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.Affiliate Summit 2008 West is on schedule to sell the maximum number of registrations by Friday, February 15, 2008.
We are currently as about 85 percent of capacity, and based on [...]

I made a comment recently that I thought the CJ interface was “terribly clumsy to find what I want.” Later that day, I got a note from Kerri Pollard, General Manager of Commission Junction, asking for details behind my knock.
I was immediately impressed that Kerri would take the time to get feedback on the nuts [...]

Tjoos has launched their Coupon Widget, which allows affiliates to display coupons, and every time a visitor clicks on a coupon and makes a purchase, the affiliate will receive a commission from this sale.
The coupons in the Tjoos widget are sourced directly from the retailers, as well as from the Tjoos coupon-sharing community [...]

I was laid off from an MLM company as the General Manager, and I am looking to do something online with my recent skills. Would my thirteen months of experience managing approximately 3,700 MLM people can equate into an affiliate management job? What’s the next step?
I’d say that if you are really interested in getting [...]

I can’t keep track on whether I’m coming or going at this point with the YouSendIt affiliate program. I got a message earlier in the week with the subject “Affiliate Program Removal.”
No pleasant hello, thanks for the memories, or anything. It went right into the meat:
This message is to inform you that you have been [...]

The second episode of the GeekCast Show featured an expanded cast. Sam Harrelson, Jim Kukral and myself were joined by Lisa Picarille, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Revenue Magazine.
We riffed about all sorts of stuff, including Robert Scoble selling out, the ethics of blogging, tips for Affiliate Summit, some affiliate programs still have auto-approval, and why [...]

Affmeter LLC has announced the release of Affmeter Pro 2.0, a tool for affiliates to automatically collect their revenue data from affiliate networks, as well as cost statistics from Google AdWords.
“Affmeter must adapt itself to rapidly changing conditions, and the best way to do this is to listen to our customers’ requests [...]

Back in the fall, there was a contest for Google AdSense affiliates to submit a video telling their experiences with AdSense.
While I thought my video was pretty nice with my “many hats” theme, I didn’t win.
The winner of the AdSense Story Contest was Don Vandervort of HomeTips.com.
However, the good folks at Google still featured me [...]

This week on the Affiliate Thing we chatted with IncrediMail’s CEO, Yaron Adler, about their removal from AdSense and reinstatement, plus a super affiliate auction, DentalPlans.com in Spanish, and big growth for the UK affiliate industry.
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IncrediMail and Google
DentalPlans.com in Spanish
UK Affiliate Sales Exceed £3 Billion in 2007
Super Affiliate Auction
Affiliate Fatblogging
GeekCast.fm
AWeber Blog Broadcasting

The Affiliate [...]

Affiliate network LinkConnector has announced that they have tripled their market share reach among the Internet’s top 500 e-retailers, according to the Internet Retailer’s 2007 Edition of the Top 500 Guide.
Since the list was published last year, top Internet retailer names from this list, such as American Greetings and Paper.com, have selected LinkConnector as [...]