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Register now for Affiliate Summit 2007 West - January 21-23 at Bally's Las Vegas.
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Topics in this issue:
- Affiliate Summit Early Bird Ends on 9/30
- Practical Search Data for Affiliate Marketers
- Affiliate Summit Establishes Advisory Board
- Affiliate Marketing Classifieds and Other Stuff
- Affiliate Summit Agenda is Up
Pricing for exhibitor booths will also change after September 30. 10' x 10' booths will increase from $3,995 to $4,995 and 10' x 20' booths will increase from $5,995 to $7,495 starting on October 1.
Other Affiliate Summit sponsorships are also available. See http://www.affiliatesummit.com/07w_sponsors.php for details.
Register now at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/
The Search Marketing Benchmark Guide 2007 includes 3,944 real-life marketers' search budgets and results, paid search advertising data, search engine optimization stats, and eyetracking lab study results that show how consumers view your search ads.
In addition to all of the data in the new search guide, MarketingSherpa is also including special reports on search and shopping; search marketing and public relations; vertical, second tier, local, and pay per call search; click fraud -- perception versus reality; and may favorite: the search eyetracking study.
More details at MarketingSherpa.com.
Affiliate Summit has announced the formation of an advisory board as part of the company’s strategy to expand and further develop the conference series.
The think tank will serve as an ongoing sounding board for Affiliate Summit’s planned growth and will collect candid feedback, and offer their expertise and advice on matters such as content deliverables, featured speakers, etc.
Members appointed to serve on the Affiliate Summit Advisory Board so far include:
- Mike Allen, Shopping-Bargains.com, LLC
- Ryan Burt, Marchex
- Todd Crawford, Digital River, Inc.
- Angel Djambazov, Onlineshoes.com
- Marty Fahncke, Conference Call University
- John Grosshandler, eComXpo
- Kristin Hall, Performics
- Charles Kilmer, PPC Marketing
- Beth Kirsch, Riya.com
- Chris Kramer, NETexponent
- Vinny Lingham, incuBeta
- Brian Littleton, ShareASale
- Mike Mackin, Web Traffic Management
- Tricia Meyer, Sunshine Rewards
- Jonathan Miller, Forge Corporation Limited
- Michael Nunez, Suluta Corp
- Heather Paulson, PartnerCentric
- Lisa Picarille, Revenue Magazine
- Elena Potoupa, Wow-Coupons.com
- Lisa Riolo, formerly with Commission Junction
- Brook Schaaf, Schaaf Consulting
- Stephanie Schwab, Converseon
- Joshua Sloan, 1&1 Internet, Inc.
- Terrence Thomas, eLearners.com
- Michael Vorel, VastPlanet Corporation
Early bird registrations for this conference are good through September 30. Prices go up October 1 for full conference registrations (from $949 to $1,449) and and booths ($3,995 to $4,995).
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The sessions are laid out, and more speakers are being added each day as speakers are confirmed (they've all been selected - they do not show up on the site until we receive their speaker agreements).
This time around, we've increased to four breakout sessions, so there will be 24 breakouts, plus roundtable sessions, and a number of networking events.
Michael Sanchez, CEO and Co-founder of ClubMom, will be the Keynote Speaker for Affiliate Summit 2007 West.
There are some new things going on this time around, including the Affiliate Jam Session and Sing-a-Long and the Affiliate Summit Awards.
See the agenda at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/07w_agenda.php
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