Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

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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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.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 [...]

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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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Teleseminars and offline events can be a great way to grow your business, but the online event registration is a real chore to build.
I learned that first hand when I was putting it together for the Affiliate Summit site when we first got started.
I thought putting on a conference was going to be the hard [...]

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It’s time to make your business a business. If you’ve been using your social security number when you join affiliate programs and conduct other business, you may want to rethink things.
As your business grows, there are a number of reasons why you might want to incorporate.
Reasons to incorporate your business include people taking you seriously. [...]

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So you missed the big land grab of the 90’s when all of the good .com address were snapped up? Don’t fret - there’s a new frontier, and you (may) still have time to get some great names.
The place to claim your name, your brand, your site, etc. is MySpace. The way your name is [...]

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Community is a core component to many successful affiliates. Forums and message boards can be effective, but everybody has one. Set your site apart with conference calls.
While hosting conference calls can be expensive, there is a free service called Free Conference Call that will provide a line for up to 96 people to call [...]

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As an affiliate marketer, you code, your content, your copy, etc. is your business. So what are you going to do if your hard drive or machine dies on you?
The solution is to get yourself an external hard drive. Think of it as cheap business insurance.
You’ll also need a backup software program to automate [...]

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One bit of feedback that came out of the last Affiliate Summit was that many people could never find somebody on the staff when they needed them.
Since we were wearing white Polo shirts, we ended up blending in too much with the crowd.
We’d like to fix that this time around by giving the Affiliate Summit [...]

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