The recent Beyond the Banner conference, held January 1999 in San Francisco, revealed an industry in its infancy. We cover the most important issues raised by this conference, and much more.

Before we get into the conference, let me share a few tools created as a result of this meeting. We have focused our energies on creating three important marketing systems for affiliate networks to help you improve your results:

1. Winning the Affiliate Game: The Ten Step Master Plan to Maximizing Your Profits

   Visit http://www.activemarketplace.com/win/ and take a sneak preview of the first affiliate sales training system. Created specifically to help your network sell more, this program will be offered to affiliates to help them succeed.

2. The Proprietary, ActiveAffiliate Spider

   ADNet has created the first proprietary spider that quickly reveals the Web Sites, numbers, and strategy of affiliate networks. Discover how quickly you can gain the unfair advantage by reading this article.

3. The Affiliate Marketing Development Plan

   The final missing piece of the affiliate puzzle is the marketing plan. We have created a tested, proven system to roll out and/or improve your affiliate network without breaking the bank. Click here for more details.

Plus read the important issues raised by the Beyond the Banner Conference:

• Declan Dunn's Report from Beyond the Banner

• Patrick Anderson's Report From Beyond the Banner

• How to Get Your Affiliates Going
  Most affiliate networks are filled with inactivity. Use these tips and techniques to make sure you get the most value out of your network.

• The Four Best Ways to Market Your Affiliate Program
  How you position your products at other Web Sites can dramatically impact your results. Learn what the experts have discovered.

• Affiliate Acquisition, Retention, and Development
  One of the leading affiliate experts shared a simple, powerful insight into setting up a real sales network.

• Long Term Value of the Affiliate and Customer Acquisition
  Most networks think only in terms of customers and sales, and have vague numbers. If you can determine how much your affiliates should be generating, then the long term value of an affiliate can become an important tool for tracking success.

• Public Commission Statements, Ongoing Payment to Affiliates, and the Customer's Knowledge of Pricing
  Are We Telling Them Too Much?
  Affiliate networks are informing consumers of the wholesale price of items. Low margin items like books and videos suffer because of this pricing awareness. Are affiliate networks stabbing themselves in the foot by making all this pricing knowledge public?