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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:
- Submit Nominations for Affiliate Summit Awards
- Add Affiliate Summit Agenda to Your Calendar
- Affiliate Tip - Spying with Google
- Affiliate Marketing Classifieds and Other Stuff
- Affiliate Marketing Best Practices Webinar
These awards recognize exceptional performance in affiliate marketing.
The Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards will be presented at Affiliate Summit 2007 West on the evening of Monday, January 22, 2007.
The categories for the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards are listed below:
- Affiliate of the Year
- Affiliate Manager of the Year
- Exceptional Merchant
- Affiliate Marketing Advocate
- Best Blogger
- Affiliate Marketing Legend
Nominations can be submitted at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/pinnacle-awards.php.
Just click on "Add to My Calendar" next to the sessions you plan to attend.
In my case, I am using Outlook and it prompts me to Open or Save the file. I click Save and it creates an appointment with the title, time, description and location of the session.
Then save the Outlook appointment and you'll have that session built in to your calendar.
Visit the Affiliate Summit agenda at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/07w_agenda.php.
Velocityscape launched GoogSpy.com in April 2005 to enable people to sleuth out the keywords their competitors were buying on Google AdWords.
That functionality is very useful for me, as an affiliate manager, to monitor trademarks and discover the keywords affiliates are bidding on.
It is also great for affiliates to see what their competitors are bidding on. Huge time saver for gathering competitive intelligence.
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On Tuesday, November 7 (day 2 of ad:tech), zanox is running two events about global domination in affiliate marketing - the zanox XS Conference for advertisers in the morning and the zanox Academy for Affiliates/Publishers and Affiliate Networks in the afternoon. Go global or go home.
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Steven Richter, President and General Counsel for Media Breakaway, LLC, will focus on how advertisers and affiliates can limit their legal risks associated with advertisements and still effectively market online.
In the presentation, Mr. Richter will discuss advertising content and privacy concerns that are actively being scrutinized by the Federal Trade Commission, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
He will provide case examples of advertising hazards and present the legal consequences of not adhering to recognized best practices.
The Webinar is scheduled for Friday, October 27, 2006 at 2:00pm EST and it is only open to active affiliates or advertisers with CPAEmpire.com.
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