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.

I just wanted to share frustrating affiliate story with you. Back on November 2, 2007, I was accepted by the YouSendIt affiliate program.
I was interested in promoting YouSendIt, because I’ve been a satisfied, paying customer of their service for a while, and I’ve recommended them (without compensation) to lots of people.
If you’re not familiar with [...]

The Google AdSense Team has announced that both the Democrat and Republican CNN YouTube Debate highlights are available in Video Units.
In order to get the clips for your video units, choose “CNN YouTube Debates” as a content provider on the Edit AdSense Player page.
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And an important enhancement, which was [...]

LinkShare has announced a new Web Services sales tracking technology that touts enhanced security and real-time transaction data on an enterprise-level for advertisers.
According to LinkShare, this release enables the safest transfer of information while handling the richest amount of SKU data delivered real-time.
Unlike pixel or other tracking technologies dependent on browsers and cookies, this [...]

I am working on a new affiliate site and recently applied to a large number of affiliate programs.
Soon after, I began receiving e-mails to confirm my application from all, and welcome e-mails from some. Days passed, and I was surprised that a lot of the affiliate programs hadn’t reviewed the applications, yet.
Well, not so surprised. [...]

This week on the Affiliate Thing, we chatted with Seesmic creator Loic Le Meur about the new pre-alpha video site, comparisons to Twitter, user monetization and more.
We also touched on good news on retail sales from Cyber Monday, affiliate managers asleep at the switch, and a Fatblogging update.
Plus, we talked about the ELOANS [...]

It’s getting colder outside, so I don’t know how much longer I can go for long walks to get exercise and catch up on marketing podcasts. I think I’ll set a rule of walking whenever the temperature is above freezing.
Anyhow, that means it is time to join a gym.
Then I’ll be able to get up [...]

Wall Street analysts and internet retailers are saying that online shopping sales in the U.S. have been growing at better-than-expected rates in the run-up to the holidays, according to the Financial Times.
Raul Vazquez, chief executive of Walmart.com, said the retailer had seen sales on the Friday after Thanksgiving holiday “exceed our expectations” of 40-60 per [...]

I typically hear about the next big hit or miss from Sam Harrelson. The latest thing, which I just joined up on Sam’s recommendation, is Seesmic.
Here’s how MarketingProfs describes it…
“What do you get when you combine video, social networking, micromedia, and a very savvy French entrepreneur? You get Seesmic.
The site is a social network [...]

Next Internet Millionaire, the online reality show hosted by Joel Comm, is now over, and the complete series can be viewed online.
I’d suggest picking up From Cubicle Slave to the Next Internet Millionaire, a book chronicling the show, by the Next Internet Millionaire winner, Jaime Luchuck.
Jaime took copious notes on each of the expert speakers [...]

DoubleClick Performics is putting on a Webinar on Tuesday, December 4 at 2:00 PM Central Time, “Holiday ‘07 Reality: Early Lessons and Learnings from Black Friday and Cyber Monday.”
The guest speaker will be Lauren Freedman, President of the e-tailing group.
DoubleClick Performics regularly partners with online retail expert Lauren Freedman, to provide our advertisers and publishers [...]