Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

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Last year, I filmed a video of my home office called Affiliate Marketing Cribs. I’ve changed a bunch of things around since then, so I figured it was time for an [...]

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DoubleClick Performics posted a note to their blog with information to assist their merchants in evaluating how to proceed with their affiliates in New York.
Merchants on the DoubleClick Performics Affiliate Network have access to geographic location at the state level for affiliates and can drill down to see which of their affiliates are in New [...]

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Magnify.net, a free resource for creating and monetizing online video communities, needs your help to name their new mascot.
Everybody is invited to help Magnify.net name their mascot by emailing name suggestions to NameMe@magnify.net or going to their site to record a video.
The person submitting the name chosen for this orange robot will win an orange [...]

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This week on GeekCast, Jim Kukral, Lisa Picarille, and Shawn Collins kicked things off, while Sam Harrelson was tardy as he set up a connection via EVDO in his Geekmobile.
The chatter opened with talk on Patrick Byrne, Overstock.com founder & CEO, responding to the last GeekCast and discussions of Overstock kicking out New York [...]

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Affiliate Summit 2008 West is history, but the exhibit hall lives on. During the conference, which took place February 24-26, 2008 in Las Vegas, a number of the exhibitors gave a quick overview of their company on video.

Click the companies below to visit the virtual booths of Affiliate Summit exhibitors:
1 & 1 Internet
Affiliate Classroom
Affiliate Radar [...]

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Affiliates are always looking for indicators on whether the affiliate programs they are promoting are performing well. One measure of affiliate program performance is the conversion rate.
I collected data on conversion rates for both per lead and per sale affiliate programs for the latest AffStat report on affiliate benchmarks.
Below are the conversion rates for pay [...]

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I married my wife back on May 25, 1996, so I’m off to have some twelfth anniversary anniversary fun.
Time goes by fast, so I’m finished with work for the day.

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Google AdSense has announced that they now accept display ads from third-party vendors.
“Third-party ad serving will introduce a greater variety of advertising into the Google content network, increase the inventory of quality display ads competing to show on AdSense publisher sites, and offer more engaging ads for end users.
In the long run, we believe [...]

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The upcoming affiliate tax in New York, starting on June 1, 2008, is leaving lots of carnage in its wake.
Dozens of affiliate programs have kicked out their New York affiliates in the past couple of weeks, according to a thread on the ABestWeb forum.
Merchants that have removed their New York affiliates include American Blinds [...]

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I submitted an entry a few weeks ago for the TiECON Blogpreneur Contest 2008 by making a post to my blog on my key factors for blog success.
The contest was hosted by Chitika.
The goal of the contest was to highlight the success of bloggers to the entrepreneurs of the world, and feature three winning success [...]

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