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.I was reading the latest LinkShare newsletter, and was interested to see what the had to say about the effectiveness of their affiliate tracking on two new Web browsers, Microsoft Internet [...]

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MySpace Advertising, a sort of Google AdWords for the MySpace community, has launched in Beta.
The minimum price is $0.25 per click and the minimum budget required for each campaign is $25.

I created an account to test it out by running some ads for Affiliate Summit. While they tout it as a way to “Promote Your [...]

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OpenX, the popular ad server used by many affiliates, is holding a seminar in New York on Thursday, October 2 from 10am to 5pm.
The event is open to anyone with an interest in OpenX.
The agenda will be based on the feedback OpenX users give to them. Register at http://www.openx.org/openx-seminar-in-new-york and you can suggest things you’d [...]

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The GeekCast crew is fresh from getting together in person for BlogWorld Expo 2008 in Las Vegas, and this episode goes over all things BlogWorld.
We get into our impressions of BlogWorld, take-aways, use of Twitter, meeting Frank @comcastcares, whether bloggers and affiliates are mutually exclusive, and more.

Show notes:

Jim Kukral and his Las Vegas Lookalike
Dinner with [...]

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One of the sessions at Affiliate Summit East 2008 was a clinic on tips and tricks to most effectively work with pepperjamNETWORK merchants.
Watch video of the pepperjamNETWORK Education Clinic from Affiliate Summit East 2008.
Other Affiliate Summit videos are available at http://www.affiliatesummit.tv.

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This week on the Affiliate Thing show, I was solo, since Lisa Picarille is off at CJU. Rather than a typical show focused on the issues and news in affiliate marketing, this show was an overview on how I set up a niche site: Obama2.com.
Don’t worry - no politics here - it’s just the example [...]

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One of the sessions at Affiliate Summit East 2008 was a clinic on tips and tricks to most effectively work with ShareASale merchants.
Watch video of the ShareASale Network Education Clinic from Affiliate Summit East 2008.
Other Affiliate Summit videos are available at http://www.affiliatesummit.tv.

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The GeekCast crew made a waiver pickup of Scott Jangro, since Lisa Picarille couldn’t make it this week. So it was Scott with Shawn Collins and Jim Kukral, and the show kicked up with talk of WiFi on American Airlines and how some creeps are using it to visit pr0n sites.
Also, we touched on goofy [...]

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A couple years back, we had a hologram thing on the Affiliate Summit site where my partner Missy and I gave a little video testimonial.
It was effective to get more people to click on through to the registration page, but probably not the best use of it, since conference registration is more of a considered [...]

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UnsubCentral Vice President and General Manager John Engler is going to give a free Webinar on MD5 suppression list best practices on Tuesday, September 23, at 2:00 p.m. EST.
I think this would be beneficial for any affiliates and merchants using email.
If you’re unfamiliar with MD5, it is the most widely adopted encryption method for sharing [...]

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