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This session, The Future of Performance Marketing, took place Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at Affiliate Summit East 2008.
Session description:
Industry leaders will explore the performance marketing landscape and what the future holds. [...]

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The Google Affiliate network has compiled a list of holiday shipping deadlines from many merchants in their network for affiliates to use for planning over the coming weeks.
The list indicates Gift Card Shipping, Hanukkah standard and premium shipping, Christmas standard and premium shipping, and Kwanzaa standard and premium shipping. The list also shows whether or [...]

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Online shoppers in the U.K. are shopping more than folks in the U.S., as the U.K shoppers are spending 40% more money and making 24% more purchases online than their U.S. peers, according to a new Jupiter survey commissioned by LinkShare.
The typical U.S. online buyer is forecast to spend $755 online in 2008, making an [...]

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This session, The Ten Hottest Strategies for Internet Marketing, took place Monday, August 11, 2008 at Affiliate Summit East 2008.
Session description:
Discover top affiliate trends, what’s working for business, how to build your personal brand. Explore the best Web 2.0 tools, social media, conversion, long tail, video, podcasts and virtual worlds.
Presenter: Jay Berkowitz, CEO, Ten Golden [...]

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We’re less than two months away from Affiliate Summit West 2009, taking place January 11-13, 2009 in Las Vegas, and we’re kicking off a new contest to win a free Platinum pass to the conference.
In order to enter, you must do the following:

Post to Twitter with the Twitter name of somebody you want to meet [...]

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I just read ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett and I really enjoyed it.
One thing I liked a lot was that Rowse and Garrett didn’t sugarcoat things. They are candid about how it is really a tough grind to produce a successful blog.
They go through [...]

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This session, PPC Super Affiliate Strategies You MUST Know, took place Monday, August 11, 2008 at Affiliate Summit East 2008.
Session description:
Super Affiliate Amit Mehta reveals little known techniques and strategies he uses to drive massive volume and generated large revenues via PPC affiliate marketing.
Presenter: Amit Mehta, Founder, SuperAffiliateMindset.com

PPC Super Affiliate Strategies You MUST [...]

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Episode 45 of the GeekCast show got into Twitter, Internet celebrities, Jim Kukral’s emotional roller coaster with his new MacBook Pro, and Obama as the first technology President.
Also, we got into some pre-Affiliate Summit stuff in Las Vegas, like CES and a joint event with Gary Vaynerchuk and Robert Scoble, plus Ted Murphy in a [...]

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The Google Affiliate Network announced that they have incorporated data provided by Google AdPlanner.
This weekend we introduced new site profile links in our interface to provide users with better information about the traffic profiles of their marketing partners. Advertiser and publisher users will now see “Site Profile” links in a variety of locations in our [...]

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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille started out with the Twitter fail whale and finished with turduckens.
The show includes talk of Lisa’s frustration over the latest Twitter outage, the latest on Affiliate Summit, cool Amazon affiliate stuff, recruiting affiliates, and Jim Kukral’s new Biz Web Coach launch.
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