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 was just looking through my WordPress dashboard and saw an incoming link from a site called Affiliate Fortune Cookies.
Hmm… what’s this new site? So I check out affiliatefortunecookies.com. It’s got [...]

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I just wrapped up webinar on how to effectively network at Affiliate Summit and it’s now available to replay.
The Webinar is under 20 minutes and I packed in a bunch of tips and pointers to help anybody make the most of networking before, during and after Affiliate Summit.
You can access the Affiliate Summit [...]

I’ve never watched The Apprentice. It’s got nothing to do with being a TV snob - I watch plenty of garbage (”Flavor of Love: Charm School,” anyone?).
I think it comes down more to the whole concept. Being an entrepreneur, I have no aspiration to work for somebody else. My dream job has nothing to do [...]

There has been lots of speculation over how advertising will work for YouTube videos. Most of what I’ve seen has suggested that it will be all about pre-roll and post-roll ads.
But according to a report at NewTeeVee, “YouTube’s New Inline Ads: Screenshots“…
YouTube is experimenting with inline ads, showing a text ad at the bottom of [...]

I’ve written a lot of content over the years, and I’m always irritated to fond that some scraper creep has taken it as their own.
More often than not, they are appropriating my content for SEO purposes and AdSense revenue.
Anyhow, it’s fine with me if people reprint my content, so long as it is on [...]

LinkShare Symposium 2007 is coming up June 20 in New York City at Chelsea Piers. The theme of this Symposium is Performance Marketing 2.0: Innovation & Collaboration.
The keynote speaker will be Don Tapscott, author of 11 widely read books about information technology in business and society, including Paradigm Shift, Growing Up Digital and The Naked [...]

On Thursday, May 10, Haiko de Poel Jr. hosted an ABestWeb affiliate marketing dinner at Amalia in NYC. Great crowd and great times for the couple dozen folks in attendance.
I was planning to corner some of the luminaries there for brief video interviews, but the combination of a loud restaurant and fun conversations kept me [...]

The guys at MaxBounty.com are organizing a Pub Night for affiliate marketers in the Ottawa area.
The tentative date is Friday, May 25th at ByWard Market.
RSVP at http://www.maxbounty.com/byward.cfm.

Mpire has rolled out about 80 new e-commerce widgets that are geared towards bloggers.
According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, these affiliate widgets…
…will allow bloggers and online publishers to post shopping-related content to their sites and make money by passing leads on to Amazon.com and eBay. Those who download the widgets will keep 100 percent of the [...]