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.I’ve decided to manage my affiliate program with iDevAffiliate software and I’ll be integrating it with PayPal. The product I will be selling is an ebook, and I’d like to know [...]

I just had a call with my Affiliate Summit co-founder Missy Ward about our affiliate marketing and personal resolutions for 2008, and I thought I’d share it.
Both of us came up with three new year’s resolutions.
Missy

Quit smoking and stop hording conference giveaways.
Meet at least 20 new people at each conference and learn more SEO [...]

I just got my (daughter’s) new XO Laptop from Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child initiative from laptopgiving.org.
Basically, it’s this great, little laptop that was designed for children in developing nations. It was designed to handle extreme environmental conditions such as high heat and humidity, as well as technological issues such as local-language support. [...]

I was catching up on some Tweets (Twitter posts) from Robert Scoble and saw an interesting one about a functionality to track keywords used in Tweets by others.

It turns out this feature for Tracking Twitter has been around for months, but I hadn’t checked out the Twitter blog, so I was in the dark.
Anyhow, it [...]

I was just reading a thread on Wicked Fire about a presentation given by Jason Calacanis, founder of Mahalo.com, at the Le Web conference.
The gist of the presentation was that spam ruined Usenet, and we are seeing the ruination of search from affiliate spam.
This quote from Jason pretty much sums it up…
“There is a generation [...]

We’ve got an opportunity for exhibitors of Affiliate Summit 2008 West, taking place February 24-26, 2008 in Las Vegas, to get some free, targeted advertising.
Any companies with a booth in the exhibit hall (120 booths) or a table (72 tables) in the Affiliate Meet Market are encouraged to make a video promoting their company.
Just submit [...]

Is it possible to become a super affiliate without sending a single e-mail campaign?
Absolutely. E-mail is just one of many methods for marketing affiliate links. There are many super affiliates who don’t use e-mail at all.
For instance, some affiliates run content sites that rely on organic traffic from search engines and other sources.
There are [...]

I’d like to wish a Merry Christmas to all of the affiliate marketers out there.
I was just looking at my old record, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?“, by Band Aid - that “Feed the World” song from back in the 80s.
Note, I have it on record - not some newfangled CD or MP3. Old timer.
Anyhow, [...]

The third monthly AdMob Mobile Metrics report has been released with data from November 2007.
This month they have added month-over-month change calculations to make it easier to observe trends in geographic regions, manufacturers and individual handset models.
Some observations from the November data:

AdMob Network impressions were up 4.5% November over October to [...]

I have a tangible product that would be great for affiliates. Should I run through an affiliate network or install affiliate software on my server and work directly with the affiliates?
There are various reasons to go with a third party affiliate software versus or an affiliate network.
If you run your affiliate program through a network, [...]