Sarah was a great guest, and AMT is off to a great, great start. There's a follow-up to our conversation here: http://www.sarahbundy.com/betterment-of-affiliate...

I love Kim to death, but Brad Waller was the guy that unofficially invented affiliate marketing - before Amazon. Slighting him again on the Legend award is like not letting Elvis into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

IMO, neither Amazon nor Overstock deserve the Merchant award simply for their treatment of affiliates in the nexus tax issue. TinyPrints gets it by default - which is kinda sad to say because they're also extremely deserving and would get my vote even if Amazon and Overstock weren't persona non grata with me on these issues.

For the blogger... I don't know Mr Green at all. Sam, I love Sam too...but Tricia has been consistent and I think the award should go to her this time (in the absence of any opinion about Mr Green). I'd like to see Sam win next year for the effort that he's been putting in for the past few months, though. Great, great stuff.

Advocate is a toss-up to me, too. Tim made a huge statement by moving his company. Rebecca spends her days flying all around the country meeting with congress members in every state that tries to pass the nexus tax. And Brian Littleton is Brian F&#&ing Littleton - there are few classier and more deserving of the Advocate award. Toss-up. They all deserve it.

Lastly, Manager... yikes. I honestly don't know. Another toss-up? For me, maybe.

Thanks, Jed! The interviews are only as good as the guests, and Jeremy is a hell of a guest. Glad you enjoyed it!

The contest is over, and thanks for entering! We actually have one more to give out - only four winners this time. Devin, sadly, can't be a winner because he's too young to attend Summit. I should have made age a requirement of entry, but my hands are tied on this one: passes are non-transferable and you have to be 21 to get into Summit.

The winners have been emailed with the special pass codes, and I hope to meet you all in Vegas!

The contest is over, and thanks for entering! We actually have one more to give out - only four winners this time. Devin, sadly, can't be a winner because he's too young to attend Summit. I should have made age a requirement of entry, but my hands are tied on this one: passes are non-transferable and you have to be 21 to get into Summit.

Emails with discount codes will be forthcoming. Drew and I want to thank you all for entering, and I hope to meet you all in Vegas!

Artists, in my experience, are worse. About four years ago I was going to write a book (self published, you'd be proud) about a certain print on demand company. After I introduced myself to their community and told them what I would be doing, they treated me like a sub-human. I was accused of trying to profit off of them (somehow) and I was called, most memorably, a snake oil salesman. Why?

Because the book was to be called "Success with Imagekind.com", a follow-up to my moderately successful (and also self-published!) "Success with CafePress.com" and these artists decided that I was more interested in sales than in the high cultural value of art. It never occurred to them that they were part of the Imagekind community and Imagekind was a venue for *selling art*. It's not like I went to a community of artists that had no interest in making money (so I thought) because ostensibly, these cats were there to make money!

The times that I offered advice for maximizing sales in their forums... anytime I even came close to suggesting that someone's art wouldn't sell, I was assaulted with "IT'S ART AND ALL ART IS VALID!!!!!" - which is true. But not all art is salable. Their snobbery about the craft got in the way of sales. Not everything needs to be sold, but when you're trying to sell art, it helps not to shoot yourself in the foot by calling the marketers trying to help you rotten snake oil salesmen.

I haven't... I've got Comic Collector, like I said, but I've also got Book Collector by that same company. I don't have enough of anything else to warrant tracking (I got rid of probably 70% of my CDs that I've owned over the years). Good recommendation, though!

So, wait... a guy turns on a feature of his wife's new phone without her knowing and then uses that feature on her phone without her knowledge to track her whereabouts.

And the problem is the technology?

Are you people brain dead?

For me, it's about not keeping the eggs in one basket. If your web host goes down for an extended period, or if it suddenly raises its fees, or if you need to leave them quickly for whatever reason, having your registrations somewhere else is helpful.

Let's say I'm on Bluehost (which I am) and my registrations are on Dreamhost (which some are). If I had to leave Bluehost, I could open a hosting account at HostGator, get the website set up, and then simply update the DNS records at Dreamhost to point to HostGator instead of Bluehost. The whole thing might take a couple of hours.

If I had hosting and registration at Bluehost and had to leave Bluehost, I would have to move not only the sites, but the registrations - and if you've never had to move registrations from one provider to another you're lucky. It can be a real pain and take a lot more time.

Now, there could be reasons why I'd want to move my domains off of Dreamhost - if they suddenly double their registration prices, for example - but the odds that I'll have a problem with my web hosting are far greater than the odds I'll have an issue with my registrar.

Write down anything you want to mention and we'll bring it up on Thursday!