Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

Thanks for visiting the Affiliate Tip blog. Subscribe to my RSS feed or enter your e-mail on the top right to get updates by e-mail.UK affiliate network AffiliateFuture has released a coupon management system for affiliates called AF Voucher Framework.
AF Voucher Framework is a complete site with all the standard features of an affiliate coupon [...]

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Sam Harrelson is out communing with nature as he kayaks to celebrate his 30th birthday, accompanied by his Kindle, ASUS eee, Blackberry, and iTouch.
But the rest of the gang, Jim Kukral, Lisa Picarille, and Shawn Collins were in the studio for the first show since our ill-conceived live show in Boston.
Topics covered on [...]

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Advertising.com’s buy.at Affiliate Network has released a case study from the Ticketmaster affiliate program focused on their customized “EventEngine” campaign widget.
The challenge in this case study was to branching out from traditional sponsorship efforts.
So the buy.at team partnered with Ticketmaster to build a customized “EventEngine” widget solution.
This application enables affiliates to promote specific Ticketmaster [...]

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We had good intentions of recording a live show on the night before Affiliate Summit kicked off in Boston.

There was even a sort of serious first draft where a group of twelve or so people rambled on about the Kindle.
After a vote, that recording was scrapped, and we went on to randomly record bits and [...]

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One of the final sessions of Affiliate Summit 2008 East was an important discussion on ethics in the industry, and I couldn’t help but think about the irony of the topic given some things that went on behind the scenes during the conference.
You see, there were a number of folks that decided to use a [...]

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Day 2 of Affiliate Summit 2008 East kicked off with an inspirational keynote address from Newark, NJ Mayor, Cory Booker.

The day featured a packed exhibit hall and a series of educational sessions.

The day wound up with the Great Affiliate Road Rally, where ShareASale took the checkered flag and won a booth for Affiliate Summit 2009 [...]

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This week on Affiliate Thing, we talked about sessions and events taking place at Affiliate Summit in Boston, as well as the new issue of Revenue Magazine, and advice to remember the breath mints and forget the mandals for effective conference networking.
We also chatted about the launch of pepperjamMobile Powered by M3 Mobile, CJ [...]

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Episode 30 of GeekCast is a preview of Affiliate Summit 2008 East in Boston next week.
Sam Harrelson is at the long tail end of his 20s and Jim Kukral seems to be getting into a new business of being a ukulele playing birthday clown.
It’s sort of hard to explain, so you really have to [...]

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There is a new RSS syndication system in beta called Dynamifeeds that allows RSS feeds to be promoted through affiliates.
Essentially, affiliates will promote a special subscription URL for the feed customized for that affiliate and when subscribers click through on links contained in the feed, the affiliate will get credit on sales.
This will [...]

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Webgains, an affiliate network based in the UK, has announced that they are opening offices in the US.
Webgains USA will launch with six affiliate programs including Yes Asia, YesStyle, and Newspapers Remembered.
The new operation will be based in New York, and headed up by Ryan Gilbert, who managed the UK’s account management team for [...]

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