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Topics in this issue:

1. Affiliate Summit Early Bird Pricing Ends December 21, 2007
2. Additional Exhibit Hall Space Secured
3. Affiliate Summit Social Network
4. Affiliate Marketing Classifieds and Other Stuff
5. Affiliate Fatblogging, Episode 6

1. Affiliate Summit Early Bird Pricing Ends December 21, 2007
Registration fees for Affiliate Summit will be increasing at the conclusion of the Early Bird period on December 21, 2007.

Through December 21, 2007, a full conference pass is $949. Starting December 22, the cost will rise to $1,449. Exhibit hall-only passes, currently at $99, will become $199 after the Early Bird deadline.

Pricing for an Affiliate Meet Market table sponsorship will be increasing after December 21, 2007, too. Tables with an Exhibitor Hall Pass are available now for a rate of $1,095, and tables with a Full Conference Pass are $1,995.

After the Early Bird deadline, fees will increase to $1,295 and $2,495 respectively. Affiliate Meet Market details are available at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/08w_exhibitors.php.

2. Additional Exhibit Hall Space Secured
I have some great news. After doing some reconfigurations on our meeting rooms, we were able to secure fifteen (15) additional booth spaces in our exhibit hall at Affiliate Summit 2008 West in Las Vegas.

The companies that placed themselves on our waitlist will be contacted by our staff, in the order in which they were waitlisted. Any remaining locations will be opened back up to the public.

To view the new configuration, please visit: http://www.affiliatesummit.com/08w_exhibitors.php.

To place your company on the waitlist, please send an email to registration@affiliatesummit.com.

3. Affiliate Summit Social Network
The new Affiliate Summit Social Network has launched. Only registered attendees of Affiliate Summit will have access to the social network.

Upon registering, attendees will get a follow up e-mail with login details for the social network. These e-mails are sent weekly, so if you registered more than a week ago, you should have gotten the e-mail.

If you haven’t received it, please touch base with Amy Rodriguez at amy@affiliatesummit.com.

After receiving the login information, please login to the Affiliate Summit Social Network where you can connect with other Affiliate Summit attendees, share your thoughts about the upcoming sessions, post private bulletins, and comment on the conference networking blog.

During Affiliate Summit, you’ll be able to upload photos and video from the conference, post your reviews of panels and presentations and much more.

We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas from Feb 24th-26th 2008.

The Affiliate Summit Social Network is located at http://network.affiliatesummit.com/.

4. Affiliate Marketing Classifieds and Other Stuff
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Affiliate Buyer's Guide
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Daily Affiliate News
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5. Affiliate Fatblogging, Episode 6
I was working out daily, eating well, drinking plenty of water, and all that stuff over the past week.

And then I hit a plateau. But I have to admit that I sabotaged myself.

The gift baskets, Christmas parties, gingerbread houses, etc. came down on me hard and I had a bad day last Saturday.

The good thing is that I stayed at the same weight as last week, so there was no gain there.

Now I’ve got to buckle down. It will be especially tricky over the next week with Christmas parties and all that stuff.

Continued at http://blog.affiliatetip.com/archives/affiliate-fatblogging-episode-6/.

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