Affiliate network expert offers advice on what to do if your program provider cheats on sales commissions

SALES AFFILIATE PROGRAMS DISCUSSED ON "THE CYBER MEDIA SHOW WITH KIM BAYNE"

Program Airs on Traditional Radio in Local Markets January 11 through 17

01/11/1999 -- DENVER, CO -- Westwind Educational Broadcasting announced that M. Declan Dunn, VP of Sales with ADNet International and author of "The Complete, Insider's Guide to Associate & Affiliate Programs," and Tom Gerace, Co-Founder and Executive VP for Business Development of Be Free, Inc., discuss sales associate and partner networks on this week's edition of "The Cyber Media Show with Kim Bayne." Program 59 (Sales Affiliate Programs) airs on public radio and non-commercial station affiliates in local markets January 11 through 17. For rebroadcast on demand, the program will be archived in streaming audio at http://www.cybermedia.org.

In this week's opening monologue, Host Kim Bayne observes that there are affiliate programs for "just about every product imaginable," highlighting selected offerings, commission rates, and sales activity reporting. In Featured Guest segments, Kim and Declan explore how Webmasters can make their Web presence pay off by selling other companies' products, offer tips for affiliate members including what to do if you suspect your program provider cheats on sales commissions, and identify both common mistakes and online success stories. During Net Highlights, Kim asks Tom to explain how sales bounty programs differ in revenue from the typical Web banner advertising model and to compare merchant-centric networks to multi-merchant networks.

BACKGROUND
"The Cyber Media Show with Kim Bayne" is a weekly one-hour program dedicated to educating new and seasoned users on how to use the Internet more effectively for personal and business applications. Each week, Host Kim Bayne interviews industry experts about different aspects of the Internet, exploring a variety of issues related to daily and professional use. Programs offer how-to advice for end-users and online marketers, cover recent Internet industry news, and highlight Web sites, products and technology.

Past featured guests include senior-level executives and industry experts from such companies and Web sites as AdKnowledge, Catalog City, Cybermeals, Excite, the Federal Trade Commission, Home and Garden Television, Gamesville.com, MapQuest, Match.com, MatchLogic, The Monster Board, The Motley Fool, Narrative Communications, NewsEdge Corp., Northern Light, Oracle Corp., PointCast, ProFlowers.com, Showtime Networks, Talkway, TheTrip.com, Tribal Voice, US West Communications and Ziff-Davis University.

Best-selling Internet marketing authors interviewed on "The Cyber Media Show with Kim Bayne" include Jim Sterne ("World Wide Web Marketing," "Customer Service on the Internet" and "What Makes People Click"); Daniel Janal ("Online Marketing Handbook," "101 Successful Businesses You Can Start on the Internet" and "Risky Business"); Larry Chase ("Essential Business Tactics for the Net"); Glenn Davis ("The Project Cool Guide to Enhancing Your Web Site"); Jeannie Novak ("Creating Internet Entertainment"); Don Peppers ("The One to One Future"); Chuck Pettis ("TechnoBrands: How to Create & Use Brand Identity to Market, Advertise & Sell Technology Products") and Robbin Zeff ("Advertising on the Internet" and "The Nonprofit Guide to the Internet").

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

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DISTRIBUTION AND AVAILABILITY
Debuting on December 1, 1997, the program reaches more than two million listeners per week in over thirty markets. "The Cyber Media Show with Kim Bayne" is syndicated internationally, airing on traditional broadcast radio in several major US cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, with border zone affiliates airing in Canada and Mexico. The program is broadcast on one transmitter and three signal translators in New Zealand on the 92 FM Network. Additional affiliates are added on an ongoing basis.

Radio station program directors interested in reviewing "The Cyber Media Show with Kim Bayne" off-air for incorporation into local program schedules may access the program through the Public Radio Satellite System on Galaxy 3 (right) satellite, Transponder 15C. The feed airs on channel 74.6 and is monaural. "The Cyber Media Show with Kim Bayne" broadcasts each Friday at 11:00 AM Pacific Time (12:00 PM Mountain, 1:00 PM Central, 2:00 PM Eastern). The program is free to most stations, but each station must license the feed before air. Spaces are provided to stations for local sponsorship spots. Station promotional support is provided through a variety of print, broadcast and online media.

