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Register now for Affiliate Summit 2007 West - January 21-23 at Bally's Las Vegas. We're heading for another sell out.
Read past issues of the Affiliate Summit Real Deal newsletter in the newsletter archive.
Topics in this issue:
- Affiliate Summit Booths and Sponsorships Selling Out
- Affiliate Marketing: Only the Performers Survive
- Global Affiliate Marketing and Viral Video Teleseminar
- Affiliate Marketing Classifieds and Other Stuff
- Introduction to Affiliate Marketing for Affiliates
The exhibit hall is expanding to 100 booths for Affiliate Summit 2007 West (Jan 21-23 in Vegas) and there are less than 10 booths left. See who is exhibiting (so far).
Details and booking information for available booths and sponsorships can be found at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/07w_sponsors.php.
Additionally, deadlines are coming up for a number of the sponsorships. Advertisements in the conference program are due no later than November 22, 2006. Items for the attendee bags must arrive no earlier than December 11, 2006 and no later than January 3, 2007
The Webinar was geared to both affiliates and merchants - a primer on the affiliate marketing industry. It was geared more towards newbies than grizzled veterans.
Here is a description of the Webinar:
An overview of affiliate marketing and how you can benefit either from the affiliate side (selling the products or services of a company online) or the merchant side (managing a performance based sales force). Affiliate marketing guru Shawn Collins will cover the history, terms, vendors and opportunities in this industry.
You can access the recorded Webinar at http://www.readytalk.com/web-seminar-series/archived.php.
The Webinar is sponsored by the web conference provider, ReadyTalk.
Sean Crotty from Art.com chatted with host Marty M. Fahncke, Founder of Conference Call University, about taking an affiliate program global.
Marty then spoke with Todd Taylor from TaxBrain.com about viral video and how to achieve maximum ROI.
Download the second Affiliate Summit preview call.
You can listen to this and previous Affiliate Summit preview calls in the archives at http://www.cculearning.com/summitreplay2007.
The next call takes place on Thursday, December 7th, 2006 at 3pm Eastern Time. Featured speakers will be Kellie Stevens from AffiliateFairPlay.com and Wil Reynolds from SEER Interactive.
Space is limited, so register now at http://www.affiliatesummitpreview.com/.
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Candice Nobles is the Senior Marketing Manager for Hewlett-Packard, Snapfish.
The session was an overview of topline issues that impact affiliates getting into affiliate marketing with the following panelists:
- Larry Adams, Affiliate Product Manager, Performics
- Stephanie Agresta, Vice President, Affiliate Marketing, Commerce360
- Patrick Gavin, President, Text Link Ads
- Brent Hill, Vice President, FeedBurner
- Choots Humphries, President, LinkConnector
Issues covered by the speakers were data feeds, e-mail, buying text links, RSS feeds, and getting higher commissions from merchants.
Read the transcript from the Introduction to Affiliate Marketing for Affiliates panel.
The session is also available for download as an MP3.
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