LinkShare's Affiliate Newsletter
May 2008
LinkShare Symposium 2008

Publisher Training Web Seminars

Inside the Publisher Dashboard

Affiliate Promotions

New Advertisers
·AskPCExperts
·BLUEBAY RESORTS
·Bliss World, LLC
·Brighter Planet Inc.
·CJ Banks
·Christopher & Banks Inc.
·DHC USA Incorporated
·Dillards Inc.
·FTPress.com (Pearson Education)
·Firebox.com Inc.
·InformIT (Pearson Education)
·Lan Airlines US
·Mohranet.com
·NewspaperArchive.com
·PeachPit (Pearson Education)
·Real Goods Solar, Inc.
·Refurbdepot.com (Comtech Direct Inc.)
·SugarSync
·TheJewelSite.com
· Vans, a Division of VF Outdoor, Inc.
·Vera Bradley Designs, Inc.



Events

Internet Retailer
June 9-12, 2008
Chicago, IL

LinkShare Symposium 2008
June 23-24, 2008
New York, NY
LinkShare Symposium 2008 Agenda

Online Marketing Show
June 24-25, 2008
Business Design Center, London




Platinum
Publisher Program

Rewards and recognition for the most profitable Publishers in the LinkShare Network. Read
this article in the LinkShare
Publisher Help Center for more information.

LinkShare May News
LinkShare Symposium is right around the corner! Registration is filling up fast so don't miss out on this great opportunity! This month LinkShare launched a new series of free live Publisher Training Web Seminars. Be sure to check out the new LinkShare .EDU section on our website for a complete listing of these events and register today! In addition to the new .EDU resource, look out for the totally revamped Help Center Inside the Publisher Dashboard. With summer right around the corner, check out these current promotions for fun outdoor gear.



LinkShare Symposium Is Just 3 Weeks Away!

June 23 - 24, 2008 | New York City
Don't miss the performance-based marketing industry event of the year! For more than ten years, the LinkShare Symposium has brought together hundreds of leading executives from the world's most innovative ecommerce companies for a day of learning, exchanging of ideas, and networking.

The LinkShare Symposium conference will take place on Tuesday, June 24 at Chelsea Piers. James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds, will deliver the morning keynote address. The afternoon keynote will be given by E. Kinney Zalesne, co-author with Mark Penn of Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes.

In addition to the keynotes, Patti Freeman Evans, Research Director at JupiterResearch, will be this year's TrendWatch 2008 speaker. Patti will unveil the results of a new survey sponsored by LinkShare that looks at the changing habits of online shoppers and the effectiveness of the wide variety of marketing services.

Throughout the day, LinkShare advertisers and publishers will have extensive opportunities to interact and collaborate on their performance marketing initiatives during activities like the LinkShare DealMaker. Click here to see the 2008 DealMaker Hosts.

On Monday, June 23, LinkShare will celebrate industry achievements and trailblazers at the 2008 Fifth Annual LinkShare Golden Link Awards. We received an overwhelming number of nominations this year and Finalists will be announced next week. Winners will be selected by LinkShare's E-Commerce Committee and announced at the black-tie awards gala hosted by Susie Essman! Click here to learn more.

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.

The LinkShare Symposium 2008 sponsors include Platinum Sponsor Chase, Gold Sponsor American Express, Silver Sponsor Fleurop.com, and Party Sponsors Advanta and Overstock.com.

Click here for complete details on LinkShare Symposium 2008



A Peek at the LinkShare Golden Link Awards 2008

This gala awards dinner combines the fun and excitement of a glittering black-tie awards ceremony, with an invaluable opportunity to strengthen relationships with leaders in the e-commerce world. Held the evening before the LinkShare Symposium, the Golden Link Awards dinner and awards ceremony brings together more than 300 senior executives from LinkShare advertisers, publishers, and partners to celebrate great industry leaders and trailblazers.

More details at www.linkshare.com.





New Publisher Training Web Seminars
LinkShare is now offering live Web seminar training courses free to all Publishers! We are currently providing Beginner level classes, and we will be expanding our listings to Intermediate and Advanced level training.

These courses will be held weekly on Fridays at 1pm Eastern. Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate all of our Publishers’ time constraints, but we will soon be posting recordings of these training sessions on the LinkShare website in the new LinkShare .EDU Publisher resource center.

Here is the course description for our first course in the Beginner series:

LinkShare Publisher Training 101- User Interface: Overview
In this live web seminar we will discuss all of the basics you need to know in order to optimize your partnership with LinkShare. One of our Publisher Support Representatives will guide you through the fundamentals of managing your LinkShare account using the new Publisher Dashboard. Topics for this seminar will include:
  • Getting links from your approved advertisers
  • Analyzing reports on your commissions
  • Making the most of the messaging system
  • Taking advantage of consumer and publisher promotions
  • Other useful tips and tricks
Throughout the seminar the presenter will field live questions from the publisher audience via the WebEx Q+A function. Use this valuable time to speak directly with one of LinkShare’s qualified support representatives and gain insider information that you can’t get anywhere else!

To register for this course or to see a schedule of seminars through June, please visit the LinkShare .EDU resource center here: http://www.linkshare.com/edu/publishers/publisher_training_web_seminars/

All of our previous seminars have been completely full, so register now to reserve your spot!

If you have any questions regarding the Publisher Training Web seminars, please contact:

Elizabeth Johnson
webseminars@linkshare.com



Inside the Publisher Dashboard
Help Center
The new Publisher Dashboard comes with a completely revamped Help Center. In addition to answering hundreds of the most frequently asked questions, the Help Center also offers a Guided Tour video tutorial, a Glossary of important Affiliate Marketing terms, and a link to all of LinkShare's policies and guidelines.
To visit the LinkShare Publisher Help Center, login to your LinkShare account and click the Help! button in the upper right hand corner of the screen:


Here you can see the Guided Tour and Glossary tabs at the top of the page, and the Top10 Questions box to the right:



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