Dear LinkShare Affiliate:
With our continued focus on innovation, LinkShare(TM) Corporation is pleased to announce the release of new enhancements effective Thursday, January 25. Below is a brief description of the changes you will see in the Affiliate Interface.

Interface Alerts
To keep you updated on the latest news, enhancements, and system alerts, LinkShare has added a new section to the Home page of the Affiliate Interface in the upper left corner. This new section will enable you to quickly see information important to your program. Alerts will be posted by level of importance with red being the most urgent message and yellow being the lowest level.

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MAKE THE MOST OUT OF YOUR PROGRAM IN 2007

As you settle into the New Year you will no doubt be looking back over your past year’s success and pondering how to make it even better in 2007. Here at Commission Junction we want to make sure that you get the most out of your program and have put together the following seven tips that are easy for you to achieve and sure to drive revenue in 2007!
Don’t Procrastinate, Pursue New Areas
Update Your Ads and Your Web Site Regularly
Slim Down Your Publisher Base
Build Better Relationships With Your Publishers
Set Your Goals and Define Your Objectives
Mix and Mingle with Your Peers
Read More Industry Blogs, Books and News

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Press Release: Commission Junction launches vertical sector strategy

Release Date: 25 January 2007
ValueClick’s Commission Junction, the world’s biggest affiliate marketing company, has completed a re-launch of its UK business to focus on meeting the needs of clients - including advertisers, agencies and affiliates - by sectors. The sectors teams created are for finance, retail, travel and agency.

Most affiliate networks only offer a generic service proposition, but in May 2006 Commission Junction conducted a survey amongst a variety of clients and non-clients to analyse attitudes towards service and approach. The research showed that respondents were looking for a highly bespoke, sophisticated and customer focused outlook from the networks. Consequently in the last six months the company has reviewed the organisation to meet these requirements.

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Performics’ Sponsored Research Proves the Value of Affiliate Channel

LAS VEGAS-(Business Wire)-January 22, 2007 - Performics (www.performics.com), the performance marketing division of DoubleClick (www.doubleclick.com/us/) and a leading provider of affiliate and search marketing services and technologies, today announced results of a comprehensive study of the Affiliate Marketing channel. The Performics-commisioned analysis, conducted by comScore Networks, was designed to help marketers better understand the value the affiliate channel provides and profile the demographics of affiliate channel shoppers relative to the average Internet user. The findings were unveiled at Affiliate Summit 2007 West, Las Vegas.

“Affiliate marketing, the oft unsung workhorse of online marketing, has been one of the most dependable, consistent and predictable merchant customer acquisition channels since the late 90s,” said Chris Henger, vice president of affiliate marketing at Performics. “Our clients consistently meet their online marketing goals via effective affiliate marketing and our more than 300 advertisers recognize the high value customers this cost effective channel delivers. This research essentially provides the industry with a data-driven, third-party profile, of the affiliate consumer.”

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Whether your publishers have stuck to their New Year’s resolutions or are looking for a “do over” to try again, we’ve got the advertiser programs to help them out! The advertisers featured below highlight some of the most popular topics for the New Year (and one to help publishers get a jump start on Valentine’s Day) so don’t miss out on promoting this special time of year. Click “Get Links” under an advertiser name to log in and access their detail page to learn more or to join their program. And don’t forget to make the most of the New Year by checking out the Seasonal Programs and What’s Hot – Weekly links within CJU Online.

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We apologize for the lack of numbers on sales from the 26th of December until the 9th of January. We updated our ecommerce application and had technical issues regarding the reinstallation of the CJ tracking code.

All is fixed now!

We’ll soon be back to our 7 day EPC’s in the $50-$60 range were we were all of 2006.

We are in the process of batching our sales information to CJ so they can re-capture the sales information from this period and credit affiliates. This will be completed before the end of January.

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We are please to announce the addition of the AvantLink Merchant Referral Program!
( http://www.avantlink.com/merchant_details/10048/avantlink.html )

Sign-up for our Merchant Referral Program and you’ll have access to banners or text links you can place on your site or in your emails or newsletters. If a prospective merchant clicks through your link, meets our criteria and signs a contract, we’ll cut you a check for $100!

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As a launch promo and added bonus we’re going to offer a $150 payout for any new merchant referrals through February 2007!!
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If you’re in the Affiliate Marketing business and have contact with merchants looking to start an Affiliate program, we would like you to send them our way. Our platform is also a powerful way for existing programs to increase sales by offering their Affiliates access to the advanced, integrated tools and support we offer. AvantLink is a non-exclusive network.

If you’re already an AvantLink Affiliate, you can sign-up for our Merchant Referral Program by following these steps:

* Login to your Affiliate account at AvantLink.com
* Select ‘Merchants’ from the main menu
* Locate ‘AvantLink Merchant Referral Program’ in the list
* Click to our referral program detail page and ‘Apply to this Program’

Let us know how we can help you get started promoting our Merchant Referral Program. If you have any questions feel free to contact anyone at AvantLink.

Sincerely,
AvantLink.com