Affiliate marketing posts from seasoned affiliate marketing pro Missy Ward.

Affiliate Summit’s Pre-LinkShare Symposium East Meetup

by Missy Ward


AFFILIATE SUMMIT'S PRE-LINKSHARE SYMPOSIUM EAST MEETUP
JOIN MISSY WARD AND SHAWN COLLINS OF AFFILIATE SUMMIT FOR FREE DRINKS AND NETWORKING BEFORE LINKSHARE SYMPOSIUM EAST 2010
Kickstart your LinkShare Symposium East 2010 experience with a great opportunity to mix and mingle with fellow affiliate marketers on the evening before the LinkShare Symposium East begins. Where: Antarctica Bar 287 Hudson Street (at Spring), New York City Date: Monday, June 21 Time: 9:00pm – ? Open Bar from 9pm-11pm Pizza from Lombardi's (America's First Pizzeria!) Get your pictures taken on the Red Carpet Billiards, Darts & Fun Conversation
WE'LL ALSO BE GIVING AWAY SOME FREE GOLD PASSES TO AFFILIATE SUMMIT EAST 2010!

Please click here (http://lseast.eventbrite.com/) to RSVP.

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Affiliate Marketers Give Back 2010 Charity Auction Begins!

by Missy Ward

In two weeks, Team Affiliate Marketers Give Back will hit the streets of Chicago to walk 39+ miles during the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.

We've raised over $52,000 so far and we're still going!

The call for donations for our charity auction generated some great items donated by fantastic individuals and companies. You'll find the list of items below.

All proceeds will benefit the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.

How to place a bid:

The auction will run until 3:00pm EST on Tuesday, May 25th.

To bid on the item, simply enter your name, company name and amount you would like to bid. The winner will be the highest bid entered before the auction deadline. (Please make sure that you use your correct email address when prompted, so that we may contact you if you are the winner).

2010 Charity Auction Items:

Affiliate Summit East 2010 Platinum Pass #1

Affiliate Summit East 2010 Platinum Pass #2

Affiliate Summit East 2010 Platinum Pass #3

1 Month Site-Wide Advertising on AffiliateSummit.com

1/4 Page Ad in Issue 11 of FeedFront Magazine

3-Day/2-night Stay at the Wynn *Plus* LE RÊVE Tickets

3-Night Vacation for 4 to Vancouver, British Columbia

JGoodeDesigns.com Pink Ribbon Goode Bag

Thesis Theme for WordPress, Developer's Option

One (1) Enterprise Edition of KnowEm.com

Skin and Fragrance Bundle

Two Hours of Consulting with Rosalind Gardner

Choice of One Legacy Learning Systems Training Course

Build & Release of (1) iPhone App to iTunes Store from uBuildApp.com

$250 Gift Card to UGGaustralia.com

3 Months of Advertising (120×600) on Revenews.com

One Month of Advertising (728×90) on Revenews.com

Lebron James Basketball Jersey

Pink Bowling Prize Package from BowlingShirt.com

One Semester of Social Media Magic University

Merchant Website or Affiliate Program Review by TeamLoxly.com

Green Tea Bento Box Gift Set from American Tea Room

“Much is Expected” Print from Passion Collection @ LoxlyGallery

Brian Littleton's “Official Sweater Vest” from his 2008 Roast

Other items *may* be added over the course of the week, so please check back frequently.

Bid high! It's for a great cause!

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Dealing with an Advertiser’s Landing Page Changes – By…

by Ian Fernando

Affiliate marketing is an industry that keeps changing. It is imperative that you keep on top of what is going on as it can greatly impact your business.

One such change that happens often on the CPA side of the industry is the constant modifications to advertiser’s landing pages. These types of alterations can damage your business, especially after the affiliate properly targeted and optimized their jump page variables to make the offer convert.

The worst part is that in all probability, the affiliate will never get notified by the advertiser or the affiliate network that they are working with. It is very likely that the affiliate will find out simply by noticing a drop in conversions. Unfortunately, by that point, it comes with a loss of income.

Luckily there are some sites out there that will help you be proactive with a problem such as this.

InternetOwl.com is a desktop application. You simply tell it which Web page to watch and it will check for changes periodically. If it detects a change either by HTML or text, Internet Owl will send you an email when the page changes.

The best part about this desktop application is when Internet Owl finds some changes, it can display the changes for you to see.

ChangeDetection.com is a Web-based service which also detects changes and sends you a notification via email. Change Detection creates a log for the page or in this case, the affiliate offer. When it detects a change, it notifies you.

Change Detection currently only monitors text changes and not HTML changes. For example, if an image has changed, you are not notified of the image change – only the change in the body of the text.

While these services have been around for a while, they are definitely being underutilized by affiliates.

Keeping on top of your offers and campaigns can be the best thing you can do if the network or advertiser does not detect it first.

Ian Fernando is the Founder of IANternet Media LLC and Blogger/Affiliate Marketer at IanFernando.com.

Download the entire FeedFront issue 10 here – http://www.scribd.com/doc/29057000/FeedFront-Magazine-Issue-10

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Registration is Now Open for Affiliate Summit unConference 2010

by Missy Ward

Registration is now open for the Affiliate Summit unConference, taking place Monday, September 27 in Orlando, FL – the Affiliate Summit unConference brought to you by SeaWorld.

The event is taking place at SeaWorld in the same spot IZEAFest was in last year – Ports of Call.

If you're not familiar with an unConference, it’s a whole different format from a typical Affiliate Summit.

The Affiliate Summit unConference will be in a format that creates an opportunity for peer-to-peer learning, collaboration and creativity. This is an event for folks that want to actively participate. (what is an unConference?).

Event passes are $10.00 per person (+ $1.24 svc. charge) and include access to sessions, networking, lunch and coffee breaks.

There are a total of 150 available spaces for this event.

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