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Affiliate marketing and other stuff from Shawn Collins, co-founder of Affiliate Summit.

Archives for November 2010

Big Growth for the LinkShare Affiliate Network

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LinkShare has announced that more than 110 new advertisers joined the LinkShare Network in the third quarter of 2010, an increase of 25 percent compared to the same quarter in 2009.

Additionally, sales in the LinkShare Network were up more than 30 percent in the third quarter of 2010 compared to overall e-commerce growth of nine percent (comScore).

LinkShare has more than 1,000 advertisers in the network.

One of the new advertisers on LinkShare is GoDaddy.com, which happens to be my registrar of choice.

Great to hear about the growth in affiliate marketing – more information on LinkShare at http://www.linkshare.com/.

Affiliate Summit East 2011 – Save the Date

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Affiliate Summit East 2011 is taking place August 21-23, 2011 in New York City. We’ll be returning to the Hilton New York.

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This will be the 17th Affiliate Summit and it is expected to be the largest Affiliate Summit East to date.

More details to come shortly. Registration will open soon.

See http://www.affiliatesummit.com/about/ for the history and growth of the premier affiliate marketing conference.

Short Term Affiliate Network Graffly Launches

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Graffly, a short term affiliate network features one advertiser campaign each month with a high payout, launched today.

Potential future campaigns are listed in the Campaigns Directory at Graffly, and affiliates can vote for the next one by applying to be an affiliate. Each month, the campaign with the most affiliates pledging to promote it will be activated.

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The first two merchants lined up are David’s Cookies, which is offering a 25% premium on all commission levels for November 2010, and then UncommonGoods, who will be doubling their commission from 10% to 20% for December 2010.

See an example of the two apps on the Graffly test account at http://blog.2performant.com/davids-cookies/.

More details at http://www.graffly.com/.

ShareASale 2010 ThinkTank Golf Classic

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ShareASale ThinkTank 2010 took place October 18-20, 2010 at the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, CA. Before all of the networking and breaking sessions, there was a day of affiliate marketers playing golf on the beautiful Pacific coast.

ShareASale ThinkTank 2010 in Half Moon Bay, CA

ShareASale put up a video with golf highlights from that day, as well as some helpful tips from Asif Malik of GoldenCAN.

Asif is an inspiration to affiliate duffers everywhere.

Video: ShareASale 2010 ThinkTank Golf Classic