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Welcome to the AffiliateTip.com Newsletter. 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:
- Interview with Super Affiliate Wendy Shepherd
- Affiliate Summit Videos
- Affiliate Thing #6 Podcast Recap
- Affiliate Program News
- Ask Shawn Collins: I Can't See My Google AdWords
- Got Your Business Cards for Affiliate Summit?
1. Interview with Super Affiliate Wendy Shepherd
Lisa Picarille, Editor-in-Chief of Revenue Magazine, and myself recently sat down for a chat with super affiliate Wendy Shepherd, and asked a bunch of questions about how she got into affiliate marketing.
 Wendy is an affiliate marketing dynamo who managed to grow her affiliate marketing business to great heights in her spare time.
Not that there was spare time, mind you. Wendy built her sites and achieved prosperity as an affiliate marketer in stolen moments here and there when she wasn't home schooling her three boys.
She is a self-taught Internet entrepreneur who attended 2 years of community college in Business Administration.
You can read the transcript at http://www.affiliatetip.com/wendy-shepherd.pdf.
Audio of the interview was broadcast on the Affiliate Thing show. Download or stream it at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/affiliate-thing.
2. Affiliate Summit Videos
If you take any video with your camera or phone at Affiliate Summit, please share it on the Affiliate Summit Video site.
The Affiliate Summit Video site enables anybody to upload a video. If you've already put some video up on YouTube, Google, Yahoo, Revver or Blip, there is a tool to link those videos into the Affiliate Summit Video site.
Also, there is a video widget that enables you to post previews of the videos on your site.
Even if you don't have video to share from Affiliate Summit, you can review any of the videos.
Visit http://video.affiliatesummit.com for more details.
3. Affiliate Thing #6 Podcast Recap
The sixth Affiliate Thing podcast is now available to stream or download.
The latest show, hosted by Lisa Picarille, Editor-in-Chief of Revenue Magazine, and myself, featured an interview with Gene Kavner, former World-Wide Director of Amazon.com Associates Program.
We also discussed the new iPhone, Affiliate Summit passes being scalped on eBay, and a recent teleseminar by MarketingSherpa on e-mail marketing and implications on affiliate marketing.
Plus a thirty second resumercial from Sam Harrelson.
Download the latest show.
You can subscribe to the Affiliate Thing RSS feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/AffiliateThing, or if you'd rather receive Affiliate Thing updates via e-mail, just send a blank e-mail to affiliatething@aweber.com.
Tune in every Wednesday at noon EST at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/affiliate-thing for thirty minutes of affiliate marketing and fun.
4. Affiliate Program News
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5. Ask Shawn Collins: I Can't See My Google AdWords
I advertise affiliate links using Google AdWords. The problem is that I cant find my text ads on Google when I type the keywords I bid for. Is it possible that Google doesn't allow my ads to display? What can I do to get over this?
There are a handful of reasons why this might be happening, and I would suggest contacting the Google AdWords team about your particular issue.
Some of the reasons you would not be seeing your ads could be that your daily budget is lower than recommended, your keyword(s) are inactive, or your ad was disapproved.
Continued at http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/archives/
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6. Got Your Business Cards for Affiliate Summit?
Sam Harrelson of Cost Per News has created a new blog tag virus thing where he's asking people to share the business cards they are going to use at Affiliate Summit next week.
It's timely in that if you who haven't gotten a whole bunch of business cards set aside for Affiliate Summit, you'd better act on it now. Lots of places can still get them with quick turnaround - iPrint, Vista Print, your local print shop, etc.
Anyhow, Sam explains how he makes a custom business card for every person he meets.
My horrible handwriting would never stand up to that sort of effort, so I've gone in a bit of a different direction, and I'm doing an experiment of sorts with my cards.
The are modeled after a football card with a big picture, name and stuff on the front and then some details on the back.
Continued at http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/archives/
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As always, I'd love to hear from you! Drop me a line and let me know if you have any suggestions or questions.
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Take care,
Shawn Collins
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