Affiliate Summit Real Deal - February 14, 2008

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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:

1. Affiliate Summit is Sold Out

Affiliate Summit 2008 West sold out yesterday.

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.

If you are looking for passes, you can try registering on the Affiliate Summit site, as we are adding registrations back to the system when we get cancellations. Otherwise, there will be a wait list.

Alternately, there have been passes sold on eBay in the past. If you are buying a pass from a third party, please be sure to ask for the seller's name and registration number.

Then contact registration@affiliatesummit.com to confirm that the pass can be resold (some passes are not transferable).

The dates are February 24-26, 2008 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

2. Join the Affiliate Summit Community

There are a number of parties and networking events at Affiliate Summit, as well as resources from us and third parties, to help you meet attendees and build your business.

Leading up to the conference, during and after, we’ve set up many ways for you to connect with others, so you can make the most of your Affiliate Summit experience.

Check out the tools and resources we’ve provided for you to get exposure, connect with other attendees, as well as share your blog posts, photos and videos.

Visit http://www.affiliatesummit.com/networking.php to be a part of the Affiliate Summit community.

3. Affiliate Summit Video Sponsorship Charity Auction

There is another charity auction for a sponsorship from Affiliate Summit 2008 West, where 100% of the winning bid goes to the Starlight Starbright Foundation.

This sponsorship is to get your logo up before and after each of the videos from the sessions at the conference.

These videos will be free to access to the public, so you’ll get a nice splash of branding, as well as a sponsorship that is tax deductible.

Here is an example of a sponsored video from Affiliate Summit 2007 East:

Example of Affiliate Summit sponsor video

This auction runs through Monday, February 18, 2008 at ~ 2:00 PM EST.

Bid now on eBay.

4. Affiliate Marketing Classifieds and Other Stuff

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Affiliate Buyer's Guide
Looking for an OPM, Web hosting, blog software or other products and services to help your business? Visit the Affiliate Buyer's Guide from Affiliate Summit. Submit a free listing for your business. More information at http://www.affiliatebuyersguide.com/.

Daily Affiliate News
Stay on top of the latest issues in affiliate marketing with Shawn Collins' blog. Visit http://blog.affiliatetip.com/ to read the news of the day and subscribe by e-mail or RSS to receive updates.

5. GeekCast 5 - ShoeMoney vs. WickedFire

The fifth episode of the GeekCast Show lasts about 45 minutes featuring Sam Harrelson, Jim Kukral, Lisa Picarille and myself chatting about a cease and desist from ShoeMoney to Jon at WickedFire over a recent forum thread about ShoeMoney.

We also touched on some politics, ridiculous video flak jackets, fake Twitterers, affiliate marketing parallels to high school, tech hippies, and the one suit wardrobe affiliate lifestyle.

Subscribe to the RSS of the entire GeekCast.fm network, or add us on iTunes.

Listen to the show at http://geekcast.fm/archives/geekcast-episode-5-cease-and-desist/.

6. Enter the Great Affiliate Road Rally

Just a reminder that the Great Affiliate Road Rally is taking place at Affiliate Summit.

Enter the Great Affiliate Road Rally

Posted to Affiliate Summit Videos on February 12, 2008

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It’s going to be a remote control car race on Tuesday, February 26 at Affiliate Summit 2008 West.

The winner gets a booth for Affiliate Summit in Boston in August 2008.

Donate $100 to the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation at http://www.starlight.org/affiliatesummit to enter.

See the current drivers registered for the race.

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