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Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins
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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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Affiliate Innovations from Walmart.com
Walmart.com won the Golden Link Award from LinkShare last week for Innovative Advertiser of the Year.
I don’t really do anything currently with the Walmart.com affiliate program, though winning this award piqued my interest.
So I wanted to see what they did to merit the honor.
The Walmart.com affiliate portal provides tools such as a link generator (ability [...]
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Washington State Institutes Online Sales Tax
The state of Washington started taxing online purchases yesterday. Unlike the New York affiliate tax, Washington isn’t throwing affiliate marketers under the bus.
According to Washington Revenue Department spokesman Mike Gowrylow, the state law, which passed in 2007, has two major effects.
The first is that Washington is joining a national online sales-tax effort. The second is [...]
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Top 10 Affiliate Programs for June 2008
Below are the Top Ten Affiliate Programs for June 2008 as tracked by the Affiliate Tip Affiliate Program Directory.
The Top Ten affiliate programs are calculated by the number of clickthroughs each program received in the affiliate program directory.
Disclaimer: While we attempt to include only legitimate programs in this directory, no warranties are made. [...]
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GeekCast 25: Google Affiliate Network Mania
Download audio file (GeekCast25.mp3)
The regular gang of Jim Kukral, Lisa Picarille, Sam Harrelson, and Shawn Collins were assembled for the monumental 25th episode of GeekCast.
The politics and campaigning for spots on the Performance Marketing Alliance Advisory Board were discussed, as well as Lisa winning a LinkShare Golden Link Award, and the failed effort to broadcast [...]
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Can We Do That?! Outrageous PR Stunts That Work
Can We Do That?! Outrageous PR Stunts That Work–And Why Your Company Needs Them by Peter Shankman is an overview of some PR stunts and case studies.
Personally, I’m a total amateur when it comes to PR. I regularly issue press releases with nebulous returns.
I feel like I have to do it, but don’t have a [...]
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Congressional Hearing on Online Advertising
The U.S. House Committee on Small Business held a Hearing on the Impact of Online Advertising on Small Firms last Wednesday, and one of the speakers on the witness list was Tim Carter, Founder of AskTheBuilder.com.
ClickZ summarized the hearing, which ultimately revealed that House members oppose online ad regulation for the time being.
While witnesses touted [...]
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Google Affiliate Network
DoubleClick Performics announced today that they are now the Google Affiliate Network.
I think this is noteworthy on a couple of levels. First, Google doesn’t always attach their name to acquisitions. I can only speculate on the reasons for this, but I’d think it’s an indication that Google sees a big future in affiliate marketing.
Second, they [...]
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Magnify.net Launches Unlimited Video File Storage
There aren’t many options out there for storing long videos online. Many services, such as YouTube, restrict the upload size to 100 MB and length to ten minutes for most users.
We use Fliqz.com for Affiliate Summit to offer up the full conference sessions, which run 45-60 minutes. You can see an example of these videos [...]
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Blue Man Group at Affiliate Summit 2008 East
The Blue Man Group, best known for their incredible shows that combine comedy, music, multi-media theatrics and of course, blue-painted skin, are going to be performing on the second day of Affiliate Summit 2008 East on Monday, August 11, 2008.
Affiliate Summit is running August 10-12, 2008 in Boston, and the Blue Man Group will entertain [...]
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Get Issue 2 of FeedFront Magazine
We are closing out issue 2 of FeedFront Magazine, so if you didn’t get a copy of the first one in the mail, and you want to get issue 2, subscribe now.
Anybody based on the U.S. who attended Affiliate Summit last year in Miami or this past February in Las Vegas should have received an [...]
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