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.I made a comment recently that I thought the CJ interface was “terribly clumsy to find what I want.” Later that day, I got a note from Kerri Pollard, General Manager [...]

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I was catching up on some Tweets (Twitter posts) from Robert Scoble and saw an interesting one about a functionality to track keywords used in Tweets by others.

It turns out this feature for Tracking Twitter has been around for months, but I hadn’t checked out the Twitter blog, so I was in the dark.
Anyhow, it [...]

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I have this habit of monitoring domain registrations for various niches, and I regularly notice domains without the dot (i.e. wwwcompany.com) being registered for affiliates, merchants, and networks.
This is a very common typo, and if you don’t have that domain, you might be surprised to find that somebody else does, and they’re monetizing your oblivion.
I [...]

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There is a really entertaining video blog on wine called Wine Library TV, hosted by Gary Vaynerchuk.
The whole series of videos focuses on wines that are available at the Wine Library in Springfield, NJ.
I’d seen a billboard for the show on Route 78 West on the way back from Newark Airport a few times, and [...]

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There is a lot of talk about Affiliate 2.0 and harnessing technology to grow affiliate businesses, but how can you really do it?
Video is showing lots of potential, and mobile phone marketing has an exciting future, but both have associated learning curves and other barriers to entry.
How about t-shirts? Doesn’t sound so glorious, right? Well [...]

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Every once so often, there is a marketing phenomena that cannot be ignored. On Friday, June 29, the Apple Store will debut the iPhone.
There are two types of iPhones: $499 for the 4 GB version and $599 for the 8 GB version.
I’ve seen lots of affiliates griping that the Apple affiliate program only pays 1% [...]

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Who just said something about your site? Keep track of what people are writing about your site with Technorati.
Technorati is a dynamic directory of posts from many millions of blogs and other forms of user generated content, like photos and videos.
You can search on the Technorati site for keywords to see who is [...]

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Text links and banners are so yesterday. It’s all about video now, and there are lots of ways affiliates can leverage video on their sites, but not really in e-mail newsletters.
E-mail provides a great opportunity to bring the interactive elements of video to a captive audience, but the code for embedding video doesn’t work in [...]

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Sam Harrelson of Cost Per News has created a new blog tag virus thing where he’s asking people to share the business cards they are going to use at Affiliate Summit next week.
It’s timely in that if you who haven’t gotten a whole bunch of business cards set aside for Affiliate Summit, you’d better act [...]

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Every year around this time there are a deluge of studies and reports about the biggest shopping days for Christmas. The correct, big shopping dates are key for affiliates to maximize their revenue potential this time of year.

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