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 gave my first affiliate marketing presentation back in the 90’s. December 2, 1999 to be exact. The show was Affiliate Solutions ‘99 in New York City and I co-presented “Affiliate [...]

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I came across a weird thing as part of the news around Google acquiring DoubleClick. According to the FAQ from Google on acquiring DoubleClick…
Q. What will Google do with Performics?
A. Performics is part of DoubleClick, and we are acquiring it as part of the transaction. We have no plans to dispose of it at this [...]

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Google to Acquire Performics
Beer and T-shirts from Affiliate Summit
Affiliate Summit London: September 28
Affiliate Program News
Questions on Video and Affiliate Marketing
Top 10 Affiliate Programs - March 2007

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Affiliate Summit is going to have a booth at Ad-Tech in San Francisco - booth 6452.
We’d love for you to stop by the booth, and we’ve got a couple of cheap ploys to get you there.
On April 25 in the exhibit hall, I’ll be tapping a keg and pouring free beers to all booth visitors [...]

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I just got an email from a merchant stating that a bunch of affiliates are violating their bid cap policies on both Google AdWords and Yahoo! Sponsored Search. How could they determine that without the bidder’s permission and without violating privacy policies of the PPC accounts?
I’m not sure what this particular merchant is doing, [...]

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Google will acquire DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in cash from San Francisco-based private equity firm Hellman & Friedman along with JMI Equity and management, according to the press release issued by Google. Performics is a division of DoubleClick.
Stuart Frankel, President of Performics, sent out a message to affiliates Friday with the subject: DoubleClick to be [...]

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AdBrite has launched an interesting type of creative this week called BritePic. It’s an easy way to add interactivity to your pictures.
BritePic enables you to include advertising from AdBrite into the pictures, as well as having the photos link to the URL of your choosing.
Other features include RSS, captions, and the ability to add [...]

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Don Imus has been in hot water since last week when he called the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos.” People can’t distance themselves from him fast enough.
Many of his sponsors pulled their campaigns and Presidential candidates were calling for Imus’ ouster. CBS Radio suspended him for two weeks, and MSNBC announced Wednesday they will [...]

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The latest episode of Affiliate Thing features an interview with Tara Hunt, Co-Founder & Chief Trouble Maker of Citizen Agency, to discuss Pinko Marketing, why PR does not work, the importance of relationship building, and more.
We also discussed the controversial video parody: To Catch a Parasite, affiliates monetizing Web 2.0, goofy advice from John [...]

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I have a question about self-replicating Web sites… how effective are they?
My recommendation would be to avoid self-replicating Web sites. For the most part, I’ve seen them offered through Multi-Level Marketing schemes, rather than affiliate programs.
However, there are certainly some affiliate programs that do have them.
Anyhow, these self-replicating Web sites are geared [...]

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