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Topics in this issue:
- Early Bird Rates for Affiliate Summit End on 3/31
- Top 10 Reasons to Exhibit at Affiliate Summit
- Affiliate Tip - Create Custom Error Pages
- Affiliate Marketing Classifieds and Other Stuff
- The Future of the Toys "R" Us Affiliate Program
We are going through all of the speaker proposals and the agenda will be updated regularly as speakers are confirmed.
Some of the new things we're doing for Affiliate Summit 2006 East:
- Affiliate Summit Social Network
- Pre-conference Teleseminars with Affiliate Summit Speakers
- Bingo Networking
- Affiliate Buyer's Guide
- Affiliate Meet Market - networking session for affiliates and merchants to hook up
We are also planning to video the sessions, so attendees can see any sessions they missed when they get back to the office. More details to come soon.
Visit http://www.affiliatesummit.com/registration.shtml to register.
- Your competition will be there and they will have no problem pilfering your affiliates, advertisers and clients. In fact, with 85 companies expected to exhibit at this show, you're not going to want to miss out on the opportunity to strengthen existing relationships in that irreplaceable face-to-face environment.
- You won't waste your time weeding through masses of attendees that have little or no relevance to your business needs. Reach a year's worth of affiliates, advertisers and clients in just a few days. The Affiliate Summit 2006 East show will bring about 1,200 industry professionals under one roof. There is no other show in existence with such targeted audience.
- It's an ideal selling environment - affiliates, advertisers and clients come to you. They'll be able to see what you have to offer and you'll be able to answer all of their questions in person - a much faster way to close the deal. It is the perfect time to show your competitor's customers how your company does it better.
- Meet affiliates who, because of time or budget limitations, do not attend other shows.
- It's better than Monster.com. If you're looking for sales representatives or affiliate managers, you can't find a more talent-rich atmosphere than the Affiliate Summit show.
- Walk the floor and garner a little business intelligence on your competition. Hey, there's nothing wrong with a little Re-Con work.
- At an early bird price of $3,995 (which includes 4 full-conference passes for your company and another 5 full-conference passes for your affiliates) it's a great deal. If more than a couple of people are attending the event anyway, doesn't it make more sense to get a booth and really show potential customers what you're made of?
- Mickey Mouse. Need I say more?
- In less than 2 weeks of taking exhibitor registrations, nearly 30% of the booths are now sold.
- Support the only event that provides the most economical networking and educational opportunities for you and the industry that you have chosen to make a living in. The Affiliate Summit show is where our industry buzz is born.
For more information on exhibiting and available sponsorships at Affiliate Summit 2006 East, please visit http://www.affiliatesummit.com/sponsors.shtml
Error messages occur due to a number of diferent conditions taking place on your site. These error conditions generate numbers to refer to the coresponding error condition.
Some of the more common error messages are as follows:
Error in Client
- 400 Bad syntax
- 403 Forbidden
- 404 Not Found (this one is the most common)
Error in Server
- 500 Internal Error
There are a few different ways you can create your error pages.
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Affiliate Buyer's Guide - Submit Your Listing
The Affiliate Summit 2006 East conference program will include a buyer's guide for affiliate marketers. The affiliate buyer's guide will be a comprehensive directory of vendors that provide products and services to affiliate marketers. Submit a listing to the Affiliate Buyer's Guide at http://www.affiliatebuyersguide.com. Deadline for submissions is May 31, 2006.
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Since that time, Amazon has powered the Toys "R" Us site and affiliate program, but that's changing with the ruling of the Chancery Court yesterday, which unties the companies.
It will be interesting to see how this all works out. Back in the days before Toys "R" Us teamed with Amazon, they ran their own site and affiliate program.
The pairing with Amazon followed a stream of bad press surrounding mistakes and problems with the original Toys "R" Us site.
I'm sure the loyalty-based affiliates are smiling now (assuming there is a Toys affiliate program by Q3 for Christmas), as they have not been able to work with Toys "R" Us all these years, since Amazon doesn't play the loyalty affiliate game.
More on Toys "R" Us at http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/archives/
toys_r_us_affiliate_program_speculation_redux.html
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