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Affiliate Summit has partnered with the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation to benefit this organization as we lead up and through Affiliate Summit 2008 West, taking place February 24-26, 2008 in Las Vegas.

Affiliate Summit is matching up to $5,000 in donations to the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation.

Below are affiliate marketers who have donated to the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation, and opportunities to donate/sponsor Affiliate Summit.

Donations can be made online at http://www.starlight.org/AffiliateSummit.

Super Affiliate Auction

Eight of the most eligible super affiliates will be up for grabs during Affiliate Summit’s First Annual Super Affiliate Auction to benefit the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation.

Merchants, affiliate networks, CPA networks, technology providers and more will bid for the opportunity to meet and dine with one or more elite, hand-picked super affiliates to discuss affiliate marketing during Affiliate Summit 2008 West.

The following super affiliates are scheduled to participate in this exciting event:

Mike Allen
President and “Chief Executive Shopper” of Shopping-Bargains.com, LLC
Winner: FlamingoWorld.com

Mike Allen

  1. Please list your distinguished honors and memberships:
    2008 Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards Affiliate of the Year Finalist, 2007 Mississippi Business Integrity Circle of Honor Award, 2005 LinkShare Merchant’s Choice Award Finalist

  2. What are your highest performing web properties? (List up to 3):
    Shopping-Bargains.com
    Shopping-Bargains.co.uk

  3. What would your top three merchants say about you?
    Produces results in a way that makes our brand look good. Is dependable, honest and easy to work with. Delivers high-converting shoppers.

  4. What sets you apart from other affiliates in your niche?
    We’ve been doing coupons and deals since early 1999 and have focused on building online trust through Better Business Bureau membership and ScanAlert’s Hacker Safe certification.

  5. Please describe your ideal auction winner:
    Would come from an affiliate network, online marketing/PR, or an affiliate support company that focuses on long-term relationships in traditional retail markets using the revenue share model.

  6. What would prospective auction winners be surprised to find out about you?
    I work from home in an office frequented by my wife, 5 kids, 2 dogs and 1 handicapped bullfrog that I rescued and nursed back to health.

  7. Why have you agreed to donate your time to this event?
    I am a strong supporter of charity and helping others and feel that this auction is a very innovative and exciting way to do that while networking with people of similar interests.

Michael Coley
Founder of Amazing-Bargains.com
Winner: Avanquest

Michael Coley

  1. Please list your distinguished honors and memberships:
    Pinnacle Award Affiliate of the Year Finalist, Golden Links Most Vocal Affiliate Marketing Advocate Finalist, and ABestWeb.com Moderator of the Year

  2. What are your highest performing web properties? (List up to 3):
    Amazing-Bargains.com
    MagazinePriceSearch.com
    Bible-Reading.com

  3. What would your top three merchants say about you?
    Michael generates great sales volume and is always available to give advice on how to produce the results we want.

  4. What sets you apart from other affiliates in your niche?
    An attention to detail, a highly customized interface, intelligent automation and a focus on providing a superior customer experience.

  5. Please describe your ideal auction winner:
    Anyone who will buy me a nice steak dinner. I mean… A merchant that sells TVs, books, or magazines (the niches I’m working on) who would like to pick my brain about coupons, best practices, ABW, automation or anything else affiliate-related.

  6. What would prospective auction winners be surprised to find out about you?
    I have no employees. I do just about everything for all of my sites myself.

  7. Why have you agreed to donate your time to this event?
    I’m excited to see money raised for a great charity, the opportunity to spend quality one-on-one time with a merchant and to enjoy a nice meal.

Patrick Grady
Chief Revenue Engineer of RhinoFish Media
Winner: OCTheBeach.com

Patrick Grady

  1. Please list your distinguished honors and memberships:
    My kids tell me I’m pretty cool (but it’s usually right before they ask for some money).

  2. What are your highest performing web properties? (List up to 3):
    HQ site: www.RhinoFish.com
    Selling sites: private affiliate websites catering towards mainstream B2C retail products and services.

  3. What would your top three merchants say about you?
    That I’m ethical, I’m very talented with PPC and that I am creatively effective in selling through my own custom-built affiliate sites as well. They’d also say I take forever to get onboard, but that I can move mountains once I’ve parked myself in their niche. A couple might say I’m a smarty pants know-it-all type and a bit too passionate at times about doing it right.

