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’m totally new to Internet business, so I know nothing about how to start to make earnings through affiliate programs. What is the first step I should take to enter this [...]

Pictures are now live from the first day of Affiliate Summit 2006 East.
Photos from Day 1 include the exhibit hall booth setup, the Affiliate Meet Market and Vendor Showcase, and the Ice Breakers Networking Event.
Debbie “Loxly” Carney and her team of photographers captured the action.
Affiliate Summit pictures are available at Snapfish.com. Reminder: there was a [...]

Wow - I knew Joel Comm was Dr. AdSense and all, but had no idea he was an Internet marketing rock star of this magnitude. Just saw that he is on the New York Times Best Sellers list.
Joel’s Book, The AdSense Code, is listed as #6 on the NY Times Paperback Business Best Sellers [...]

The July 2006 issue of Affiliate Classroom Magazine is out and this month’s issue focuses on affiliates diversifying their traffic tactics.
According to Affiliate Classroom, one of the best ways to get ongoing targeted traffic for the long haul is to syndicate your content through online article databases. This method is known as “article marketing.”
Check [...]

There are now a whole bunch of videos from Affiliate Summit live on YouTube.
We’ve added a couple dozen interviews with exhibitors from Affiliate Summit 2006 East, so you can learn more about the opportunities available to affiliates.
The featured exhibitor videos are from:

Anik Singal of Affiliate Classroom
Joshua Sloan of 1&1 Internet
Jeff French of AdDrive
Debbie Carney aka [...]

I am very new to this whole realm of Affiliate Marketing and I am starting from scratch. I want to use review blogs to begin, so I am attempting a system geared toward that. I get stuck on the smallest issues and seem to spend most of my time researching and researching. Can you give [...]

There is an article in the Wall Street Journal Online today by David Kesmodel, “The Lifeblood of Online Porn,” that discusses the impact of affiliate marketing on the online adult industry.
While the hyper competitive adult space tends to breed a lot of problematic affiliates who spam via e-mail, forums, blogs, etc., the overall mechanics of [...]

The third annual Bodog.com Marketing Conference, scheduled for July 23-35, 2006 at Wynn Las Vegas has been postponed.
The Bodog.com Marketing Conference had a focus on providing you with the tools necessary to “Ignite Your Online Gaming Business,” according to their Web site.
No new date has been announced for the conference.
They have a toll free [...]

We are soliciting opinions, feedback, ideas, etc. for the next Affiliate Summit.
Please note that there is only one place where we are collecting feedback, and that is in our feedback form at www.affiliatesummit.com/feedback.
I’ve been contacted by a number of people (those who did and didn’t attend Affiliate Summit) that Richard Lewis of Return On Affiliate [...]

zanox is running an event for affiliates on Tuesday, July 25 in Chicago called the zanox Academy.
The zanox Academy is being sponsored by Encyclopedia Britannica, Date.com, Matchmaker.com and DADAmobile and it starts at 1 PM.
There will be a number of presentations (I’ll be pitching in with one from a secret, remote location) and discussions. [...]