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.We are just about at capacity for the Tax Talk & Crab Feast, which is being hosted by Affiliate Summit and buy.at next Thursday (July 9) in Baltimore, MD at the [...]

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 Overstock.com announced that they will not be dropping California afiliates.
California lawmakers proposed a tax on affiliate advertising and sent legislation to the Governor, but [...]

The media is making the state advertising tax issue out to be all about Amazon, but there are many thousands of other affiliate programs out there that may well fire affiliates in proactive or reactive measures against the legislation.
Yesterday, Overstock served walking papers to affiliates in California.
Dear Affiliate:
We regret to inform you that the North [...]

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 [...]

The advertising tax issue was discussed this afternoon on Fox Business. Shibani Joshi talked about Amazon.com’s war against the various state plans to institute Internet advertising taxes.
The segment was just a few minutes, so it didn’t go too in depth on the issue, and it was mostly about the impact on Amazon.
There was no discussion [...]

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 [...]

Commission Junction is adding new “green” categories of affiliate programs.
Categories let advertisers describe their program to publishers, who can then search for advertisers by category in order to locate those that best fit their program. In response to current retail trends and client requests, we’ve added nine new green program categories for advertisers.
Advertisers will be [...]

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 [...]