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 Super Bowl commercials, affiliates walking against breast cancer, and Affiliate Summit West 2011 moving to the Wynn Las Vegas.

Also, the advertising tax in Colorado, ABestWeb awards, the affiliate track at SES NY, and free ebooks [...]

Affiliate Summit West 2011 is taking place January 9-11, 2011 in Las Vegas. We’re moving to the Wynn Las Vegas.

This will be the 16th Affiliate Summit and it is expected to be the largest Affiliate Summit to date.
More details to come shortly. Registration will open in August 2010.
See http://www.affiliatesummit.com/about/ for the history and growth of [...]

Keynote address at Affiliate Summit West 2010 from Brian Clark, a ten-year-veteran of Internet publishing and marketing.
Brian’s companies produce millions of dollars in annual revenue thanks to a mix of online educational content and direct response copywriting, and his influential blog Copyblogger is read by over 67,000 people.
Brian is also the co-founder [...]

The ninth issue of FeedFront Magazine is out, so we’re on to issue 10.

The next issue of FeedFront will be coming out in April 2010, and the deadline for articles for issue 10 of FeedFront is March 1, 2010.
If you are interested in writing an article, go to the FeedFront proposal form to submit a [...]

Affiliate Summit East 2010 is taking place August 15-17, 2010 at the Hilton New York in New York City.
The special group rate is $229/night, plus tax & service (single or double occupancy).  The discount code for this rate is:  ASC.
This rate is refundable and is based on block availability until July 22, 2010.
There is also [...]

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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about the fight against the advertising tax in various states, Internet Marketing from the Real Experts, and Mahalo.com making affiliate money.

Also, a LinkShare Symposium West recap, affiliate opportunities on foursquare, photos from Affiliate Summit West 2010, [...]

The photos from Affiliate Summit West 2010 are now up on Flickr.

They have been sorted out to the following categories:

Affiliate Summit West 2010 Speakers

Affiliate Summit West 2010 Meet Market and Exhibit Hall

Dr. Robert Cialdini keynotes Affiliate Summit West 2010

Brian Clark keynotes Affiliate Summit West 2010

Pinnacle Awards at Affiliate Summit West 2010

Affiliate Summit West 2010 Misc.

Affiliate [...]

The final numbers are in for Affiliate Summit West 2010 and we ended up with 4,125 attendees – the biggest Affiliate Summit to date.

We are very excited about the sustained growth during such a fragile economy – it’s a testament to the strength of the affiliate marketing space, even during a recession.
As far as the [...]

Do you have a blog, publication, site, podcast, video series, or some other outlet where you’d like to review Internet Marketing from the Real Experts?
Internet Marketing from the Real Experts is a collection of affiliate, email, blogging, podcasting, video, search engine, and social media rock stars that break down the how and why of Internet [...]

Dr. Robert Cialdini delivered a keynote address to the audience at Affiliate Summit West 2010 in the Penn & Teller Theater at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on Monday, January 18, 2010.
At the conclusion of the speech, Dr. Cialdini gave away a pocket guide to his Principles of Ethical Influence.
Here is [...]