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It has been a while since we have posted here and a lot has happened with the show over the past week or so.  I thought I would take a moment to bring everyone up to speed.

Auditions and Voting System

As you may have noticed, the beta version of the Top Affiliate Challenge voting system is online and is being tweaked on a minute by minute basis.  It’s sad to say at we have already thwarted one attempt to infiltrate and compromise the voting system.  We expected things like this, but we were surprised by how quickly it has happened.

We continue to post the auditions we filmed at our live audition events on a daily basis.  In addition, we are also posting your audition videos as they are submitted.  At this time we have more than 80 auditions in the system at one stage of production or another.  Watch for the remaining videos to be released in the coming days.

At the present time, all voting is being accurately recorded in our databases.  With that said, the output you see AFTER you vote may or may not be accurate in some cases.  This is why we are not presently displaying the overall vote averages.  This should be corrected by early next week and then we will be able to tell everyone where they rank among the other auditions.

Sponsorship System

Yesterday we got the final version of the sponsorship system up and running on the main website.  This will rotate advertisements from sponsors in the 4 sponsorship ad boxes on every page of the website.  We have plans to expand the number of visible ad slots to 8 next week.

We have had multiple requests for a sponsorship plan to purchase ONLY the 125×125 ad spots.  We have created a new sponsorship option that places your 125×125 ad in the rotation, hyperlinked to your website, with Alt text of your choice for $100/calendar month.  We are getting about 100 unique visitors an hour at this point, so we feel that is a very reasonable price.

In fact, the first of such ads was just sold today to http://www.jonathanvolk.com and should be online later tonight. 

This week we also sold the Championship Ring Sponsorship from the rate card to Wright’s Jewelers.  Tomorrow we will post computer rendered models of the Top Affiliate Challenge Championship Rings as well as some footage from the Wright’s Jewelers workshop where the two rings will be produced by hand.  There are the only two rings of their kind in existence, and the design of the ring has been copyrighted.

We have a VERY SOLID lead on the Banner Sponsorship as well (that’s the $15,000 sponsorship).  We have a newer affiliate network that is very interested so we should have more to come on this early next week.

Additionally, we have been contacted by a hotel in Lincoln that is willing to give us anything we need as far as rooms and facilities to tape the show.  In essence they are interested in our Hotel Sponsorship package from the rate card.

Show Gurus

We have two of our three gurus locked in.  Jeremy “Shoemoney” Schoemaker and John  Chow have both committed to the show.  We have some pretty interesting recommendations for the third position, but nothing we can announce yet.