Hey everyone, we are merging the Revolution202 Partner Network with Blooads. If you are an active affiliate on Revolution202 your affiliate manager will work with you to migrate everything over. The signup for Revolution202 now forwards to Blooads. Blooads is the new official Tracking202 Partner Network. We have over 10 dedicated affiliate managers to help you in every aspect of your business. If you have not done so already you can signup for the Blooads network by going here: http://blooads.com/

You can check out the new Orange County Meetup202 by going this url: http://www.meetup.com/MeetUp202-Orange-County/. This event is hosted by the originalTracking202 team. If you are in the So. Cal area join us!

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.

You can see the full list of our meetups at meetup202.com

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

If you're interested in organizing a MeetUp202 in your local area and wish to help us spread the 202 name while networking and meeting with other affiliates, contact nana@tracking202.com for more details on how to start your own MeetUp202 locally.

Hey everyone, we hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and that 2010 will be a prosperous year for you all.

Affiliate Summit is just around the corner, and we're going to have our usual big Meetup202 event in Las Vegas. Wes, the founder of Tracking202, will be talking about the Bloosky and Tracking202 deal, the exciting new future of Tracking202, and how you as affiliates will benefit from the new improvements. You will enjoy a raffle, great food, an open bar and excellent networking opportunities with other affiliates.

To attend, simply RSVP to reserve your spot today. It'll be on Monday January 18th, at the Palms Casino on the 2nd floor of the Fantasy Tower at 6pm.

We hope to see you all there!

Bloosky and Tracking202 are now hiring for technical support positions. If you are familiar with our products we'd love to talk to you. We've posted information about the new available position below. If you are interested please contact Jessica at jessica@bloosky.com.

Position: Technical Support – Customer Management

Bloosky Interactive, an industry leader in Direct Marketing, is a full circle online and direct marketing, list management and telesales firm. Through its integrated proprietary platform and distribution channel, Bloosky consistently generates high-volume, high-quality customers to its diversified and branded client base.

Bloosky Interactive is headquartered in Irvine, California, and services domestic and international online advertising initiatives.

Job Description:

A Technical Support representative works closely with affiliates and provides resolution to various technical and software related issues. This role serves the technical needs of affiliates by troubleshooting product and server issues. Technical Support requires adequate working knowledge of PHP and HTML. Additionally, representatives must be able to configure and maintain web server software, including MySQL database and software installation. Other aspects of the position include strong communication and customer services skills, adaptiveness to individual users’ websites and the ability to effectively handle numerous tasks at one time.

High level overview:

• Operational installation, configuration and troubleshooting of MySQL
• Customer relations management and continuous technical support
• Strong knowledge and experience with PHP and HTML
• Develop in-depth understanding of our platform, product and software suite
• Client interaction via phone, email, website and online support tickets
• Identifying flaws in script and website coding
• Update website support forum to provide solutions to frequently asked questions
• Assertive stance with prioritizing and addressing issues

Join the highly successful and rapidly growing team at Bloosky and we will give you hands-on experience including comprehensive industry education and training.

Why you want to join our team:

• Annual salary starting between $35K and $40K depending on background
• Team oriented environment with recognition of individual strengths and skills
• Direct exposure to the most talented and experienced professionals in the industry
• Casual work atmosphere (jeans and t-shirts are fine with us!)
• Exceptional benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k (company matching), paid holidays, vacation, and sick time
• Upbeat working environment in a brand new modern office featuring a break room with ping-pong, darts, flat screen TVs throughout, Nintendo Wii and more, along with an on-site gym and personal trainer access

We are currently interviewing. If you are able to start “yesterday”, please submit your resume and cover letter for immediate consideration.

We have some BIG news to announce today. As of a little over a week ago, Tracking202 has been acquired by Bloosky, another company within our space. We wanted to give you details about everything that has been going on that led up up to this point as we've always been 100% transparent with our users and want to remain so. We felt this acquisition was beneficial for everyone and there are a lot of things we wanted to disclose in this blog post to clarify why this deal makes a lot of sense for all of our users.