  4. What sets you apart from other affiliates in your niche?
    Volume along with a consultative approach - it’s common for me to go beyond my own selling and to advise my closest merchants on many things beyond just what I do for them as an affiliate.

  5. Please describe your ideal auction winner:
    This auction is about supporting children and their families, folks that are in real pain and having trouble coping with what their child has been dealt. My ideal winner would way overpay for me as a date and then allow me to pay for our meal together.

  6. What would prospective auction winners be surprised to find out about you?
    My cat Lucy sleeps with me and I haven’t yet told her that I’m really a dog person at heart.

  7. Why have you agreed to donate your time to this event?
    Because when Missy Ward went deep sea fishing with me and my pals, I left my rain jacket in her car and she said there was only one way I could get my jacket back…

Scott Jangro
President of MechMedia, Inc.
Winner: Reviews-n-Ratings.com

Scott Jangro

  1. Please list your distinguished honors and memberships:
    I’ve been nominated as a finalist for two Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards (one hasn’t been awarded yet) and featured in the Revenue Magazine Affiliate Advantage piece. I’m also on the Commission Junction Publisher Advisory Board.

  2. What are your highest performing web properties? (List up to 3):
    CostumZee.com, ShoeHunting.com, Jangro.com

  3. What would your top three merchants say about you?
    That I’m communicative, cooperative, and that I’m their #1 affiliate.

  4. What sets you apart from other affiliates in your niche?
    We take a pretty unique approach to developing our websites, focus on a niche and do it very well.

  5. Please describe your ideal auction winner:
    Someone who understands that I cannot necessarily turn on promotion for just any merchant but likes to hear an affiliate’s perspective on their network or affiliate program and the industry in general.

  6. What would prospective auction winners be surprised to find out about you?
    If you read Revenue Magazine or my blog, very little. But if you don’t know me, I spent more than 6 years working at Be Free and Commission junction designing the affiliate network products before going on my own to be come an affiliate marketer.

  7. Why have you agreed to donate your time to this event?
    It is for a good cause and I like to talk to other people in the industry.

Billy Kay
President of The Mail Order Shoppe
Winner: CrazyForBargains.com

Billy Kay Knoblach

  1. Please list your distinguished honors and memberships:
    I inherited my parent’s trophy shop in New York, and the walls were lined with awards and plaques with my name (free product samples). I already have every award!! But I was told to mention I was featured in Revenue Magazine. And some years back, in Los Angeles, I won Mother of the Year on Mother’s Day - big color picture in the Sunday newspaper :) I joined a mom’s club for parenting tips, and they thought my situation was unique and nominated me.

  2. What are your highest performing web properties? (List up to 3):
    The Mail Order Shoppe is my brand. My other sites all say The Mail Order Shoppe Presents “SiteNicheName” My 2nd highest site is not public knowledge. My 3rd is a coupon site.

  3. What would your top three merchants say about you?
    Adam Weiss/Linkshare: “Whatever you’re going to bid, double it - no, triple it. You won’t regret it. Billy’s a Publisher you need to know.” Carolyn Tang/ShareASale: “Even the barest moment in the presence of Billy Kay is enough to take my breath away. It is his dashing charm, his unparelled wisdom and keen wit that makes him one of the best affiliates to work with. Oh yeah, and he’s pretty good at marketing too.”

  4. What sets you apart from other affiliates in your niche?
    I work backwards. I find what people are searching for, then build a site to answer their question. Also, I take the extra time to painstakingly redo a datafeed or merchant product to make it mine.

  5. Please describe your ideal auction winner:
    Pamela Anderson! Ideally, someone who is a step above a newb, they’ve been doing this a while, but can’t seem to get to the next level. Or a merchant I’ve publically ridiculed who wants to give me my cummupins.

  6. What would prospective auction winners be surprised to find out about you?
    My public persona is laid back, lucky, things just fall in my lap. If only!! I work hard - on the backend. I spend 90% of my time analyzing, researching, experimenting, adjusting, and doing my homework before I put up a single link.

