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Affiliate Ball Signs a Beastie Boy, Ice-T and Coco for Affiliate Summit East 2012

May 19, 2012 by Shawn Collins

The Affiliate Ball, taking place during Affiliate Summit East 2012 in New York City, has announced some details about the upcoming event.

The networking event is being called Neverblue Presents The Affiliate Ball, as Neverblue has been secured as the title sponsor.

The Affiliate Ball has booked legendary DJ of the Beastie Boys, Mix Master Mike, to perform a set.

Many more surprise guests will be announced as the event gets closer. The party last summer, during Affiliate Summit East 2011, was featured on TMZ with hip hop legends Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Cas and Dougie Fresh performing.

This year they plan to have Ice-T and his wife, Coco, walking around the crowd to shake hands, take pictures with guests, and host the entire night on stage.

RSVP now at http://affiliateball.com/registration.html.

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Affiliate Summit Central 2012 Recap

May 17, 2012 by Shawn Collins

Affiliate Summit Central 2012, the first Affiliate Summit in Austin, TX, kicked off with the official welcome party on May 14, 2012 with live music from The Cody Jasper Band, Sam Sliva and the Good, and FallenAsh.

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The first day of the conference started at an early (by Affiliate Summit standards) 7am, when registration opened up.

Full pass holders got a limited edition Affiliate Summit t-shirt.

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Emcee Heather Romiti began the day with some announcements before turning things over to Maribel Sierra, Social Media and Communities Director, Listening and Engagement at Dell.

Heather Romiti kicks off Affiliate Summit Central 2012

Maribel Sierra of Dell Keynotes Affiliate Summit Central 2012

This first day also included a Meet Market, two sets of sessions, and Ask the Experts Roundtables, which were complemented by Nate the Great, a local balloon artist.

Roundtable at Affiliate Summit Central 2012

Iguana Head balloon on FeedFront designer Lindsay Gattis

The first day finished up with ShareASale.com hosting their traditional Under the Stars party for conference attendees.

The second and final day kicked off with a drum circle, organized by Benjy Portnoy, to wake up attendees.

Drum Circle at Affiliate Summit Central 2012

This was followed by a series of sessions in a new, truncated format where they only lasted 20 minutes each.

Evan Weber speaking at Affiliate Summit Central 2012

The conference finished up with open networking after an intensive day and a half off fun and business.

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Big thanks to the sponsors, speaker, and attendees.

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Building Niche Affiliate Sites That Produce Revenue at Affiliate Summit East 2010

May 16, 2012 by Shawn Collins

This was a conference session titled Building Niche Affiliate Sites That Produce Revenue from Affiliate Summit East 2010, which took place August 15-17, 2010 in New York City.

Speaker:

  • Evan Weber, CEO, Experience Advertising, Inc.

Session description: Come learn how to build exciting niche affiliate websites that produce traffic and revenue! Topics covered: site building, content creation, & social bookmarking.

Experience Level: Intermediate
Audience: Affiliate/Publishers
Niche: General

Slides: Building Niche Affiliate Sites That Produce Revenue

Note: the companies and positions listed above were current as of the time of the conference. Some of this information may have changed since then.

If you liked this video, be sure to register for the next Affiliate Summit. The session videos aren’t made public until a year or more after each conference.

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Unboxing the Dell XPS 13

May 14, 2012 by Shawn Collins

I’ve been on a long journey with Dell products that began back in the mid-1990s. I have continued buying Dell machines for my business and family, because they’ve been reliable, easy, and fast.

Dell XPS 13 packaging

My latest computer is the Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, which is just a gorgeous, light, and speedy laptop. I was excited to get this one as a gift from Dell to share my candid views of it.

I got a chance to meet a bunch of the folks at Dell in 2010 when I was selected to sit on their inaugural Customer Advisory Panel, so thank you to them for sending the XPS 13 my way.

Anyhow, on to the XPS 13 – it’s amazing to see how Dell has evolved from some of those back-breaking laptops I used to haul around years ago.

