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.Moniker’s successful Live Domain Auction will be taking place at Affiliate Summit on Monday, July 9 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami.
The domain auction will provide an opportunity for affiliate marketers [...]

I just heard that there is a “Beverly Jones” contacting folks in the UK under the guise of working for Affiliate Summit. According to Jess Luthi, this “Beverly” has contacted PrimeQ, DGM, and perhaps others.
Apparently, Ms. Beverly is offering free Affiliate Summit passes, and is asking for a list of conference attendees.
Anybody working with the [...]

Google is being sued by Vulcan Golf, LLC in a complaint filed June 15, 2007 over the Google AdSense for Domains program.
According to Eric Goldman on his Technology & Marketing Law Blog, “Domainer litigation is heating up, and this lawsuit may be the most ambitious anti-domainer lawsuit to date. First, it is a putative [...]

The July 2007 issue of Entrepreneur Magazine includes a short article on video, “Now See This: Online video can breathe new life into your business.”
The article, on page 30, mentions some things we’re doing with Affiliate Summit and video.
Also, there is a picture in there of me in action - playing around with video in [...]

I was in New York City yesterday to give a lecture at NYU on affiliate marketing and had some time to kill beforehand. So I ventured up to the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue to see the people waiting in line for an iPhone.
It was a dedicated bunch, for sure, but ridiculous. Come on now [...]

Commission Junction has announced that their affiliate marketing technology is used by more advertisers on Internet Retailer’s Top 500 Guide to Retail Web Sites than the next two affiliate marketing providers combined.
CJ also states that they lead in powering programs for 10 of the 14 market categories being used by advertisers to expand reach and [...]

Lisa Picarille and myself welcomed Rob Kniaz, Product Manager at Google, for the latest episode of Affiliate Thing.
Topics discussed criteria for advertisers to participate in the Google Pay Per Action beta, ad formats, and whether Google considers AdWords and AdSense to be affiliate marketing.
We also touched on the LinkShare Golden Link Awards and [...]

Today on the Affiliate Thing show on WebmasterRadio.FM, broadcasting live at noon EST, the guest will be Rob Kniaz, Product Manager at Google.
Rob is coming on to chat about Google’s Pay-Per-Action (PPA) pricing model for AdWords.
If you’d like to call in to the Affiliate Thing show, dial up 866-345-6631 between 12:00 pm and 12:30 pm [...]

LinkShare has posted the video from the Golden Link Awards 2007. The video features bits from the emcee, Kevin Meaney, as well as announcements of the awards.
This is the same video they showed to kick off the LinkShare Symposium last week - nice work that they get it all edited over night.
The one problem [...]

There is a lot of talk about Affiliate 2.0 and harnessing technology to grow affiliate businesses, but how can you really do it?
Video is showing lots of potential, and mobile phone marketing has an exciting future, but both have associated learning curves and other barriers to entry.
How about t-shirts? Doesn’t sound so glorious, right? Well [...]