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 is a lot of buzz lately about New York’s “Amazon Tax,” and how it will impact affiliates, but one facet has been overlooked in the coverage I’ve read.
Retailers doing less [...]

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I just returned from doing some business in San Antonio. While I was there, I dropped by the Alamo and the Battle of the Alamo resonated with me.
It reminded me of some battles going on lately in the affiliate marketing space regarding Twitter Me This.
Some folks wonder why I would criticize a popular game on [...]

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I was just checking out some press releases from affiliate programs I promote, and noticed a provocative press release from StickerGiant (they have an affiliate program on CJ).
According to John Fischer, owner and founder of StickerGiant.com, stickers for Barack Obama are outselling Hillary Clinton stickers by a factor of 2 to 1.
State by state analysis [...]

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I wondered aloud the other day, Is Jim Kukral Killing Twitter?, and he had a strong chorus of defenders (who all seemed to have won money from the TwitterMeThis scheme).
So, I did a little research and came up with some very telling remarks Mr. Kukral previously posted on his blog. I submit them into evidence [...]

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Disgraced former New York state governor, Eliot Spitzer, was moving aggressively on a plan to tax any Internet transactions from merchants who had affiliates in the state back in November 2007.
After an uproar, Spitzer backed down on the plan. But then he started working on it again just before the hooker scandal that bounced him [...]

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The backlash against Jim Kukral’s social media list building effort is growing, and now puppets are getting into the act.
There is a new video where puppets representing Jim Kukral and Lisa Picarille, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Revenue Magazine are chatting about the Twitter Me This project.
The footage is a little disturbing, as the Jim puppet [...]

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I have lost count of the number of times I’ve been tortured by the prospect of losing my Outlook .pst or key business files.
I was aware of backing up files for a long time, but blew it off until a little while back when the latest in a series of friends experienced a fried [...]

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I’ve been immersed in the Twitter culture for quite some time, and I really enjoy the brief exchanges there with friends and colleagues.
I think it is a dynamic environment that is part conversation and part networking tool. There are no rules, but I’d say there are some unwritten rules, like don’t be overtly promotional.
Recently, Jim [...]

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Sam Harrelson has resurrected his Affiliate Fortune Cookies podcast, and the first episode back was a sort of party line covering a random bunch of things, including politics, tech, marketing, and passions.
In addition to Sam, Mark Wielgus, Scott Jangro, Lisa Picarille, Jim Kukral and I called in to chat.
Download this episode of Affiliate Fortune Cookies [...]

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Big announcement on TechCrunch that Flickr is now hosting video. So far, I’m really digging it - easy to upload a number of videos at once and great quality (compared to YouTube and others).
Currently, videos can be as long as 90 seconds and up to 150MB in size. Only Flickr users with Pro accounts can [...]

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