Tracking202 was founded a little over 2 years ago and has grown tremendously in the short time span we've been around. Many may not realize this but we're still very much a bootstrapped startup operating out of our house! Literally we have desks in the living room, bedrooms, kitchen, etc... Its not what you would have probably have imagined for the growth we've seen and support shown from all of our users around the world. We appreciate everything and all the love you've given us. But as you may have realized, we were perhaps growing too fast.

As some of you may have noticed in recent months, its been getting harder and harder to answer support around the clock the way we use to in the early days. The number of users grows larger every day and unfortunately we didn't have enough resources, staff, or funding to keep on doing support and everything else without infringing on time spent innovating on the technology everyone has grown to love. Above all else, we only have two full-time programmers on board, one of them being Wes himself who's pretty much coded 98% of everything we have today!

Having said that, we were limited on growth in several areas and with the launch of our new network, had a hard time keeping up with the sheer volume of affiliates that were getting on board with our software and network. Lately, its felt like we were in a catch-22 situation, working hard just to maintain things. Even when we gave our best efforts its been difficult to continue to grow the company and help the community the way we have wanted to.

Several months back, we had the privilege of meeting with the founders of Bloosky. At the time, we were thinking of strategic ways the two companies could work together to help each other out. Wes and I were also debating about bringing outside funding to continue growing the company. Although we were affiliates early on and for the most part, have self-funded Tracking202 with all the campaigns we've built in our early days, it got to a point very early on where we no longer had time to run any campaigns and went full steam into Tracking202. With that, the company grew based on what it was able to bring in itself for revenue in terms of software subscriptions, advertising, and of course now network revenues. However it's difficult to scale when you have limited resources, time, staff, and funding to continue to grow.

After debating long and hard about bringing on venture capital (VC) to grow the company, we realize they probably wouldn't understand our business and we decided we didn't like that option. We felt it was in Tracking202's best interest as well as the interest of our users and the community we created to keep VCs out of this. What started as just a discussion on a simple business partnership ended up becoming talks of a potential buyout. This made a lot of sense to us because Bloosky was already involved in the space and in addition to funding, they had extensive knowledge and ideals that complemented Tracking202 VERY WELL. After long talks, the deal made a lot of sense.

Before I dive into why I think this partnership is great, I wanted to give you guys a background on what Bloosky does for those unfamiliar with the name. Many companies in the space know who they are but they don't have such a strong presence among the affiliate community. Over the last couple years they have focused on working with more traditional publishers. The other thing they are known for is their advertising relationships and focus on providing advertiser services. They have call centers, creative services and a strong ad sales team. They pull in an average of 60-100 new offers per week!

Tracking202 on the other hand as many of you know, is a publisher-focused company with a strong affiliate base and technology that control several traffic sources such as search, social, contextual, media buys, etc... basically other than email. Like two halves of the same coin, the combination of the two companies made perfect sense. So what does this mean to our users?

Wes and I are staying on board to continue our vision of what we believe Tracking202 should have been since day 1. This deal gives us an equity stake in Bloosky and allows us to gain valuable resources necessary to continue doing what we do best. Above all else, Bloosky shares the same passion, values, and vision we have, which is one of the key reasons we were excited to do this. We would never compromise our values or visions for anyone, hence why we didn't want to go the VC route when we could have.

With this deal moving forward, this allows us to put more emphasis on support where it is needed. We now have more resources and funding to accelerate the growth of the technology side, building faster and bringing more tools, and helping the community as a whole to serve our affiliates better.

We saw several positives in this and Bloosky has been very supportive of everything we've done and wants to see our goals achieved. We hope with this, you're able to get a glimpse of things to come and see why this is so beneficial on so many levels. We hope to make Tracking202 an even greater company in the near future. Thanks for everything to every one of you guys out there! We couldn't have done it without the support and love you guys have shown us. The ride had been wild and it'll only get wilder from here on out =]

Kindly,

Steven and Wes