This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about seeing Miley Cyrus in concert, ad:tech New York, the Yankees winning the World Series, and heading to Pubcon.

Also, Content Revenue Strategies panel on affiliate marketing, Loren Feldman’s Audience, Twitter Lists, the Droid phone, and affiliate links on Twitter.

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• Affiliate Marketing: A Better Alternative?
• Photos from Game 6 of the World Series
• Shawn’s picture from Yankee Stadium on Thornton Tomasetti site
• You Should Have Been in the Audience
• Will Performance Marketing Save the Advertising Industry?
• Curating Twitter Lists
• Amazon Affiliates Integrate with Twitter
• Are You Thinking About Switching to the Droid?
• Coupon Affiliates, Are You Worthless?
• How to Deal with Coupon Affiliates

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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins was solo again as he talked about heading to ad:tech and Content Revenue Strategies, as well as ClickBank expanding internationally, and Ted Murphy completing the New York Marathon.

Also, ShareASale has a 4th quarter contest, Florida tax legislation, and Twitter lists.

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• Affiliate Summit Wants to Interview You during ad:tech New York
• ClickBank Expands to International Markets
• Ted Murphy runs the New York Marathon
• Two-Minute Drill from ShareASale
• Florida State Senator Detert Aims to Cripple Small Business
• Follow Affiliate Summit West 2010 Speakers on Twitter

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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins was solo and stuffed up as he talked about ShareASale ThinkTank, #tweetshop from LinkShare, and the sale of ABestWeb.

Also, Affiliate Voice is now Affiliate Advocacy, nominations are open for the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards, AVG Anti-Virus is messing with affiliate links, and why affiliates should update their affiliate profiles at networks.

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• ShareASale ThinkTank 2009 Recap
• ABestWeb Affiliate Marketing Forum Acquired by iNET Interactive
• Tale of the Affiliate Done Wrong
• LinkShare Launches #tweetshop Affiliate Twitter Tool
• AVG Anti-Virus versus Affiliate Marketing
• Affiliate Voice is now Affiliate Advocacy
• Submit Nominations for the 2010 Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards
• New Coupon API and Offer Preview/Accept Tool from LinkShare
• Meet Me at Content Revenue Strategies in NYC on November 5th

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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about BlogWorld Expo, ShareASale ThinkTank, the launch of Jim Kukral’s Prfessor.com, and a new style of branding for Google AdSense.

Also, UnsubCentral 3.0, ways to use Jing, drop.io, and footie PJs for adults.

Plus, affiliate Ian Fernando has a bad experience with a Facebook B2C campaign, a new book for people switching from PC to Mac, and a 5k in Yankee Stadium with Affiliate Summit.

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• ShareASale ThinkTank
• BlogWorld Expo
• Build Your Own Online University
• Less Transparency in New Google AdSense Ads?
• Email Compliance is Easier with New UnsubCentral Solution
• Jing
• drop.io
• Why Facebook is Best for Branding
• MacMost.com Guide to Switching to the Mac
• Free Gold Passes to Affiliate Summit West 2010
• Please Support Me in the Runyon 5K Run for Cancer Research
• Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive by Robert Cialdini

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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about Econsultancy Innovation Awards, Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk, Scott Jangro’s AffBook.com, and new blogger disclosure rules from the FTC.

Also, a recap of IZEAFest and SMX East, a report on holiday shopping from Burst Media, and a rant in the New York Post against Internet shopping.

Plus, the early bird deadline for Affiliate Summit, an idea for a quick acting affiliate, a dark day for New England, and Lisa Barone gets excited for Blogworld Expo.

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• Econsultancy Innovation Awards 2009 Entries Closing
• Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk
• AffBook.com
• FTC: Bloggers Must Provide Disclosure or be Fined
• Blogger Disclosure and the FTC
• What You Don’t Know About The New FTC Rules On Disclosure
• Xomba.com, Meat Measurements, and Sponzai
• SMX East 2009 in New York City
• Burst Media: 85.3% of Respondents Will Shop Online This Holiday Season
• The Monster that Ate the Recovery
• Affiliate Summit West 2010 Early Bird Ending October 19
• Silly Bandz
• Lisa Barone on Blogworld Expo

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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Lisa Picarille was joined by Todd Farmer, founder and CEO of Perform Street Media. Todd – best known as the founder and CEO of Kowabunga (before he sold it) – was kind enough to fill in for my co-host Shawn Collins. Shawn has been busy making his rounds on the conference circuit hitting SMX East in New York for the early part of the week after returning from IZEAFest over the weekend in Orlando.

