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.

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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about snow blowers, Digital Window acquiring buy.at, and the PPV advertising debate.

Also, egg cracking made easy by Wendy the Snapple Lady, the latest on the advertising tax, free book marketing at Affiliate Summit, and the CEO [...]

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Dan Farber of CBS News was a speaker at the first Audience Conference on Friday, November 6, 2009 in New York City.

Dan has more than 20 years of experience as an editor and journalist covering technology, most recently editor in chief of CNET News. He joined ZDNet in [...]

There is a new podcast at GeekCast.fm for you to check out: AffiliateFairPlay Affiliate Salon.
On the first podcast, Kellie Stevens is joined by Angel Djambazov for an in-depth discussion of the re-emergence of contextual adware marketing (aka PPV/CPV advertising) within the affiliate channel, and the Saints Super Bowl win.
Listen to AffiliateFairPlay Affiliate Salon and [...]

Attention authors of business and Internet marketing books: we’d like to promote your book for you at Affiliate Summit East 2010.

The conference is taking place August 15-17, 2010 in New York City, and we are planning to feature a bookstore for attendees to purchase relevant books.
If you will be attending the conference and you’ve authored [...]

I wrote last week about how Gartner Research estimates consumers will spend $6.2 billion in mobile application stores in 2010, so it’s a good time to stake your claim with an app or many to expand your market to iPhones, iPods, and iPads.
That got me thinking about some ideas for apps. You can get a [...]

I am honored and excited to announce Jim Kukral as the keynote speaker at Affiliate Summit East 2010 on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at the Hilton New York in New York City.
For almost 15-years, Jim Kukral has helped small businesses and large companies like Fedex, Sherwin Williams, Ernst & Young and Progressive Auto Insurance understand [...]

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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about the latest states considering advertising tax legislation, affiliates and NASCAR, and podcast interview tips from Susan Bratton.

Also, a tip to optimize the tweetmeme plugin, Sarah Silverman vs. TED, Google Buzz, and funny business at the [...]

The Audience Conference, taking place August 14, 2010 at Caroline’s on Broadway in New York City, is now open.
This is the day before Affiliate Summit East 2010 kicks off down the street at the Hilton New York.

This is the second Audience Conference, and if you didn’t hear about the first Audience Conference, it’s a [...]

Susan Bratton is a real pro with her podcast, DishyMix, which I just recently added to my short list of podcasts I can’t miss.
I’d heard of Susan a while ago, but hadn’t given her a listen until she had Dr. Robert Cialdini on her show to talk about his keynote at Affiliate Summit West [...]

A mixed bunch of podcasters from GeekCast.fm have an open, candid discussion about the hot topics in affiliate marketing in the last session at Affiliate Summit West 2010.
Lisa Picarille (Affiliate Thing podcast) moderated the panel of Vinny O’Hare (Affiliate ABCs podcast), Deb Carney (Affiliate ABCs podcast), Daniel M. Clark (Geek Dads Weekly podcast), and [...]