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.eBay launched their eBay Partner Network on April 1, and affiliates were initially told they would have to migrate from the old affiliate program on CJ by today.
But the migration deadline [...]

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The Amazon.com affiliate program has a neat tool I just found called the “Link Checker.”
This is exciting to me, because I’ve had concerns in the past that affiliate links that go through .htaccess redirects might not retain my affiliate ID.
The Link Checker tool enables you to paste your affiliate link and then load that [...]

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AdMob is launching AdMob Mobile Analytics, a free solution for advertisers and mobile web site owners to understand and optimize their offerings.
This new solution was created to enable more advertisers to ramp up their mobile advertising spend, since they can finally start to measure deeper effectiveness of campaigns.
Also, affiliates will be able to [...]

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Epic Advertising has announced two new hires to further build their internal Internet Compliance Group.
Jonathan Gillman has been named Manager, Regulatory Affairs and Anwesa Paul has been named Privacy Officer and Associate General Counsel.
Previously, Gillman was the lead investigator of the Cyber Fraud Task Force for the Florida Attorney General’s Economic Crimes Division, [...]

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Lisa Picarille was unable to make it on this week, so without the voice of reason, we ended up with a NSFW-cast with the chatter of Todd Crawford, Sam Harrelson, Scott Jangro, Jim Kukral, and myself.
We tackled lots of topics, including the Affiliate Summit Awards sans Wayne Porter, disappointment in the Web2.0Expo, and whether conferences [...]

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There is a new login page up on ShareASale.com.

I like the new look - nice, clean, and intuitive. Though the login tab is sort of tiny.
The pages after login still have the (now) old ShareASale.com look.
Overall, I’m digging it.

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One of the missions of Affiliate Summit is to bring together the industry to support worthy causes, and Affiliate Summit 2008 East will continue this mission as we raise funds for The LEAGUE through a variety of efforts leading up to the conference.
What is The LEAGUE?
Students are often recognized for their achievements on the field [...]

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My Affiliate Summit co-founder, Missy Ward, has organized a team of affiliate marketers to walk in the 2008 Seattle Breast Cancer 3-day, a 60-mile walk over the course of three days that raises funds for Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the National Philanthropic Trust Breast Cancer Fund.
Last year, when she teamed up with [...]

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The latest issue of the Commission Junctions newsletter for affiliates had an interesting bit in there from Kerri Pollard, General Manager of CJ, about going green in our business lives.
This is something that has been on my mind lately, since myself and so many affiliate marketers work from home and have control over their work [...]

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A couple months back, a free PPC affiliate tracking service called Tracking202 was released in a public Beta.
The same guys are back with a free, self-hosted PPC affiliate tracking software called Prosper202.
“It provides the same advanced PPC tracking that was publicly available on Tracking202.com. The software also comes with Export202, which is an application [...]

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