Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

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How do you keep the coupons current on an affiliate coupon directory?
It’s a pretty simple procedure, though a little bit laborious. Just keep on top of all of the affiliate newsletters [...]

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I’ve been using AdMob for a few weeks now to serve ads on the mobile phone version of my blog, and I had sort of forgotten about it until today.
I was just checking my stats, and was surprised to see that people are hitting my site in increasing numbers on their phones.
The volume is still [...]

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German newspaper publisher Axel Springer and Swiss-based PubliGroupe have announced an agreement to buy the German-based affiliate network zanox for €214.9 million euros ($288 US).
Springer will be putting up 60 percent of the purchase price, and PubliGroupe will account for the other 40 percent.
Visit zanox at booth #25 at Affiliate Summit, taking place July 8-10 [...]

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This week on Affiliate Thing we welcomed Joel Comm, who is running the Internet reality show, the Next Internet Millionaire.
Topics discussed included the inspiration for the upcoming show, how somebody can become a contestant, and a charity that is benefiting from it.
We also touched on the affiliate manager that cleverly used some donuts, [...]

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Ben Edelman, assistant professor at the Harvard Business School and spyware researcher, has published updates to his work.
Nearly three years ago, Ben explained how software from Zango (then called 180solutions) could rip off merchants by claiming commission on organic traffic.
When users simply type in a site’s address and make a purchase, merchants shouldn’t have [...]

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ShareASale recently ran a contest where they asked for video submissions that would explain the story behind their star logo.
Well, the video submissions are in, and now they are collecting votes for the videos through June 15.
My video, To Catch a Parasite, is among the finalists, and I come here humbly to you today to [...]

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I came across a post on ABestWeb titled, “Affiliate Manager Brings Doughnuts,” by a guy named Greg Hoffman today, and it caught my attention on a couple of levels.
Greg is interested in a particular job, one he referred to on his blog as “the perfect position in affiliate marketing.” In an effort to stand out [...]

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I was just looking at a dusty copy of my book, Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants, and thought I should bring that sucker into a new format.
The paperback and electronic versions are still out there for purchase, but they’re pretty stale at this point. So I’ve decided to bring the book to affiliate managers [...]

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I read the book, Marketing Outrageously, by Jon Spoelstra during my epic flight to San Francisco for ad-tech in April, and I think that was one of the most enjoyable marketing books I’ve read.
Jon Spoelstra has been a very successful sports marketers, and his contention is that there is less risk and more payoff in [...]

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Express Yourself LIVE

I am playing around with a site called Stickam.com, which is a video community where you can broadcast yourself with a live stream and interact.
I saw that Jim Kukral was using this service to broadcast himself as he works on Fridays. The video alone isn’t so intense and exciting, but the combination of [...]

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