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 Amazon terminating affiliates in Colorado, monetizing the Oscars, and affiliates upset with a contest from panties.com.

Also, data feeds in WordPress, the ShoeMoney System, and Affiliate Marketing 101 from Jonathan Volk.
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Dirty Affiliate Contest from [...]

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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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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about Epic Beard Man, advertising tax updates, LinkShare coupon finder, and the winners of the ABestWeb Awards.

Also, the keynotes for Affiliate Summit East 2010, QR-Codes, mobile affiliate marketing, and the difference in writing headlines for newspapers [...]

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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 [...]

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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about the happenings at Affiliate Summit West 2010, the launch of the ShoeMoney System, and the Affiliate Aquarium.

Also, Internet Marketing from the Real Experts has been published, Colorado proposes an advertising tax, and the wisdom of [...]

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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about what’s happening at Affiliate Summit West 2010, free business books, and the Nexus One Google Phone.

Also, the first book published by Affiliate Summit, the most influential marketers of 2009, and a new company some are [...]

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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about monitoring PPC brand poachers, the importance of business cards, and Fred Wilson on affiliate marketing.

Also, free books for the Kindle, a new affiliate marketing survey, photos with the iPhone, and an interview with Robert Cialdini [...]

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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about Kindle sales, affiliate marketing in 2010, rewards programs, and another Affiliate Summit sell out.

Also, three years of Affiliate Thing, bookmarks for affiliate marketers, Twitter parties, marketing with DailyBooth, and blippy.com.
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Three Years of Affiliate [...]

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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about affiliate action leading up to Christmas and into 2010, the superior Twitter customer support of Comcast, and a new issue of FeedFront magazine.

Also, Affiliate Summit West 2010 party list, Dr. Robert Cialdini’s book “Yes!”, and [...]

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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about big success at ShareASale on Cyber Monday, news about Affiliate Summit West 2010, and the American Girl doll phenomenon.

Also, the copyright lawsuit from ShoeMoney, Anne Kadet is confused about the PS3, a new name for [...]