Comments on: Why Not Have Two Sets of Affiliate Awards?

By: Nominations Now Open For Community A4UAwards | One Little Duck - Affiliate Blog

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:57:55 +0000

[...] me all the A4UAwards should be community led, but hey at least some of them are and that therefore means it’s up to the community to make [...]

By: Around The Affiliate Blogosphere (w/e: 8th Feb 2008) · Affiliate Quanda

Around The Affiliate Blogosphere (w/e: 8th Feb 2008) · Affiliate Quanda — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:30:36 +0000

[...] can read more about the awards at the official site here and read the various opinions on it here, here and [...]

By: Joe Connor

Joe Connor — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:09:51 +0000

2 Awards under the auspices of a4u would be confusing at best.

I don’t like formal wear either or the fact the affiliate marketing industry has moved on – us old-timers are already an anachronism but we can’t turn the clock back so we’ll just have to be the grumpy old men (and women) of the industry and remember back when we changed the world – well a bit. I still marvel at adverts for comparison websites on TV, that can’t be profitable or sustainable surely?

By: Nadeem Azam

Nadeem Azam — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:46:43 +0000

I do miss the good ol’ days

I don’t actually mind the formal attire bit – some of us affiliates could do with a wash and wear some clean clothes once a year – but it’s the corporate element that concerns me. The reason I got into affiliate marketing was because I always was an outsider, the unique one in whatever I did, and I love my fellow affiliates for being down to earth, casual, individualistic and sometimes caustic.

I think the formal event has its place and will help lift the industry to another, but I agree with you that a second event, the Affiliate Community Awards, would also be most welcome. Lets have both I say.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:46:14 +0000

“For me a black tie event at the Park Lane Hotel in London is a million miles away from the informality that has been affiliate marketing for many years.” – all of us over at Thornton Consultancy dislike Black Tie events!

By: a4u Awards 2008 · Affiliate Quanda

a4u Awards 2008 · Affiliate Quanda — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:55:50 +0000

[...] Community Awards I’ve seen several comments suggesting that a seperate award ceremony could be conducted, maybe not quite in the same stream as Rob Berrisford’sRaspberries, but you get the point, a seperate community awards as suggested by Jason Dale. [...]

By: Moose

Moose — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:52:18 +0000

“No longer is affiliate marketing a bunch of blokes in a limo knocking on network doors on one champagne fueled trip around The Capital – it’s now big business and a lot more formal. For “affiliate marketing” that is good news, but one perhaps laments for an earlier age of informality, community and friendship.”

Nowt wrong at lamenting on the good old days. It seems that maybe only half of those will be attendance for the A4UAwards, but great that most were at the A4UExpo.