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 just read an announcement that Walmart.com has partnered with GoldenCAN. If you’re not familiar with GoldenCAN, it gives affiliates the ability to show a merchant’s data feed with only one [...]

FeedBurner, the largest RSS feed management provider out there, has launched the FeedBurner Ad Network.
If you subscribe to the RSS feed for this blog or you’ve ever gotten an e-mail from me with my latest blog headlines in the signature - those things were powered by FeedBurner.
Anyhow, the FeedBurner Ad Network (aka FAN) is poised [...]

We’ve been feverishly working on different ideas to enhance the Affiliate Summit experience, and one big area of focus is the networking.
The Affiliate Summit show in Orlando (July 9-11, 2006) marks the first time we’ll be running the Affiliate Summit Social Network.
We’ve also put together a guide to networking, so everybody will be properly [...]

Jim Kukral, of the Forge Corporation, has authored a white paper on how to run a successful affiliate program.
The white paper, titled Affiliate Marketing Do’s and Don’ts, is based on the experiences of the Forge Corporation affiliate management team.
Tips include “Do: Know your competition” and “Don’t: Launch a program without researching your space. Lots of [...]

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I am an affiliate of about 50 different programs. I belong to the large affiliate networks like Commission Junction, LinkShare, Kolimbo.com and Amazon.com. My question to you is I have joined some independent merchants that run their own affiliate program. I have made some sales, then they discontinue their program and NEVER pay me. Sometimes [...]

There have been lots of discussions on message boards, blogs and at affiliate marketing conferences about mainstream affiliate marketing vs. categories in affiliate marketing that some consider to be objectionable.
While it’s safe to promote shoes, books and t-shirts, I’m wondering what affiliates think about promoting other areas of affiliate marketing.
It’s well known that affiliate [...]

Four years ago, I was pissed off and dejected. I’d been working on the Web site of Cory Booker, a candidate for the Mayor of Newark, NJ.
He endured a nasty campaign against then incumbent, Sharpe James. The whole thing was chronicled in the Academy Ward nominated documentary, Street Fight. In that race, Cory lost by [...]

I’ve just finished building a whole new database for the Affiliate Tip directory (get a peek of the beta at www.affiliatetip.com/affiliate_program_directory), and it’s now ready for you to submit your affiliate program or network.
This affiliate program directory is unique in that I am already driving a substantial amount of targeted affiliate traffic to the [...]

One of the best ways to drive lots of traffic to your site is through media exposure - the sort of traffic that money cannot buy.
In order to get that sort of media exposure, the media needs to find you first.
The first step is to establish yourself as an expert in an area that interests [...]