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Vote for Affiliate Summit Sessions, Dell Takes Care of Customers, and a Lesser Anteater at an unConference

Shawn Collins — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:01:59 +0000

This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille discuss the Affiliate Summit unConference, foursquare, and the new issue of FeedFront magazine.

Also, a return of the affiliate tax in CT, Dell being responsive to customers, buy.com switches affiliate networks, and a 16-year-old kid that is getting the attention of lots of entrepreneurs.

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iPads Banned at Yankee Stadium, Rakuten Purchases Buy.com, and the Lost Finale

Shawn Collins — Tue, 25 May 2010 02:22:17 +0000

This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about Rakuten purchasing Buy.com, the iPad getting banned at Yankee Stadium, and the speakers at Affiliate Summit East 2010.

Also, co-working spaces vs. Starbucks, mobile taking over the desktop, and people that whine about spoilers after a show has aired.

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Affiliate Summit West 2008 – Video Innovation in Affiliate Marketing

Amy Rodriguez — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:00:12 +0000

This session took place at Affiliate Summit West 2008 in February 2008.

Video Innovation in Affiliate Marketing

Websites without video will go the way of the dinosaur. More video content means a wider long-tail. There is a wealth of opportunity for affiliate marketers to use video in innovative ways.

•Melissa Salas, Director of Marketing, Buy.com (Moderator)
•Tim Carter, Founder, AskTheBuilder.com
•Joel Comm, President, InfoMedia
•Brian McCarthy, SVP Business Development, Revver
•Steve Rosenbaum, CEO, Magnify.net
•Gary Vaynerchuk, Host, Wine Library TV

Affiliate Convention, Joan Rivers, Michael Jackson, and the Advertising Tax

Lisa Picarille — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:07:37 +0000

My co-host Shawn Collins, who rarely misses show, was away on business this week. Filling in for Shawn is the fabulous Scott Jangro, super affiliate and president of MechMedia.

Scott has been on the show many times as both a guest and a co-host. I was delighted he could sit in with me on such short notice.

Of course, Scott and I talked about the death of Michael Jackson. Last week Shawn had a blog post urging affiliates to be sure to update their sites to include Amazon and iTunes links for all of Michael recordings.

Scott said his costume site is selling MJ costumes like crazy since the death of The King of Pop.

Here are some of the other topics we chatted about:

The winners of the 2009 LinkShare Golden Link Awards
Jangro and Joan Rivers share a moment
Commission Junction Goes Green
Parties at Affiliate Convention got mixed reviews -Melissa Salas of Buy.com tweeted about it
Amazon is ending its relationship with affiliates in Hawaii, Rhode Island, and NC. Is California Next?
Scott Jangro wrote a letter to his senator and state representatives trying to get ahead of any potential tax in Mass.
20 useful WordPress plug-ins

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GeekCast 40: Apple to Worm into Dell Territory

Shawn Collins — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:28:29 +0000

One week on with Sam Harrelson, and then we lost him again. But don’t fret – it’s temporary. He had to travel. So Jim Kukral, Lisa Picarille, and Shawn Collins joined up to go over the latest geekery.

Find out what happened at ShareASale’s Think Tank, how to make a video viral, social media friending disagreements, writing popular blog posts, obligatory smart phone talk, and why Mike Buechele is having a bad day.

Show notes:

Apple and the Sub-$1000 Notebook
ShareASale Think Tank
Mike Buechele on Football
Viral Video Spend to Rise, Despite Fuzzy Metrics
Facebook Application: Trazzler
Monitoring Twitter Followers
Writing a Successful Blog Post
iPhone and Blackberry Talk
Saturday Night Live to Get its Own Video Website
Melissa Salas from Buy.com is Cool

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Affiliate Thing Podcast – September 10, 2008

Shawn Collins — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:11:22 +0000

This week on Affiliate Thing, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille were joined by Kellie Stevens of AffiliateFairplay.com to chat about the lawsuit between eBay and affiliate Shawn Hogan.

We had talked about affiliate networks and video, trademark bidding, BlogWorld Expo and more.

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Affiliate Thing Podcast – May 28, 2008

Shawn Collins — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:50:36 +0000

The May 28, 2008 episode of Affiliate Thing opened with talk about the efforts to form a new affiliate marketing trade association.

Then Lisa Picarille and I discussed the impact of the New York affiliate tax, a robot with no name at Magnify.net, and Melissa Salas of Buy.com becoming a national TV star.

Also, we chatted about a chance to win cash money by designing a new Affiliate Summit site, third party ads on Google AdSense, and what’s happening in the affiliate porn business.

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