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.

Thanks for visiting the Affiliate Tip blog. Subscribe to my RSS feed or enter your e-mail on the top left to get updates by e-mail.I received lots of useful affiliate tips in response to my post about sharing tips for a chance to win an iPod Nano or Flip Mino HD.
The winning comment was from [...]

I am running a contest, sponsored by Market Leverage, during the month of December 2008 where the winner will have the choice of either an iPod Nano or a Flip Mino HD.
It’s easy to enter - just submit a video or text tip related to affiliate marketing. It’s got to be original - I will [...]

We’re less than two months away from Affiliate Summit West 2009, taking place January 11-13, 2009 in Las Vegas, and we’re kicking off a new contest to win a free Platinum pass to the conference.
In order to enter, you must do the following:

Post to Twitter with the Twitter name of somebody you want to meet [...]

I was excited to see the launch by my friend Jim Kukral yesterday of his new site, the Biz Web Coach.
Jim has been around the business for over a decade, and now he’s offering a hands-on coaching and consulting service at an affordable price.
It’s a membership site built for small businesses and brands who need [...]

I uploaded a short video of my kids playing the Wii the other day on Flickr, and I noticed that I could use HTML in the description of the video.
So a lightbulb went off - I figured this could be an opportunity to upload pictures and videos that are tagged well, along with a good [...]

Trisha Lyn Fawver posted a useful collection of affiliate advice from folks in the industry, Top 14 Tips for Affiliate Success, at the New Edge Media Blog.
Tips included are from Jim Kukral, Michael Buechele, Sam Harrelson, Scott Jangro, and a handful of others.
Here is what I shared:
Few affiliates are using video, so you should jump [...]

I was thinking about the various reasons I pick affiliate programs to promote, and the focus is often about relevance to my audience, strength of the brand, commission potential, etc. during Affiliate Summit Social Media the other day.
As I watched Shashi Bellamkonda, Social Media Swami at Network Solutions, speak about leveraging social media, a light [...]

The Kindle, Amazon’s wireless reading device, enables owners to read books, newspapers, magazines, and blogs.
I’ve been skeptical of the widespread use of the Kindle, but according to TechCrunch, Amazon had sold 240,000 units, as of a couple months ago.

Given such a large and presumably tech savvy audience, the Kindle users are a good audience [...]

You know those stripe ads that are turning up on a lot of blogs these days? They don’ take up much space, but they catch your attention. At least, they do for me.
Anyhow, those Stripe Ads are available as a WordPress plugin from MaxBlogPress.

You can get a free version of the plugin, but it has [...]

Politics are a big niche now and they will be for the next two months - just have a look at Google Trends.
So, it’s a great time to focus on affiliate programs that tie into politics, such as Sticker Giant, CafePress, and tons of products on Amazon.com.
And from the Where Are They Now file, we’ve [...]