Welcome to the AffiliateTip.com Newsletter for February 2005. Be sure to check out the AffiliateTip.com blog for the latest news and information at http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/

Topics in this issue:

1. Affiliate Tip - New Breed of Pop-Ups
2. Adware Affiliates: Skanks or Personal Shoppers?
3. Affiliate Tip - TrackBack to Relevant Blogs
4. Affiliate Program News
5. Free Passes for Affiliate Summit 2005
6. Top 10 Affiliate Programs - Janaury 2005
7. I'll pay you $11 to go to eComXpo

1. Affiliate Tip - New Breed of Pop-Ups
Pop-ups are finished, right? Well, that's sort of right. The old school pops have been sufficiently thwarted by the various pop-up blockers, but just as the big companies create a blocker, the evil genuiuses devise a workaround.

And guess what, there's a bit of a pop-up renaissance. The reason is that most pop-ups have been killed, and only the slick ones are breaking through. The signal to noise ratio is way down and the effectiveness of pops is climbing.

These days, there are products out there using DHTML to get the pop-ups to pop. The one that snuck past your pop-up blocker was from a service called Instant Attention.

Visit http://www.affiliatetip.com/affiliate_tip_37.php for more details.

2. Adware Affiliates: Skanks or Personal Shoppers?
The adware debate is heating up again in affiliate marketing message boards and across the affiliate marketing blogosphere.

In one corner, Carolyn Tang is likening adware affiliates to cheap, wine bar floozies. (OT: for some reason, that evokes memories of John Ritter at the Regal Beagle).

Carolyn goes on to offer the following analogy: "In the brick and mortar world, would it be fair for Dunkin Donuts to open up a Munchkin' stand in front of a Krispy Kreme store?"

Then in the other corner, defenders of adware affiliates, have compared the experience to that of a personal shopper. Continued at http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/archives/
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3. Affiliate Tip - TrackBack to Relevant Blogs
If you are currently blogging, you should also be utilizing the TrackBack feature to drive targeted traffic back to your site.

There seems to be confusion among many bloggers about TrackBacks - how to do it, what it is, etc. Bascially, the TrackBack is a system implemented by many blogging tools that allows a blogger to see who has seen one of their posts and written another entry concerning it.

The way it works is that a 'ping' is sent from one blog to the other, which generates a TrackBack.

Visit http://www.affiliatetip.com/affiliate_tip_38.php for more details.

4. Affiliate Program News
AllZines.com
http://www.affiliatetip.com/out.php?pid=43&lid=3
Start 2005 with a Bang at AllZines.com and earn 50% commission. AllZines has assembled 140 top magazine titles in 7 focused categories, all paying you 50% commission on each category. If you are looking to supplement focused content with targeted products this is for you. Each category supported by mini datafeed and Product Link Creator. Please see our support site for more details.

GoodTimes Entertainment
http://www.affiliatetip.com/out.php?pid=570&lid=2
Promote house hold names and Brand Name products from your site with GoodTimes Entertainment, from Billy Blanks to Kurt Warner to Charlton Heston and The Firm. Promote heath, fitness and education and make 15% doing it.

KegWorks.com
http://www.affiliatetip.com/out.php?pid=187&lid=3
KegWorks.com, one of the leading online retailers of draft beer dispensing equipment, home bar accessories, refrigeration and more, is offering a 10% starting commission to all new affiliate that sign up through AffiliateTip.Com . Mail Allen.Miller@kegworks.com after you sign up to notify us.

SCORE Education Centers
http://www.affiliatetip.com/out.php?pid=590&lid=2
$8 per lead. Coupons available. SCORE Education Centers help children find joy through learning. We help kids catch up, keep up, and get ahead. And we help them have a little fun in so doing. SCORE was established in 1992. One form landing page - http://www.escore.com/contactus/contact_aff.aspx Sign-up at www.cj.com.

Signswork.com
http://www.affiliatetip.com/out.php?pid=689&lid=1
Interested in partnering with Signswork.com? We offer 10% commissions on all sales! It's free and you can start right away. It's not unusual for a single customer order to exceed $800. That would be an $80 commission! We sell all types of advertising signs.

UnitedShades.Com
http://www.amwso.com/united_shades.php
UnitedShades.Com , the leading online store for designer sunglasses, direct from the manufacturer, featuring 35+ of the world's top brands is offering a $20 first sale bonus to any new affiliate that signs up through AffiliateTip.Com. For generating 2 orders in any given month, we will give the affiliate a commission boost of 3% the following month, for a total of 10% commission.

5. Free Passes for Affiliate Summit 2005
The annual Affiliate Summit (http://www.affiliatesummit.com) affiliate program marketing conference is taking place on June 13-14 at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas this year. Starting February 1 through April 30, 2005, the Affiliate Summit 2005 Sweepstakes will be accepting entries for a chance to win one of four free passes to the event.

The two day conference will include panels of experts, interactive sessions, and networking events. Keynote speakers are Declan Dunn, CEO & Founder, Dunn Direct Group, and Fredrick Marckini, CEO & Founder, iProspect.

Topics being covered at the conference will include the Google AdWords affiliate policy change; the role of blogs in affiliate marketing; the economic, business and legal issues around trademark bidding by affiliates; the state of adware and affiliate marketing; affiliate recruiting techniques; the intersections of search engine marketing and email marketing with affiliate marketing; affiliate marketing fraud; and much more.

Continued at http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/archives/
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6. Top 10 Affiliate Programs - Janaury 2005
Below are the Top Ten Affiliate Programs for Janaury 2005 as tracked by the AffiliateTip.com Affiliate Program Directory.

The Top Ten affiliate programs are calculated by the number of clickthroughs each program received on AffiliateTip.com.

1. InstrumentPro
2. Great Expectations
3. Hilton
4. eHealthInsurance
5. ClubMom
6. MaxBounty.com
7. AllPosters.com
8. Lightspeed Research
9. Diet.com
10. Western Union

7. I'll pay you $11 to go to eComXpo
As you may know, the eComXpo online affiliate marketing trade show is taking place next week - February 17-19.

The price to attend the entire event is $89. Well, I've got a deal for you. If you go and sign up for eComXpo and send me the confirmation (dated between Feb 8 and Feb 17), I will give you $100 off the cost for registering to go to Affiliate Summit 2005.

So the net net of it is that you'd end up going free to eComXpo, and actually be making eleven bucks on the deal, since you'd get $100 knocked off the bill for Affiliate Summit 2005.

And by the way, I plan to mention your name in the Panel Discussion on "The Myths of Affiliate Marketing" at eComXpo, so you really should be there.

As always, I'd love to hear from you! Drop me a line and let me know if you have any suggestions or questions.

Take care,
Shawn Collins

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