Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

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This month:

1. AffiliateTip.com Blog Launches
2. Affiliate Tip: White List Your Affiliate Manager’s Email
3. Top 10 Affiliate Programs
4. Affiliate Tip: Location Targeting with Google AdWords
5. Affiliate Program News

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1. AffiliateTip.com Blog Launches
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I’ve launched a blog at http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/
to keep you up to date on the happenings in affiliate
marketing.

If you would like to receive the updates as they are
published, all you need to do is t get yourself an
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) reader.

If you are already set up with My Yahoo, just go to
http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AffiliatetipcomBlog

Otherwise, here are some other options:

http://www.feedburner.com
http://www.newsgator.com
http://www.pluck.com
http://www.rssreader.com

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2. Affiliate Tip: White List Your Affiliate Manager’s Email
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Any good affiliate manager will consider their affiliate
partners to be their sales team on the Web. And a
successful affiliate takes advantage of the tools and
support at their disposal. But all too often, the tools,
updates, and mission critical information from affiliate
manager to affiliate are not getting through.

The culprit here is the over zealous spam filter. For all
of the good that spam filters do, they are not perfect,
and they turn up false positives (flagging email you want
to receive as spam).

Read the rest of this Affiliate Tip at
http://www.affiliatetip.com/affiliate_tip_18.php

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3. Top 10 Affiliate Programs
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Below are the Top Ten Affiliate Programs for July 2004
as tracked by the AffiliateTip.com Affiliate Program
Directory. The Top Ten affiliate programs are calculated
by the number of clickthroughs each program received
on AffiliateTip.com.

ClubMom
http://www.affiliatetip.com/display.php?pid=38

CPAEmpire.com
http://www.affiliatetip.com/display.php?pid=49

CoverClicks
http://www.affiliatetip.com/display.php?pid=102

AllPosters.com
http://www.affiliatetip.com/display.php?pid=65

Snapfish
http://www.affiliatetip.com/display.php?pid=70

MaxBounty.com
http://www.affiliatetip.com/display.php?pid=50

DriveWerks
http://www.affiliatetip.com/display.php?pid=40

iTixx
http://www.affiliatetip.com/display.php?pid=51

FastFind.com
http://www.affiliatetip.com/display.php?pid=111

Lightspeed Research
http://www.affiliatetip.com/display.php?pid=110

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4. Affiliate Tip: Location Targeting with Google AdWords
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Many affiliates use Google AdWords to drive traffic to
their sites or through their affiliate links. It’s a
great strategy if done correctly.

The problem is that many affiliates are making a big
error when setting up a new campaign. You see, the
first step in setting up a campaign is to ‘Choose your
language and location targeting.’ Easy enough, but
lots of affiliates tend to go with the default option,
which serves their AdWords in all countries.

Read the rest of this Affiliate Tip at
http://www.affiliatetip.com/affiliate_tip_17.php

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5. Affiliate Program News
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AllZines.com
http://www.affiliatetip.com/display.php?pid=43
AllZines.com is very pleased to announce the general
release of its Co-Branded Storefront to all affiliate
partners. Offering the best selection of management
and customization tools available in the magazine
sector for affiliates with no reduced commission for
Co-Branded store sales.

Audible
http://www.affiliatetip.com/display.php?pid=168
Earn $20 offering your users two audiobooks for 99
cents from Audible! The promotion runs until Sept 30.
Your extra commission will be bonused in CJ at the
end of each month. The link is new in CJ, so just
sign up for Audible with CJ and you’ll have access.
If you’d like more information, email Beth Kirsch
at bkirsch@audible.com.

Emitations
http://www.affiliatetip.com/display.php?pid=145
Emitations.com affiliate program uses DirectTrack
tracking technology and pays affiliates 15-22%
commission on all referred sales once $25 is earned.
We offer datafeeds, the product showcase creator,
and simple tools from DirectTrack for banners, text
links, popups, and more.

Homeplans.com
http://www.affiliatetip.com/display.php?pid=117
Sign up for our program today, get your links up,
make a qualified home plan sale and get a $50 gift
certificate to Home Depot. A qualified sale is a
planning set, 5-set, 9-set or reproducible set of
home plans. This promotion ends on September 30th,
2004.

MaxBounty.com
http://www.affiliatetip.com/display.php?pid=50
We’re giving away USB Swiss Army Knives (with 64MB
detachable Flash Drives) to all affiliates who earn
$1000 in August. We’re giving them away at absolutely
no cost to our affiliates. It’s simply our thanks
for being top partners. We don’t want to leave out
our smaller affiliates either, so we’re also giving a
couple away randomly among all affiliates who earn
less than $1000 in August.

MyFax
http://www.affiliatetip.com/display.php?pid=72
MyFax currently has a special offer for affiliates.
Sign up now and get $20 per registration - that’s
double the regular commissions. They pay monthly
once an affiliate reaches $50, have on-line
reporting, and a variety of banners and text ads.

If you have a noteworthy promotion, increase in
commissions, new program launch, etc., send me
2-3 sentences for consideration in the newsletter.

Be sure you are already listed on AffiliateTip.com
before sending updates, so I can refer subscribers
to more details about your program.

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As always, I’d love to hear from you! Drop me a line
and let me know if you have any suggestions.

Take care,
Shawn Collins

shawn@affiliatetip.com
http://www.affiliatetip.com/
39 Clark Street, Summit, NJ 07901
908-522-0056

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