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.Advertising.com has published a lead generation case study for the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
Being in an age-restricted industry, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR) faces a number of unique challenges when [...]

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LinkShare has announced a new lead generation service called LinkShare Lead Advantage. Initial advertisers include Credit Solutions of America and Global Travel International.
LinkShare Lead Advantage is a new service offering that delivers high-quality targeted leads and new customers to advertisers through LinkShare’s global lead generation network.
“This new service enables our customers to develop, implement and [...]

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I was talking to my son, Jack, last night about how some coupon affiliates are stuffing cookies.
While his coupon site doesn’t do anything of the sort, he likes to be ironic, so he dressed as the Cookie Monster today.

He asked me to relate that the only cookie stuffing in our house is me stuffing cookies [...]

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I just came across a site called Ask500People, that enables anybody to gather input and opinion data online in a matter of minutes.
Recently, I asked the question, “Do you click on advertisements on the Internet?“.
In a few minutes, people from across the world entered their votes for a tally of 26% saying yes and 74% [...]

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Kellie Stevens of AffiliateFairPlay has published a study on the incidence of forced clicks (a.k.a. cookie stuffing) occurring on affiliate coupon sites.
With her research, Kellie sought to determine whether the recent increase in discussion of the cookie stuffing issue in the affiliate marketing community was correlate to an increase in the activity by affiliates.
The report, [...]

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Affiliate Summit will have a booth at ad:tech New York on November 5-6, 2007. Come visit us at booth #926.
We’ll be giving away some neat little USB hubs and other things both days, and we’ll be pouring ice cold Miller Lites on draft starting at noon on Monday.
Plus, we’ll be sharing a special discount code [...]

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Back in September, I was chatting with Wil Reynolds after he presented at Affiliate Summit in London, and he mentioned a site called Jott.
Jott bills itself as “Mobile Note Taking and Hands-Free Messaging.” In regular speak, it’s a service that enables you to call a number, leave a brief message, and then receive it transcribed [...]

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Affiliate Summit is excited to announce an exclusive opportunity: a half-price pass to the Search Marketing Expo - SMX West search marketing conference.
Through the Affiliate Summit/SMX West partnership, any attendee who purchases a full conference registration for Affiliate Summit will receive half off their full conference registration at SMX West; and any attendee who [...]

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I’ve been watching the Internet reality show, Next Internet Millionaire, since it launched a couple of months back, and became interested in the careers of the contestants.
So it was interesting to see that Laura Martin, who was one of the more colorful players, just came out with a new product launch today: IM Triggers.
I haven’t [...]

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The latest issue of the CJ Quarterly, a newsletter for the advertisers or merchants in their network, featured advice on gearing up for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
The holiday season is critical to the success of e-commerce sites and retail Web sites in particular, many of which generate 20 to 40 percent of their annual [...]

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