I have had the pleasure to recently talk with Shawn Collins about trends in Affiliate Marketing on the Internet. Shawn Collins publishes a popular AffiliateTip.com site and organizes Internet's premier affiliate conference called Affiliate Summit with his partner Missy Ward. Its a great conference for anyone interested in affiliate marketing. I will be heading off to the Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas on Sunday.
Shawn interviewed me for his show on BlogTalkRadio where you can listen to the interview (click on Show #6).
Shawn asked me 7 questions:
- How would you define affiliate marketing and how is it different than traditional advertising?
- What do you consider to be some essential elements of an affiliate program?
- What do you think is the biggest challenge for an affiliate manager?
- I saw that you stated that widgets are the future of affiliate marketing. Can you share some examples of widgets that affiliates could leverage?
- Amazon has done quite a bit of innovation with their affiliate program. What would you consider to be some of the best tools they've Amazon provides to affiliates?
- As a blogger, should you have to disclose when you are compensated?
- Do you think video and mobile phones will play prominent roles in affiliate marketing in 2007?
It was a pleasure to speak to Shawn and I look forward to seeing him in person in a few days in Las Vegas.
You can listen to the interview or view the PDF transcript. Enjoy!
Gene Kavner, Former World-Wide Director, Amazon Associates Affiliate Program, 2005-2006.
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I'm going too, so I'll be glad to see both of you there.
Posted by: Robyn Tippins | January 16, 2007 at 09:34 PM
Jim, would love it. I'll email you my cell #, let's connect in Vegas.
Gene
Posted by: Gene Kavner | January 16, 2007 at 08:25 PM
I heard it Gene, nice interview. See you in Vegas, buy you a drink?
Posted by: Jim Kukral | January 16, 2007 at 08:20 PM