Listeners interested in hearing "The Cyber Media Show with Kim Bayne" on traditional broadcast radio are encouraged to contact the Program Director at their local public radio station affiliate to inquire about air times or to request the program. Patrons of public radio are encouraged to support local programming by underwriting weekly broadcasts of "The Cyber Media Show with Kim Bayne" in their area. A directory of public radio station affiliates is on the Web at http://www.npr.org/members/.

"The Cyber Media Show with Kim Bayne" is a PointCast Connections Webcaster and Netscape Netcaster, broadcasting each week directly to the desktops of business professionals. For more information, visit http://www.cybermedia.org/feeds/pushfeed.html.

Previous editions of "The Cyber Media Show with Kim Bayne" are archived on the World Wide Web (http://www.cybermedia.org) in streaming audio for rebroadcast-on-demand. The complete library of archived programs is indexed and searchable by keyword through The Verbal Network (http://verbal.net/search.html).

NATIONAL UNDERWRITING AND ENDORSEMENT
Corporate funding for "The Cyber Media Show with Kim Bayne" is provided in part by Talkway, Inc. (http://www.talkway.com), offering 20 million Internet users navigation-enhanced Web access to over 35,000 mini-communities on the Web.

Promotional support is provided in part by Internet Wire (http://www.internetwire.com), creators of customized information services for public relations.

"The Cyber Media Show with Kim Bayne" is endorsed by the Business Marketing Association (http://www.marketing.org), a not-for-profit association that helps give business professionals the tools they need to stay competitive.

HOST BIOGRAPHY
Kim M. Bayne is creator and host of the syndicated radio talk show "The Cyber Media Show with Kim Bayne," an hour-long look at Internet use, marketing strategies and tactics, airing weekly on both traditional public radio and the Web. She is author of the highly acclaimed and best-selling book "The Internet Marketing Plan: a practical handbook for creating, implementing and assessing your online presence." A former high tech marketing executive who has been online since 1981, Ms. Bayne has written for a variety of print and online publications including Advertising Age, Business Marketing, ClickZ, Internet Marketing & Technology Report, Internet & Electronic Commerce Strategies, and Marketing Tools. Her Web tips, ideas for an effective Internet presence, appear regularly at the NetMarketing Web site. Ms. Bayne is editor and publisher of "Kim Bayne's Marketing Lists on the Internet" (ISSN 1084-7391), a directory of selected marketing topic discussion and announcement lists, newsgroups and forums.

A recipient of association and industry awards in copywriting, product marketing and public speaking, Ms. Bayne possesses a well-rounded background in a variety of disciplines, including hands-on and management experience in every aspect of high tech marketing communications on both the agency and client sides. Prior to her current career path, she managed wolfBayne Communications, a marketing communications agency, specializing in strategic and tactical media relations and Internet marketing for Fortune 500 companies and high tech start-ups. In previous positions, she directed advertising planning, creative and placement, collateral/literature development and distribution, direct response campaigns, media/public relations, and trade show planning and logistics for a variety of international computer and electronics product manufacturers.

As the founder and moderator of HTMARCOM, the original Internet discussion group for high-tech marketing communicators, Ms. Bayne presented at Jim Sterne's groundbreaking "Marketing on the Internet" seminars in 1994, the world's first Internet marketing seminar series. Her influence as an Internet marketing pioneer has been documented in more than two dozen books and numerous magazine articles, including "Online Marketing Handbook" by Dan Janal and "World Wide Web Marketing" by Jim Sterne. Ms. Bayne is a popular conference speaker, lecturing at such international venues as Internet World Hong Kong and Internet World Philippines, and on such prestigious campuses as the University of California Los Angeles. Ms. Bayne is a member of the Business Marketing Association, the Internet Chamber of Commerce, and American Women in Radio and Television. Her Masters degree is in computer resources management.

Additional information is available at http://www.cybermedia.org and at http://www.wolfBayne.com. For information on booking Kim Bayne for your next conference, seminar or workshop, please contact her directly by email to kim@wolfBayne.com.

PRODUCTION AND SYNDICATION
"The Cyber Media Show with Kim Bayne" is produced by Westwind Educational Broadcasting, is distributed by the Westwind Broadcast Network operated by Westwind Studios Corporation, and is owned by Westwind Media.com, Inc., headquartered in Denver, Colorado. As a member of the National Association of Broadcasters, Westwind specializes in program creation, marketing, production and distribution, and radio station and network spot creation and placement. Westwind is a licensed producer of programming and distributes recorded and live program feeds via the public radio satellite system and ABC/Capital Cities Distribution Hub. Westwind Studios Corporation can be found on the Web at http://www.wstudios.net.

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