Affiliate marketing veteran Shawn Collins is known for a number of achievements…

• Co-founding the Affiliate Summit with Missy Ward (the next Affiliate Summit East is from Aug 10-12 in Boston)
• Multiple updates on his Affiliate Tip blog
• His sarcastic and wry style on Affiliate Thing (together with co-host Revenue Magazine editor Lisa Picarille)
• His relative new foray into group podcasting at Geekcast.fm together with partners-in-crime Sam Harrelson and Jim Kukral. (Jim did a video interview with me in the midst of the recent Affiliate Summit West)

If you like Shawn’s Road Trip/American Pie-ish style of humor, you’d want to check out this Easter bunny video broadcast:

Also, check out this Facebook thread where we’re aiming to hit 500 comments. Every little comment helps!

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You’ll hear Internet Marketers perpetually talking about niches, and they’re usually centered around product or brand categories, such as the Nintendo Wii or Ps3 game consoles, or weight loss/hair loss products or ones related to diet and fitness.

But how about going beyond these to look at seasonal niches.

They could be underserved by Internet Marketers who might be clustered in the ‘traditional’ niches…

Take a look at the Google Trends charts for 3 holidays I’ve selected:

While Christmas has high demand, it likely will have a huge number of marketers creating niche sites intended to cater to this holiday. So it likely will be as competitive as the product niches like weight loss.

Going by our gut feel, Valentine’s Day is a seasonal niche which will likely be overserved too. (more…)

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