Dell XPS 13 unboxed

This beauty weighs less than 3 pounds and it’s less than a quarter-inch thick, which is not so much more than an iPad.

I think this is significant, because I’ve been hearing from lots of people that they travel with their iPad over a laptop these days. Personally, I want and need the power that comes with a laptop over a tablet.

Some other specs I like are the backlit keyboard, nearly 9 hours of battery time, and the HD display (Corning Gorilla Glass – nice when it encounters my rough travel and my 4 rough kids).

It’s also got a machined aluminum body and carbon fiber base. Now that doesn’t really mean anything to me, but I like the way it looks and the fact that this enables it to be light and cool to the touch.

Now for the guts of it – the XPS 13 boots super fast with its SSD (solid-state drive) and Intel Rapid Start Technology. They’re available with 2nd generation Intel Core i7 processors.

The base model runs $999 with 4 GB of memory, a 128 GB solid-state drive, and it runs on Windows 7.

As far as ports, it’s got two USB ports and one Mini DisplayPort.

I was going to say my one issue with the XPS 13 is that I often take my laptop to use for presentations with my projector, and the projector uses a VGA connector.

But I just searched and found that I can just grab an adapter for pretty cheap to run the XPS 13 to my projector. Nice.

I’m excited to make this my everyday laptop.

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More Money, Same Traffic, List Building & Paths

May 12, 2012 by Shawn Collins

This was a conference session titled More Money, Same Traffic, List Building & Paths from Affiliate Summit East 2010, which took place August 15-17, 2010 in New York City.

Speaker:

  • Jason Akatiff, President, Coleadium Inc. dba Ads4Dough

Session description: Want to make more money for the same traffic? Learn about ideas on how to gather data before, increase sales and show multiple offers after you make the sale.

Experience level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Target audience: Affiliates/Publishers
Niche/vertical: Monetization

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/affsum/3b-more-money-same-traffic-list-building-and-paths

More details on Affiliate Summit at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/

Note: the companies and positions listed above were current as of the time of the conference. Some of this information may have changed since then.

Video: More Money, Same Traffic, List Building & Paths

If you liked this video, be sure to register for the next Affiliate Summit. The session videos aren’t made public until a year or more after each conference.

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Simplify the Web to Achieve Your Goals

May 11, 2012 by Shawn Collins

This was a conference session titled Simplify the Web to Achieve Your Goals from Affiliate Summit East 2010, which took place August 15-17, 2010 in New York City.

Speaker:

  • Chris Pearson, Overlord, DIYthemes, LLC

Session description: Content Management Systems (CMS), themes, templates, SEO—AAAAHHHHHH! Initially, it all seems very confusing, but today, we’re going to simplify the Web and learn what it REALLY takes to dominate.

Experience level: Beginner
Target audience: Affiliates/Publishers
Niche/vertical: WordPress Themes

More details on Affiliate Summit at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/

Note: the companies and positions listed above were current as of the time of the conference. Some of this information may have changed since then.

Video: Simplify the Web to Achieve Your Goals

If you liked this video, be sure to register for the next Affiliate Summit. The session videos aren’t made public until a year or more after each conference.

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Supercharging WordPress for SEO

May 10, 2012 by Shawn Collins

This was a conference session titled Supercharging WordPress for SEO from Affiliate Summit East 2010, which took place August 15-17, 2010 in New York City.

Speaker:

  • Jon Henshaw, Co-Creator & Product Manager, Raven Internet Marketing Tools

Session description: WordPress provides an excellent foundation for SEO, but there are many ways to improve it. I’ll present key techniques and powerful plugins that can supercharge a WordPress site for SEO.

Experience level: Beginner, Intermediate
Target audience: Affiliates/Publishers
Niche/vertical: SEO

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/affsum/2d-supercharging-word-press-for-seo

More details on Affiliate Summit at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/

Note: the companies and positions listed above were current as of the time of the conference. Some of this information may have changed since then.

