Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

Thanks for visiting the Affiliate Tip blog. Subscribe to my RSS feed or enter your e-mail on the top right to get updates by e-mail.UK cashback site GreasyPalm reports that they have saved online shoppers over £5 million to date. There is a count (appears to be live) on their site that reflects the total [...]

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The monthly LinkShare affiliate newsletter has some useful statistics on back-to-school shopping.

August 1 is when 40% of US consumers said they start back-to-school shopping, while 56% said they start between August 1 and September 1.*
Back-to-school shopping is growing online. In 2006, more than 50% of moms surveyed said that they planed to shop online. **
Clothing [...]

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I learned about a promotion from Advertising.com during the Affiliate Meet Market in Miami last week. Missy Barnstein, from the Advertising.com Affiliate Product Solutions team, told me about their 10 Million Free Impression sweepstakes.
According to Missy, the 10 million impressions are quality impressions that will run across the entire Advertising.com network. Affiliates do not have [...]

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One of the neat things about Affiliate Summit was meeting affiliate marketers from all over the world. On the second day of the conference, I had a chance to speak with Firuze Gökce of Affmeter.com.
Firuze made the trip to Miami from Ankara, Turkey. Here is what she had to say about Affmeter, a program to [...]

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Affiliate Summit Recap
ValueClick Buys Super Affiliate, MeziMedia
Affiliate Summit 2007 East Presentations
Affiliate Program News
Top 10 Affiliate Programs - June 2007
Affiliate Summit West 2008

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Google is conducting a limited beta test with mobile Web site developers to display Google AdSense ads, according to PC World.
In the Google AdSense for Mobile beta, sites must be written in one of three mobile markup languages including WML (Wireless Markup Language), XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) and CHTML (Compact HTML) in order to [...]

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ValueClick has announced that they have agreed to acquire super affiliate, MeziMedia, Inc., a leading operator of U.S. comparison shopping websites.
MeziMedia ranked fourth in the June 2007 comScore “Retail – Comparison Shopping” category with approximately 10.5 million U.S. unique visitors through its Smarter.com comparison shopping and CouponMountain.com online coupon websites.
“MeziMedia is consistent with our [...]

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I was chatting with Leora Blumberg of Payoneer at Affiliate Summit about their prepaid debit MasterCard as an affiliate commission vehicle.
Here is how she describes the service…
“I work specifically with affiliate networks to pay out to affiliates using a prepaid debit MasterCard.
This is instead of checks (too slow), wires (too expensive) - we can [...]

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I’ve created a new account on Flickr for Affiliate Summit pictures.
The hundreds of photos are broken out in sets for Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.
Please go in to add tags, notes and comments to the pictures of you, your friends and associates.
See all of the pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/affsum/.

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There has been a bit of controversy over the hiring of “booth babes” to staff exhibit hall booths at online marketing conferences, so I thought it would be interesting to conduct a survey about it.
Brad Waller wrote about the topic on ReveNews earlier this week, and his perspective on it…
“There have already been enough debates [...]

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