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.Q: I currently outsource my affiliate program to one of the affiliate networks, and I want to evaluate how well other affiliate networks might do with the program. Is it common [...]

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We collected the feedback on which cities were preferred for the next Affiliate Summit in the west and Las Vegas won by a wide margin, again.
Also, we got tons of great feedback on the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, so we are returning there, as well.
A handful of folks said they’d prefer to be [...]

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Q: How do you get so much done during the day, and do you outsource the writing for your blog?
A: I am not sure if I should be flattered or offended by the outsourcing question. I take pride in my blogging and have been doing it 7 days a week for years.
So no, I don’t [...]

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We started filming the sessions at Affiliate Summit back in the summer of 2006 in Orlando. Initially, the videos were intended to be shared only with conference attendees, but now they are open to all.
Currently, sessions from the following Affiliate Summits are available to view online:

Affiliate Summit 2006 East, July 9-11, 2006 in Orlando, FL
Affiliate [...]

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I keep hearing from people that travel a lot how the MacBook Air or Asus Eee, but nobody seems to be talking about the Dell Vostro.
Well, I just picked up a Dell Vostro 1400 and I totally love it. Some of the specs…

14.1″ Widescreen WXGA+ (1440×900) display
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7500 (2.2GHz,4MB Cache,800MHz FSB)
Integrated [...]

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They posted over at the Google AdSense blog that any AdSense users that are also into putting stickers on their laptops (paging Sam Harrelson) can get one or two for free.
I wonder if they got some of those movable laptop stickers from Sticker Giant?
Anyhow, how can you get some of these stickers?
So how do you [...]

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This week on the GeekCast, Will Martin-Gill, senior manager of Internet marketing for eBay, joined Sam Harrelson, Jim Kukral, Lisa Picarille and me to talk about the transition of the eBay affiliate program from CJ to in-house.
Will entertained a variety of questions about the move, as well as what will be involved for affiliates to [...]

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The “Dealing With Affiliates” panel at SES today featured short presentations by the panelists and then a discussion on the issues.
The panel was described as follows in the program…
Affiliates can be a love ‘em or hate ‘em situation for search engine marketers. Affiliates can send plenty of traffic to your web site, but they can [...]

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Jason Calacanis, Founder and CEO of Mahalo.com, delivered the afternoon keynote at Search Engine Strategies in New York City today.
Jason opened with a revised version of his “SEO is bullshit” comment at SES a couple years ago. He explained that now he thinks that black hat SEO is bullshit, but white hat SEO is very [...]

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The March 2008 issue of Affiliate Classroom Magazine is now available and it covers how to write and distribute articles that people will want to open immediately, and click-through to your affiliate product promotions.
This issue points out that the most important thing for a successful writer to do is to avoid writers block.
The first [...]

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