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.There has been an increasing trend in gaming affiliate programs to recruit affiliates that haven’t previously tried their hand at promoting poker, slots, blackjack, etc.
According to data I collected recently, affiliates [...]

The Disney World Resort Hilton is all sold out for the Affiliate Summit conference, but you can still book at hotels in the same area.
The following hotels are in walking distance of the Hilton in order of proximity:

Buena Vista Palace: 407-827-2727
Royal Plaza: 407-828-2828
Grosvenor: 407-828-4444
Doubletree: 407-934-1000
The Affiliate Summit conference starts on Sunday, July 9 at 2 [...]

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GoldenCAN has announced that their Coupon Integration (coupons and recent price drops) feature will now be available in XML, RSS and preformatted HTML (GetData).
GetRSS will return a valid RSS document that you can use in any RSS Reader and get the data on your website.
GetXML will enable affiliates to make a simple http call to [...]

zanox, the German-based affiliate network, has been blazing a trail around the U.S. with their zanox PRM (Partner Relationship Management) product, and soon they’ll be rolling out a shopping portal for affiliates.
According to their white paper on zanox-Shop@, it’s all about multi channel sales for affiliates. The zanox-Shop@ shopping portal enables affiliates to point traffic [...]

Earlier this week, Performics announced their new OrangeLinks - pre-generated, live links sent via e-mail or FTP to affiliates.
The new OrangeLinks were promoted by Performics as an easy and productive way to receive new links for any or all of your approved advertisers.
Not surprisingly, affiliate marketing blogs and forums couldn’t help comparing OrangeLinks [...]

Affiliate Summit 2006 East will wrap up with a session called Affiliate Summit Lessons Learned.
This final hour of the conference will be a succession of affiliate marketing thought leaders and visionaries who will share topline tips.
Each speaker will take the stage for a minute or two and provide attendees with some useful and innovative [...]

I got an e-mail today with the subject: Shari’s Berries Termination. I think I joined the affiliate program just to research their communications a while back, so I wasn’t surprised that they’d be dumping me for inactivity.
I was surprised when I read the e-mail, though. They are closing the program in two days for a [...]

There is an article at Startup Nation that’s helpful for affiliate marketing newbies.
The piece covers some issues facing affiliate managers, including how many affiliates to have in an affiliate program, commission rates, and affiliate recruitment.
Some off base verbiage though. Referencing “multi-tier affiliations” should have been two-tiers, as affiliate programs don’t go past two-tiers. An [...]

I’ve had a handful of people ask why the speed networking session was dropped from the Affiliate Summit agenda.
Back in 2003 when I came up with the idea to have speed networking (hybrid of speed dating and networking) at the conference, we had a comparably small crowd.
As we’ve scaled up, the speed networking [...]