New Affiliate Benchmarks Survey

Affiliate Benchmarks has launched the 2nd edition of their highly regarded industry report this week. Anyone completing the entire survey will receive a full copy of the report for free ($199 value). If you are an affiliate marketer this is a great chance to have your voice heard through this high profile industry report.

Click Here to be taken to the survey

you can also follow them on twitter: http://twitter.com/affbenchmarks

AffiliateBenchmarks.com Launches - Free Report for 30 Days

It's been a long time since I've posted anything here, so what better way to get back into the swing of things than to announce the launch of a brand new affiliate research project from NETexponent. Our team has been hard at work over the past few months collecting and analyzing data on the affiliate marketing industry and we've put together a pretty great report. Please don't take my word for it - see for yourself.

Head over to AffiliateBenchmarks.com for your free report. It will only be free for 30 days and then it will be $199 so hurry.

Affiliate Survey Launched - Have Your Voice Heard

My company NETexponent has recently launched a publisher survey and we want to hear from you. We continually strive to deliver the best service and communication for the affiliate programs we manage and your feedback will help us.

Please go here and take a few minutes to complete the survey:

All participants will get a copy of the results as a thank you.

Affiliate Summit Videos Now Live

Shawn Collins has posted videos of all the sessions from Affiliate Summit West 2008 at AffiliateSummit.TV so check out all the great content when you get a chance. The next Affiliate Summit will be held in Boston from August 10th - 12th.

Thanks Shawn!

SEMPO Voting Starts Today

I'm proud to announce that I was nominated for the Board of Directors for SEMPO and I would love your support if you are a member. Voting opens today at 12pm EST and continues through Friday February 15th. Only registered members may vote.

Election results will be announced in late February, and the newly elected Board will begin their term in early March. In mid March, the Board will elect officers for the 2008-2009 year.

Here is the complete list of nominees, thanks for your support!

Damien Anderson, Blowfish Digital Limited
Jay Berkowitz, Ten Golden Rules
Lindsay Blankenship, Avenue A / Razorfish
Chris Boggs, eMergent Marketing
Jessica Bowman, Yahoo!
Paul Bruemmer, Red Door Interactive
Luar Buso, Getupdated
Bruce Clay, Bruce Clay, Inc.
Chris Copeland, Outrider
Fionn Downhill, Elixir Systems
Marc Engelsman, Digital Brand Expressions
Dave Fall, DoubleClick
Mark Fiske, Bazaar Advertising
Duane Forrester, Microsoft
Sara Holoubek, Free Agent
Gordon Hotchkiss, Enquiro Search Solutions
Bill Hunt, Global Strategies International
Mark Jackson, Vizion Interactive
Mike Jacobs, iMarketing LTD
Ron Jones, Symetri Internet Marketing
Max Kalehoff, Clickable
John Koehler, VML
Chris Kramer, NETexponent
Kevin Lee, Didit
Robert Murray, iProspect
Jeffrey Pruitt, iCrossing
Steve Riegel, Faction Media
Farukh Shroff, Solid Cactus
David Szetela, Clix Marketing
Dana Todd, Newsforce
Tanya Vaughan, Hewlett-Packard
Lori Weiman, Click Forensics

WineExpress.com Affiliate Program Launches

I'm proud to announce that NETexponent has officially launched a new affiliate program today on the Performics platform for WineExpress.com. We're offering a $10 commission on all wine clubs and a 10% commission on all other products along with a 30 day return day policy.

WineExpress.com is the select wine shop partner to the Wine Enthusiast's catalog and website. Customers head to Wine Express for unique and exclusive wines that they would not find elsewhere. In addition to exclusivity, WineExpress.com is known for their quality, value, simplicity, and great service. Now is the perfect time to promote this line of products with the holiday season quickly approaching.

If you'd like to apply to become an affiliate for WineExpress.com please click here.

Facebook Is The World's Largest Poker Site

According to Casino Wire, more than 140,000 people a day are playing poker on Facebook.com through various applications. Pokerlistings.com tracks the major online poker websites and ranks Pokerstars.com as the number one with a peak of 134,000 players per day.

Great Article on Affiliate Summit

With Affiliate Summit Miami just a few days away, Adotas has a great feature article on the event:

http://www.adotas.com/2007/07/affiliate-summit-history-in-the-making/

The article takes us through the short history of how this has grown into the premier event for industry in just a few short years. It serves as a reminder that the main reason we go to these events is to network and connect with folks and not just for the stuff we learn at the sessions.

We haven't missed an Affiliate Summit since the first one, we'll continue to support this great event. We'll be giving away a Nintendo Wii at booth #7 - stop by and say hello.

Offensive Marketing - Somebody Thought This Was A Good Idea?

Walking to work today I passed a series of flyers up and down the street for what I thought was a missing person alert. Upon further inspection I see that it reads:

"I am looking for my wife. She has lost 187 lbs using portionpals (this is her before picture) and now that she is skinny I cannot find her. Please help!"

This is one of the most offensive advertising concepts one could possibly think of. Over 2300 people go missing each day in this country and this company creates a fake missing person flyer to sell a diet product?

I called PortionPals for a response and they told me that a "distributor" had posted the flyers and that once alerted to these ads they began taking them down but couldn't finish because of the rain. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt since there was a pretty big storm here last night. In any case - its sunny out now and if I were them I'd get some people to finish the job.

Free Affiliate Summit Passes From NETexponent

Affiliate Summit is almost sold out, but we're giving away 1 full conference pass and 5 exhibit hall passes to the upcoming Affiliate Summit even in Miami.

Click Here for your chance to win:

http://www.netexponent.com/affsummitmiami07.shtml

Hurry - offer ends 6/20. We'll have a booth on the exhibit hall floor and I'll be hosting a round table session, so please stop by if you're planning to attend.