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List of Companies Attending Affiliate Summit West 2014

October 29, 2013 by Shawn Collins

I’ve posted the companies that have registered so far to attend Affiliate Summit West 2014 on the Affiliate Summit West 2014 page. Scroll down to see the companies.

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See any companies there you would like to partner with to do business?

This list will be updated each Monday leading up to the conference.

If your company name was spelled incorrectly during the registration process, please contact us to make a correction.

And if your company is not showing, it’s because we don’t have any attendee registrations from you, yet.

Want to reach these people during the three days of Affiliate Summit? Booths are still currently available (sorry, Meet Market tables sold out last week).

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Want Better ROI When Getting a Booth at a Conference?

October 28, 2013 by Shawn Collins

The new book, How to Get the Most from Exhibiting at Conferences, is available for free this week on Kindle.

How to Get the Most from Exhibiting at ConferencesIn the book, I share how you can make the most of your time at a conference, as well as pitfalls to avoid.

The advice is based on my ten years as Co-Founder of Affiliate Summit, both from being a fly on the wall and talking to countless people over that time about what they like and dislike.

Companies exhibit at conferences for a variety of reasons. Some look at the process as an expense as they seek to protect their market share.

Others approach exhibiting as an investment in their business. Those are the companies that build and maintain real relationships during and after the event.

It is essential to set measurable objectives in advance of the conference, so you can determine the ROI on your investment. Just showing up, setting up a booth, and waiting for the magic to happen is not going to cut it.

There are three outcomes that routinely result from having a presence at an event: hitting it out of the park with all sorts of new business and plans, maintaining a presence and achieving some branding, and then having a counter-productive experience.

It’s a short, quick read, and you can get it free on Kindle from October 28, 2013 through November 1, 2013.

How to Get the Most from Exhibiting at Conferences is available exclusively on Amazon in paperback and Kindle.

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Introducing the Affiliate Summit West 2014 Virtual Attendee Bag Sponsorship

October 27, 2013 by Shawn Collins

We are adding on a new, low-cost sponsorship opportunity for Affiliate Summit West 2014.

Affiliate Summit West 2014There will be a Virtual Attendee Bag Sponsorship, which will be an email to conference attendees with special deals from various companies.

The email will drop on Monday, January 6, 2014 to conference attendees, and the cost is $500 to participate.

Got a special deal, trial, discount, etc. on a product or service that would appeal to affiliate marketers? Then this sponsorship is for you.

Get details on this and other Affiliate Summit West 2014 sponsorships.

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Follow Affiliate Summit West 2014 Speakers on Twitter

October 26, 2013 by Shawn Collins

The speakers for Affiliate Summit West 2014 are posted, so you can see who will be speaking, their title, which company they represent, and their Twitter name (if they provided it).

TwitterFollowing speakers on Twitter is a good opportunity to start networking with them in advance of the conference.

Check out the Affiliate Summit West 2014 agenda to see when and on what topic they are speaking on.

If you’d like to follow all of the speakers in one shot, you can follow the Affiliate Summit West 2014 speaker list on Twitter.

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Meet Market is Sold Out for Affiliate Summit West 2014

October 24, 2013 by Shawn Collins

The Meet Market for Affiliate Summit West 2014 has sold out. Affiliate Summit West 2013 is taking place January 12-14, 2014 at Paris Las Vegas.

Affiliate Summit East 2013 Meet Market

There are still a limited number of booths available for Affiliate Summit West 2014.

If you’re not familiar with the Meet Market, it is an extended session of structured, face to face networking on the Sunday of Affiliate Summit.

Affiliate programs and networks have tables set to meet with affiliates to discuss their offers and cut deals. Vendors that cater to affiliates and merchants will also have tables to share information about their products and services.

Each table is a meeting spot for teaching, learning, closing deals, creating partnerships and finding new opportunities.

Get on the Affiliate Summit West 2014 Meet Market Waitlist.

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FedEx Projects Cyber Monday 2013 to be the Busiest Shipping Day

October 24, 2013 by Shawn Collins

FedEx is projecting that Cyber Monday will be their busiest shipping day this holiday season, according to BloombergBusinessweek.

Affiliate Marketing on ThanksgivingCyber Monday falls on December 2 this year, and FedEx expects online retailers to drive an 11 percent increase from 2012, which would result in the highest volume in the history of FedEx.

