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This is one of the most dynamic industry events I’ve attended, other than Summit. James Martell, Chris Sanderson, Wade Tonkin, PartnerCentric, powerhouse affiliates, Ian Lee…

The New York Attorney General is holding companies accountable for their adware advertising in a groundbraking new case. This is the 1st time that legal action was taken against the actual advertisers. Three major brands including…

A rep from Google Adsense will be the featured guest on this week’s ShoeMoney Net Income radio show. Discussion on the recent changes with the Google Adsense and questions from the audience.

During Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas, several Wynn Las Vegas affiliates were invited to attend a very special VIP press conference to announce the launch of Monty Python’s SPAMALOT at Wynn Las Vegas.

Summit West - The One Secret To Your Online Success - here’s the most important lesson I picked up from the affiliate managers and super affiliates I’ve been talking to. 4 affiliates share the key to success…

I’m leaving town. If you have any good Summit blogs, videos or pictures to share please add them to the Summit 2007 - Latest News, Pics and Blogs thread at the 5 Star forum

Shares his thoughts about Affiliate Marketing 2.0… one of the affiliates will make $2 Million in commission this year… Perhaps we should call it Affiliate Marketing 2.0 Million

The report covers affiliate demographics and also has a section called Opinions and Trends that discusses whether Affiliate Marketing is getting harder over time, asks if Google is damaging affiliate marketing and if spyware is a major problem for industry.

Check back throughout the day because as I find more cool Summit pics, gossip, videos and news I will add it to this blog today. Tomorrow I will start Summit links round #3 and do the same thing. So here goes for today’s Hot Summit News and Views.

20-25 ad and affiliate networks are being sued for 20 - 75 PER network according to this Summit rumor. If this does in fact happen and networks are found guilty, we’ll be seeing a lot of people filing for bankruptcy.

No Summit for me so I am vicariously living it through attendee blogs, tied to my RS feed like a junkie getting her fix by RSS IV. I’ll scour the net for the best Summit news so you don’t have to

Are you an affiliate manager wanting to learn the secrets to growing a thriving affiliate sales channel? Are you a merchant thinking about launching an affiliate program? Learning the ropes from other leading affiliate program managers is one of the best ways to optimize or launch a successful program.

Lots of rumors are circulating about MAJOR industry news, acquisitions and launches that will be announced next week at Affiliate Summit. Digital River will be announcing

Small is the new Big in affiliate marketing! Less equals MORE! Narrow your Focus and Increase your Commissions! If you can get your mind around these concepts you can grow your earnings in 2007.

Shoemoneys made a ton of money so a ton of affiliates flooded the market. For all of you ringtone affiliate marketers, don’t worry. The ringtone won’t die overnight, but it will shrink sooner rather than later because iPhone…

Along with this weeks theme of developing a winning affiliate attitude… Not only do they deal with conditioning your mind, but there is a myriad of good advice too, especially for PPC affiliates.

Yesterday I blogged about the Power of Focus. Sometimes it carries MUCH more weight when affiliates hear things from another affiliate, then from me or industry gurus.

Staying focused in our business is REALLY hard - especially for affiliates. How much can you multi-task before you come unglued? Newbie affiliates are often diverted and sometimes completely derailed when they get hit…

As most of you know, Problogger is the pre-eminent source for improving and monetizing your blog. Darren has almost as many fans as Jeremy AKA ShoeMoney so the questions that come in and the show in general should be lively and info packed.

Turn a Kids Room into a Game! If you have Mom or family type sites, especially if you have Grandma visitors - no way they can resist buying these for kids or new babies rooms.

Step-by-step how to select programs… Tips like how to check that cookies are working properly… Useful advice even for advanced marketers… How to find International affiliate programs

Anyone can learn the nuts and bolts of affiliate marketing. Developing a “super affiliate” mindset or embracing the psychology of winning, is not something that can be taught - however it CAN be developed. So today I am launching A.I.M.

Rumor has it that one of the largest OPM companies and an affiliate network are planning a Tug 0 War over the pool at Affiliate Summit. Lots of “our team’s bigger and better than your team” type challenges taking place.

Consumers are blogging, Digging and joining Social Networks at unprecedented rates. What impact will this have on affiliate marketing and what new strategies do we need to apply to our online businesses? Discover the Ten Websites Defining the New Internet

Go Ahead and Lay Your Golden Egg is the headline for this new datafeed software. I’m always on the lookout for datafeed tools for affiliates and this one jumped out at me today for a couple reasons.

Fernando just stopped by the 5 Star forum with updates. He was busy over the holidays working on several new affiliate marketing widgets that utilize merchant datafeeds.

Some attending the Summit will not be staying at Ballys. Nope not talking about the ones staying at Circus Circus - I’m talking about the self proclaimedGonzos, sleeping under the stars…

Spiders are like babies… Feed them something they like and they will love you. This pic shows you in metaphor style, the type of food spiders and bots love, hate or can’t digest at all.

Boomers are one of the biggest market segments out there and more of them are shopping online. They also have $1 trillion in disposable income! If you have Boomer visitors read this at 5 Star…

Affiliates, Merchants and Service Providers who are of the Christian faith are invited to share fun, food and fellowship with other Christian folks in the affiliate industry at Affiliate Summit. There will be a Gospel Brunch at the House of Blues in Las Vegas

Smart affiliates find out what their customers want and give it to them. So think about promoting things that consumers focus on for New Years resolutions. They want to look better, feel better and reach their goals.

What affiliate forum owner was just offered $16 million to sell his forum? Can you guess? What was his answer???

E-commerce broke all the records and the 100 Billion barrier in 2006… Speaking of Holiday sales, what day ended up being the biggest? Eday? Cyber Monday? Nope.

I said in that 1st blog “I’m up against some stiff competition and feel certain Revenews will win, although with all the fans he has and the lobbying he could do, ShoeMoney could be a “Shoe in”. Congrats to Shoemoney for winning first place!

PC just recently added 2 OverStock affiliate managers, a CJ affiliate manager and one from GSI Commerce as well. Here are some details about the new PartnerCentric affiliate managers.