Aired: March 15, 2008

Information: James is back from Las Vegas where he attended Affiliate Summit. There were about 3000 people in attendance at the Rio All-Suite Las Vegas Hotel & Casino. James believes this was a seminal event in the history of affiliate marketing. James talks about the students whom he meet up with at the Affiliate Summit. The last night that he was there James went to a dueling piano bar with some of the other students who still had some energy left. Affiliate managers make some great offers to affiliates at these big events which poses a danger of pulling someone off track from the project they are working on. Everyone who attended that James new were blown away by the size of the event and the amount of business being done. There are a lot of niche boutiques like Digital River which focus on only software. The Blue Man Group put on a special show (as part of their marketing of their own affiliate program ) for the attendees of the Affiliate Summit. James talks about the grown of the industry and some of the programs which were in their infancy only a few years ago and are now multimillion dollar enterprises. James was given some stuff from an affiliate manager who is trying to get his Nintendo Wii gaming stuff onto affiliate sites. James will be heading down to Levenworth, WA to take a breakation.
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