Meeting Notes

Hi Guys,
We had a strong turn out for the last meeting for 2010.
John Neyrot
Alex
Rich
John Mac

We talked a lot about face book and the uses.

We talked about Google Wave and the uses of it. We all agreed this would be very useful oneday.

Alex had some good suggestions about using MeetUp.com >> Search local groups of similar interest.

One step for communicating to all social sites with Ping.FM

Alex talked about his mentor, Jase Sanders and his facebook postings.
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to you all !!!
See you in 2010.
God Bless,
John

Speaking with Carolyn Tang from ShareASale

Shakira and I are going to the Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas in Mid January 2010. Today I spoke with Carolyn Tang of Share A Sale to get a better feel of the market and understanding the their affiliate network.

We talked about the basics and she gave me some great ideas.

DataFeeds which is where you download all the products in one big Excel spreadsheet.
Webmerge is a software to merge CSV iles or Database files into a Html template. There is a free trial and then it cost $99

Carolyn recommended using this....
Using Afftrack with ShareASale
You can use the afftrack= portion of your link code to include affiliate defined tracking strings. Enter your tracking variable immediately after the afftrack= portion of your link code. This tracking variable will be echoed back to you in the Activity Details Report (http://www.shareasale.com/a-accountactivity.cfm). The tracking string must be alphanumeric, and can not contain any spaces or special characters. There is a 255 character limit. If you are using the "Shortest Code Available", Email Links or Product Links, you may need to add the afftrack= wording to your link code. A sample link would look like this:
http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?B=70&U=XXXX&M=47
Where the XXXX is replaced with your Affiliate ID number.
You can add the afftrack= parameter to this code along with your tracking string. The tracking string must be alphanumeric, and can not contain any spaces or special characters. If your tracking string is "123ABC", then your new link would look like this:
http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?B=70&U=XXXX&M=47&afftrack=123ABC
The afftrack= parameter may already be in your link - be sure to use the existing one and not to add an additional one.

For the Affiliate Summit, she recommended that I bring...

*Color copies of my website and to show merchants.

*Bring Plenty of business cards.

*Go to the Sharaasale party on Sunday to make contact.

Going to the Affiliate Summit and sign up for the Mentor program..

Carolyn recommended that I look into the RIU Affiliate program


Thank you for your time today, Carolyn!!!
God Bless,
John
Swim with the Dolphins in Tortola

Google Wave

Hi All,

Google Wave is coming. You should watch this youtube video to get an outline of what is going to happen.

If you want to sign up for Wave, go here

Watch Video


Also, if you want to buy a manual to understand and use better  click here

I am not sure how we can use the wave but maybe a way to carry on the meeting virtually this way.
God Bless,
John