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Aired: Sept 16, 2007

Information: James is recently returned from Commission Junction University and is talking with Charles who has recently relocated to Vancouver. CJU was the first affiliate marketer’s event James ever attended and he has watched it grow from a small meeting of 250 affiliate marketers to this year’s over 800 visitors. One of James’ motivations for going to CJU again this year was to meet the representative of Tire Rack to try and negotiate a better affiliate deal for himself and his new super site. James was also keeping an eye out for any new affiliate program which was car related. James learned that Tire Rack has a 6% commission rate with an average sale of $450 and a 60 day cookie. James met up with a lady named Natalie Van Rooyen who has a website called AutoAnything.com that offers a wide range of European automotive product. The ratio of publishers to merchants was about 50-50. James met with 10-12 handbook owners who were at CJU. James is not worried about sharing his ideas about the hobby car site because of the changes in the industry have changed the way in which people create real affiliate marketing sites. James plans to go to the SEMA Show in Las Vegas as part of the process for creating his site and collect content and talks about his plans for the SEMA show. James has done a few lunch time seminars recently and talks about the seminars and what the students were looking for – page rank. James talks about the importance about keeping in touch with our affiliate managers – their job is to help the affiliates. One important question: Do you offer a tiered commission rate?