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.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 [...]

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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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If you are like most people, the error pages on your site are the default pages provided by your host. In the past, I’ve encouraged affiliates to customize these pages, but many affiliates have come back to ask how to get the error traffic to the customer error pages.
Error messages occur due to a [...]

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I was watching an episode of Maggie and the Ferocious Beast with my youngest daughter, Kerrigan, recently. It was an episode where one of the characters would repeat whatever anybody else said.
This character was labeled a copycat by the others. Ever since then, whenever somebody does something annoying or naughty, little Kerrigan calls them a [...]

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I’m big into info products, and often buy them on ClickBank. But they’ve got a problem there - it’s somewhat difficult to find what you want, because they don’t make their database of more than 10,000 products searchable.
Instead, ClickBank ranks the products by what they call their ‘productivity score,’ which is a measure of the [...]

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The biggest sales days of the year have come and gone, but that doesn’t mean it’s all over. Have you forgotten about the clearance sales?
You’ve probably received a bunch of e-mails from affiliate programs with post-Christmas creative. Especially those big box retailers. Take the hint and roll out those special offers.
It’s round two for online [...]

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I recently put together an overview of various technologies related to the Internet that can help bridge the digital generational divide within families.
One product that I found to be very interesting was the MSN TV 2 Internet & Media Player. It’s sort of the next generation of what you knew as WebTV years ago.
I think [...]

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year for affiliates. Sales for affiliates always multiply in the run up to Christmas, but it’s almost over.
The biggest sales day of the year is expected to be Tuesday, December 13 or “Super Tuesday.”
“Super Tuesday” for online holiday shopping will be 12-1 p.m. EST Dec. 13, according to [...]

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