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***UPDATE: SHAWN COLLINS IS GIVING AWAY 250 OF THE SAME KIND OF FREE PASSES THAT I WAS. I WAS HOWEVER WRONG ABOUT THE PRICE TO UPGRADE - IT REMAINS THE SAME REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU HAVE A FREE PASS OR NOT. SO IF YOU WANT IN BUT CAN'T AFFORD THE FULL PASS, THIS IS WORTH $30 AS OF TOMORROW. GO TO http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/ AND CLICK ON THE LINK.

So I thought I should mention eComXpo one last time, since tomorrow is the last day to get the great discount price. Here's the top 5 reasons to attend as per the website (though I agree 100%, and please remember even before I got the free pass I was thisclose to buying my own pass, so I am very serious about encouraging you to attend.):

Top 5 Reasons to Attend eComXpo

1 All the benefits of a top tradeshow, from the comfort of your home or office, for as little as $19.95! (Tara's note: go for the $49.95 pass though since then you'll get to see a bunch of cool people's presentations, including James Martell!)

2 View presentations and enjoy interactive Q&A with top industry speakers including Seth Godin, John Battelle, Shawn Collins, Fredrick Marckini, James Martell, Dana Todd, Kevin Lee and Declan Dunn, plus 70 others, including executives from Google, Yahoo, Commission Junction, Linkshare, Performics and more. Learn cutting edge, practical techniques in SEO, PPC, contextual search, local search, affiliate marketing, multi-channel retailing, blogging, legal, branding and interactive advertising, without the cost, travel or hassle of traditional events. Click here to view the full speaker list

3 Over 130 leading product, service and merchant exhibitors in one place at one time, with booth staffers ready to answer your questions and cut special deals. Click here to view the full exhibitor list

4 The ability to easily find and network with hundreds of peers, prospects, customers and experts using instant messaging, email, business card exchange or simply picking up the phone.

5 Lot’s of free stuff including
** $400 in PPC credits from Google & Yahoo Search Marketing*
** Annual subscription to Revenue Magazine
** $50 coupon off concert/sporting event tickets
** Plus a chance to win over 100 prizes including trips, big screen TV’s, iPods and more.
(*Requires booth and/or presentation visits. New customers only)

Ok, off that horse now - but I hope you're thinking about it! Anyway, spent all day yesterday fixing up TONS of stuff on the 2 related site templates. I was creating all the permanent links like the menus, fixing the footer, the exchange links pages, I created the article template for EZ Article Publisher (another tool I absolutely ADORE, saves me SO much time, I can't wait to save even more when I outsource articles) and figured out which merchants I'm going to be using, providing they accept me, of course. I guess it doesn't SOUND like much, but it sure felt like a lot! lol So now, I think those 2 templates are just about ready to go live, except for that pesky content I need to write.. lol

I think I'll be going with obviously the home/product pages plus 5 articles each to go live. Then I'll move on to 2 more sites probably, if not the other 4 at the same time. And because the topics of these 2 sites I'm working on now are fairly guy friendly, Eric is gonna help out. I'm going to get him to write a couple articles at least - because the sooner they're live, the sooner I'm making money!

On another note - while writing this entry, I just found out I have a complimentary pass to give away to eComXpo. It's not the full pass, but it will get you access to the following:

*Visit the Affiliate Marketing and Search Interactive Marketing Exhibit Halls.
*Participate in keynote presentations as well as group panel discussions.
*Win great prizes like a trip to Las Vegas, ipods and much more!

And if you decide to upgrade today or tomorrow, you should be able to get the full pass for around $30. Don't hold me to that, since I'm not 100% positive, but it SHOULD. So - the first person to email me that they want it, gets it. Send me an email with the subject "ecomxpo" and I'll forward you the pass right away. Email addy: support AT a1-travel-accessories DOT com

See you there!

Tara :)