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Topics in this issue:
- Get Your Own Blog from Affiliate Summit
- Affiliate Managers: Take the AffStat 2007 Survey
- Affiliate Tip - Affiliate Heat Maps
- Affiliate Marketing Classifieds and Other Stuff
- Scott Richter Accepts the Challenge from Affiliate Summit
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Affiliate managers that complete the survey will receive a full copy of the AffStat 2007 Report in early 2007.
Areas covered in the survey included affiliate networks, staffing, affiliate recruiting, and management.
The survey questions are broken out by affiliate program type: bounty, pay per lead, and pay per sale.
The AffStat 2007 survey also includes a section where affiliates managers can sound off in their own words on a variety of industry issues.
Take the AffStat 2007 Survey now at http://www.affstat.com/survey07.
I've been trying to find a tool that would enable me to get heatmaps for my sites to figure out how visitors are interacting and where the best spots are for ads.
I came across a site called Crazy Egg that includes a few different tools to track, evaluate and improve my sites.
It's got a feature to see a heatmap that indicates the most popular places on the page, based on clicks.
Also, they provide an overlay that shows the page with details on each element of the page (number of clicks, percent of total clicks on the page), and a list with a full summary of raw click data.
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Scratches his head and does his best James Dean.
Yeah - he says he's not chicken in a video response - he has accepted the challenge from Affiliate Summit to up the ante in his Breakaway Fitness Challenge.
If Scott beats Jenny Frederick in the battle to lose 30 pounds by December 25, he's getting a free booth at Affiliate Summit. Plus Missy and Shawn have to wear clown wigs at the CPA Empire booth.
But when Jenny wins, Scott has to wear a goofy wig of his own at Affiliate Summit, and we'll be the ones doing the clowning.
See his righteous indignation at Google Video.
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