This was a conference session titled How to Build & Monetize Your Brand Using Social Media at Affiliate Summit East 2017, which took place July 30 – August 1, 2017, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.

Session speaker:

• Jeremie Rykner, CEO, RyknerMedia

Session description:
Learn how to build your personal/company brand by using social media, grow your audience and monetize it through Facebook, Instagram and Youtube using the latest 2017 growth hacks.

Experience Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: Affiliate/Publisher
Niche/Vertical: Social Media

Slides: How to Build & Monetize Your Brand Using Social Media

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This was a conference session titled Morning Routines, Mindfulness, and Making Money at Affiliate Summit East 2017, which took place July 30 – August 1, 2017, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.

Session speaker:

• Mike Buechele, Advisor, Adalytical

Session description:
I’ll show how a morning routine creates a platform for a productive day, how mindfulness can help you make better decisions, how motivation is BS and what really works, and resources to help.

Experience Level: Beginner
Target Audience: Affiliate/Publisher
Niche/Vertical: Strategy

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This was a conference session titled Social Media: What’s Working and What’s Not at Affiliate Summit East 2017, which took place July 30 – August 1, 2017, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.

Session speaker:

• Michelle Held, President, Owner, MetroNY, LLC

Session description:
Find out what kind of content is getting the most reach and engagement. Audit your strategy to get more out of your content.

Experience Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: Affiliate/Publisher
Niche/Vertical: Marketing

Slides: Social Media: What’s Working and What’s Not

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This was a conference session titled Your Site’s Code is Hindering Your Success. Let’s Fix it! at Affiliate Summit East 2017, which took place July 30 – August 1, 2017, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.

Session speaker:

• Stoney DeGeyter, President, CEO, Pole Position Marketing

Session description:
Website architecture issues lurking behind the scenes can make your website virtually invisible to search engines. Learn what the biggest roadblocks are and how to eradicate them for big online wins.

Experience Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: Affiliate/Publisher
Niche/Vertical: SEO

Slides: Your Site’s Code is Hindering Your Success. Let’s Fix it!

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This was a conference session titled Building a $120K Website With Lean Methodology and 80 Bucks at Affiliate Summit East 2017, which took place July 30 – August 1, 2017, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.

Session speaker:

• Ofir Beigel, CEO, 99 Coins ltd

Session description:
In this session you will learn how to use lean methodology for affiliate marketing campaigns; how to find your industry loophole; and why you should expand what already works.

Experience Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: Affiliate/Publisher
Niche/Vertical: Focus

Slides: Building a $120K Website With Lean Methodology and 80 Bucks

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This was a conference session titled Commission Splitting: To Split or Not to Split? at Affiliate Summit East 2017, which took place July 30 – August 1, 2017, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.

Session speaker:

Todd Crawford, VP, Impact Radius

Session Description:

Advertisers often wonder if they should consider implementing commission splitting. Todd will detail the considerations and strategies for determining if you should compensate beyond last click.

• Experience Level: Advanced
• Target Audience: Merchant/Advertiser
• Niche/Vertical: Commissions

Slides: Commission Splitting: To Split or Not to Split?

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Over the years, we’ve sadly seen a number of Affiliate Summit attendees pass away, and each one is tough. But 2018 was especially hard, as we lost two guys who have been part of the Affiliate Summit family since the beginning: James Martell and Wayne Porter.

James and Wayne were friends, supporters, inspirations, speakers, and mentors in the early days of Affiliate Summit, which was especially vital as Missy Ward and I tried to figure out how Affiliate Summit could best serve the industry.

Hopefully you got to know either or both of these guys over the years, but for those who didn’t have the privilege, I’ll share a little about them…

James Martell taught tens of thousands of business owners how to effectively market their businesses online through his books, courses, live trainings, webinars, podcasts, and speaking engagements.

He was a true Internet pioneer, thought leader, and influencer with the proven know-how to bring success online.

James had more than twenty years of online business experience, and found success in online marketing, blogging, podcasting, coaching, outsourcing, and video creation. He authored several business books, and developed twelve popular marketing courses.

James authored of one of the first and best-selling eBooks on affiliate marketing, and was a host of the longest running affiliate marketing podcast, starting in 2003, with listeners in more than one hundred countries.

Wayne Porter was one of the formative figures in affiliate marketing. Back in 2002, when the affiliate networks in the U.S were particularly adversarial, Wayne managed to bring them all together in NYC, along with a number of affiliates and merchants, to try and hash out a common policy for dealing with adware.

It was a groundbreaking event that got the decision makers in affiliate marketing talking about working together for the common good for the first time.

Wayne created an early industry resource, AffiliateHelp.com, and he was also a founder of ReveNews. Wayne was on the Board of Directors for a group called Affiliate Union, which sought to create a certification for affiliate programs to protect affiliates.

He also co-authored a book called Affiliate Marketing 101 to help people break in as affiliates in those early days.

In 2006, we presented Wayne with the first ever Affiliate Marketing Legend Award at the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards.

But there aren’t really enough words to express who James and Wayne were and their impact. Just know that if you didn’t know them you missed out.

They were a hell of a couple guys and I will miss them.

This was a conference session titled SEO & Monetization – Live Reviews Session at Affiliate Summit East 2017, which took place July 30 – August 1, 2017, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.

Session speakers:

• Adam Riemer, President, Adam Riemer Marketing, LLC
• Brian LaFrance, Lead SEO Analyst, CBS Interactive
• Carolyn Shelby, Director of SEO, Tronc, Inc
• Scott Polk, CEO, Scott Polk

Session description:

Discover what it takes to create and build a successful and profitable blog, brand and business on the internet today. Learn from four seven-figure bloggers in this Q&A panel that won’t disappoint.

• Experience Level: Beginner
• Target Audience: Merchant/Advertiser
• Niche/Vertical: SEO

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This was a conference session titled 7-Figure Blogging: You Ask, We Answer! at Affiliate Summit East 2017, which took place July 30 – August 1, 2017, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.

Session speakers:

• John Chow, Titles Are For Wimps, John Chow dot Com
• John Rampton, CEO, Due.com
• Syed Balkhi, Founder, WPBeginner
• Zac Johnson, CEO, MoneyReign Inc.

Session description:

Four of the industry’s most well-known and successful bloggers and online marketers come together to share their expertise, insight, & knowledge on how to build a successful business through blogging.

• Experience Level: Intermediate
• Target Audience: Blogger
• Niche/Vertical: Monetization

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This was a conference session titled 7 Deadly Sins of Digital Marketing at Affiliate Summit East 2017, which took place July 30 – August 1, 2017, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.

Session speaker:

• Jay Berkowitz, Founder/CEO, Ten Golden Rules

Session description:
Covering the 7 deadly sins of digital marketing, including 4 factors of failed campaigns, set your strategies up for success, avoiding media meltdowns, and a hi-speed learning curve.

• Experience Level: Beginner
• Target Audience: Affiliate/Publisher
• Niche/Vertical: Advertising

Slides: 7 Deadly Sins of Digital Marketing

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