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Topics in this issue:
- Reason #43 to Register for Affiliate Summit: Sessions on Video
- Social Networks, the New Affiliate Frontier
- Affiliate Summit Preview Call #1 Now Available for Download
- Affiliate Marketing Classifieds and Other Stuff
- Is Google Losing Affiliate Mindshare?
The Early Bird registration rates of $949 (full conference) and $199 (exhibit hall only) are going up after 3/31. Starting 4/1, the rates to register for Affiliate Summit will be $1,449 (full conference) and $299 (exhibit hall only).
As we receive agreements from speakers, they are being added to the agenda - check back frequently for updates.
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
Visit http://www.affiliatesummit.com/registration.shtml to register.
After discussing the use of blogs by affiliates, Marty asked about some other ways that affiliates could promote their affiliate links. I touched on PPC arbitrage, loyalty sites, e-mail, data feeds, etc., I said I thought social networks were going to be an emerging type of affiliate in the coming year.
Social networks like MySpace.com, LinkedIn and Friendster have become increasingly popular, as they offer a more robust community environment than a discussion forum. Recently, they've permeated affiliate marketing with the launch of Return on Affiliate. Affiliate Summit is getting in on the action with the Affiliate Summit Social Network.
Last week, I saw that the most frequently searched term in the search engines, according to Wordtracker, is myspace.com. It's clearly an area that should not be ignored, rather you should consider embracing it and monetizing it.
Anyhow, just about five minutes after I mentioned social networks on the conference call, I got an e-mail update from the Affiliate Classroom Blog with the title, "Social Network Sites: New Ad Channel."
As Jeffrey Perren wrote in the Affiliate Classroom Blog, "Savvy affiliate marketers are going to be near the head of the line in using this new channel to increase income. And, bravo to those brave souls!"
If you've been waiting for the next big thing, here it is on a silver platter.
If you'd like to download it to your MP3 player, you can grab it at www.affiliatesummit.com/Affiliate2.mp3
Be sure to sign up at www.affiliatesummitpreview.com for the future Affiliate Summit preview calls, which include keynote speaker, Jim Bouton, and the blog master, Dave Taylor.
Questions covered in the discussion include:
- What criteria do you use to select the affiliate programs and/or networks you work with?
- How can I get potential affiliates to respond to my offer?
- What is the #1, most productive tool or marketing medium for affiliate recruiting?
- What is your stance on affiliates who use domain typosquatting, misleading PPC URL redirects, and other unethical forms of generating commissions?
- What are the best (and free) ways to promote your blog in order to get optimal exposure?
- What is the future of affiliate marketing?
- What is Affiliate Summit doing to make the upcoming conference even better?
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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.
Join the Affiliate Summit Social Network
Attendees of the Affiliate Summit conferences are entitled to a membership in the Affiliate Summit Social Network. This is a place to make connections with industry colleagues before, during and after the Affiliate Summit shows. Register now at http://network.affiliatesummit.com/.
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The combination of increased competition, legal woes, and shortfalls in 2006 sales projections seems to be resulting in a perfect storm against Google.
Yahoo! Search Marketing (formerly Overture) recently implemented tough restrictions on trademark bidding, which will protect the merchants and affiliates. Yahoo is laying down the law to stop competitors from bidding on other's trademarks. This is a practice currently not policed by Google.
This is a big plus for legitimate advertisers that were otherwise big spenders with Google AdWords. Then there's the Yahoo! Publisher Network, currently in Beta, which is taking Google head-on for the affiliate real estate currently dominated by Google AdSense.
And don't forget the sleeping giant, Microsoft. According to a post at JenSense, MSN has a contextual ad program in the wings, "MSN ContentAds is their contextual advertising program name and a launch date will be sometime in 2006."
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is_google_losing_affiliate_mindshare.html
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