About Shawn Collins

Shawn Collins has been an affiliate marketer since 1997.

Shawn is a co-founder of the Affiliate Summit, the leading industry conference for affiliate marketing, which regularly sells out and features the biggest names in performance marketing.

He is also the Co-Editor-in-Chief of FeedFront Magazine and Founder of GeekCast.fm.

His book, ‘Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants‘ is the best selling book in the space, and it is considered to be required reading by affiliate managers.

He publishes the annual AffStat Report, a research, analysis, and benchmarking report for the affiliate marketing industry. The data in the AffStat series is widely quoted by trade publications, including Internet Retailer and Jupitermedia properties.

Shawn writes a daily blog on affiliate marketing news and opinion at his Affiliate Tip site, and posts regularly to his Affiliate Tip TV channel on YouTube.

Industry accolades:

• 100 Most Influential Marketers of 2009 (January 2010)
• LinkShare Golden Link Award for Performance Marketing’s Most Vocal Advocate to Affiliate Summit (June 2009)
• EzineArticles.com Platinum Expert Author
• TiECON/Chitika Blogpreneur Contest 2008 Award (May 2008)
• ABestWeb “Best of 2007″ Award: “Best Service to Industry” to Affiliate Summit (April 2008)
• Affiliate Classroom Honorary Affiliate Manager Certification (February 2008)
• AffiliateDinner.com Guest of Honor Award (January 2007)
• LinkShare Golden Link Award for Performance Marketing’s Most Vocal Advocate (June 2006)

Additionally, Shawn has been quoted in numerous publications, including Entrepreneur Magazine, Internet Retailer, Inc. Magazine, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.