Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins Affiliate marketing news and opinion from Shawn Collins, an affiliate marketer since 1997, co-founder of Affiliate Summit and author of Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants.

Thanks for visiting the Affiliate Tip blog. Subscribe to my RSS feed or enter your e-mail on the top left to get updates by e-mail.Attention all GeekCast.fm listeners, you can now have the hosts of the GeekCast show (Jim Kukral, Lisa Picarille, Sam Harrelson, and myself) come to your office to examine your affiliate program [...]

FeedFront, the official magazine of Affiliate Summit, is now accepting applications for free subscriptions. Subscribe by this Friday to get the premiere issue.
We’ve wrapped up the first issue of FeedFront magazine and it is now at the printer.
Issues will be mailed in June 2008. Here are the articles in the first issue:

Editors Note: Missy Ward [...]

The May 2008 issue of Affiliate Classroom Magazine includes insider tips on CPA (Cost Per Acquisition) offers and how to be successful with them.
The cover story features an interview with Stephanie Bernier, affiliate manager for the PrimaryAds CPA network, and Gauher Chaudhry, CPA affiliate and author of a home study course that focuses on promoting [...]

The monthly AdMob Mobile Metrics report has been released with data from April 2008.
A couple observations from the April data:

25.0% of ad requests in the AdMob network worldwide were from Smartphones.
US requests grew 5.1% April over March to outpace network growth.
The RAZR V3 and Nokia N70 retained the top device spots in the US [...]

OpenX, the ad server formerly known as Openads and before that phpAdsNew, announced back in January that they were rolling out a hosted version.
I was excited this past Friday to get an email that I was accepted into the Beta to use the hosted version of OpenX.
If you’re not familiar with OpenX, it is a [...]

Brian Littleton, President and CEO of ShareASale.com, announced on his forum on ABestWeb that his affiliate network will work with merchants to make decisions on how to react to the upcoming Amazon tax in New York.
As I reported last week, Overstock.com is removing all New York affiliates from their affiliate program to avoid having online [...]

The U.S. Presidential election is heating up and it will only get more intense as we near November. Have you thought about how you can work affiliate marketing into the political mania?
On the weekly GeekCast show that I do with Jim Kukral, Lisa Picarille, and Sam Harrelson, we were occasionally touching on how politics and [...]

The Orange County Register recently published an affiliate marketing overview, “Online bargain sites fueled by retailers.”
Affiliate programs, in Internet time, have been around forever – dating back to the mid-1990s when I had to define the word ‘Internet’ in my stories. Back then, ordinary people could make a living off affiliate programs. And with a [...]

Q: I am new to affiliate marketing. Is opening a store offering the best deals for brand names a good way to promote affiliate programs?
A: If you’re new to affiliate marketing, I don’t think you’ll have access to the best deals.
The deals that are better than those publicly available are typically made available only [...]

Cory Booker, who will be the keynote speaker at Affiliate Summit 2008 East, recently gave a speech at a Google AdSense Conference.
Booker is the mayor of Newark, NJ, as well as having been the subject of an Academy Award nominated documentary, Rhodes Scholar, tight end at Standford University, and a graduate of the Yale University [...]