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.

Search Affiliates: Partners or Parasites? presentation from Affiliate Summit West 2007, which took place January 21-23, 2007 in Las Vegas, NV.

Michael Jacobs, VP Products & Services, iMarketing LTD

Using real world case studies of Search and Affiliate integration, we will strike down the popular myths of search affiliates, and discuss how to integrate and improve ROI [...]

I am going to be at Search Engine Strategies in NYC on March 23-25, and I’ll have 20 gold passes to Affiliate Summit East 2010 to give away on Wednesday, March 24.
On the Wednesday of the conference, I’ll be wearing a shirt with a big QR Code, which when scanned will provide a code to [...]

There is an Affiliate Summit team for the 2010 Komen North Jersey Race for the Cure, and we’re looking for more team members.
The 5k run/walk is taking place Sunday, April 25, 2010 at Essex County Branch Brook Park in Newark, NJ.

You can also join the team and participate in the 1.5 Mile Fun Walk. And [...]

Michael Rubin, the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of affiliate network Pepperjam’s parent company, GSI Commerce, will star in this Sunday’s episode of the CBS reality series “Undercover Boss.”
The episode will be broadcast on CBS at 9:00 PM EST on Sunday, March 21, 2010.
The show follows executives as they slip anonymously into the rank and file [...]

Words That Work by Frank Luntz is one of my favorite business books.
You may know Frank Luntz from TV appearances around election time. He has a dial system that reflects how voters react to the words of political candidates.

Frank Luntz has also worked with dozens of Fortune 500 companies to fine tune the use of [...]

The advertising tax (née Amazon tax, affiliate tax, and Internet tax) issue is a threat to affiliate marketers across many states these days, but where did this legislative menace originate?
For the uninitiated, the advertising tax is essentially a plan to tax any Internet transactions from merchants who have affiliates in a given state.
The origins of [...]

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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about advertising tax updates, Shawn aching after a triathlon, merchants with nexus in various states, and the future of buy.at.

Also, the new Scribe plugin for WordPress, monetizing Corey Haim, Affiliate Summit, and an affiliate get together [...]

I am guilty of buying domains on a frequent basis, and never doing anything with 95% of them.
I’ve heard about various services that would enable me to monetize the majority of my domains that just sit parked or forwarded to another domain, but which is best?
The one option I looked over was CashParking from GoDaddy, [...]

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Frank Roche, who is a writer, businessman and well known expert on HR matters, was a speaker at the first Audience Conference on Friday, November 6, 2009 in New York City.
He is the author of Know HR, co-owner of iFractal LCC with Sarah Chambers, and a regularly-featured speaker [...]

Internet Marketing from the Real Experts is not really a legal book. There are 130 articles in Internet Marketing from the Real Experts, and 9 of those articles are about legal issues that impact affiliate marketers.
The book has 88 authors, and in addition to the legal coverage, there are articles on affiliate marketing, email, search [...]