Affiliate Summit East 2009 : Free Pass

Affiliate Summit is an exciting event to participate.  Socializing with fellow affiliate marketers and ad network representatives would give a greater understanding of the current affiliate marketing scenario.

Affiliate Summit East 2009, the premier affiliate marketing conference, is taking place August 9-11, 2009 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.

As expected, all passes have been sold out much before the event day!

Although the tickets are sold out, you have alternate ways to get in & the best part is that it’s free!

Free passes are available for bloggers who wish to cover the event. If you are a blogger and wish to check out the event, dive in and get your press pass to attend the event – before they run out of passes!

Affiliate Summit East 2008 : My Final Day

This is a great day for me to be remembered in my life!

My first experience of the Affiliate Summit has reached the final day. Lot of things have happened in the past three days. I live in Chennai – INDIA – and have traveled approximately 8200 miles to attend this event!

I just rethink on what I have in store to take home…

• 20+ Precious new friends in the affiliate marketing arena
• 10+ Contacts with experts with whom I could refer & get more info
• Experience of face-to-face meetings with my Affiliate Managers at the networks
• Information and contacts with networks to make new business
• Abundance of knowledge gained from educational sessions
• Priceless ideas that have popped out in my mind like idea bulbs
• Knowledge of the latest trends in the affiliate marketing industry

What more can I ask for from my first Affiliate Summit!

I need to thank Shawn Collins, Missy Ward, Amy Rodrigues, Teressa Caldwell, Kim Rodgers, Ian Fernando, Emily Bouton, Greg Gillman, Jason Gill and all my new found friends for making my experience a great one at the Affiliate Summit.

More on the sessions of the final day…

Web 2.0 for Affiliates – By Ernie St. Gelais, Co-founder of LinkConnector

In this presentation, Ernie clearly classified the difference between – Web 1.0 & Web2.0 – and also provided clear examples to understand the difference. A simple explanation would be that – a static site is Web 1.0 & an interactive site is Web 2.0. He explained the utilization effects of Yahoo Pipes and sure, it is a great tool to organize your feeds and you can do a lot more.

Twitter, Pownce, Tumblr, FacebookApps & WidgetBox are all considered as the hot tools/services in the Web 2.0 environment that can be utilized to generate traffic. And the rule of thumb in the game of Web 2.0 is to think of ideas to generate traffic by providing what the web community likes and then, try to monetize the traffic you have on hand.

My next session – Lead Generation for eMarketers – a panel discussion

This session brought out the new ways that are being tested by advertisers to generate leads and the compliance required in email marketing in today’s scenario.

• Click to Call – It’s the next level in online lead generation process. By this method, advertisers are able to get quality leads because they have a system to rinse off all the accidental clickers & get to speak only to the qualified leads that cross their IVR system. The advantage is that the lead is being taken one step closer to conversion. There is an advantage to affiliate marketers too…. the advertiser pays upto $60 a lead!
• Mobile Ads – SMS Ads is a great way to reach a target audience since it is a service used by everyone in a day to day life. Creating mobile content that may be useful is a key factor and you can monetize them with SMS Ads that can be a Click to Call too!
• Email Marketing – According to the statistics provided by John, 59% of all advertising inventory is next to your ‘INBOX’. This shows that email marketing converts well – but compliance is a big issue in email marketing that you should address immediately to be on the right side of the game.

In an overall perspective, I had a lot of new information on this final day of affiliate summit east 2008. My next homework would be to list out all the tips, ideas and informations I have learn’t from this event and take a day to test all of them before it gets out of my memory.

I urge everyone who have attended the event, to sum up all that you have learn’t and try them in practice – because the key to success rests in applying what you have learn’t into your own business!

Affiliate Summit East 2008 : My First Event

I am really excited about my first event!

Affiliate Summit is a must go event for affiliates and it would be a great opportunity to network with lot of big names in the affiliate industry.

This event will bring in many first’s for me.

1. First time to An Affiliate Event
2. First time to Affiliate Summit
3. First time to meet Affiliate Marketers in person
4. First time to meet Affiliate Network Managers in person
5. First time to the United States.

As days nearby, I feel the anxiety and curiosity of a student entering his college for the first time. I am sure that this conference would bring out answers to my information quest on affiliate marketing.

And an excitement bonus for me – am visiting Paris for 4 days, enroute!

There’s a bonus for my readers too!! I have decided to share my thoughts and ideas on the new techniques and rich informations I would be getting out of this event. So, drop in often & catch up with the latest developments in the affiliate marketing industry.

Looking forward to the exciting time ahead!