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.There is a really good list of resources in the Wall Street Journal today, courtesy of Jay Berkowitz, CEO of Ten Golden Rules.
Jay mentions a number of books and sites, some [...]

I just noticed that the ref=nosim tag for Amazon affiliate links is obsolete.
If ref-nosim doesn’t mean anything to you, I’ll give a little background. In the past, the links that Amazon provided to affiliates would bring the user to a page that featured the intended book title, as well as a few other titles they [...]

Affiliate Summit London 2007, taking place September 28 at the Olympia Conference Centre, will kick off with a brief presentation by myself and my Affiliate Summit co-founder, Missy Ward.
The presentation will cover the Affiliate Marketing View from the U.S.
The state of affiliate marketing as an international conversation will be discussed with some data on the [...]

The Amazon affiliate program has launched Amazon Widgets, which are “small, visually dynamic, easily configurable tools that allow you to feature products from Amazon on your website, blog or social networking pages.”
In as little as one minute, affiliates can populate a widget with their favorite Amazon products, their comments about those products, etc., and [...]

The fifth episode of the Next Internet Millionaire reality show, hosted by Joel Comm, is now online.
The contestants didn’t eat any worms this time around. It was back to business.
The first challenge focused on entrepreneurial authoring with special guest David Hancock of Morgan James Publishing.
Contestants had to take a series of scrambled words and turn [...]

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Facebook will be launching a new entity called fbFund with Accel and Founders Fund, according to TechCrunch.
The size of the fund will be $10 million (coming from Accel and Founders Fund) with anywhere between $25 to $250 thousand in grants available for each selected startup dedicated [...]

Affiliate marketing in the UK is experiencing strong growth, according to research from E-consultancy.
Sponsored by buy.at, the UK’s largest independent affiliate network, the survey, to be released next week, found that a resounding 78 per cent of respondents said they had increased their spend on affiliate marketing compared since 2005 and the same percentage [...]

Affiliate marketers are making a strong showing at the inaugural Affiliate Summit conference in the U.K., as registrations, exhibition and most sponsorship opportunities have sold out.
On September 28, 2007, attendees of Affiliate Summit London will meet at the Olympia Conference Centre in West London.
Kicking off with a keynote address by Linus Gregoriadis, head [...]

M:Metrics and AdMob have announced their findings on audience composition for mobile advertising.
Research conducted by M:Metrics and AdMob finds that mobile advertising effectively reaches the most desirable, most elusive media consumers, with 18 to 34-year-olds comprising 65.5 percent of respondents on the AdMob publisher network.
The data was collected during Q3 2007 via more [...]

The Affiliate Fit Club competition is starting up, and I’m on a mission to hit my weight loss goal by Affiliate Summit 2008 West next February.
I’m starting off at the Affiliate Fit Club at 216 pounds, and my plan is to bring it down to 195.
If all goes well, I’ll look ridiculous in my tuxedo [...]