Just a quick reminder.

We hope to see you on Tuesday.

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The Tuesday, July 10th meeting of the Rocky Mountain Internet Users
Group (RMIUG) will discuss "Affiliate Marketing: Make Money Selling
Other People's Stuff Online"

As legend has it, Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon.com, chatted
with a woman at a cocktail party about how she wanted to sell books
about divorce on her web site. After that exchange, Bezos thought
about having the woman link her site to Amazon.com and receive a
commission on the book sales. This was the impetus for creating the
"first on the Web" Amazon.com Associates Program.

That was 1996 and, if you believe the legend, the Affiliate Marketing
industry was born.

10 years later, Affiliate Marketing has grown, according to Marketing
Sherpa, into a $6.5 Billion industry. Thousands of people, known as
affiliates, literally earn their livings (or, as in yours truly, some
extra coffee money), selling other people's stuff online. Stuff that
they never have to touch, ship, or handle in anyway.

Nice way to make money, no?

At our next meeting, we will explore Affiliate Marketing industry,
learn how it is structured, what the future holds for it, and get
insight from someone who earns his living as an affiliate.

We are pleased to welcome the following speakers

Bob Dunlap, director of marketing for ClickBank, one of the world's
largest online retailer for buyers and sellers of digitally delivered
products and services, has a long and successful career in the area of
planning, developing, launching, and marketing high tech products for
global markets. He came to ClickBank nearly two years ago and since
that time has worked closely with the company's nearly 11,000 product
vendors and 100,000 active affiliates. Bob will be addressing the
functionality of online networks and what the future holds for those
engaged with affiliate marketing.


Dan Murray (Dan@...) is Internet Marketing
Strategist at Ravenwood Marketing, a performance-based search engine
marketing firm in Boulder, and has spent the last five years as an
affiliate. He will be speaking from the affiliate perspective,
discussing various affiliate business models, networks and how
affiliate marketing works. Dan will also cover some economic
realities of the field as well as "a day in the life of an affiliate"
and some additional resources for affiliates.

Links:
http://www.clickbank.com
http://www.ravenwoodmarketing.com


The meeting is Tuesday, July 10th from 7:00 - 9:00 pm (with optional
6:30 pm start for refreshments and informal networking). The meeting
will be held at The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) at
1850 Table Mesa Drive in Boulder. To get to NCAR from the Boulder
Turnpike (US 36) or Broadway (US 93), take Table Mesa Drive west
towards the mountains for approximately 2.5 miles into the foothills.
NCAR is at the top of the hill. For door-to-door driving directions,
go to MapQuest (http://www.mapquest.com/), click on Driving
Directions, enter your starting address, NCAR's address, and voila!
Park in the NCAR lot, go in the main door, and ask the guard to point
you to meeting, which is held in the main auditorium, right off the
lobby. The meeting is free and open to the public, but we may pass the
hat to help defray expenses.

Our meeting location seats about 120 people. That is usually enough
room to accommodate all attendees, but it's impossible for us to
predict how many people will show up for any given meeting. Seating is
always on a first-come, first serve basis, and in the event of more
attendees than seats, we won't be able to admit additional people into
the auditorium after all seats are filled.

Thanks to our three sponsors who help make RMIUG meetings happen:
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MicroStaff (www.microstaff.com) which provides Creative and Technical
talent for Web, Interactive Media, Marketing Communications and
Software Development projects, is the sponsor of food and beverages
for RMIUG meetings.
ONEWARE (http://www.ONEWARE.com) -- a Colorado-based software company
that provides semi-custom web-based applications, sponsors the RMIUG
meeting minutes.
Copy Diva (http://www.copydiva.com) which provides marketing project
management, marketing communications consulting, and web content
development is the AV sponsor for RMIUG.

Consultants and companies are invited to bring Internet-related
Product information, brochures, and business cards which will be
displayed on an information table.

There are email mailing lists set up for this group. To subscribe or
unsubscribe, see http://www.rmiug.org/maillist.html. You can also
reach the RMIUG "Executive" Committee at rmiug-comm@.... Our web
site is at http://www.rmiug.org/


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Please note that RMIUG is hosted at NCAR and we are their guests. NCAR
has security regulations in effect that we must follow in order to use
the facility. If any RMIUG attendee is unwilling to follow these
simple regulations, I would ask that he or she not attend and instead
read the minutes after the meeting.

Here are the NCAR security policies that must be followed:

1. No weapons.
2. Must sign in at front desk and provide name.
3. Cooperate with security folks including providing ID if requested.
4. We are guests of NCAR so cooperation and courtesy are expected when
dealing with NCAR staff.

If there are any questions or concerns with this policy, please
contact me directly.
Thanks, Josh Zapin (josh@...).
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