Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

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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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One of the foremost tenets of affiliate marketing is know your partners. Monitoring merchants is something every affiliate should do, but how many really do it?

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GoogSpy, one of my favorite tools, has been rebranded with lots of enhancements. The free, Web-based tool for competitor research is now SpyFu.

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One of my favorite geeky features of the annual MarketingSherpa Search Marketing Benchmark Guides is the part where the show eyetracking “heatmaps” so you can see how search engine users’ eyes actually “see” your search ads.

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If you’re looking for a free pass to Affiliate Summit, taking place January 21-23 in Las Vegas, there is now an opportunity to make it happen.

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It is often said there are no new ideas in Internet marketing. That may or may not be true, but as far as I am concerned, it doesn’t matter.
I frequently refer to my tattered copy of “The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing,” and one of my favorite passages is The Law of the Mind, [...]

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One of the best ways to drive lots of traffic to your site is through media exposure - the sort of traffic that money cannot buy.
In order to get that sort of media exposure, the media needs to find you first.
The first step is to establish yourself as an expert in an area that interests [...]

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