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.

There has been a lot of talk and little action when it comes to the convergence of mobile phones and affiliate marketing.
But that could all change now with the launch of a new WordPress Mobile Plugin. Now affiliates can make their WordPress site accessible on a mobile phone with WordPress Mobile.
After installing the [...]

Affiliate Summit 2007 East, taking place July 8-10 in Miami, early bird registrations are ending April 30.
Full conference passes will be increasing in price from $949 to $1,449 starting on May 1, 2007. Exhibit hall only passes are going up from $199 to $299 on May 1, 2007.
No deadline extensions – no exceptions.
Visit http://www.affiliatesummit.com/07e_conference.php [...]

It all started out as a mere annoyance. Somebody by the name of Jenna, the Affiliate Coordinator for Affilorama.com, submitted a letter to the contact form for my consulting site with the subject, “Hi there ”.
Just a quick email, I don’t want to take up too much of you time. My name is Jenna [...]

Lisa Riolo, former senior vice president of business development at Commission Junction, was the special guest on the Affiliate Thing show.
Lisa Picarille and myself recorded it live from the floor at Ad-Tech in San Francisco and chatted with Lisa Riolo about breaking news in affiliate marketing and trends in the industry, as well as the [...]

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Revenue Magazine Session: Leveraging Lifetime Customer Value into eCommerce Gains, originally uploaded by Affiliate.

Here is the panel I was on at ad:tech 2007 in San Franicsco, “Revenue Magazine Session: Leveraging Lifetime Customer Value into eCommerce Gains.”
Today’s modern marketer already knows that embracing customers will bring business rewards. Join Lisa Picarille, Editor-in-Chief of Revenue magazine, [...]

I was just going through my rather sizable stack of business cards from ad:tech in San Francisco and one stuck out. It came from Ryan Zimmerman of Clickspeed.
Those Clickspeed guys always seem to come out with a different, funny business card at each show, but this was my favorite to date.

Nice job over there – [...]

There’s lots of buzz about video being so hot and affiliates are trying to figure out how they can cash in on it. There is a site where you can create your own video community and generate revenue through Google Adsense and Revver called Magnify.net.
Magnify sites include several types of advertising messages:

Text Links and [...]

Missy Ward, Jeremy Schoemaker (ShoeMoney), and Shawn Collins, originally uploaded by Affiliate.

Jeremy Schoemaker (ShoeMoney) stops by the Affiliate Summit booth at ad:tech in San Francisco.
Jeremy will be speaking at Affiliate Summit 2007 East on “Monetizing Communities.”

I’m in San Francisco for ad:tech right now and we’ve closed out the first day of the exhibit hall.
I’ve video blogged the cross country trek from Newark, NJ to San Francisco for ad:tech 2007.
Lot’s of action is going on at ad:tech where we’ve got a booth for Affiliate Summit for the first time.
From the [...]

How can an affiliate be expected to start creating sites (each domain/hosting is around $100 for 2 years) when a profit has not even been generated from the first site? I was thinking I would launch ten domains each selling different products.
One thing I’d like to correct with your cost estimate is that it [...]