  7. Why have you agreed to donate your time to this event?
    1. Sounds like a hoot! 2. I’ve been successful at something to the point where I have a better life than I deserve. So I give back whenever I can. If you add up your life and how you got to where you are… it’s because you were helped out, had a fortuitous favor granted, or even received “official” charity to get by (I relied on the Red Cross after the Northridge earthquake). So by giving back, you get to be on the other end and someone will get to where they are because of something you did. What goes around, comes around. 3. To show Scott Hazzard a cheeseburger with Billy is better than a “ScooterHug”!!!

David Lewis
CEO & Founder of 77Blue (Cashbaq)
Winner: Forge Business

David Lewis

  1. Please list your distinguished honors and memberships:
    The usual: CJP, a few affiliate advisory boards, CJ Horizon Award for Innovation winner, Linkshare Golden Link runner up. Founding member of The Crew.

  2. What are your highest performing web properties? (List up to 3):
    Cashbaq
    AnyCoupons

  3. What would your top three merchants say about you?
    1. Integrity
    2. Creative
    3. Available (as in to our partners… see #1 if you had other thoughts)
    4. Oh, and I like to travel

  4. What sets you apart from other affiliates in your niche?
    You’d have to define our niche. No one else has.

  5. Please describe your ideal auction winner:
    Someone who wants to rock climb at Canyon Ranch or is interested in a heated debate. Of course, someone who just wants to get more sales from Cashbaq might want to buy me.

  6. What would prospective auction winners be surprised to find out about you?
    I had a certificate to service portable fire extinguishers (not to mention a CPA and a Real Estate Sales License).

  7. Why have you agreed to donate your time to this event?
    I aspire to be Phil Connors.

Tim Storm
Founder and CEO of FatWallet.com
Winner: ACLens.com

Tim Storm

  1. Please list your distinguished honors and memberships:
    Affiliate Marketing Legend Award winner, 2006 Fast Company magazine Fast 50 Reader Favorite.

  2. What are your highest performing web properties? (List up to 3):
    FatWallet.com
    FatWallet.com
    FatWallet.com

  3. What would your top three merchants say about you?
    I’d like to bid on this auction to have a steak with Tim.

  4. What sets you apart from other affiliates in your niche?
    We don’t pay for traffic, yet still draw well over a million unique visitors monthly.

  5. Please describe your ideal auction winner:
    The ideal auction winner would be someone that wants engaging conversation, without the sales pitch.

  6. What would prospective auction winners be surprised to find out about you?
    If I shared that answer here, it wouldn’t be a surprise anymore would it? (It does not involve lamas)

  7. Why have you agreed to donate your time to this event?
    You mean, beyond the incriminating photos that Missy has? Always glad to support a good cause!

Adam Viener
Chairman and Founder of Imwave, Inc.
Winner: Media Breakaway

Adam Viener

  1. Please list your distinguished honors and memberships:
    Commission Junction Publisher Advisory Board Member, DoubleClick Performics Publisher Advisory Board Member, Blogger for www.Wiseaff.com, www.Goyami.com and www.ReveNews.com

  2. What are your highest performing web properties? (List up to 3):
    Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We primarily focus on pay-per-click marketing to drive traffic directly to our merchant partner’s sites.

  3. What would your top three merchants say about you?
    Easy to work with, understand our brand marketing messages, and produce results.

  4. What sets you apart from other affiliates in your niche?
    We are experts in building, launching and managing highly effective search engine marketing campaigns.

  5. Please describe your ideal auction winner:
    Someone interested in exploring ways to build a long term win-win business relationship.

  6. What would prospective auction winners be surprised to find out about you?
    That will have to be a surprise!

  7. Why have you agreed to donate your time to this event?
    The affiliate business is all about relationships, and this is what I come to Affiliate Summit for. If there is a way to give back to a worthwhile charity while building these relationships, all the better.

Bidding will take place January 28 – February 1, 2007 on eBay. Auction winners and the affiliates will pre-arrange a convenient time for their lunch or dinner during the Conference, to be selected and paid for by the auction winners.

Great Affiliate Road Rally Drivers

Affiliate Summit Full Conference Pass Winner:
Diffuser World Inc. - The Worlds Leading Manufacturer of Aromatherapy Essential Oil Diffusers.

Affiliate Summit Staff T-Shirt Auction Winner:

Affiliate Summit Video Auction Winner:

Other Donations:

If you have made a donation and you are not listed here, please contact us with your name, company, and amount of donation, so we can add you.