Lisa and Todd talked about all the conferences coming up – including a date for Affiliate Summit West 2010, a new venture from Jim Kukral that allows people to create their own online universities, YouTube videos, the top 10 affiliate marketing firms as named by TopSEOs.com and more.

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PubCon

Affiliate Summit West 2010

Prfessor.com

YouTube promoted videos to appear on AdSense sites

Affplan.com

Top 10 Affiliate Marketing Companies

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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about the money affiliate marketers donated to Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City, upcoming conferences, and how more women can get speaking slots at conferences.

Also, issue 8 of FeedFront Magazine is out, Jim Lillig put together a report on the State of CPA, and Lisa is on another affiliate marketing podcast called AffPlan.

Plus, the controversy around LinkConnector and their affiliate site, Sponsored Tweets, and the GrowSmart Biz conference.

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• Just Local Ads – a Charity Musical Tribute to Dennis Yu
• Affiliate Marketers Donate $23,509 to Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City
• My Conference Schedule for Fall 2009
• GrowSmart Biz Conference Live Stream
• Women Speakers at Affiliate Summit
• FeedFront Magazine Issue 8 Now Available
• The State of CPA
• AffPlan Podcast
• LinkConnector and the Network as Affiliate Conflict
• Sponsored Tweet from Michael Buechele

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Missy Ward ran a number of silent auctions last month to raise funds for the 40-mile Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, which took place in Los Angeles last week.

One of the auctions was for a customized song on the Affiliate Thing podcast. This song appeared on the September 21 edition of Affiliate Thing.

I scratched up the lyrics and sang a song, “Just Local Ads”, for the winner, Dennis Yu, co-founder and CEO of BlitzLocal.com.

The song is to the tune of “Just a Friend” by Biz Markie.

Just Local Ads
Have you ever had a lead that you tried to get
Talked to other agencies, they wanted you to wait
Let me tell you a story of my situation
I was talking to this dude from the U.S. nation

The way that I met him was online through ShoeMoney
He had a good rep with his BlitzLocal.com
I hit him up on Facebook about the leads I could get
Running local ads on Google, that made my appetite whet

I asked him a couple times if his results were the truth
I had a bunch of questions to see if it was hundred proof
How about local lingerie leads, you know, blah-blah-blah
Customers wanting 9/10 pants and a very big bra

He said he could optimize and I was enthused
He said quality and quantity
And I was very amused

I started throwin’ bass, he started throwin’ back mid-range
But when I sprung the question, he acted kind of strange
Then when I asked, is this all for free, he didn’t pretend
He said, no it’s not, you’ve got to pay a fee

OK, looks great, so I’m going for it
This is what I’m gonna sing

Yu, you got what I need, and you say they’re local ads
And you say they’re local ads, oh Dennis
Yu, you got what I need, and you say they’re local ads
And you say they’re local ads, oh Dennis
Yu, you got what I need, and you say they’re local ads
And you say they’re local ads

BlitzLocal.com

Now remember the old saying… give til it hurts! This was for charity.

Thanks for your generosity, Dennis!

This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins was solo, as Lisa Picarille wasn’t feeling well, and he provided a recap of Commission Junction University, as well as the winners of the CJYou awards.

Also, big money raised by Affiliate Marketers Give Back, the first annual Affiliate Day, and a musical tribute to Dennis Yu of BlitzLocal.com.

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• Commission Junction University 2009 Recap
• Commission Junction CJYou 2009 Award Winners
• Photos from CJU 2009
• Celebrate Affiliate Day on September 14
• Affiliate Marketers Give Back Takes on the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer

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This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about Affiliate Day, the expiration of keyword links at Commission Junction, and iJustine at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Also, Rebecca Madigan, founder and executive director of the Performance Marketing Alliance, joined Shawn and Lisa to discuss the Amicus Brief filed by the PMA and other issues being tackled by the organization.

Plus, friends who don’t like social networking, Affiliate Marketers Give Back raising $51,059.67 and walking 40 miles to fight breast cancer, and Missy Ward hugging McDreamy.

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• Celebrate Affiliate Day on September 14
• Expiration of Advertiser Keyword Links in Commission Junction
• iJustine at the Video Music Awards
• You Belong With Me – Taylor Swift
• Rebecca Madigan
• Performance Marketing Alliance
• Performance Marketing Alliance Files Amicus Brief with New York State Supreme Court
• My Best Friend is a Social Networking Holdout
• Affiliate Marketers Give Back walk the Avon Breast Cancer Walk

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