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Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins
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.
Email Affiliate Marketing
Q: How can I get started in email affiliate marketing? And can I make money with it?
A: I’ll answer your second question first. Yes, you can certainly make money with it if done correctly.
As far as getting into email as an affiliate, it depends on what you’re willing to invest into it.
My first suggest is [...]
Getting a Blog Indexed in Google
Q: What is the procedure to get your blog indexed in search? If I want to ensure that my blog will be indexed in search, besides using good content over a long period, what other steps should I take so Google can find it? In Yahoo, there is a site feed area that is for [...]
Ticketmaster Affiliate Case Study
Advertising.com’s buy.at Affiliate Network has released a case study from the Ticketmaster affiliate program focused on their customized “EventEngine” campaign widget.
The challenge in this case study was to branching out from traditional sponsorship efforts.
So the buy.at team partnered with Ticketmaster to build a customized “EventEngine” widget solution.
This appl...
GeekCast 31: The Hot Mess
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We had good intentions of recording a live show on the night before Affiliate Summit kicked off in Boston.
There was even a sort of serious first draft where a group of twelve or so people rambled on about the Kindle.
After a vote, that recording was scrapped, and we went on to randomly [...]
Ethical Issues in Affiliate Marketing
One of the final sessions of Affiliate Summit 2008 East was an important discussion on ethics in the industry, and I couldn’t help but think about the irony of the topic given some things that went on behind the scenes during the conference.
You see, there were a number of folks that decided to use a [...]
Shawn Collins Talks Twitter: News at 11
I wrote a post a couple months back about how Comcast was using Twitter for customer service and made me a happy customer.
A few weeks later, I was contacted about doing a TV news segment about companies using the Internet for customer service, and the crew came over to my office for an interview.
Now the [...]
Affiliate Summit 2008 East, Day 3
Day 3 of Affiliate Summit 2008 East began with a series of Ask the Experts roundtables, and then moved on to a series of breakout sessions.
This was also the second and final day of the exhibit hall, where we had a few long rows of booths, as well as a new addition - the Merchant [...]
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