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Topics in this issue:
- Take the Affiliate Manager Survey
- Affiliate Manager Boot Camp - Complimentary DVD
- Seesmic - the Video Twitter Revolution?
- Affiliate Marketing Classifieds and Other Stuff
- Affiliate Summit Domain Auction in Las Vegas
The AffStat survey covers the overall statistics for affiliate programs, as well as a number of issues that face affiliate managers.
Affiliate managers that complete the survey will receive a full copy of the AffStat 2008 Report when it is published in early 2008. Download an excerpt of the AffStat 2007 Report.
Areas covered in the survey included affiliate networks, staffing, affiliate recruiting, and management.
The survey questions are broken out by affiliate program type: pay per lead or pay per sale.
The AffStat 2008 survey also includes a section where affiliates managers can sound off in their own words on a variety of industry issues.
Take the survey at http://www.affstat.com/survey08/.
Registration must be in the name of the person requesting the DVD, and only requests from currently registered attendees will be honored.
The Affiliate Manager Boot Camp DVD provides step by step instructions from Shawn Collins on setting up and managing an affiliate program.
There are a limited number of these DVDs available. First come, first serve.
Request the Affiliate Manager Boot Camp DVD at http://www.AffiliateManagerBootCamp.com.
We also touched on good news on retail sales from Cyber Monday, affiliate managers asleep at the switch, and a Fatblogging update.
Plus, we talked about the ELOANS affiliate program abruptly closing, microblog overload, and the CNN/YouTube Republican Debate.
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