Affiliate Summit Real Deal

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Topics in this issue:

1. Speakers at Affiliate Summit London

Affiliate Summit London, taking place September 28 at the Olympia Conference Centre (Hammersmith Road, Kensington, London), is coming together nicely.

The agenda is set, and we’re adding the sessions onto the site for Affiliate Summit London as we receive the agreements from the selected speakers.

Here are the confirmed speakers so far…

Matt Bentley, Chief Strategy Officer, Sedo
Shawn Collins, Co-founder, Affiliate Summit
Linus Gregoriadis, Head of Research, E-consultancy
Alison Guise, UK Managing Director, Commission Junction and Mediaplex
Wil Reynolds, Associate, SEER Interactive
Sri Sharma, Managing Director, Net Media Planet
Andreas van de Ven, Partner Sales Manager Europe, Lycos Europe GmbH
Missy Ward, Co-founder, Affiliate Summit

2. Recruiting an Affiliate Manager

Lisa Picarille and myself welcomed Michael Demby, Executive Recruiter at AC Lion. Topics discussed included what companies are looking for when hiring affiliate managers and average salaries.

Affiliate managers searching for positions should contact Michael at M.Demby@aclion.com.

We also gave a recap of Affiliate Summit 2007 East, and discussed affiliate commissions by debit card, Google AdSense for Mobile, ValueClick’s purchase of MeziMedia, potential problems with the Google acquisition of DoubleClick, and the line between advertising and editorial.

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3. Pictures from Affiliate Summit 2007 East

I’ve created a new account on Flickr for Affiliate Summit pictures.

The hundreds of photos are broken out in sets for Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.

Please go in to add tags, notes and comments to the pictures of you, your friends and associates.

See all of the pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/affsum/.

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5. Affiliate Summit on Squidoo

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