Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

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Can a million dollar business model be based primarily on affiliate activity?
I wouldn’t personally stake a whole business on the performance of the affiliate program for the company.
The affiliate program can [...]

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Back on June 6, 1944 in the offline world, the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II took place. This day, the one when the Battle of Normandy began, was also known as D-Day.
Approximately 63 years to the day after D-Day, Google is launching their own offensive to [...]

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The May 2007 issue of Affiliate Classroom Magazine focuses on the importance of an affiliate getting traffic to their Web site.
The cover story is “5 Days To More Free Traffic”, where they give a day-by-day plan that shows you one thing you can do each day for the next five days to increase your [...]

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Affiliate Summit London magazine ad, originally uploaded by Affiliate.

This advertisement for Affiliate Summit London 2007 will be used in print media leading up to the September 28 conference.

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I read about the launch of the Microsoft Affiliate Network over at Mike Allen’s blog on ReveNews yesterday.
Interesting stuff - according to Mike, who received an invite to join the affiliate program…
This network, which “exclusively encompasses all the Microsoft premier affiliate opportunities,” launched today and is built on a customized version of Kowabunga’s MyAP v9 [...]

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This week on Affiliate Thing we welcomed Brian Littleton, President/CEO of ShareASale.com. Topics discussed included the ShareASale video contest that just ended, “Make-A-Widget” tool, and the ABestWeb dinner in NYC.
We also touched on inline ads at YouTube, eBay commission changes, Joel Comm’s new Internet reality show, the relaunch of affiliates4u.com, and whether Affiliate Summit [...]

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I was reading some posts on the Wicked Fire forum this morning and came across one where somebody was looking for advice on his new blog. So I went to check it out.
Great - another mongrel that thinks it’s acceptable to celebrate and encourage fraud.
One of his posts explained how affiliates could scam affiliate programs [...]

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I was just looking over the agenda for Affiliate Summit and came up with the five things I am looking forward to the most this coming July in Miami.
In no particular order…

Monday keynote from Ze Frank
Tuesday keynote discussion with Lisa Riolo (MC), Rob Kniaz (Product Manager at Google), and Mark Papia (VP of Performance Marketing [...]

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Affiliates4u, the biggest affiliate marketing forum in the UK, has relaunched with a laundry list of new features to enhance networking.
The forum was founded by Matthew Wood, who will also be running the a4uexpo this October in London.
The site enables members to build detailed profiles of both themselves and their companies, and then their technology [...]

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eBay has announced two changes that will affect the eBay US affiliate program beginning June 1, 2007. There will be an increase in commission rates and changes to the terms regarding paid search.
According to the message sent to ebay affiliates…
The main objectives of the price change are to:

Encourage partners to increase promotional efforts with [...]

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