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.There are many ways to conduct business, ranging from co-opetition to cut throat. Many industries operated somewhere in between, but affiliate marketing tends to have more of a community vibe.
So when [...]

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The U.S. Presidential election is heating up and it will only get more intense as we near November. Have you thought about how you can work affiliate marketing into the political mania?
On the weekly GeekCast show that I do with Jim Kukral, Lisa Picarille, and Sam Harrelson, we were occasionally touching on how politics and [...]

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I got an email from the Dell affiliate program last night with the subject, “Dell Home New Affiliate Newsletter Tax Rebate Offers” and it got me thinking - can affiliates expect a surge in transactions as these checks start dropping?
Direct deposits of the economic stimulus cash started on May 2. Checks started going out last [...]

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There is a new podcast called Can’t Get Rich that I read about on the Wicked Fire forum.
The site for the show sets the stage, “I can’t get rich online and neither can you. Topics include why you won’t get rich with your blog, ideas you wish you had thought of, and other Internet [...]

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The latest JangroCast from Scott Jangro touches on sites by seemingly anonymous people who lash out with personal attacks.
There was a guy earlier this week going by the name Marky Zarc, and he posted comments on a number of blogs and included this URL in the comments: lorenfeldman.blogspot.com (it’s dead now).
Essentially, the site was an [...]

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Anne Kadet, Senior Writer at SmartMoney magazine, wrote an article in the May 2008 issue where she lambasted affiliate marketing.
The article, “A Penny For Your Clicks? Affiliate marketing: So easy, even our dog could do it,” sets the stage by quoting Jason Calacanis when he delivered the keynote at Affiliate Summit 2008 West.
As reported [...]

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Lisa Picarille was unable to make it on this week, so without the voice of reason, we ended up with a NSFW-cast with the chatter of Todd Crawford, Sam Harrelson, Scott Jangro, Jim Kukral, and myself.
We tackled lots of topics, including the Affiliate Summit Awards sans Wayne Porter, disappointment in the Web2.0Expo, and whether conferences [...]

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The latest issue of the Commission Junctions newsletter for affiliates had an interesting bit in there from Kerri Pollard, General Manager of CJ, about going green in our business lives.
This is something that has been on my mind lately, since myself and so many affiliate marketers work from home and have control over their work [...]

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Affiliate Summit will be launching a new magazine, called FeedFront, in June 2008 and we’d like to feature you.
The initial issue will have 5000 copies printed and will be sent to past Affiliate Summit attendees.
There are a few questions to choose from - you can answer one or more, and we will review your submission [...]

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Joel Comm launched AdSense Secrets 4.0 last week to fanfare and a subsequent firestorm.
The day after the release of AdSense Secrets 4.0, Mark Wielgus posted a video at 45n5.com, Adsense Secrets Scam Alert, where he took Comm to task for a tactic in the sales process where buyers were also opting in for a subscription [...]

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