Shawn Collins' Blog

Affiliate marketing and other stuff from Shawn Collins, co-founder of Affiliate Summit.

  • Home
  • About Shawn
  • Contact
  • Learn Affiliate Marketing
  • Disclosure
  • Archives

Just Because It’s Called Affiliate Summit Doesn’t Mean It’s Affiliate Summit

April 2, 2014 by Shawn Collins

Missy Ward and I created Affiliate Summit from scratch back in 2003, and have constantly evolved the company to do our best to make it the most productive and fun conference that it can be for the attendees.

affiliate-summit-logoSo, it’s more than a little frustrating when I see a constant stream of domains registered in various countries with the Affiliate Summit name in them.

The latest, lazy, unimaginative hacks claim there is nothing wrong, because our brand is a generic name.

A while back, we seemed to have made a good case to the United States Patent and Trademark Office to the contrary, because they granted us a trademark.

But that doesn’t matter much across borders. Apparently, honor and integrity don’t matter, either.

In addition to the shameless folks that try to ride on the brand we built, there are those conferences that don’t rip off our brand, but they lift entire paragraphs and pages of our copy.

As many past attendees and speakers of Affiliate Summit know, there is a new event purporting to be an Affiliate Summit that has been soliciting them for them past week.

Just to be clear, we’ve got nothing to do with these people.

Hopefully, there is no confusion with the real Affiliate Summit and these clones, because we work very hard to deliver on the Affiliate Summit experience.

Just because others take a shortcut and copy our name and/or marketing collateral, that doesn’t mean they have eleven years of history serving the industry that we eat, sleep and breathe.

So, if you don’t see it on our homepage, it’s not us.

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Reddit

Related

Filed Under: Affiliate Resources

Shawn includes advertising links in some posts - these do not influence the content, and they promote products and services he uses.

Social

  • View shawncollins’s profile on Facebook
  • View shawncollins’s profile on Twitter
  • View shawncollinsatx’s profile on Instagram
  • View affiliatetip’s profile on Pinterest
  • View shawncollins’s profile on LinkedIn
  • View affiliatetip’s profile on YouTube

Blogroll

  • Affiliate Manager
  • Austin FC
  • Austin, TX Airbnb
  • Bose Hearing Aids
  • Extra Money Answer
  • Movies That Affected My Life
  • This is Affiliate Marketing

Return to top of page

Copyright © · Shawn Collins Consulting ·

 

Loading Comments...