Archives for August 2014

Affiliate Summit West 2015 is taking place January 18-20, 2015 at Paris Las Vegas in Las Vegas, NV. A block of rooms have been reserved over the nights of January 15-21, 2014.

We are offering two special group rates at the Paris Las Vegas:

• $165 per night for Luxury Rooms with 1 King Bed or 2 Queen Beds (plus tax & service / single or double occupancy)
• $179 per night for Red Room Luxury with 1 King Bed (plus tax & service / single or double occupancy)

The Affiliate Summit room rate will be available through December 15, 2014, or until the group block is sold-out, whichever comes first.

Please be sure to register for Affiliate Summit before booking your hotel. We have a limited number of rooms, and when they fill up, anybody not registered for Affiliate Summit is subject to losing the discounted rate.

To book your reservation at Paris Las Vegas, secure your room online, or call 877-603-4389 and ask for the Affiliate Summit rate and provide Group Code SPASI5.

More information on the Affiliate Summit West 2015 travel page.

Affiliate Summit East 2014 was our largest Affiliate Summit East event to date, with over 4,000 attendees representing approximately 2,000 companies, over August 10-12, 2014 in New York City.

There were dozens of educational sessions during the conference, so nobody is able to check in on every one of them.

The good news there is that if your registration included access to the session videos, they will be available shortly. Otherwise, you can purchase a virtual pass for the videos.

So anyway, we count the number of people in the audience for each session at the start and middle of the session. Presumably, some people join sessions already underway due to a buzz on social media and other word of mouth.

We’ve compiled a list of the top 10 sessions at Affiliate Summit East 2014, based on the number of people who joined in the audience between the start and midpoint of the session.

See the Affiliate Summit East 2014 agenda for details on each session.

1. 5 Foundational Pillars of Affiliate Program’s Success
2. Live Affiliate Program Reviews – 2 Managers, 2 Affiliates
3. How to Become a Digital Marketing and Social Media Expert
4. How to Build a Successful Blog
5. Content-Driven Commerce: Affiliate Marketing Gets a Makeover
6. 21 Advanced Paid Search Tips You Can Implement Today
7. Rethinking Today’s Hot Issues Affecting Affiliate Programs
8. Link Building Reboot -Hot Strategies for More Traffic
9. The Secrets of Slickdeals Revealed 
10. SEO, Link Building, Authorship, & Surviving Google Updates

We look forward to seeing you at Paris Las Vegas for Affiliate Summit West 2015 on January 18-20, 2015.

Affiliate Summit East 2014 was our largest Affiliate Summit East event to date, with over 4,000 attendees representing approximately 2,000 companies, over August 10-12, 2014 in New York City.

There were dozens of educational sessions during the conference, so nobody is able to check in on every one of them.

The good news there is that if your registration included access to the session videos, they will be available shortly. Otherwise, you can purchase a virtual pass for the videos.

Anyhow, we count the number of people in the audience for each session at the start and middle of the session. We’ve compiled a list of the top 10 sessions at Affiliate Summit East 2014, based on the number of people in the audience at the midpoint of the session.

See the Affiliate Summit East 2014 agenda for details on each session.

1. The Super Affiliate Toolkit for WordPress
2. Surviving the SEO Evolution 
3. 5 Foundational Pillars of Affiliate Program’s Success
4. Blueprint to Hit 7 Figures in 12 Months on Facebook 
5. 21 Advanced Paid Search Tips You Can Implement Today
6. Monetizing Your Site- Missed Opportunites & Live Reviews
7. How to Become a Digital Marketing and Social Media Expert
8. How to Leverage Facebook Advertising to Grow Your Business
9. Live Affiliate Program Reviews – 2 Managers, 2 Affiliates
10. Generate a Content Strategy to Create Rabid Fans and Buyers

We look forward to seeing you at Paris Las Vegas for Affiliate Summit West 2015 on January 18-20, 2015.

Affiliate Summit East 2014 was our largest Affiliate Summit East event to date, with over 4,000 attendees representing approximately 2,000 companies, over August 10-12, 2014 in New York City.

There were dozens of educational sessions during the conference, so nobody is able to check in on every one of them.

The good news there is that if your registration included access to the session videos, they will be available shortly. Otherwise, you can purchase a virtual pass for the videos.

Anyhow, we ask every attendee to submit a brief survey at the end of each session. We’ve compiled a list of the top 10 sessions at Affiliate Summit East 2014, based on the ratings each session received.

