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.

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Attorney General Bill McCollum announced today that his office reached a [...]

I was chatting with one of the folks from the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino on final morning of Affiliate Summit and she asked if everything was OK.
I told her all was good, except my feet were hurting. So she asked if I’d like a Segway for the day.
Of course, the answer was a yes. [...]

I was flying home from Affiliate Summit 2008 West last night when “Boss of Me” by They Might Be Giants came on and I started thinking about the keynote from Jason Calacanis.

“Let’s talk about the brutal truth here. The truth is, you guys, I am talking to thin affiliate people. I am assuming nobody in [...]

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Jason Calacanis delivered the opening keynote at Affiliate Summit 2008 West on Monday, February 25, 2008.
The theme of the keynote was that affiliate spam is harming affiliate marketing in a variety of ways.
Jason Calacanis is the founder of Mahalo.com (friend me up on Mahalo).
Jason posted a recap on his [...]

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The Great Affiliate Road Rally, a charity fundraiser for the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation, took place February 26, 2008 at Affiliate Summit.
Affspy won the race and a booth at Affiliate Summit 2008 East in Boston.

I have an online yellow and white page directory and I’d like to know if affiliate marketing would be right for my company. I am trying to sell keyword drive ad space to local businesses around the country. My thinking is that if I have an affiliate ad and affiliates drive business to my site [...]

Affiliate Summit 2008 West is all done now, and I’ll probably catch my breath on the plane today.
This was the biggest and most exciting Affiliate Summit we’ve had to date, and I am still marveling at stuff I learned and the people I met.
The day started with the “Ask the Experts” session, where attendees had [...]

The second day of Affiliate Summit 2008 West started off with a keynote address from Jason Calacanis of Mahalo.com.
Jason’s talk touched on his impression of affiliate marketing, and stirred up lots of folks in the audience. Take a look at the blog coverage of Affiliate Summit.

The exhibit hall was packed throughout the day as attendees [...]

Affiliate Summit 2008 West started up on Sunday, February 24, 2008. Here is a look at some action in the Affiliate Meet Market and setup in the exhibit hall.

Affiliate Summit 2008 West opens this morning in Las Vegas with the biggest crowd to date by far. We’ve got somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,700 affiliate marketers converging at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas for the next three days.
We’re already putting up photos on Flickr and videos on YouTube from [...]