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.Brian Littleton, President/CEO of ShareASale.com, will be interviewed today on the Affiliate Thing show.
Join Lisa Picarille (Editor-in Chief of Revenue Magazine) and myself weekly for commentary on the big stories in [...]

On July 29th 2005 you answered a question with regard to compensating an affiliate manager. How different are those numbers now?
The post from July 2005 was based on the AffStat 2005 Report. In that report, I asked the affiliate managers, “What is your annual salary (including incentives and bonuses)?”. The results were as follows.

Less than $40k
21%

$40k to [...]

It’s been more than 43 years since the Beatles took the U.S. by storm with their storied appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Today marks a new wave as U.K. affiliate network buy.at soft launches into the U.S.
Malcolm Cowley, Strategic Accounts Director of buy.at, is heading up the drive into the U.S. under CEO Kevin Cornils, [...]

Got any tips for being a full time affiliate at home?
The first thing I would suggest is to pick up a copy of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen.
It’s a great book. It will give you lots of tips on streamlining the way you do things. I’ve found it to [...]

MarketingSherpa is conducting their 2007 Affiliate and Merchant Survey and they’re looking for your input.

ShoeMoney reported a few days ago that a CPA Empire affiliate was involved in some questionable behavior in the promotion of mobile phone ringtones.

The Affiliate Thing podcast, hosted be Lisa Picarille, Editor-in-Chief of Revenue magazine, and myself, has a new address: WebmasterRadio.FM.

I came across BubblePLY back in December 2006 and was really impressed by their technology that enables affiliates and anybody else to easily make creative additions to any online video.

Affiliate Thing podcast #12 is now available to stream or download. The latest show featured an interview with Jim Kukral, Publisher of ReveNews.
We chatted about Jim’s new project, Affiliate Marketing Friends, and the overall boom of creativity and friendliness that has perpetuated in the affiliate industry over the last few months.
We tried to come [...]

What are some examples of affiliate sites that sell consumer products and are appealing to the eye?