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.

The popular series of WordPress Revolution themes are beginning to offer exclusive WP themes.
While the current Revolution themes can be purchased an unlimited number of times, the exclusive Revolution themes will be limited to 10 copies being sold, and then will be removed forever.
You can see an example of one of the non-exclusive Revolution [...]

I was just reading the latest LinkShare newsletter for affiliates, and one item caught my eye – the launch of a new WP plugin from them.

The LinkShare RSS DealFeed plug-in makes it easy for WordPress users to promote RSS feeds from advertisers they are partnered with. Users simply download the plug-in, enter their token and [...]

LinkConnector has been on a tear this year with signings of Internet Retailer Top 500 companies. I noted a few months ago that they’d scored 7 from the list, and now I see another 5 on their roster.

BootBarn, Inc.
Gander Mountain (owner of Overtons.com)
Hats.com LLC
Tool King LLC
U.S. Auto Parts Warehouse

See the Internet Retailer Top 500 at [...]

I just read the Ten Golden Rules of Online Marketing Workbook by Jay Berkowitz, and it was an excellent and informative read.
If you’re not familiar with Jay Berkowitz, he has a podcast that I never miss, he is the CEO of Ten Golden Rules, and a frequent speaker at marketing conferences (he’ll be at the [...]

Internet Retailer has a new article on the importance of rewarding and engaging in relationships with top affiliates.
Ravenwood Marketing isn’t an online retailer, but it’s partly responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars of sales each week for many online merchants. Ravenwood is a so-called superaffiliate, a web site that pushes a high volume of [...]

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Affiliate Thing is back and we’ve got a new home at GeekCast.fm – sort of Affiliate Thing 2.0.
We had a lot of complaints in the past that the full show wasn’t available via iTunes and our RSS feed – that’s all set now with our new setup.
Anyhow, it’s [...]

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ShareASale announced today that affiliates can now create and generate their own video creatives, and link them to multiple different merchants throughout the video through the use of cue points with Make-A-Video.
Make-A-Video was announced earlier this month, but now it’s ready for affiliates to play around with it.
I checked in with Brian Littleton, President and [...]

We are now accepting speaker proposals for Affiliate Summit West 2009, taking place January 11-13, 2009 in Las Vegas.
Submit a speaking proposal at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/09w_speakers.php.
A complimentary conference registration is provided to speakers. Travel and hotel are the responsibility of the speakers.
The submission deadline is September 12, 2008. Any submissions after this date will not be [...]

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Jim Kukral, Lisa Picarille, and Shawn Collins are back together as the most dangerous threesome in the podcasting universe as Sam Harrelson continues his extended leave from the show while he channels Rodney Dangerfield and goes Back to School.
And fear not, the current crew intends to soldier on during [...]

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LinkShare has announced Easy Links, contextual product ads that use proprietary intelligence to serve up relevant offers.
When an affiliate places the code for Easy Links on their site, the ad unit determines the context of the site and selects relevant products to display.
Also, Easy Links are designed to improve conversion rates. Once relevant products [...]