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.

The finalists have been determined for the first annual Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards.

I’ve been hearing and reading about Second Life from some of the big minds in the business I respect, like Jeff Doak, Sam Harrelson and Wayne Porter. But is it something affiliate marketers should be getting in to (if they’re not already)?

I just came across a tragic post over at the Super Affiliate Marketing Blog from Jon of the Wicked Fire forum.

The Affiliate Summit preview conference call series will feature Wil Reynolds from SEER
Interactive and Kellie Stevens from AffiliateFairPlay.com on Thursday, December 7th, 2006 at 3pm Eastern Time.

I see there is an Internet Marketing board game coming out on November 28 and there is a contest going on to guess the name.

Super Affiliate Strategies for Sustainable Businesses, a presentation by Rosalind Gardner at Affiliate Summit 2006 East, is now available as a transcript.

I am looking at offering my services as an affiliate marketer to small businesses. Where can I look for clients who are looking for people to run their affiliate programs and what would be the average salary expectations for a small business?

Once upon a time (1999), there was a Dot Com company based on the premise that it’s members would “Get Paid to Surf the Web.” That company was AllAdvantage, and it mercifully left us in 2001.
AGLOCO is a new iteration of AllAdvantage where users will be able to “Own the Internet.”
The former AllAdvantage Chairman and [...]

What is the best way for an affiliate to build a downline?

Shop.org has launched an affiliate charity site, Cyber Monday: the online holiday shopping mall.
Cyber Monday, a term coined last year by Shop.org, represents a trend initially recognized a number of years ago, when many retailers saw spikes in sales and traffic as consumers went back to work after the Thanksgiving Day holiday.
CyberMonday.com features nearly [...]