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 [...]

Issue 6 of FeedFront Magazine came in the mail to me yesterday.
My son Jack snatched the copy right away to read the interview with super affiliate Connie Berg.

Here are the articles for this issue:

Things I Wish I Knew 10 Years Ago by Jim Kukral
Guy Kawasaki Keynote at SESNY 2009 by Shawn Collins
3 Social Media [...]

Affiliate Summit and buy.at are hosting a Tax Talk & Crab Feast on Thursday, July 9 in Baltimore, MD at the buy.at office.
But contrary to sort of popular belief, crab feasts aren’t just about crabs. Crustacean haters will find plenty of good stuff to chow down on at this event.
Here is the menu of items [...]

The Affiliate Summit Advisory Board is a group of people from a cross-section of the affiliate marketing space.
The role of the Affiliate Summit Advisory Board is to contribute thoughts, opinions, and insights into the planning of Affiliate Summit events, as well as voting on speaker proposals and Pinnacle Awards.

Meet the Affiliate Summit Advisory Board at [...]

Affiliate Summit and buy.at are hosting a Tax Talk & Crab Feast on Thursday, July 9 in Baltimore, MD at the buy.at office.
We’ll be getting together starting at 4pm for a discussion on the advertising tax legislation, the impact on affiliate marketers, and how to fight it.

Also, we’ll use this time to demo the [...]

This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about the Facebook username rush, the launch of the Affiliate Summit AffStat Report, and a lawn full of pink flamingos.

Lastly, the finalists were announced for the LinkShare Golden Link Awards.
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Get Your Username on Facebook
AffiliateTip on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/affiliatetip
AffStat: Affiliate Marketing Statistic [...]

The 2009 Affiliate Summit AffStat Report is now available for free at http://affstat.com/. The report can be viewed online or downloaded.
Over four-hundred and fifty affiliates were surveyed on their methods, preferences, and strategies for the 2009 Affiliate Summit AffStat Report.

The report features dozens of charts of data, based on the responses from the participating [...]

Early bird pricing for Affiliate Summit East 2009, taking place August 9-11, 2009 in New York City, ends June 12, 2009.
The keynote speaker for Monday, August 10 will be Chris Brogan, President of New Marketing Labs, and the keynote for Tuesday, August 11 will be Peter Shankman, founder and CEO of The Geek Factory.
The Early [...]

The 2009 Affiliate Summit AffStat Report will be available for free on Monday, June 15.

The sixth issue of FeedFront, the official magazine of Affiliate Summit, is at the printer and it will be hitting mailboxes later this month.
Issue six will also be distributed at the Linkshare Symposium East in NYC on June 23, 2009.
The cover features super affiliate Connie Berg, founder of FlamingoWorld.com, and an interview about her [...]