FedEx forecasts that more than 22 million shipments will move through their global network on Cyber Monday 2013.

For the past two years, Cyber Monday has generated the most sales of any day in the week after Thanksgiving, according to ComScore. There was a 15% increase from 2011 to 2012 with a total volume of $1.5 billion last year.

Online shopping indicators are good all around.

In the second quarter of 2013, e-commerce spending increased 18.4 percent from 2012, while total retail sales rose just 4.7 percent in that period, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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The Super Website Migration Checklist

October 23, 2013 by Shawn Collins

Chris Canada shared a checklist of everything you need to do to make sure your website and your rankings make it to your new web host or web design when you perform a migration at the Affiliate Summit Meetup in Austin, TX on October 22, 2013.

Chris Canada at the Affiliate Summit Austin Meetup

Chris has been engineering complex WordPress solutions for some of the top brands in Austin and beyond such as Pioneer, France.com and WP Engine. He is currently a Senior WordPress Engineer at We Move WP, a WordPress migration & development service owned by Austin based Marketing Clique.

There was also a lively Q&A time where Chris helped lots of folks with their questions about migrating websites and maintaining their search rankings.

Thanks a lot to Chris and everybody that came out for some lunchtime shop talk.

Presentation: The Super Website Migration Checklist

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Want to Write for Issue 25 (Jan 2014) of FeedFront Magazine?

October 21, 2013 by Shawn Collins

Issue 2 of FeedFront Magazine is at the printer, so we’re on to issue 25, and we need content.

FeedFront Magazine, issue 24The next issue of FeedFront will be coming out in January 2014, and we are accepting article proposals for that one through November 1.

If you are interested in writing an article, go to the FeedFront article proposal form to submit a one sentence summary on what you’d like to cover.

No ghost-written articles. We only want content from people writing from their personal industry experience.

If you have previously been accepted to write an article and either failed to meet the deadline or did not adhere to the editorial guidelines, please submit your article proposal elsewhere.

We take our deadlines and guidelines seriously.

Do not submit a complete article now – just a one sentence summary.

We will contact everybody who submitted a proposal to let them know whether their article ideas are accepted or denied.

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How to Get the Most from Exhibiting at Conferences

October 20, 2013 by Shawn Collins

Affiliate Summit Press has published a new book, How to Get the Most from Exhibiting at Conferences, which I authored.

How to Get the Most from Exhibiting at ConferencesThe book also includes contributions from Robert Adler, Ad Hustler, Tricia Meyer, and Kim Rowley.

Companies exhibit at conferences for a variety of reasons. Some look at the process as an expense as they seek to protect their market share.

Others approach exhibiting as an investment in their business. Those are the companies that build and maintain real relationships during and after the event.

It is essential to set measurable objectives in advance of the conference, so you can determine the ROI on your investment. Just showing up, setting up a booth, and waiting for the magic to happen is not going to cut it.

Over the ten years that we’ve run Affiliate Summit, we’ve seen thousands of companies exhibit, and there are some right ways and wrong ways to represent your company.

There are three outcomes that routinely result from having a presence at an event: hitting it out of the park with all sorts of new business and plans, maintaining a presence and achieving some branding, and then having a counter-productive experience.

You know that thing from the movie, Field of Dreams, “If you build it, they will come”? Well, that’s not true. There are strategies you should apply to make the maximum impact with your booth.

In the book, I share how you can make the most of your time at a conference, as well as pitfalls to avoid.

How to Get the Most from Exhibiting at Conferences is available exclusively on Amazon in paperback and Kindle.

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IL Supreme Court: Affiliate Nexus Tax Law is Unconstitutional

October 18, 2013 by Shawn Collins

The Illinois Supreme Court has upheld a circuit court ruling that the IL Affiliate Nexus Tax law is unconstitutional.

Give me a high five!Great news – another win in Illinois.

The PMA are waiting for more information from their legal team regarding the next steps.

You can read a summary of Performance Marketing Ass’n v. Hamer, 2013 IL 114496, as well as the full opinion.

Kudos to all the members of the PMA, as well as everybody who contributed to the Performance Marketing Fairness fund.

Stay tuned for updates.

Performance Marketing Association blog: PMA Illinois Lawsuit Victory Upheld!

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