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The Affiliate Summit preview conference call series will feature Wil Reynolds from SEER Interactive and Kellie Stevens from AffiliateFairPlay.com on Thursday, December 7th, 2006 at 3pm Eastern Time.

This is the third in a series of four preview calls in advance of Affiliate Summit 2007 West, taking place January 21-23, 2007 at Bally’s Las Vegas.

The purpose of this series of free teleseminar calls is to allow you to get to know the guest speakers for the conference. Space is limited, so…

Super Affiliate Strategies for Sustainable Businesses, a presentation by Rosalind Gardner at Affiliate Summit 2006 East, is now available as a transcript.

Rosalind is the author of the best-selling affiliate training manual, The Super Affiliate Handbook: How I Made $436,797 in One Year Selling Other Peoples Stuff Online.

Recognized as a leading expert in the performance marketing industry, Rosalind publishes the weekly Net Profits Today newsletter, and is the Affiliates Corner columnist for…

Brainstorming has been going on for different ideas to enhance the Affiliate Summit experience, and one big area of focus is the networking.

The Affiliate Summit show in Las Vegas (January 21-23, 2007) will include the return of the Affiliate Summit Social Network, lots of networking sessions on the agenda and the opportunity to interact with speakers on the Affiliate Summit Preview Calls.

We’ve also put together a guide to networking, so everybody will be properly prepared for the…

The November 2006 issue of Affiliate Classroom Magazine is out and this month’s issue takes a look at viral marketing.

For the unintiated, this is a term for the process of automating online “word of mouth” marketing, so you can spread the word about your site or affiliate program faster than the flu. Ah-choo!

This issue starts with an article that covers all the basics of viral marketing - what it is and today’s principle techniques.

There is also an article on viral video (the hot…

Just a reminder that I am conducting a free Webinar on affiliate marketing today at 2 PM EST.

The Webinar is geared to both affiliates and merchants - it will be a primer on the affiliate marketing industry. It’s geared more towards newbies than grizzled veterans.

Here is a description of the Webinar:

An overview of affiliate marketing and how you can benefit either from the affiliate side (selling the products or services of a company online) or the merchant side (managing a performance…

The second installment of the Affiliate Summit preview conference call series took place on November 9th, 2006 and it’s now available via streaming audio or download.

Sean Crotty from Art.com chatted with host Marty M. Fahncke, Founder of Conference Call University, about taking an affiliate program global.

Marty then spoke with Todd Taylor from TaxBrain.com about viral video and how to achieve maximum ROI.

Download the second Affiliate Summit preview call.

You can listen to this…

I came across an Italian site, pc-facile.com, that features a good interview with Heiko Rauch, co-founder and CFO of zanox.

The interview by Adrien Hingert covers a wide array of issues related to the Internet and provides an interesting peek into the conversations that are taking place in Europe about affiliate marketing and beyond.

Here’s a small sample of the comments from Heiko Rauch:

“I see the future of online advertising in blogs, podcasting, ingame, communities as well as RSS…

Introduction to Affiliate Marketing for Affiliates, a panel session moderated by Candice Nobles at Affiliate Summit 2006 East, is now available as a transcript.

Candice Nobles is the Senior Marketing Manager for Hewlett-Packard, Snapfish.

The session was an overview of topline issues that impact affiliates getting into affiliate marketing with the following panelists:

Larry Adams, Affiliate Product Manager, Performics
Stephanie Agresta, Vice President, Affiliate Marketing,…

I am a little late to the party here, but I just got around to reading The VEO Report by Colin McDougall, and found it to be very useful.

If you are not familiar with Colin McDougall, he’s a super affiliate who has developed a method to obtain natural search engine traffic. The approach is known as VEO (Visitor Enhanced Optimization).

Colin’s book, The VEO Report, details his method for building sites that won’t get banned or penalized by the search engines.

These are not merely the…

Introduction to Affiliate Marketing for Merchants, a panel session moderated by Forrest Schaaf at Affiliate Summit 2006 East, is now available as a transcript.

Forrest Schaaf is a Partner at Schaaf Consulting, an Internet marketing and outsourced affiliate program management agency.

The session was an overview of topline issues that impact merchants getting into affiliate marketing with the following panelists:

Dan Chiss, Director, Affiliate Strategy, Performics
Peter Figueredo, CEO and…