Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

Thanks for visiting the Affiliate Tip blog. Subscribe to my RSS feed or enter your e-mail on the top right to get updates by e-mail.There is a special deal for passes to Affiliate Summit 2008 East, taking place August 10-12 in Boston.
Registrations are open from now through the end of Affiliate Summit 2008 West for [...]

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The February 2008 issue of Affiliate Classroom Magazine is now available and the focus this month is on the merchant-affiliate relationship. This issue will give you a good perspective on whether your affiliate program has what it takes to attract the top producers.
The cover story is by an affiliate who explains what affiliates really want, [...]

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The Google AdSense for Video beta is now open to applications, according to the Inside AdSense blog. The program began as a pilot back in May 2007.
Since then, we’ve tested a variety of ad formats with the interest of users, publishers and advertisers in mind. As a result, we’ve decided that AdSense for video will [...]

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LinkShare is launching a new publisher dashboard at 6:00 PM EST today.
Publishers based in the US, Canada and the UK who participate in LinkShare’s global network will now be able to quickly access all their information, plus get tools to manage their accounts and analyze results easily with quicker access to programs, links, and [...]

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The February 20, 2008 episode of Affiliate Thing features news on Affiliate Summit selling out, Group Twitter, the big WebmasterRadio.FM Affiliate Bash, as well as Affiliate Window charging to apply to the network, and AffStat affiliate marketing benchmarks.
Show Links

Affiliate Summit Sold Out - Passes on eBay
Affiliate Summit Group Twitter
WebmasterRadio.FM’s Affiliate Bash
Paying to Apply [...]

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I was wondering how old you were when you started in affiliate marketing? I am currently 16 and I have been pursuing affiliate marketing for over a year now. I started a blog with a focus on selling computer protection software, but I haven’t been successful and it is getting a bit frustrating. I’ve decided [...]

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The sixth episode of the GeekCast Show, running an epic 80 minutes, features Sam Harrelson, Jim Kukral, Lisa Picarille and myself chatting about all sorts of things tied to Affiliate Summit 2008 West.
It’s long, yes. But that’s 80 minutes of free entertainment for your flight to Las Vegas for Affiliate Summit!
We also tackled weight issues [...]

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I just got an email that the adCenter Affiliate Program is closing on February 29, 2008.
Didn’t it just launch in December 2007? If so, that’s not much time for a test.
“Thank you for your participation in the adCenter Affiliate program. Unfortunately, the adCenter offer will no longer be available after February 29th, 2008.
Any banner [...]

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I am at the end of my journey now. I started affiliate fatblogging fourteen weeks ago at a weight of 216 pounds. My goal was to shed 21 pounds and get down to 195 by the time Affiliate Summit started up on February 24.
I’m glad to say that I hit my goal with several days [...]

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We’ve set up an Affiliate Summit Twitter account at http://twitter.com/affiliatesummit where we suggest anybody coming to Affiliate Summit “follow” to stay up on news and events during the conference.
And we’ve also set up a Group Twitter account.
This account enables anybody who is on Twitter to post to it by doing the following:

Follow http://twitter.com/asw08
When posting about [...]

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