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Save the date: Affiliate Summit 2008 East will be in Boston - August 10-12, 2008
Read past issues of the Affiliate Summit Real Deal newsletter in the newsletter archive.
Topics in this issue:
- Affiliate Summit Registration Closing
- Guide to Networking at Affiliate Summit
- We Want to Wear Your Logo
- Affiliate Marketing Classifieds and Other Stuff
- AOL Acquires buy.at Affiliate Network
- GeekCast 4 - buy.at, Jason Calacanis, and an Uncivil Affiliate War
We are currently over 90 percent of capacity, and based on past shows, the remaining registrations will be filled up in the next week.
This is going to be the biggest Affiliate Summit to date with space for approximately 2,500 attendees. The biggest Affiliate Summit until now was last year in Las Vegas with 2,079 registrations.
In the event passes are being sold on eBay after we reach capacity (which has routinely happened in the past), please be sure to ask for the seller’s name and registration number.
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The dates are February 24-26, 2008 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
Register now at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/.
Topics covered include using the Affiliate Summit social network, defining your goals, scheduling appointments, perfecting your elevator speech, and the art of the follow up.
Continued at http://blog.affiliatesummit.com/2008/02/04/guide-to-networking-at-affiliate-summit/.
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Moving forward, buy.at, Inc will be known as Advertising.com’s buy.at affiliate network, according to Malcolm Cowley, President of buy at, Inc the US subsidiary of buy.at.
“Publishers will be able to work with Advertising.com across multiple product lines display, video, and mobile. This deal will give us the resources and reach we need to be a viable affiliate network choice for major US brands,” stated Cowley.
“Investment plans include increases in staff and technology to support the growth plans here in the US. buy.at will also have the advantage of being able to leverage Advertising.com and AOL’s significant breadth and depth of technical resources to complement its own technology and offering - meaning we will be able to provide unique tools to affiliates in the future to continue our reputation for innovation in the channel,” continued Cowley.
Check out a discussion about the deal on the buy.at forum on ABestWeb.
Congratulations to Advertising.com, AOL, and buy.at.
We also jumped into politics a bit, the rebranding of Think Partnership to Kowabunga, and a rant against make money blogs on Wicked Fire.
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