Affiliate Manager Guide

The Affiliate Manager site is geared towards those just getting started with affiliate programs, as well as affiliate marketing veterans.

Shawn Collins has assembled free affiliate manager videos to help you set up and manage your affiliate program.

The videos cover each chapter of Shawn's book, Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants.

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.

Affiliate Fatblogging: Building Stamina and Battling Plateaus
Now that I’m working on building my stamina to run the 4th Annual Amber Pizzo Memorial 5K on July 12, I needed to calibrate my Nike + iPod Sport Kit that I use with my iPod Touch – this is a neat tool on my Touch that tracks distance, speed, calories burned, etc. I went to [...]

Last Call for the Tax Talk & Crab Feast in Baltimore
We are just about at capacity for the Tax Talk & Crab Feast, which is being hosted by Affiliate Summit and buy.at next Thursday (July 9) in Baltimore, MD at the buy.at office. We’ll be getting together starting at 4pm for a discussion on the advertising tax legislation, the impact on affiliate marketers, and how to [...]

Governor Schwarzenegger Terminates Advertising Tax in California
I just came across some good news for affiliates in California, Advertising Tax Vetoed from the CA Budget, in a post on Jangro.com. Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed the advertising tax in California, and Overstock.com announced that they will not be dropping California afiliates. California lawmakers proposed a tax on affiliate advertising and sen...

Overstock Terminates California Affiliates
The media is making the state advertising tax issue out to be all about Amazon, but there are many thousands of other affiliate programs out there that may well fire affiliates in proactive or reactive measures against the legislation. Yesterday, Overstock served walking papers to affiliates in California. Dear Affiliate: We regret to inform you...

Affiliate Convention, Joan Rivers, Michael Jackson, and the Advertising Tax
Download audio file (affiliatething-053009.mp3) I wasn’t able to record the Affiliate Thing show this week, so my trusty co-host Lisa Picarille soldiered on with guest co-host Scott Jangro, super affiliate and president of MechMedia. The covered the latest in the advertising tax saga with media depicting Amazon vs. the states, as well as winner...

Amazon vs. the States over the Advertising Tax
The advertising tax issue was discussed this afternoon on Fox Business. Shibani Joshi talked about Amazon.com’s war against the various state plans to institute Internet advertising taxes. The segment was just a few minutes, so it didn’t go too in depth on the issue, and it was mostly about the impact on Amazon. There was no discussion [...]

Help Affiliate Marketers Give Back Fight Breast Cancer
My Affiliate Summit partner, Missy Ward, is back at it again with another fundraising effort to battle breast cancer. For the third year in a row, she has organized a team under the Affiliate Marketers Give Back banner to participate in a walk – this time Team Affiliate Marketers Give Back will be doing the 40-mile [...]

Commission Junction Goes Green
Commission Junction is adding new “green” categories of affiliate programs. Categories let advertisers describe their program to publishers, who can then search for advertisers by category in order to locate those that best fit their program. In response to current retail trends and client requests, we’ve added nine new green program categories ...