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.

Blogger and affiliate Ian Fernando has created a new site called AFFpinions, which is a sort of directory of affiliate and CPA networks.
Affiliates using the networks are able to submit their candid impressions and opinions of the networks, as well as rating them on five areas: overall, tracking, support, offers, payout.
He posted a funny video [...]

You know those stripe ads that are turning up on a lot of blogs these days? They don’ take up much space, but they catch your attention. At least, they do for me.
Anyhow, those Stripe Ads are available as a WordPress plugin from MaxBlogPress.

You can get a free version of the plugin, but it has [...]

Q: Do you think $100 to $400 is enough to run a successful PPC campaign?
There are many variables missing with your question, which make it tough to gauge where you are with PPC.
I don’t know if that budget for you is daily, weekly, monthly, or some other period of time.
Also, it depends on how you [...]

Early bird pricing for Affiliate Summit West 2009, taking place January 11-13, 2009 in Las Vegas, ends next Sunday.
The Keynote Speaker will be Gary Vaynerchuk, star of Wine Library TV and Director of Operations at Wine Library in Springfield, NJ.
The Early Bird registration rates of $949 (Platinum Pass), $349 (Gold Pass), and $149 [...]

The third issue of FeedFront, the official magazine of Affiliate Summit, has been published and it will be hitting mailboxes over the coming weeks.
Issue three will also be distributed at Affiliate Summit Social Media 2008 on October 5 in NYC.
The cover features Cory Booker, who delivered the keynote address at Affiliate Summit East 2008, and [...]

Gary Vaynerchuk, star of Wine Library TV and Director of Operations at Wine Library in Springfield, NJ, is going to be the keynote speaker at Affiliate Summit West 2009.
The conference is taking place January 11-13, 2009 in Las Vegas.
See a sample of Gary Vaynerchuk speaking at the recent Web 2.0 Expo in New York.
Register for [...]

I’ve been using the Flip Ultra camera for about a year to shoot home video and video blogs, and while it’s quick and easy to use, I think it’s time to retire it.
Recently, I got the Canon VIXIA HV30 MiniDV High Definition Camcorder, so I can record video in HD.
It’s a great camera for longer [...]

I was reading the latest LinkShare newsletter, and was interested to see what the had to say about the effectiveness of their affiliate tracking on two new Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 8 and Google Chrome.
Both browsers have privacy protections, which are good for the consumer, but can be bad for affiliates.
Browser [...]

MySpace Advertising, a sort of Google AdWords for the MySpace community, has launched in Beta.
The minimum price is $0.25 per click and the minimum budget required for each campaign is $25.

I created an account to test it out by running some ads for Affiliate Summit. While they tout it as a way to “Promote Your [...]

Affiliate Summit Social Media 2008, taking place October 5 in New York City, is about to sell out.
This is a different kind of Affiliate Summit, where it is just one day and the focus is on leveraging social media in affiliate marketing.
There is no exhibit hall, a maximum of 300 seats, and a single track [...]