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.I’ve gotten word that Greg “Donut Guy” Hoffman got the job. A couple weeks back, Greg posted on ABestWeb that he was trying to get an affiliate management job, and in [...]

This week on Affiliate Thing we welcomed Jon, the Forum Fuhrer at WickedFire.com.
Topics discussed included Jon’s unhealthy love of e books, how he is helping to market the eBook community, and thoughts on good and bad networks.
Shawn and Lisa also touched on mobile phone affiliate stats, PopShops, MFA (Made for AdSense) sites going [...]

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Affiliate Summit is once again working in tandem with a charity for the upcoming show in Miami. This past January in Las Vegas, affiliate marketers combined to donate nearly $25,000 to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Nevada.
We are working with the March of Dimes, a non-profit health organization that works to prevent premature birth [...]

Adam Viener, President of Imwave, moderated a panel on “How to Recruit Super Affiliates” at Affiliate Summit 2007 West.
He asked a question as to whether there is a preference for working with affiliate managers who work in-house at a merchant, account representatives at an affiliate network, or outsourced affiliate managers.
Dan Murray, Internet Marketing Strategist at [...]

This week on Affiliate Thing we welcome Jon from the Wicked Fire forum to talk about what’s going on in affiliate marketing.
Both Lisa Picarille and myself will be streaming video during the show. Mine is below and you can see Lisa at http://www.stickam.com/profile/revenuelisap.

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This is chapter 1, “What is Affiliate Marketing?,” of the video edition of my book, Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants.
In brief, I usually describe affiliate marketing as the online equivalent of Avon.
Back when I was growing up, we had the Avon lady in the neighborhood. She would sell cosmetics door to door, and [...]

The Federal Trade Commission has opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google’s planned $3.1 billion purchase of the online advertising company DoubleClick, according to a report in the New York Times.
The inquiry began at the end of last week, after it was decided that the Federal Trade Commission instead of the Justice Department would conduct [...]

Shop builders and showcases have been around affiliate marketing for years, and the concept continually evolves. Lately, I’ve been playing with PopShops, which bills itself as “a new generation of affiliate tools.”
Features of PopShops include the ability to search for products across multiple networks and merchants; personalized product recommendations with ease; customized showcases with easy-to-use [...]

I’m starting off the video edition of Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants with an introduction to the book.
This will be followed in the near future by a thirteen part video series on each of the chapters of the book.
The book is a little outdated at this point. I wrote it at the end of [...]

How do I find companies that have affiliate programs?
One thing you could do is just go into Google and search for “affiliate directory.” You’ll then see a list of the leading affiliate directories, which you can use to find companies by name and category that offer affiliate programs.
Also, you could go to the bigger affiliate [...]