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.

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.

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

If you don't win the pass over at CashTactics, NickyCakes has a coupon you can use to receive a discount off your passes as well here.

I wanted to personally thank everyone at Affiliate.com for the wonderful gifts they sent us! You can see more pictures below! We truly appreciate the presents!

I also wanted to make a personal shout out to my affiliate manager over at Affiliate.com, Doug. Hands down one of the best affiliate manager I've ever had!

On another note, anyone wishing to send us some free stuff, feel free to =] Contact us at steven@tracking202.com to find out where you can send your gifts. Thanks again Doug and Affiliate.com!

November was a great month and we hope everyone had a good time with Thanksgiving and Black Friday (if you participated in the shopping spree). We wanted to do a quick recap of some of the stuff that went on for November.

ClickBooth Webinar and Promotional Opportunities

We had a Webinar session with Clickbooth courtesy of Harold. I wanted to personally thank Harold for that opportunity. If you guys missed it or haven't watched the Webinar, you can do so now. Check it out here. If you're interested in doing a cross promotion with us, please also feel free to contact us on how to do so.

Free Affiliate Summit Passes and $50 MSN AdCenter Coupon

In addition to the Webinar, we gave away some Free Affiliate Summit Passes. We love to always give away free things to help our users out whenever we can so be on the look out for more upcoming contests for free giveaways. Currently there is a $50 MSN AdCenter Coupon we recently blogged about! This coupon was courtesy of a 202 user named Dhruv Patel so be sure to thank him personally.

Prosper 1.2.0 Release and Security Tips

We also released a new 1.2.0 update for Prosper202 that many users have been waiting for! Please note the update was released twice so if you downloaded the first copy, be sure to redownload and install it again as some minor stuff may have been added later on. Wes the MasterlessSamurai wrote a great post on security your Prosper install that you can check out here.

New MeetUp202: Isreal

Finally, we launched another MeetUp202 in Isreal which you can read about here.

Thanks202

As a special thanks, we wanted to thank all of our donators for helping support 202. You guys are the best! Donators included:

• Mini Feed
• GreenRobot LLC
• Demco New Media Limited

$50 Microsoft AdCenter promo code (Expires 1/3/09)
Microsoft AdCenter $50 Credit
Coupon Code : OMW1008
exp: 1/03/2009
requires $5 activation fee

Update: Frank, a blog commentator also added a $50 MSN AdCenter Coupon for Canadian residents. The above code only works for US residents. If you're from Canada, please use code: "SEARCHCA50". Please note we did not verify if this code works or not and I do not have expiration date info. Thanks Frank!