Welcome to the AffiliateTip.com Newsletter for July 2005. Be sure to check out the AffiliateTip.com blog for the latest news and information at http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/

Topics in this issue:

1. Photo Album from Affiliate Summit 2005
2. Affiliate Marketing BBQ - August 7 in NJ
3. Affiliate Tip - Subscribers for Your Blog
4. Affiliate Program News
5. Celebrity Affiliate, Wil Wheaton, Pre-Releases Audiobook
6. Top 10 Affiliate Programs - June 2005

1. Photo Album from Affiliate Summit 2005
There have been lots of reviews written on Affiliate Summit 2005 (including my view of things) since the conference took place last month.

But for those of you who weren't there, words don't tell the whole story. You've got to see 550 affiliate marketers in action to get a full grasp of the event.

The photo album of Affiliate Summit covers the happenings in Las Vegas over June 12-14, 2005.

Take a look at the pre-registration, as well as Day 1 and Day 2 events:

Day 1 of Affiliate Summit

• Networking at the Summit Day 1
  
• Presentations
  
• Lunch
  
• Exhibit Hall
  
• After Hours
  
• More After Hours - X10 party

Day 2 of Affiliate Summit

• Speed Networking
  
• Presentations
  
• Exhibit Hall
  
• More Networking
  
• Conference Wrap Up
  
• After Hours
  
• More fun photos - from Phillip Kidwell

Be sure to opt-in to the Affiliate Summit Real Deal newsletter for information on future events.

Thanks a lot to Deborah Carney and Billy Knoblach for their photography skills.

2. Affiliate Marketing BBQ - August 7 in NJ
If you were at Affiliate Summit 2005, you may have seen my open invitation for a BBQ at my place.

Well, I am putting together a barbeque for affiliate marketers on Sunday afternoon, August 7. It is taking place at my house in Berkeley Heights, NJ.

Anybody in the industry is welcome to come out for food, drinks, and geeky affiliate marketing conversation.

No cost to attend, but a side-dish would be just great.

RSVP to me at shawn (at) affiliatetip (dot) com with your full name, number of people you'll be bringing, your email, phone, and what you'd like to eat/drink.

3. Affiliate Tip - Subscribers for Your Blog
More and more affiliates are using blogs to promote their affiliate links. Conventional wisdom is that blogs should be syndicated by RSS (Really Simple Syndication).

RSS enables folks interested in your site to subscribe to your RSS feed and read your posts through the RSS reader of their choice. But this assumes everybody knows how and where to get an RSS reader.

The reality is that RSS readers are not fully adopted just yet. According to a survey conducted by BlogAds, 72.4% of people never read blogs via RSS. That number will surely shift, but it still has a ways to go.

Visit http://www.affiliatetip.com/affiliate_tip_45.php for more details.

4. Affiliate Program News
Discuss Affiliate Marketing Issues
The AffiliateManager.net Forum has a public discussion area where you can post and reply to discussions without registering. Visit http://www.affiliatemanager.net/forums/index.php?showforum=9 to voice your opinion.

Sony PSPs to Give Away, Cash Bonuses and More!
eHealthInsurance Affiliate Program has an amazing summer promotion for mid to low volume affiliates. 4 Sony PSPs will be given away plus cash bonuses of $5-$12 extra per application and more. Exp. Aug 31st. Email us for more details!

Hydra Network
Join Hydra Network today – the specialist in high-yield CPA campaigns. 300+ Campaigns and new exclusive offers available. Find all the right offers, market them to your site or email audience, and get paid fast! Sign up today to begin maximizing your inventory profitability, while getting the attention you deserve from one of our Affiliate Managers. Call 310-659-5755 or visit: http://network.hydramedia.com/

InstrumentPro is Now Live at GoldenCAN
GoldenCAN, a service that enables affiliates to create a site focused on a merchant with just one line of code, now offers an InstrumentPro store for affiliates. There is no programming required - see details at http://www.goldencan.com/merchants.aspx?id=58

Come and join the PokerRoom.com family
Recruit new players and share revenue as a PokerRoom.com affiliate, earn up to 40% revenue share (for life) on the customers you send us playing poker (cash and tournaments) or choose our casino. CPA is available as well (up to $150). Go to www.PokerAffiliate.com

Trilegiant.com Has Two Powerful Offers
Earn up to an $11 CPA for referring sign-ups to the popular Great Fun and Travelers Advantage membership clubs. People signing up for the Great Fun trial get either a $20 Circuit City Gift Card or Digital Camera, while the Travelers Advantage trial comes with a companion airline ticket or an MP3 player. Visit http://www.trilegiantaffiliates.com/ for more details.

5. Celebrity Affiliate, Wil Wheaton, Pre-Releases Audiobook
Last year, I was poking around at BlogAds in search of some targeted blogs to place ads for affiliate recruiting.

As I was looking for some good prospects, I came upon WilWheaton.net. I was thinking - this guy looks familiar - who is he?

His site jogged my memory that he was Gordie Lachance in Stand By Me, as well as one of the guys in the under-rated flick, Toy Soldiers.

Trekkies know him better as Ensign Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation. But I came to know him for being a really funny, entertaining, and candid blogger.

Based on Wil's blog, I ran out (well actually, went to Amazon) and got his autobigraphical book, Just a Geek. Great stuff - the struggles with HTML and everything else in life really resonated.

Continued at http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/archives/
celebrity_affiliate_wil_wheaton_prereleases_audiobook.html

6. Top 10 Affiliate Programs - June 2005
Below are the Top Ten Affiliate Programs for May 2005 as tracked by the AffiliateTip.com Affiliate Program Directory.

The Top Ten affiliate programs are calculated by the number of clickthroughs each program received on AffiliateTip.com.

1. Trilegiant
2. InstrumentPro
3. Hilton
4. Diet.com
5. AllPosters.com
6. eHealthInsurance
7. Good Times Entertainment
8. Western Union
9. Share Results
10. Lightspeed Research

As always, I'd love to hear from you! Drop me a line and let me know if you have any suggestions or questions.

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Take care,
Shawn Collins

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