click is the sum of fees paid to publishers in the past three months [...]

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So you missed the big land grab of the 90’s when all of the good .com address were snapped up? Don’t fret - there’s a new frontier, and you (may) still have time to get some great names.
The place to claim your name, your brand, your site, etc. is MySpace. The way your name is [...]

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There is going to be a get together for affiliate marketing in the NYC area on May 4 at 7:30 PM.
Location is Churrascaria Plataforma, located at 316 West 49th Street (between 8th and 9th Aves.).
This affiliate marketing dinner is open to all in the industry. If you’d like to be added to the reservation, please [...]

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Can it be… is affiliate marketing really dead? No, not really. Just wishful thinking from the CEO of IntegraClick?
Being the affiliate geek I am, I keep an eye on new domains registered with “affiliate” in them, and this past Monday, John Lemp, CEO/Owner of IntegraClick (or one of his underlings) registered AffiliateMarketingIsDead.com.
IntegraClick runs a [...]

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There is a new publication, Project Black Book, that has launched in conjunction with Ad-Tech San Francisco. They tout themselves as “the Journal for Interactive Marketing,” but the content is a lot saucier than the mundane tagline.
The initial Letter From the Editor (Thomas Hynes) is titled, “The Journal of Disruptive Thinking,” and that more aptly [...]

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The Wall Street Journal’s Startup Journal section has coverage of affiliate marketing today on page B8.
Columnist Kelly Spors answers questions from readers about entrepreneurship in the Small Talk column, and the question today was “Just what is the secret to making a decent income by setting up a Web site on affiliate programs?”
The answer to [...]

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Marty M. Fahncke, Founder of Conference Call University, recently sat down to discuss issues in affiliate marketing as well as a preview of Affiliate Summit 2006 East with Stephanie Schwab, Vice President of Converseon Kevin McCormick, Owner of DressKevin.com.
Stephanie Schwab and Dave Williams, Manager of E-Commerce for the Science Education Affiliate Network will be discussing [...]

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I was supposed to be in San Francisco by now for the start of Ad-Tech tomorrow. Ever since I heard about it last April, I’ve been looking forward to seeing Ad-Tech San Francisco take over the Moscone Center.
But a nasty stomach flu got in the way. It started with a couple of my kids and [...]

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