Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

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I received an entertaining video via YouTube today from Greg Hoffman, affiliate manager over at the Paulson Management Group.
The video was a pitch for Uneetee.com’s affiliate program, which is available through [...]

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ad:tech had their annual awards last week in San Francisco, and Schaaf Consulting took home an award for their work.
The Best Affiliate Marketing Campaign award as for Moosejaw, which is managed by Schaaf Consulting.
The campaign from Schaaf Consulting was up against Carat and NETexponent.
See all the 2008 ad:tech award winners at http://www.ad-tech.com/awards/overview.asp.

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Affiliate Summit will be launching a new magazine, called FeedFront, in June 2008 and we’d like to feature you.
The initial issue will have 5000 copies printed and will be sent to past Affiliate Summit attendees.
There are a few questions to choose from - you can answer one or more, and we will review your submission [...]

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Lisa Picarille, Shawn Collins, and Sam Harrelson welcomed back Jim Kukral to the GeekCast family for a very special episode.
I reunited with Jim, after a rift about his Twitter scheme, and our bromance is back.
The four of us also got into the back story of the whole Twitter Me This civil war, and how [...]

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LinkShare announced the addition of 52 new advertisers to the network for the first quarter of 2008.
The growth outpaces LinkShare’s fourth quarter performance in 2007, where they had 30 new customers.

“Our new customers join a global network of advertisers and publishers that rely on LinkShare to simplify online marketing to reach millions of consumers [...]

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I was doing a little spring cleaning and decided to get rid of a couple of old computers that were retired years ago and stuck on a shelf in my basement.
I was thinking of just reformatting the hard drives and putting them on my curb for passers-by to snag, and then I read “How should [...]

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The final chapter in the whole Twitter Me This saga has been told on video.
This geek soap opera is the culmination of a tense couple of weeks where I criticized Jim Kukral’s account on Twitter that encouraged people to follow him for a chance to win money.
I always thought Jim was a smart marketer with [...]

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Affiliate Summit will be giving away a free, full conference pass to Affiliate Summit 2008 East, taking place August 10-12 in Boston, every Monday through June 30, 2008.
All you have to do to enter is to follow Affiliate Summit on Twitter and submit a 120 character essay to the Affiliate Summit Twitter account on why [...]

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Q: Is it still possible to make money today as an affiliate marketer, or is it harder to make money with Google axing the thin AdSense sites? Also, what are the top niche sites to look at if I was starting in affiliate marketing today? I see posts about making sites based on my interests, [...]

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Sam Harrelson published a gem of a podcast last week titled, “Most Likely To Succeed, A Love Letter To MH,” where he talks about receiving the superlative in high school: Most Likely to Succeed.
The podcast got me thinking about how success is really relative.
Some folks get into affiliate marketing with a perspective that they need [...]

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