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.I just came across some good news for affiliates in California, Advertising Tax Vetoed from the CA Budget, in a post on Jangro.com.
Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed the advertising tax in California, and [...]

I wasn’t able to record the Affiliate Thing show this week, so my trusty co-host Lisa Picarille soldiered on with guest co-host Scott Jangro, super affiliate and president of MechMedia.
The covered the latest in the advertising tax saga with media depicting Amazon vs. the states, as well as winners of the LinkShare Golden Link [...]

My Affiliate Summit partner, Missy Ward, is back at it again with another fundraising effort to battle breast cancer.
For the third year in a row, she has organized a team under the Affiliate Marketers Give Back banner to participate in a walk – this time Team Affiliate Marketers Give Back will be doing the 40-mile [...]

Q: What is the best service for recruiting super affiliates and “quality affiliates” for a new product? I’d like to outsource affiliate recruitment to a reliable service.
A: There isn’t any one company, to the best of my knowledge, who offers affiliate recruitment services. Well, there isn’t a company performing this sort of service that I [...]

The sessions from Affiliate Summit West 2009, which took place January 11-13, 2009 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, are all available to download or stream in the Affiliate Summit section on GeekCast.fm.

Gary Vaynerchuk Keynote Audio from Affiliate Summit West 2009

10 Success Strategies for Internet Marketers

The 100% Open Rate Solution

Advanced Approaches [...]

There are three groups of people that have emerged since the announcement of the death of Michael Jackson yesterday: devastated fans, haters, and marketers.
Well, if we drew up a Venn diagram, most marketers probably also belong to one of the first two camps, too.
Anyhow, it didn’t take long for fans to express their despair with [...]

Forrester Research published a report, “Performance Marketing: How To Build An Effective Affiliate Program” earlier this month that provides an optimistic outlook for affiliate marketing.
Interactive marketers are in a performance mood during this recession with 60% planning to increase their budget for interactive this year by shifting money away from traditional advertising, according to respondents [...]

This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins was solo and he talked about the return of the advertising tax in the California budget bill, a LinkShare Symposium preview, and MD affiliates getting together over crabs to learn more about the advertising tax.
Also, affiliate Jonathan Volk purchased a new house with his AzoogleAds earnings, [...]

There is a lot of buzz on Twitter this morning about the return of the advertising tax in the California budget bill.
Brook Schaaf Tweeted that Amazon will drop California affiliates if the advertising tax is enacted, and Lisa Picarille Tweeted that she’s headed to Sacramento to fight the bill.
Linda Buquet also shared some news [...]

Back in the spring of 1999, Cindy Arko (then Aylward) hired me to join her and James Marciano to run Refer-it.com, the first affiliate program directory.
Prior to my joining them, they ran the first Affiliate Solutions conference at the Harvard Club in early 1999.
It was an exciting, explosive time in affiliate marketing back when affiliate [...]