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.Chitika has a new option for generating revenue on parked domains with their Chitika for Domains.
These pages pay on a CPC basis and feature a variety of products, offers and promotions. [...]

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Q: Where is the best place to go to start up a new affiliate blog?
A: My favorite content management system to power blogs is WordPress.
There are a variety of options out there, including hosted options like Blogger, TypePad, and WordPress.com, as well as software you can install on your server, such as MovableType and WordPress.
I’ve [...]

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As I mentioned earlier today, the FTC lost a CAN-SPAM case in Washington state to Impulse Media Group.
I was surprised, disappointed, and confused by the verdict. I hate seeing the bad guys in affiliate marketing stick around for another day.
Anyhow, I came across an explanation for the whole thing from Anne Mitchell, who wrote the [...]

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Voting started a couple days ago for the Annual ABestWeb “Best of” Awards, and it will stay open until April 7th. at which time the winners will be officially announced.
You can vote for your favorites in the following categories:

Best Post or Thread on ABW ‘07
Best New ABW Member ‘07
Best OPM ‘07
Best Affiliate Manager ‘07
Best *NEW* [...]

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Just a couple weeks ago, there was a $400,000-plus settlement between online pornographer Cyberheat and the Federal Trade Commission over CAN-SPAM violations. But the FTC lost a similar case this past Monday, according to Direct Magazine.
A jury in Seattle Monday ruled that a pornography marketer was not responsible for spam sent by some affiliates, handing [...]

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The audio from educational sessions at Affiliate Summit 2008 West will be made available at GeekCast.fm.
Listen in to the Domaining and Address-Bar Driven Traffic session and view the slides.
Session description: Did you know that Direct Navigation traffic converts twice as much as search traffic? Learn about this growing practice among consumers and how domains can [...]

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This week on the GeekCast, the regular crowd of Sam Harrelson, Jim Kukral, Lisa Picarille and me talked about typical fare like screen captures, favorite laptops, and why few female affiliate marketers are making videos.
There is a bit of a geek fight over what’s better, ScreenFlow and Skitch on the Mac or Camtasia and SnagIt [...]

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Lisa Picarille wrote a post yesterday, “Videoblogging: Is it a Man’s World?,” about how the majority of video blogging affiliate marketers are men.
Revenue has published many articles on the merits of using video as an online marketing tool. There are lots of people pushing the video blogging envelope in the online marketing space - Sam [...]

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Gary Vaynerchuk, star of Wine Library TV, is Director of Operations at Wine Library in Springfield, NJ, spread the good word today in a post, “Stop lying to yourself and people will start believing.”
Gary shares some great insight for affiliate marketers about achieving happiness and success.
If you’re not familiar with Gary, he’s the king of [...]

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The audio from educational sessions at Affiliate Summit 2008 West will be made available at GeekCast.fm.
Listen in to the Video Innovation in Affiliate Marketing session and view the slides.
Session description: Websites without video will go the way of the dinosaur. More video content means a wider long-tail. There is a wealth of opportunity for affiliate [...]

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