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.MarketingSherpa has published a new special report: Affiliate Marketing 2007 — Commission Debate & Trademark Concerns.
The report, based on data from 329 merchants and 296 affiliates, features new information on [...]

What is your perspective on the recent interview over at New Media Age magazine with Nick Robertson, CEO of ASOS?
First, let’s start with the quote that’s gotten the UK affiliate blogs stirred up…
“Next year we’ll reintroduce affiliate marketing but as it should be, as opposed to affiliates as they were. [There'll be] no silly commissions [...]

We want to know what you want from Affiliate Summit and hope to hear from you in person about it.
In the next month or so, Missy and/or me will be at eComXpo, SES New York, and ad:tech San Francisco (booth #6452 - we are giving away the coolest shirts ever). Come say hi and share [...]

Lee Dodd has announced the launch of Earners Forum 2.0 with new tools and features, including an articles section, group blog, marketplace, and more.
Earners Forum focuses on affiliate marketing, SEO, SEM, hosting, social media and other issues relevant to Webmasters.
In addition to the enhancements at the forum, Lee also has a contest that started this [...]

This week on the Affiliate Thing show at WebmasterRadio.FM, we welcomed President and General Counsel of Media Breakaway Steven Richter, and discussed the ringtone issues recently experienced by CPA Empire (a division of Media Breakaway), how they dealt with the offending affiliate, their future with ringtones, and more.
Lisa Picarille and I also discussed whether [...]

I just received an e-mail from ClubMom affiliate manager Chris Cooper (below) notifying affiliates that the ClubMom affiliate program is closing on March 31.
I’ve got to say it brings a lump to my throat to see this announcement. After all, it was seven years ago this month that I launched the ClubMom affiliate program [...]

I have been affiliate marketing for several years for my travel site. I have had success by dealing directly with key affiliate programs versus going through ad farms like CJ. I am wanting to add to my affiliates in the area of cruises. I’m aware of Orbitz, IAN, and some others. The most I’ve seen [...]

I just stumbled on to a site called WorldCat that enables you to search for items in a library near you.
Good news for affiliate marketers that are interested in reading more about affiliate marketing and other relevant information, but don’t want to purchase the books.
The index includes over 1 billion items in more than [...]

Who just said something about your site? Keep track of what people are writing about your site with Technorati.
Technorati is a dynamic directory of posts from many millions of blogs and other forms of user generated content, like photos and videos.
You can search on the Technorati site for keywords to see who is [...]

A couple or three weeks ago, ShoeMoney reported that a CPA Empire affiliate was involved in some questionable behavior in the promotion of mobile phone ringtones.
On Wednesday, March 7th at 12:00 noon EDT, WebmasterRadio.FM welcomes Media Breakaway President and General Counsel, Steven Richter, to the “Affiliate Thing” show. Steven will discuss the ringtone issues recently [...]