Archives for July 2012

Speaking proposals for Affiliate Summit West 2013, taking place January 13-15, 2013 in Las Vegas, are now being accepted.

The submission deadline is October 5, 2012. Any submissions after this date will not be considered.

Accepted speakers will be notified no later than October 19, 2012. If you have not been contacted by October 19, 2012, your proposal was not accepted.

Submit your speaking proposal at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/13w-speakers/.

The Race to Affiliate Summit East 2012, a dailymile challenge where Affiliate Summit will donate $1 to benefit the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in support of Affiliate Marketers Give Back team for each mile cycled, run, swam, or walked through the challenge, is running through 7/31/2012.

There are currently 61 folks involved in the challenge, and the top ten competitors have already accumulated 11,810 miles.

Overall, there have been 18,569 miles tallied by all of the participants, so it’s $18,569 raised (so far).

I am at #9 right now (see my dailymile profile) with 795 miles, and working on staying in the top ten. It’s been a while since I was on the bike – got to get some miles there to raise it up.

Here are the top ten affiliate marketing exercisers, as of July 19, 2012.

dailymile syncs with Garmin devices, Nike+ device and iPhone app, as well as a number of iPhone and Android clients.

You can also manually enter your cycling, swimming, running, and walking efforts.

In order to participate in dailymile activities, you will need to friend me on dailymile and I will invite you to the challenge. The challenge is going through 7/31/2012.

Get more details at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/race-to-affiliate-summit-east-2012/.

Affiliate Summit East 2012 is taking place August 12-14, 2012 in New York City.

The participant with the most total miles at the end of the challenge will receive a VIP Pass to Affiliate Summit West 2013. 2nd to 5th place finishers will each receive a Networking Plus Pass to Affiliate Summit West 2013, and 6th to 10th place finishers will each receive a Networking Pass to Affiliate Summit West 2013.

Please note that all information you provide as part of the contest is public and may be used by Affiliate Summit in our marketing efforts for this event.

This was a conference session titled How to Turbocharge Your Business from Affiliate Summit East 2010, which took place August 15-17, 2010 in New York City.

Speaker:

• Aaron Dragushan, Founder, Upgrade Me

Session description: To be successful without burning out, you need to work smart. I’ll show you how to find time, focus like a laser, boost your energy & distraction-proof yourself against the inevitable time gremlins.

Experience level: Beginner
Target audience: Affiliates/Publishers
Niche/vertical: Productivity

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/affsum/7b-how-to-turbocharge-your-business

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: How to Turbocharge Your Business

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.

I often have people tell me to let them know if I need any help, whether it’s with an affiliate project, onsite at Affiliate Summit, or whatever.

This is after I have answered some question, introduced them to a new contact, or provided some other sort of business favor.

Now maybe this is all just posturing to comply with the law of reciprocity. But I’d like to think, at least, some of it is sincere.

Anyhow, if I’ve ever helped you in any way, and you’ve been waiting to say thank you, I’ve got a great opportunity for you.

I am walking with Team Affiliate Marketers Give Back for 39.3 miles around New York City in October for the Avon Walk For Breast Cancer.

I’d love if you’d support me in the Avon Walk For Breast Cancer with a donation of any amount.

No obligation, but if you feel it in you to help me help them, that would be cool.

Any amount helps. And if you don’t have the funds, how about sharing this on Facebook or Twitter?

Just like the character Clint said in the classic film, ‘Dazed and Confused,’ “Don’t let your mouth write a check your butt can’t cash.”

Affiliate Summit West 2013 is heading back to Las Vegas on January 13-15, 2013 at Caesars Palace Las Vegas.

We originally planned to shift Affiliate Summit to a week later, but it didn’t work out.

This will be the 22nd Affiliate Summit and it is expected to be the largest Affiliate Summit to date (again!).

We managed to get a great deal on the rooms at Caesars Palace for our room block – just $119 a night! This past January at Affiliate Summit West 2012, the rate was $199 a night.

Also, we’ve negotiated for all Affiliate Summit attendees in our room block to get free Internet in their rooms.

More details to come shortly.

See http://www.affiliatesummit.com/about/ for the history and growth of the premier affiliate marketing conference.

We’ve received a number of inquiries about whether passes to Affiliate Summit East 2012 can be upgraded. And the answer is yes.

The cost of upgrades is the difference in the price of your pass when you registered and the price of the higher level pass at the time of the upgrade.

There are four pass types: Networking, Networking Plus, VIP, and All Access. If you’re interested in seeing sessions at Affiliate Summit, Networking Plus will get you into the Sunday sessions and VIP provides access to all three days of sessions.

All Access passes get access to all three days of sessions, plus DVDs of all recorded session videos.

Get more details on the various pass types. Contact us about upgrading your Affiliate Summit pass.

This was a conference session titled Uncovering Advanced Paid Search Strategies from Affiliate Summit East 2010, which took place August 15-17, 2010 in New York City.

Speaker:

• Allen Hammock, Director, LookSmart

Session description: Allen will provide a checklist of qualities advertisers should look for in search partners to bring PPC campaigns to the next level, including traffic quality, targeting and tracking, and service.

Experience level: Advanced
Target audience: Merchants/Advertisers
Niche/vertical: Search Advertising

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/affsum/7a-uncovering-advanced-paid-search-strategies

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: Uncovering Advanced Paid Search Strategies

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.

The 19th issue of FeedFront, the official magazine of Affiliate Summit, is at the printer and it will be hitting mailboxes in early August 2012.

Issue 19 of FeedFront will also be distributed at Affiliate Summit Meetups and Affiliate Summit East 2012.

This issue of FeedFront Magazine includes Affiliate Summit Rocks Austin by Shawn Collins, Don’t Let Your Silence Affect Our Outcome by Missy Ward, Creative SEO Outside Of Google by Don Batsford, Jr., Finding the Next Big Thing by Jazette Pester, and the Affiliate Summit East 2012 agenda.

Also selecting keywords to increase conversions and revenue; building brand awareness on Pinterest; online gaming; mobile marketing; using video on landing pages; and more.

Issue 19 of FeedFront Magazine can now be viewed online, downloaded, and printed from issuu.com.

Get the FeedFront RSS if you’d like to get all of the articles as they are published to the feed.

If you haven’t subscribed, you can get the magazine for free at http://feedfront.com/free-subscription/.

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