See the Affiliate Summit East 2014 agenda for details on each session.

1. SEO, Link Building, Authorship, & Surviving Google Updates
2. SEO Website Reviews and Q&A
3. The Top 20 Legal Mistakes Affiliate Businesses Make
4. Getting the Most Out of Networking: Best Practices Revealed
5. Surviving the SEO Evolution 
6. Data – the Lifeblood of the Affiliate Marketing industry
7. Blurred Lines: Affiliate Marketing and Public Relations
8. Blueprint to Hit 7 Figures in 12 Months on Facebook 
9. The Super Affiliate Toolkit for WordPress
10. Live Affiliate Program Reviews – 2 Managers, 2 Affiliates

We look forward to seeing you at Paris Las Vegas for Affiliate Summit West 2015 on January 18-20, 2015.

Rich “Big Daddy” Salgado, Founder of Coastal Advisors, gave a keynote interview with Emcee Rachel Honoway at Affiliate Summit East 2014, which took place August 10-12, 2014 at the New York Marriott Marquis.

Rich has been in the insurance business for more than a decade, founding Coastal Advisors, in 1998, but he has seen and experienced more than ten times that to drive home his point to athletes: You need disability insurance now, because you never know what tomorrow will bring. As an example to all the athletes he works with, he tells his own personal story. In 2008, Rich complained of a painful earache while at dinner with Thomas Dimitroff, GM of the Atlanta Falcons, ESPN’s Adam Schefter and NFL VP Ray Anderson. Later that night, he checked into the hospital for emergency surgery for a brain aneurysm, which doctors were thankfully able to remove. He now has a 19-inch scar as a daily reminder that anything can happen to anyone, regardless of their amount of fame or the size of their paycheck.

Athletes of all ranks are getting smarter about disability and career ending insurance since Rich has gotten into to the ears of most GM’s, and many NFL, NHL, MLB draft picks and veterans. In the last five years alone, he has seen a huge increase in insuring college players in their senior year, a concrete example of the changing trends towards more informed players. In the last five years, he has insured more than 60 1st Round NFL picks for disability, career ending insurance, as well as life insurance and estate planning. Not to mention, the flip side of the coin, when Rich insures the teams and the contracts they offer the players. Everyone is smarter due to Rich’s hard work and unmatched networking skills.

While it seems accidents, injuries and deaths can be around every corner, Rich is trying to “one-up” fate, traveling more than half the year, attending more sporting events that you could dream of, and seemingly everywhere. An average day includes, texting Justin Tuck, Larry Fitzgerald, Reggie Bush and Michael Strahan, having pregame rituals with NFL owners like The Giants’ John Mara and traveling with Scott Gomez to name a few. There is a growing saying among NFL locker rooms that “when you get to NY, make sure you sit down with Big Daddy.” If you want to be protected, you need to talk to Coastal Advisors.

In the past five years, Rich has become a staple in the world of sports business media, becoming a regular on the FOX News and FOX Business Channels while also having his business covered in the pages of Sports Illustrated, Wall Street Journal and making appearances on ESPN, FOX Sports, NFL Network and Bloomberg News.

In addition to his tireless work ethic and constant networking, Rich has found the time to give back and support charities both within his hometown area of New York City and nationwide supporting his clients philanthropic efforts. Rich can be seen hosting his annual “Big Daddy Celebrity Golf Classic” every June in Long Island to support The North Shore LIJ Health System which he credits with saving his life in 2008 and supporting Justin Tuck’s R.U.S.H. for Literacy and The Health & Humanitarian Aid Foundation.

More details on Affiliate Summit at AffiliateSummit.com.

Video: Rich “Big Daddy” Salgado Keynote at Affiliate Summit East 2014

Rachel Honoway, CEO of For Me To Coupon, opened the Affiliate Summit East 2014 conference as Emcee and presided over elevator pitches from the attendees.

Affiliate Summit East 2014 took place August 10-12, 2014 at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York, NY.

In this session, conference attendees were encouraged to step up on stage to let the crowd know what they were looking for (leads, affiliates, certain types of affiliate program).

This opportunity was open to any attendees, and we will be featuring it again at Affiliate Summit West 2015 (January 18-20, 2015 in Las Vegas).

Start working on your elevator pitch.

Have a look at the video to see if there is somebody who gave their pitch that could be a good contact for you. A lot of them shared their contact information, as well as their name and company.

Video: Elevator Pitches at Affiliate Summit East 2014