CJU - Commission Junction University 2007 Returns to Santa Barbara

Once again Comission Junction will be holding the highly esteemed CJU affiliate marketing conference in Santa Barbara at the stunning Fess Parker Double Tree Resort. Conference dates are September 9-11 (hope that is not a bad omen) with a full schedule of events planned, as always.

There are good conferences in the Internet Marketing industry and then there are great ones. CJU is a GREAT conference. When you work in search or affiliate marketing, you come to expect that unless they actually do what you do, nobody has any idea what you do. Even if they say they do, they probably don’t. No matter how you try to describe it, lay it out, or explain it, 99.9% of people just don’t get it.

At CJU, you have some of the best minds in the industry in performance marketing and Internet marketing in general. Unlike most agencies and marketing service providers that generally get paid just for buying, planning or setting up advertising campaings, affiliates only get paid when they sell something. At CJU you’re surrounded by people who are experts in targeting, keyword selection, landing page design, PPC advertising, and making money with limited resources and limited margins. If you can’t sell stuff you can’t be an affiliate. Since it’ll run you about 3K to go to CJU, you’ll have to be a pretty good affiliate to have the cash to go.

At CJU, like most conferences, it is the networking, the after hours events, chance meetings, and late night pub crawls that tend to be the best experiences and lead to the best connections and relationships.

The schedule of events this year will offer sessions including:

Social Networking

International Expansion

Search & Affiliate Marketing Working Together

The Changing and More Fickle Customer

Getting the Right Data to Make the Right Decisions

Speakers will typically be top affiliates, long term reps from CJ and superaffiliates like Jeremy Palmer from QuitYourDayJob.com

Along with the educational sessions, Buy.com will sponsor a party, there will be GREAT food (rare for a conference these days) and ample opportunity to network, explore and relax in the beutiful weather and beaches that are Santa Barbara, California.

See ya @ CJU!

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