Affiliate marketing and other stuff from Shawn Collins, co-founder of Affiliate Summit.
The speakers and agenda for Affiliate Summit East 2012 are up, but I figured it would be fun to share a snapshop of what’s being covered.
The Affiliate Summit East 2012 tag cloud was created from the session topics and descriptions scheduled for the conference. Click the image to enlarge.
We’re getting short on passes – register now for Affiliate Summit East 2012.
This was a conference session titled Affiliate Marketing in a Digital World from Affiliate Summit East 2010, which took place August 15-17, 2010 in New York City.
Speaker:
Session description: Affiliate marketers face challenges making money on lower priced items such as MP3?s and eBooks. We’ll present best practices and some tips and tricks that work.
Experience level: Beginner
Target audience: Affiliates/Publishers
Niche/vertical: Digital
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/affsum/6d-affiliate-marketing-in-a-digital-world
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.
Start gearing up to bid on some great items to support Affiliate Marketers Give Back’s 2012 Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.
There will be a wide variety items available for bidding during the online auction from July 16 to 22.
Preview the auction items. Online bidding starts on July 16, 2012 at 09:00 AM EDT and ends July 22, 2012 at 11:45 PM EDT.
If you would like to donate an item for the auction, submit the details now.
Be sure to mark your calendars to get your bids in to help us raise funds to fight breast cancer.
Please also consider donating in support of Team Affiliate Marketers Give Back in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.
It’s looking like it’s not a matter of if, but when there is a federal online sales tax.
A bipartisan group of senators are planning to offer online sales tax legislation as an amendment to a small-business tax credit bill, according to The Hill.
Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) stated that the amendment closely resembles their recently introduced Marketplace Fairness Act.
The Senate is expected to debate and vote on the Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act this week.
Amazon, as well as GOP governors, including Chris Christie of New Jersey, Mitch Daniels of Indiana and Rick Snyder of Michigan, have endorsed the bill.
The Hill: Online tax to be offered as amendment to small-business bill
This was a conference session titled Why Q4 is the Year Long Season from Affiliate Summit East 2010, which took place August 15-17, 2010 in New York City.
Speaker:
Session description: Think Q4 planning begins in Q2 or Q3? Think again. Really executing on the crucial holiday season means planning all year long.
Experience level: Intermediate
Target audience: Affiliates/Publishers, Merchants/Advertisers
Niche/vertical: Retail
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/affsum/6c-why-q4-is-the-year-long-season
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: Why Q4 is the Year Long Season
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 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 10,819 miles.
Overall, there have been 17,087 miles tallied by all of the participants, so it’s $17,087 raised (so far).
I am at #9 right now (see my dailymile profile) with 736 miles, and still hanging on in the top ten. But my greater emphasis on running over cycling has me at risk of dropping away. Maybe I need to get on that bike more.
Here are the top ten affiliate marketing exercisers, as of July 5, 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.
Skimlinks has released a free ebook with author Patrick O’Keefe called “Monetizing Online Forums.”
This is a useful, quality guide for anybody running a forum and trying to figure out how to make some money with it.
I like how the ebook discourages trying to over monetize, and rather it urges forum owners to monetize appropriately to ensure long-term stability of their forums.
Monetizing Online Forums covers a wide array of monetization methods.
Areas covered include display advertising, in-text monetization, classified and thread-based advertising, sponsored brand placement, affiliate programs and cpa networks, product sales, premium memberships, and more.
Affiliate Summit East 2012 is on schedule to sell out towards the end of this month, based on sales patterns of past Affiliate Summits.
As of this morning, there are a little more than 600 registration slots remaining out of a total of approximately 4,500. This will be the biggest Affiliate Summit East to date.
Affiliate Summit East 2012, the premier affiliate marketing conference, is taking place August 12-14, 2012 in New York City.
This three day conference includes an exhibit hall with affiliate merchants, vendors, and networks, as well as multiple tracks of educational sessions covering the latest trends and information from affiliate marketing experts.
The keynotes for Affiliate Summit East 2012 will be a keynote panel on women in affiliate marketing (August 12), Sara Levinson (August 13), Ntiedo (NT) Etuk (August 14), and Dave Cupples (August 14).
Affiliate Summit will feature an exhibit hall and Meet Market with hundreds of booths and tables, and the Meet Market tables are all SOLD OUT already.
There are a limited number of booths and other sponsorships still available.
More details at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/.
LinkTrust recently released their Transaction Details API, which enables users to integrate their LinkTrust tracking with companies sepcializing in fraud protection like CPA Detective, Fraudlogix and ScrubKit.
Some information about these anti-fraud services:
Enable your API rights to start using the Transaction Details API.
Everyone is required to purchase health insurance now.
Whether you opposed or supported the Affordable Care Act, it’s here now, and the logical next step for affiliate marketers is to monetize it.
The eHealthInsurance affiliate program on Commission Junction is a good place to start.
eHealthInsurance is licensed to market and sell health insurance in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and they have partnerships with more than 180 health insurance companies.
They’ve got a nice EPC on CJ, too – $85.63 over the past three months.
If you’ve been looking for a strong niche to promote, this one just fell in your lap.