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Topics in this issue:
- Affiliate Summit Early Bird Ending
- Was AGLOCO a Crock-o?
- Affiliate Summit Booths are Sold Out
- Affiliate Marketing Classifieds and Other Stuff
- Affiliate Fatblogging, Episode 5
Pricing for a full conference pass through December 21, 2007 is $949. After that date, the cost will be $1,449. The exhibit hall only passes are currently $99, and those registrations will be raised to $199 after the Early Bird deadline.
Additionally, the Early Bird pricing for an Affiliate Meet Market table is currently $1,095 for an Affiliate Meet Market table with an Exhibitor Hall Pass and $1,995 for a table with a Full Conference Pass.
After the 12/21/07 deadline, the prices will increase to $1,295 and $2,495 respectively.
Affiliate Meet Market details are available at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/08w_exhibitors.php.
In reality, it was a load of MLM hype built around the AGLOCO Viewbar, described by the company as “a small software platform that allows users to capture the value they create on the Internet.”
Well, it looks like there weren’t enough lemmings creating value, because the scheme is imploding, based on an e-mail sent out earlier today with the subject, “AGLOCO Update Notice.”
We would like to update you on the status of AGLOCO’s operations. We continue to believe in the AGLOCO concept, but our revenue is currently not sufficient to give Members a meaningful distribution. And though there are increases in membership, the resulting revenue is not enough to support operating costs. As a development team we are unable to continue to use our savings to fund the operations. If any Member would like to pursue continuing the operations of AGLOCO, you may contact us at agloco1@live.com .
We would like to thank every Member for supporting our effort to bring a piece of the Internet directly to the user. We hope that we can find a way to keep the operations going.
AGLOCO Development Team
Lots of comments on TechCrunch about the collapse of AGLOCO.
There are still some tables available for the Affiliate Meet Market, a scaled down tradeshow floor that takes place on the first day of Affiliate Summit.
Rather than booths, the exhibitors have 6′ x 2′ draped tables to promote their products or services to affiliates and other attendees during the six hour Affiliate Meet Market.
Affiliate Meet Market at Affiliate Summit 2007 East in Miami
The Affiliate Meet Market Sponsorship is available with an Expo Pass for $1,095 or with a Full Pass for $1,995.
After the 12/21/07 early bird deadline, the prices will increase to $1,295 and $2,495 respectively.
Visit http://www.affiliatesummit.com/08w_exhibitors.php for other sponsorship opportunities.
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Speaking of Weight Watchers, if you’ve been following the affiliate fatblogging series, I’ve been trying to get into the Weight Watchers affiliate program.
However, the folks at Weight Watchers have explained that they don’t accept affiliates that wish to promote them “in newsgroups, message boards, chatrooms, blogs or similar forums (collectively, “Forums”).”
Continued at http://blog.affiliatetip.com/archives/affiliate-fatblogging-episode-5/.
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