by Shawn Collins on March 26, 2010
The Affiliate Marketing 3.0 panel was part of the first ever SES Affiliate Marketing Forum in New York City on Thursday, March 25, 2010.
The panel covered the future of affiliate marketing, as well as current issues, such as the advertising tax and innovations in affiliate marketing.
The moderator was Kristopher Jones, President of the Pepperjam Network, [...]
by Shawn Collins on February 18, 2010
There was an advertising tax roundtable run by Tax Analysts on Friday, February 5 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, and they’ve allowed us to share the audio on GeekCast.fm.
Here is the description of the discussion:
Please join us for a discussion about whether states should tax Internet or other kinds of remote sales, [...]
by Shawn Collins on June 18, 2009
Back in the spring of 1999, Cindy Arko (then Aylward) hired me to join her and James Marciano to run Refer-it.com, the first affiliate program directory.
Prior to my joining them, they ran the first Affiliate Solutions conference at the Harvard Club in early 1999.
It was an exciting, explosive time in affiliate marketing back when affiliate [...]
by Shawn Collins on May 23, 2009
One of the key tactics for an affiliate is redirecting and/or cloaking affiliate links.
Affiliates cloak their links for a variety of reasons, but I do it so my affiliate links will be short, so I can use then in text email newsletters, and some people don’t like clicking affiliate links.
While there are many ways [...]