Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

Thanks for visiting the Affiliate Tip blog. Subscribe to my RSS feed or enter your e-mail on the top right to get updates by e-mail.I just heard about the new Shopzilla affiliate program from Affiliate Manager, David Weinrot. Sounds like a compelling offer: a CPC model where affiliates earn a percentage (60%) of the revenue [...]

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GreasyPalm.co.uk, one of the UK’s largest consumer rewards websites, has announced the launch of their white label cashback services.
The white label of GreasyPalm will allow sites to offer their own branded cashback shopping service where members can earn cash rewards from over 850 participating retailers.
“We’re very pleased to offer white label partnerships out [...]

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How can I monitor my affiliates who are using e-mail to be sure they are being CAN-SPAM compliant?
I’ve got two tools I’d recommend that you check out. First is LashBack.com, where they have a suite of tools to enable advertisers to monitor affiliate CAN-SPAM Act compliance.
Also, there is UnsubCentral.com, which enables you to manage your [...]

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The latest episode of Affiliate Thing features an interview with Wade Tonkin, founder of Christian Affiliate Marketers and Shmuly Tennenhaus, recently nominated Most Eligible Hassidic Bachelor at Shmais.com and a former affiliate manager for Ice.com.
The topic for the show was the role of faith, or a lack of it, in affiliate marketing.
I also touched [...]

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There was a report from Reuters today that DoubleClick is exploring a sale and they are in talks with Microsoft (MSFT), and other potential buyers.
Being that Performics is a division of DoubleClick, the company could potentially be a Bill Gates property in the future.
If this were to happen, it could have a significant impact on [...]

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There is an updated release of MarketingSherpa’s E-commerce Benchmark Guide with lots of helpful information for affiliate managers.
This new MarketingSherpa guide covers a number of areas, such as raising shopper-to-buyer conversions, lowering shopping cart abandons, and improving search engine marketing ROI.
Also, there are 223 charts & tables, 1,913 ecommerce marketer’s data, survey results from [...]

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I figured even the most hardcore cheats in affiliate marketing would know better than to continue promoting “free ringtones” since the Florida Attorney General officially opened an investigation on the matter last week.
It appears some people never learn, or they’re just too damn greedy.
Earlier today, I searched on Google for “free cingular ringtones” and to [...]

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Amazon.com (AMZN) has launched the beta of their Context Links for affiliates. According to Amazon.com, “context Links automatically identify and link relevant phrases within your page content to Amazon products, unlocking new ad inventory and saving you the time from having to manually create links.”
Context Links require a short piece of code embedded on your [...]

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If you want to make the trip to the next Affiliate Summit, but can’t come up with the budget to register, there is an opportunity to earn your way there by making a 30-60 second video on why you want to go to Affiliate Summit.
You’ve got through the end of April to create and submit [...]

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Jim Kukral, recipient of the “Best Blogger” award at the recent Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards, has been named the Blogging Room Captain for the next Affiliate Summit (July 8-10, 2007 in Miami).
At Affiliate Summit, we sure do love bloggers, and we want to make things as easy as we can for them to cover the [...]

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