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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:
- Finalists for the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards
- Last Call to Fill Out the AffStat Survey
- Debunking SEO Myths and Affiliate Marketing QA
- Affiliate Marketing Classifieds and Other Stuff
- Affiliate Summit Hotel Rooms Nearly Sold Out
The Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards Show is taking place from 10:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. on Monday, January 22, 2007 during the Pure Imagination Party, hosted by oneNetworkDirect and Wynn Las Vegas.
The Pure Imagination Party is taking place at TRYST the nightclub at Wynn Las Vegas.
Get your invitation at booth #116 or # 313 in the Affiliate Summit exhibit hall.
Here are the finalists for each category:
Affiliate of the Year
- Anne Fognano
- Michael Coley
- Scott Hazard
Affiliate Manager of the Year
- Jamie Birch
- Angel Djambazov
- Sam Osborn
Exceptional Merchant
- Amazon
- eBay
- OnlineShoes.com
Affiliate Marketing Advocate Award
- Linda Buquet
- Ben Edelman
- Brian Littleton
Best Blogger
- Scott Jangro
- Beth Kirsch
- Jim Kukral
Wayne Porter Affiliate Marketing Legend
- Todd Crawford
- Haiko de Poel, Jr.
- Brian Littleton
Congratulations to all who were nominated. We were excited to get such an abundance of nominations for these awards.
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.
This is the third in a series of four preview calls in advance of Affiliate Summit 2007 West, taking place January 21-23, 2007 at Bally's Las Vegas.
The purpose of this series of free teleseminar calls is to allow you to get to know the guest speakers for the conference. Space is limited, so register now at
http://www.affiliatesummitpreview.com.
Wil Reynolds from SEER Interactive will touch on whether the conflicting advice you are getting on SEO is keeping you from success, and the SEO issues keeping you from the top of the search engines.
Kellie Stevens from AffiliateFairPlay.com will cover new quality assurance considerations with sub-affiliate transparency, cross-channel company layering in ad delivery and new behaviors by adware.
The calls are hosted by Marty M. Fahncke, Founder of Conference Call University. You can listen to the Affiliate Summit Preview call archives at http://www.cculearning.com/summitreplay2007.
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Affiliate Summit 2007 West is taking place January 21-23, 2007 at Bally's Las Vegas.
The group rate is $119.00 per night / single or double occupancy. Rates do NOT include taxes or service charges.
Typically, attendees check in on Saturday and leave on Wednesday and all of these days are eligible for the group rate.
Bally's Las Vegas is ready to accept phone reservations via phone. The registration code is SBAFS7. The group rate is only good through December 17, 2006 or a sell-out of the room block, whichever comes first.
You can book your room online or call Bally's Las Vegas at 800-634-3434 to book and a 1-night deposit (room & tax) will be billed to your credit card. There is a 72-hour cancellation policy.
The Affiliate Summit conference starts on Sunday, January 21 at 2 PM EST with the Affiliate Meet Market & Vendor Showcase and runs through the evening of Tuesday, January 23.
Also, don't forget to buy for your pass today - visit http://www.regonline.com/100978 to register.
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