We will hold a special Las Vegas MeetUp202 event for everyone who wishes to attend. The MeetUp202 event will be a global collaboration with all other current MeetUp202 members and 202 members from around the world. The event will take place on the second day of the event, Monday January 12th, at 4:00pm. The location is at the Summit where the Meet Market area is. The Meet Market only happens on the first day (Sunday) and will be vacant the following days except during meal times (aka breakfast and lunch). Aside from this it'll be open for people to freely use and network. Generally this area is a wide open area with tables and chairs so it works out great and it's separated from the regular expo area where all the booths are. The meetup will run from 4pm till whenever. So far I have over 50+ people attending and expect to see more than that at the actual event. See you guys there. MeetUp202 Organizers, please email your group to let them know in case they don't read this blog post in time.

If you live in Toronto and want to meetup with other local PPC affiliate marketers, join the new Toronto Meetup202 event. This meetup is being put together by Bryn Youngblut. Bryn is an accomplished and full-time internet marketer, you can check out his blog here bryn.me.

Did you know? There are over 170 Tracking202/Prosper202 users that live in Toronto just alone. If you live around the area, join the group. Toronto may possibly become one of the largest meetup groups in the country. Although the event in San Francisco each month is getting very large, with over 35 PPC affiliates attending each event networking, Toronto is shows an even brighter potential to outpace San Francisco in membership size quickly. Toronto is a surprisingly active affiliate community.

I want to thank Waseem, Max over at MoneyBites.com and Bryn for helping making this event possible. Bryn scheduled the first meetup to be on the 25th of January. To join the new Toronto Meetup group, simply go here.

Also, if you have not heard about it already, we are trying to put together a large Meetup202 event during the up and coming Affiliate Summit West Event in Las Vegas. This will be a joint-collaboration with the other 10 Meetup202 organizers around the world, and we are looking to make an extra-event that is specifically a PPC Affiliate networking event. To learn more about it, and how to attend see our blog post about it.

Toronto is now the 10th Meetup202 to be established now joining the ranks of the other meetups: San Francisco, Seattle, Singapore, Los Angeles, New Zealand, St. Louis, Montreal, Edison New Jersey, and Te Aviv-Yafo Israel. You can find all of the Meetup202 events around the world at meetup202.com.

About Meetup202

MeetUp202 is a place for affiliate marketers to meet with other like-minded marketers locally. Get together with super affiliates in your area, grow your personal network of contacts and share tips and tricks with fellow marketers. Each MeetUp202 event is different, headed by different organizers, they are generally causal networking events at placing that sell food and provide WiFi access.

If you are interested in starting a meetup, please contact us.

We are going to have a major get together with all of our affiliates from the MeetUp202 events from around the world in Las Vegas at Affiliate Summit West. Of course all 202 members are welcome to join in on this networking event. This is an EXCLUSIVE MeetUp202 event.

We currently have 9 MeetUp202 locations across the globe with a 10th on its way soon. We'd love to meet everyone in person and have every affiliate meet up with each other from the various MeetUp202 groups.

If you are going to be in Vegas for the Summit and wishes to attend, please contact me directly at steven@tracking202.com. Please include the following in your email...

Subject: MeetUp202 at ASW
First and Last Name
MeetUp202 you're from or if you're not from a MeetUp202 event, please indicate so.
202 username

The location, time, and date aka Venue will be announced at a later time after we get a headcount of how many 202 members will be attending. Look forward to seeing all 202ers!

Tracking202 Pro is currently taking applications for private beta testers. During private beta, use of Tracking202 Pro is free EXCEPT for API charges. You will be fully responsible for any and all API charges as the search engine charges us for this and as such, we will not waive this. But all other fees will be waived during beta. Please be aware that after beta is over, we will be charging for this service. This will officially be the first paid service 202 will have.

Please be aware this is a hosted application and there are currently no plans for a self-hosted Prosper202 Pro at this point in time. One thing I like to note however that redirections are not done through our servers so you will not have to worry about the server crashing and your campaigns losing money should you wish to check this out.

If you are interested in becoming a private beta tester for Tracking202 Pro, please send in the following information below for consideration. We will begin private beta testing announcement as early as Wednesday and through next week. We are looking for only around 100 beta testers so if you're interested, apply early.

The application requirements includes the following:

• First Name
• Last Name
• Company
• E-Mail
• Full Address
• Phone Number
• Current 202 Username
• Current Actual Monthly Ad Spend
• How long have you been doing affiliate marketing?
• Brief explanation of your background including affiliate marketing related background
• How long have you been ACTIVELY using Tracking202 or Prosper202?
• Blog URL
• Company URL
• Why should you be chosen as a private beta tester? Be specific
• Which affiliate networks are you currently promoting

ALL fields are required. If the field do not apply to you, please indicate so. Do not just omit the field. Please send all of this info to steven@tracking202.com. We will contact you via email regarding your application if we have any questions. If you have been approved, you will notified via email as well.

We had an unexpected problem occur yesterday which made some of our redirects and tracking not function properly. We were in process of adding some new services to our server cluster (over a dozen servers) and after working on them a few of our sub-domains stopped working. It was an intermittent on a few of our web-servers so it appeared to work sometimes, and then somtimes it did not.

Everything is back to normal now and we apologize for any issues. If you were affected by this down-time we recommend you install Prosper202 which is hosted on your own domain, so in the case that we have any more issues you're redirects will rely on your own hosting.

We do have some good news though, soon when we launch our new tracking services we will no longer be hosting redirects, so in the case that we have any more down-time, users on our hosted application will not be affected. We will have this ready before Affiliate Summit West 2009.

If you are still encountering issues, please message me at wes@tracking202.com