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.How does he do it? That’s what people are always asking about Joel Comm. It seems he is putting out great AdSense resources every week: tools, seminars, e-books, real books, etc.
Yesterday, [...]

The issue of affiliate network employees acting as affiliates in their own time is not going away. I keep hearing from affiliates who are mad as hell about the whole situation.
If you are not familiar with this situation, where some former CJ employees were playing the affiliate game while collecting a CJ paycheck, it’s been [...]

Yahoo! sent out an e-mail today announcing the Yahoo! Publisher Network Blog. According to the announcement, this blog is intended to be the Yahoo! Publisher Network resource for publishers, by publishers.
Plans are for this blog to have the latest on issues, new releases, and tips for the YPN, as well as in-depth how-to’s, publisher interviews, [...]

On Thursday, April 20th at 3 p.m. EDT / Noon PDT, Affiliate Summit and Conference Call University will be hosting the third Affiliate Summit Preview call with three guests: Stephanie Schwab, Dave Williams, and Kevin McCormick.
First up will be Stephanie Schwab, Vice President of Converseon and Dave Williams, Manager of E-Commerce for the Science Education [...]

Community is a core component to many successful affiliates. Forums and message boards can be effective, but everybody has one. Set your site apart with conference calls.
While hosting conference calls can be expensive, there is a free service called Free Conference Call that will provide a line for up to 96 people to call [...]

I have an open rate in the single digits, and I hear that is pretty horrible. How can I get more people to open my newsletters. I am not sending junk - it’s original content with some related affiliate ads.
There are a whole bunch of factors that contribute to your e-mail being opened by people [...]

Connect Magazine, Utah’s Business Publication, recently published an article that profiles super affiliate, Jeremy Palmer, and provides an overview of the industry.
Jeremy Palmer is the founder of QuitYourDayJob.com, and he quit his own job as a Web developer after discovering affiliate marketing. He recently published an e-book, High Performance Affiliate Marketing.
The e-book is an insider’s [...]

Michael Brucker of WebEx just published an interesting study on affiliate-based clicks into a CJ merchant’s site.
The study chronicles the impact of paid and natural search clicks (and direct URL entry) on affiliate cookies. He created six models where a visitor lands on a merchant’s site via an affiliate-based click but doesn’t convert.
According [...]

I am a new affiliate manager, and I don’t know where to start. How can I get on the fast track to running my affiliate program?
Recently, I put out a list of the tools and services I use to power my online marketing business. Those were general listings of things that could help any affiliate [...]

Google AdSense affiliates can now earn commission on referrals of new AdWords accounts. When a user signs up for Google AdWords through your referral and spends their first $100.00 in advertising, they’ll credit your account with $20.00.
The banners for these referrals (there are no text links!) are similar to those made available for referring [...]