Video: Supercharging WordPress for SEO

If you liked this video, be sure to register for the next Affiliate Summit. The session videos aren’t made public until a year or more after each conference.

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Affiliate Summit Central 2012 Passes on eBay

May 9, 2012 by Shawn Collins

Affiliate Summit Central 2012 is sold out and auctions for registrations are starting to pop up on eBay.

Affiliate Summit Central 2012 on eBay

If you are interested in passes listed on eBay, please be sure to contact Affiliate Summit to confirm that the pass can be transferred.

All registrations have an associated reference number. Request this number from the seller, as well as the name on the registrations, and provide it in your e-mail to the Affiliate Summit registration team, so they can determine whether the pass in question is transferable.

Just search for Affiliate Summit on eBay to find auctions selling the conference registrations.

Also, please note that the transaction is between you and the seller for any registration purchases on the secondary market. None of these passes are being sold by myself or anybody else that works for Affiliate Summit. Please ask any questions about the pass to the seller through eBay.

If you have questions specific to Affiliate Summit, contact us by phone or email.

Bear in mind that Affiliate Summit starts Tuesday, May 15, 2012 in Austin, so bid on auctions ending before that date.

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Friendliest States for Small Business

May 8, 2012 by Shawn Collins

Thumbtack.com, in partnership with the Kauffman Foundation, has released data indicating that Idaho, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah are the friendliest states towards small businesses.

Small business owners gave California, Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Vermont the lowest ratings.

The Thumbtack.com Small Business Survey drew data from a nationwide universe of job creators and entrepreneurs to investigate the best places in the country to do business.

Some key findings from the survey:

  • Texas had three of the top five cities (Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio and Austin), while California was home to the bottom three (Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento).
  • Small businesses said licensing requirements were nearly twice as important as tax rates in determining overall business-friendliness.
  • Among small business owners nationally, women were 9% more likely than men to feel supported by their state governments.
  • An important predictor of small business friendliness was whether small business owners are aware of the state or local government offering training programs for small businesses.
  • Nationwide, small businesses owned by politically conservative entrepreneurs were 17% healthier than small businesses owned by politically liberal entrepreneurs.
  • Idaho, Nevada and Delaware had the most small business-friendly tax codes; California and New Mexico had the least-friendly tax codes.
  • Nebraska small business owners were the most optimistic about their business improving during 2012, while Iowans were the least optimistic.
  • The South was the most small business-friendly region of the country, while New England was rated the least small business-friendly.

See the full results, which include full sets of rankings, dozens of easily searchable quotes from small businesses nationwide, regional comparisons within states, and Census data comparing states’ and cities’ key demographics against those of other states and cities.

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Affiliate Summit East 2012 Early Bird Ends May 11

May 7, 2012 by Shawn Collins

Early bird pricing for Affiliate Summit East 2012, taking place August 12-14, 2012 in New York City, ends May 11, 2012.

Affiliate Summit East 2012

The keynote speakers will be Sara Levinson, Ntiedo (NT) Etuk, and Dave Cupples.

The Early Bird registration rates for the Networking Pass ($99), Networking Plus Pass ($279), VIP Pass ($879), and All Access Pass ($1,879) are going up after May 11, 2012.

Starting May 12, 2012, the rates to register for Affiliate Summit will be Networking Pass ($249), Networking Plus Pass ($549), VIP Pass ($1,249), and All Access Pass ($2,249).

For a description of the available pass types see registration options for Affiliate Summit East 2012.

Some Affiliate Summit sponsorships, booths and Meet Market tables are still available. See http://www.affiliatesummit.com/12e-exhibitors/ for details.

Rooms at the Hilton New York are available at an Affiliate Summit group rate starting at $229 a night until July 5, 2012 or the group block is sold-out, whichever comes first. After that, the hotel will charge the prevailing rate.

More details at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/12e-travel/.

Register now at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/.

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