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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 Marketers Sing for Charity
- What is the Affiliate Thing?
- Affiliate Summit Tickets and Hotel Sell Outs
- Affiliate Marketing Classifieds and Other Stuff
- Affiliate Summit Preview Call Today
It's also a fundraiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Nevada.
Affiliate Summit and ShareASale will each match up to $5,000 in donations.
There are a number of auctions on eBay (coming soon) where companies can bid to have host Brian Littleton, President/CEO of ShareASale, wear shirts, hats and pins with company logos during the Affiliate Jam Session and Sing-a-Long.
Also, there is an auction to have a company logo placed on all of the Affiliate Summit staff shirts for the duration of the three day conference.
Additionally, companies can donate directly to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Nevada, and they will be recognized at AffiliateMarketersCare.com.
Visit http://www.affiliatesummit.com/bbbsn to donate online to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Nevada. Be sure to enter "Affiliate Summit" for the question, "How did you hear about us?".
Donations by check should be made payable to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Nevada and sent to:
Affiliate Summit
c/o Shawn Collins
221 Sherman Ave, Ste #8 PMB 185
Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922-1173
More details at http://www.AffiliateMarketersCare.com
The 30-minute weekly program debuted on Wednesday, December 6, 2006. You can listen live at BlogTalkRadio.com every Wednesday at 12:00 p.m. EST or download the show from BlogTalkRadio.com after the fact for on-demand listening.
Affiliate Thing will provide commentary; analysis, industry insights and interviews with affiliate movers and shakers, as well as a humorous and irreverent take on the affiliate space.
We have set up an area on Google Groups where you can discuss topics from the show with us and suggest future items to cover. If you'd to get an automatic update whenever a new Affiliate Thing show is created, be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed.
You can also get e-mail updates when each new show is available as an MP3. Just send a blank e-mail to affiliatething@aweber.com to subscribe.
We'll be taking live phone calls during the show - call us Wednesdays at (646) 915-9599 between 12:00 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. EST.
More details at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/affiliate-thing.
There are still a limited number of rooms available at Bally's Las Vegas for Friday and Saturday evening, but these rooms start at $209/night based on availability.
Call Bally's Las Vegas at 800-634-3434 to book your room and provide this group code: SBAFS7
More information at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/hotel.php
The other nights are nearly sold out, so don't put off booking your rooms. There are no strings we can pull - once the rooms are gone, that's it.
And just like the hotel rooms, passes for Affiliate Summit are closing in on a sell-out. Register now at http://www.affiliatesummit.com.
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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.
For more information about Affiliate Summit, visit http://www.AffiliateSummit.com.
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