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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:
- Last Chance for Affiliate Summit Passes
- Save the Date: Affiliate Summit 2007 East in Miami
- Affiliate Thing #4: Biggest E-Commerce Days, Holly Preuss, and Web 2.0
- Affiliate Marketing Classifieds and Other Stuff
- SEO Myths and Affiliate Marketing QA Interviews
Delays have dangerous ends. - Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I, III, ii
In other words, if you haven't registered yet for Affiliate Summit, we can't promise we'll have space left by the time you get around to it.
Get the monkey off your back - register now and then go and enjoy your New Year celebrations.
The conference will be taking place at the InterContinental Miami Hotel overlooking Biscayne Bay in Miami, FL.
Registrations will open in January 2007 and there will be an extra low registration rate available ONLY during Affiliate Summit 2007 West. That's January 21-23, 2007 for the super early bird discount rate.
More details coming soon at http://www.affiliatesummit.com.
The latest show, hosted by Lisa Picarille, Editor-in-Chief of Revenue Magazine, and myself, featured a discussion on the busiest online shopping days for Christmas.
We also had an interview with Holly Preuss, Principal of Granular Solutions on social tagging, Search 2.0 and more.
Some other topics of the day were Scott Jangro's Affiliate Blog List, dates for the summer Affiliate Summit, New Year's Resolutions, and the series on Web 2.0 from Sam Harrelson with exchanges on affiliates leveraging YouTube, Twitter, etc.
Download the latest show.
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Wil Reynolds from from SEER Interactive chatted with host Marty M. Fahncke, Founder of Conference Call University, about the conflicting advice out there on SEO and the SEO issues keeping you from the top of the search engines.
Marty then spoke with Kellie Stevens from AffiliateFairPlay.com about new quality assurance considerations with sub-affiliate transparency, cross-channel company layering in ad delivery and new behaviors by adware.
Download the interviews with Wil Reynolds and Kellie Stevens.
You can also stream this and previous Affiliate Summit preview calls in the archives at http://www.cculearning.com/summitreplay2007.
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