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.

Our camera crew went around on the exhibit hall floor and spoke to attendees at Affiliate Summit 2007 East to get their opinions on the affiliate conference.
Hear what the following folks had to say…

Jay Berkowitz, Ten Golden Rules
Brian Littleton, ShareASale
Brandy Shapiro-Babin, Webmaster Radio
Audrey Berheney, AzoogleAds
John Engler, UnsubCentral
Todd Crawford, oneNetworkDirect
Victor Pitts, Moniker
The Pepperjam Crew
Tara McCommons, LinkConnector
Paula [...]

Missy Ward (Affiliate Summit) and Connie Berg of (Flamingo World) have joined forces to fight breast cancer as Team Affiliate Marketing. Missy and Connie are going to be participating in the Twin Cities Breast Cancer 3-Day, taking place August 24-26, 2007.
The Twin Cities Breast Cancer 3-Day is a 60-mile walk where teams are committing to [...]

Is it possible to submit affiliate links to search engines and have those links turn up in the search engine results?
I guess anything is possible. But I don’t think the search engines or their users want these sorts of results coming up.
In my opinion, it’s not a good practice, as you are not adding value [...]

I used to try to listen to Podcasts on my computer as I worked, but I realized that I wasn’t really paying attention with the phone ringing, e-mail flowing in, and a big inbox in front of me.
So I finally picked up an iPod a few months back, and made it a habit to get [...]

I created my account on Facebook about a year ago. I joined because I had a curiosity as a marketer. I’m in there to play around and experience the environment, and to contrast it to the opportunities with MySpace.
Lately, I’ve gotten more into testing the applications on Facebook with an eye towards conceiving some [...]

LinkShare’s Showcase Ad Network has announced a new service for merchants to distribute coupons and special offers through MSN.
Through Showcase Offer Access, LinkShare will distribute merchant offers to the MSN shopping site, as well as MSN’s syndication partners, such as Facebook.
Here’s how the LinkShare announcement explains it all…
How Showcase Offer Access Works
Showcase Offer Access [...]

I was thinking the other day how exciting it is that Affiliate Summit will be going to the UK as the first affiliate marketing specific conference to take place in Europe.
But then it occurred to me that Affiliate Solutions, a conference run by Refer-it and Internet.com, took place in April 2000 in London.

Not sure how [...]

Pan-European affiliate network TradeDoubler has acquired all shares in the Interactive Marketing Works Ltd and its subsidiaries (‘The IMW Group’), which includes The Search Works and those companies trading as The Technology Works.
The purchase price for The IMW Group was £56 million.
The IMW Group consists of two trading entities, ‘The Search Works’, a search engine [...]

iPhone creative is now available through the Apple affiliate program on CJ.
They’ve got five text links and seven banners (100×100, 120×240, 120×60, 120×90, 160×600, 300×250, and 468×60).
In additional to text and banners to sell the iPhone, some of the creative keys in on accessories, cables, docks, etc.
The commission is a sickly 1%, but if you [...]

Lisa Picarille and myself welcomed Malcolm Cowley of buy.at. Topics discussed included differences between the UK and US affiliate markets, and challenges of affiliate networks from Europe and the US in entering the UK.
We also discussed the podcasts that are loaded into our iPods, an effective video from PopShops, Facebook applications, and results from a [...]

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