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.The dust has settled on Affiliate Summit 2008 East in Boston, and we’ve got a breakout of the attendees that came out for the conference.
Attendees at Affiliate Summit events break out [...]

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The complete video from the keynote address by Cory Booker at Affiliate Summit is now available.
Cory Booker is the Mayor of Newark, NJ, as well as the subject of the Academy Award nominated documentary, Street Fight, a Rhodes Scholar, graduate of Yale University School of Law, blogger at HuffingtonPost.com, and he played tight end at [...]

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We had good intentions of recording a live show on the night before Affiliate Summit kicked off in Boston.

There was even a sort of serious first draft where a group of twelve or so people rambled on about the Kindle.
After a vote, that recording was scrapped, and we went on to randomly record bits and [...]

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One of the final sessions of Affiliate Summit 2008 East was an important discussion on ethics in the industry, and I couldn’t help but think about the irony of the topic given some things that went on behind the scenes during the conference.
You see, there were a number of folks that decided to use a [...]

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Day 3 of Affiliate Summit 2008 East began with a series of Ask the Experts roundtables, and then moved on to a series of breakout sessions.

This was also the second and final day of the exhibit hall, where we had a few long rows of booths, as well as a new addition - the Merchant [...]

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Day 2 of Affiliate Summit 2008 East kicked off with an inspirational keynote address from Newark, NJ Mayor, Cory Booker.

The day featured a packed exhibit hall and a series of educational sessions.

The day wound up with the Great Affiliate Road Rally, where ShareASale took the checkered flag and won a booth for Affiliate Summit 2009 [...]

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Registrations are now open for Affiliate Summit 2009 West, taking place January 11-13, 2009 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
Between now and the last day of Affiliate Summit 2008 East in Boston (Tuesday, August 12, 2008), full passes and booths are discounted.
Passes are $759 through the end of the Boston conference, [...]

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Episode 30 of GeekCast is a preview of Affiliate Summit 2008 East in Boston next week.
Sam Harrelson is at the long tail end of his 20s and Jim Kukral seems to be getting into a new business of being a ukulele playing birthday clown.
It’s sort of hard to explain, so you really have to [...]

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The second issue of FeedFront Magazine, the official magazine of Affiliate Summit, is now hitting mailboxes, and it is available to download.
The cover story is a profile of Haiko de Poel, Jr. of ABestWeb.
Also, there are articles on conference networking, diversifying affiliate revenue, perils of white hat SEO, ten affiliate manager commandments, working with video, [...]

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Webgains, an affiliate network based in the UK, has announced that they are opening offices in the US.
Webgains USA will launch with six affiliate programs including Yes Asia, YesStyle, and Newspapers Remembered.
The new operation will be based in New York, and headed up by Ryan Gilbert, who managed the UK’s account management team for [...]

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