LinkShare's Affiliate Newsletter

June 2007

LinkShare Symposium 2007

LinkShare is Looking for Your Input

Automated LinkGenerator

Inside the Interface

·	Cordia Corporation
·	Driver Loans
·	FilePlanet (IGN Entertainment)
·	LifeLock Inc
·	ShareBuilder
·	Sharpcast
·	Sky Facet, LLC
·	StudentUniverse.com, Inc.

LinkShare Symposium 2007
June 19-20
New York, NY

Affiliate Summit East
July 8-10
Miami, FL

LinkShare June News
This month, finds us making final preparations for LinkShare Symposium 2007. For full details on the Symposium, click here. Watch your inbox for our Affiliate Survey that will be sent the week of June 18. We have recently announced a new featured called Automated LinkGenerator to help you build links using a Web services. Inside the Interface looks at a new addition to the Affiliate Resource Center an Affiliate Welcome Kit.

LinkShare Symposium 2007 Is Almost Here!

Don’t miss out on this year’s exciting events at the LinkShare Symposium 2007 “Performance Marketing 2.0: Innovation and Collaboration” on June 19-20 in New York City. On Tuesday, June 19, LinkShare will celebrate industry achievements and trailblazers at the 2007 Fourth Annual LinkShare Golden Link Awards. We received an overwhelming number of nominations within twelve award categories. Winners will be selected by LinkShare’s E-Commerce Committee and announced at the black-tie awards gala hosted by Emmy Award winning comedian Kevin Meaney! Click here to see this year’s finalists.

On Wednesday, June 20, LinkShare Symposium 2007 morning sessions will include opening remarks by LinkShare President, Stephen Denton who will share exciting innovative developments from LinkShare. Keynote speaker Don Tapscott, Chief Executive of New Paradigm and best-selling author of Wikinomics, will speak about how mass collaboration affects innovation and partnerships on the web today. Following, this year’s TrendWatch 2007 Panel will discuss innovative trends in ecommerce today. Panelists include Ken Eisner, Vice President, Marketing, Shop.org; Sara Holoubek, Free Agent and Columnist; Karen Parrish, Vice President, BI Solutions, IBM; Lisa Picarille, Editor-in-Chief, Revenue Magazine; and moderator David Liu, Managing Director, Jefferies & Company, Inc.

Throughout the day, LinkShare affiliates and merchants will have extensive opportunities to learn about innovation and collaboration in performance marketing and to network during activities like the LinkShare Boat Cruise and LinkShare DealMaker. Click here to see the 2007 DealMaker Hosts.

Space is almost sold out! Passes to the conference are $495 each and tickets to the awards dinner are $350 each. Limited passes are still available -reserve your space now and join us for the premiere event in affiliate marketing. Click here to register!

The LinkShare Symposium 2007 sponsors include Platinum Sponsor Chase; Technology Partner Sponsor IBM; Gold Sponsor American Express; Preferred Partner Sponsors Bingham McCutchen LLP and LinkShare Japan; and Silver Sponsor Walmart.com.

For more information on LinkShare Symposium 2007, visit http://www.linkshare.com/symposium2007/symposium.shtml.

LinkShare is Looking for Your Input

Starting the week of June 18th, you may receive an email from LinkShare inviting you to participate in an online survey. The goal of the research is for LinkShare to serve you better by understanding your needs more fully. We want to make sure we are the best partner we can be for you, and develop new products and services that will be relevant and effective in helping you build your business. All responses to this survey, which is being conducted by an outside firm, will be held in the strictest confidence, so it’s a great opportunity to let it all hang out, and tell us what you think! We appreciate your help in this and look forward to sharing our insights with you.

Automated LinkGenerator

LinkShare recently announced a new Web services offering for affiliates, called Automated LinkGenerator. Automated LinkGenerator creates LinkShare affiliate links for any product on a merchant's site that offers Individual Product Links from their Create Links menu. This new feature provides the same functionality as the "advanced user" option that allows an affiliate to browse a merchant's site for a particular product, without having to log into the Affiliate Interface to get your links.

If you are interested in using Automated LinkGenerator, please email us at linkgen_request@linkshare.com to have this new tool enabled. Once you are enabled, the Automated LinkGenerator will be located under the LinkShare Feed Synergy Services area of the Affiliate Interface.

To create an Automated LinkGenerator link, you will use a REST (Representational State Transfer) Web services to request links for a given merchant URL. You will then send a URL from the merchant's site to LinkShare using the specified link format (see the Automated LinkGenerator Help area). The URL can be sent through a browser, a tool like wget or curl, or an automated script. For each URL provided, LinkShare returns a click link. You can request up to 1,000 links within an hour.

Affiliate Welcome Kit
LinkShare has added a new area to the Affiliate Resource Center for new affiliates, called the Affiliate Welcome Kit. The online resources include:

10 Steps to Get Started, tips and hints to help you learn the LinkShare Interface.
Affiliate Business Models, explains the different business models that affiliates use.
LinkShare Products and Services, is a brief overview of our products and services.