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 read on Brian Gardner’s blog that he has launched an affiliate program for his Revolution WordPress themes.
There are tons of WordPress themes that can be had for free (like the one I’m using), but Brian’s Revolution themes are just a whole different level of quality.
He is paying out 25% and has a few [...]

The January 30, 2008 episode of Affiliate Thing features talk about affiliates for sale, LinkShare Summit, Pepperjam vs. CJ in GUI wars, the Giants winning the Super Bowl, and affiliate fatblogging.
Show Links

Super Affiliate Auctions are Live
Affiliate Summit 2008 West Preview Show
LinkShare Summit
Super Bowl XLII
Affiliate Fatblogging
CJ vs. Pepperjam
New Affiliate Coupon Widget from Tjoos
TubeMogul – Essential [...]

Which are the best affiliate networks for luxury fashion retail?
I’m not sure if you’ve seen many of my other videos, but I’m not really in tune with luxury fashion.
That said, from my perspective, it seems as though the fashion brands are spread around the various affiliate networks, depending on which country you are [...]

Yesterday, on episode 3 of the GeekCast Show, Sam Harrelson mentioned a new site, s.eriously.com.
Want to see what the big boys online make? This site is a collection of checks, deposits, and screenshots of ridiculous amounts of money. These webmasters are multi millionaires and the money is real. The site is pretty [...]

I have created a quick overview of Affiliate Summit 2008 West for anybody who is attending the conference for the first time.
Topics covered include when to arrive at the conference each day, dress code, what to bring with you, and networking strategies.

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The third episode of the GeekCast Show was roughly an hour of Sam Harrelson, Jim Kukral and myself chatting it up about web celebs, affiliate network interfaces, iJustine, Jim’s super masculine GuyLights, and my new GeekCast hat that was banned by my wife.
We also opined on the TechCrunch presidential endorsements, Sam’s journey into being a [...]

The Affiliate Summit 2008 West preview show on Webmaster Radio was hosted by Affiliate Summit co-founders, Missy Ward and Shawn Collins.
They were joined by Stephanie Agresta, Partner at The Conversation Group; Sam Harrelson, VP of Business Development at OnCard Marketing ; Jim Kukral, Owner of ScratchBack.com; and Wil Reynolds, Associate at SEER Interactive.
Topics [...]

The numbers keep moving in my favor. I just checked in at the scale and I’ve hit the two century mark. First time I’m at 200 pounds in quite some time. So I’ve lost my super sweet 16 pounds so far, and I have just five to go by Affiliate Summit.
I’ve got a few weeks [...]

The Super Affiliate Auctions at Affiliate Summit, which are raising funds for the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation, are now live.
These Super Affiliate Auctions feature eight of the most eligible super affiliates. Bidding will take place today through February 1, 2007 on eBay.
Auction winners and the affiliates will pre-arrange a convenient time for their lunch [...]

I’ve been playing with video quite a bit over the past year, and one of the most important tools for me has been TubeMogul.
TubeMogul is a free service that provides a single point for deploying uploads to the top video sharing sites, and powerful analytics on who, what, and how videos are being viewed.
Just [...]