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Affiliate Summit East 2010

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I went to Affiliate Summit West 2009 and loved it, so it was time to go again. I scored a pass from John Chow, but quickly realized I had an extra, so I ended up giving it to a buddy of mine who doesn’t even own a computer. I was apprehensive, but I knew everyone was nice and would accept him even though he’s a techno-turtle.

Friday

As many of you know, I live in Vermont, so the Hilton in NYC is about a 5.5 hour drive. I left with Charles from Perfectly Grand because I convinced him to go and check out this “affiliate thing”. We left Vermont around 2PM and ended up reaching New York City around 7:30.

Saturday

The Audience Conference was amazing. The small feel of the whole thing made it really easy to approach the big kids in the industry and start a conversation. Talking with people like Jason Calacanis or Chris Brogan was really great. It’s an awesome feeling when Jason can pick me out of a group and ask what I do. Brogan did a great speech. I think he was funnier than some of the comedians. Great job Chris. We all really owe Loren Feldman a standing ovation.

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Series: 7 Weeks to a Successful Blog: Week 6

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Get attention and be successful.

I recently read Jim Kukral’s book ‘Attention: This Book Will Make You Money‘ and loved it. I gave away a copy of the book to a reader yesterday. He really sums up what a lot of other people say about websites in a different way. Most other people discuss how traffic is the driving source behind revenue on a website and they’re totally correct. Some people say that in order to drive traffic, content is king and marketing is the queen (I actually think that was Gary Vaynerchuk, but I’m not sure). What it really comes down to is attention. If you want attention, build a good product. If you don’t have a product (or a good product), you can make up for that and get attention by doing something out of the ordinary or outrageous. Just don’t go after negative attention.

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Series: 7 Weeks to a Successful Blog: Week 5

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Stay focused and have a backup plan.

During the last three weeks, I’ve been going to trade shows, getting sick, and having family issues. On top of all of that, I started two additional business ventures, and started dumping more time into an existing one I was already working on that. Needless to say, my time has been limited and I’ve been slacking on posting to my case study blog, as well as this one.

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Affiliate Summit East 2010

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Affiliate Summit East 2010 is coming up and you need to be there if you’re an affiliate of any kind.  Actually that’s not true.  You need to be there if you’re at all interested in the internet – especially if you like to make money; be it consulting, affiliate stuff, or anything else.  Being around so many tech savvy people really motivates geeks.  It’s like a big nuclear explosion of geek.

It’s in New York City from August 15th through the 17th at the Hilton Conference Center.  If you need directions or to register, check out their website – it’s pretty informative.

I am bringing two merchant customers of mine and hoping to meet up with some key players I haven’t seen in a little while.  I wasn’t able to make it to the last two, because of scheduling issues, but I went to Affiliate Summit West 2009 and it was a blast, and I came back with so many ideas, I could barely contain myself.

Affiliate Summit is at the Hilton in New York City, August 15th - 17th 2010

Why am I bringing this up?  Early bird pricing ends on April 30th, and I wanted to make sure that everyone knew about the event in time to get the cheapest possible pricing.  In my opinion, nothing less than a Platinum pass is acceptable.  You want to be able to go to all of the sessions if you’ve never been there before.  A silver pass will suffice if you’re just going for the parties.

This is a great event for merchants to break into the affiliate arena.  This is where I bring my merchants to teach them how the ropes work.  It’s also great for affiliates of any level.  You’ll be able to find people there of equal or greater skill than you, and I promise you’ll learn something.

Check them out:

www.affiliatesummit.com

If you’re having sticker shock about the price for passes (Platinum is almost $900), don’t forget to enter contests and things for them.  I got 2 silvers and a platinum last year, and I already had my own passes bought.

Been to Affiliate Summit?  Tell me about it in the comments?  Have questions about it?  Let me know in the comments.  Need a guide when you’re there?  I’ll be there and I can give you some pointers.  Hit me up.

Affiliate Summit West 2009 Pictures (Part 2)

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Ok everyone, here is part three of the pictures.  They’re somewhat out of order from the other posts.  Imagine that they go between the two sets.  These are from the “missing” memory card that my wife had!

Affiliate Summit West 2009 Pictures (Part 1)

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Ok everyone, I misplaced a memory card and I’m waiting for some pictures from others, but I have some pretty good pictures from Tuesday night.  When I find the other memory card and get the other pictures, I’ll post a final gallery.

Affiliate Summit: On Location (Pre-Conference)

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So Affiliate Summit hasn’t officially started yet, but check out some of the cool things Michelle and I have been up to – mostly pics.  I’ll be adding captions later, but I need to hurry up and get down to registration.

Affiliate Summit West 2009 – Here I come.

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affiliate-summitHey Everyone,

I’m laid over in Manchester, New Hampshire right now killing some time writing up the intro post.  I’m headed to Affiliate Summit West 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.  I’m going with my lovely wife, Michelle, and we’re going to have a friggin awesome time.  We’ve both got Platinum Passes to the conference, which means that we pretty much have access to everything except the really exclusive VIP parties.

We’re also planning on checking out CES (Consumer Electronics Show for those of you that live under a rock) when we get there.  We should get there around 8:00PM tonight, and we’ll probably jump right into some gambling.  I’ve set up some meetings with people – details to come later.

I’ve been checking out some of the other ASW arrival posts, like Shoemoney and Robb Cheuvront.  I hope to see you guys there!

More information to come.  If you’re going to be at ASW or are already there, please leave comments and I’ll buy you a drink sometime when we’re there.

I’m going to Affiliate Summit West 2009.

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Thanks Shoe

I just picked up some passes for Affiliate Summit West 2009 in Las Vegas courtesy of Shoemoney.  Thanks Shoe, I appreciate it.  I hope to see you there.  I’ll buy you a drink or two if I see you.

Background and Information

affiliate-summitAffiliate Summit is a great affordable conference for people just coming into affiliate marketing, because there is such a low barrier to entry (cost).  Overall the conference gets pretty good reviews, although I hear that after a while, you get used to – or tired of – listening to the same sessions all the time.  I’m looking at the session schedule and couldn’t imagine being able to visit the entire show floor as well as every session in just one visit.  I’ll try though.  It looks like there will be upwards of 3,000 people attending and a ton of exhibitors.

What am I getting from this?

I think there are three major things I’m going for:

  1. I need something that resembles a vacation, and I think this is it.  This is a good way to expense some R&R to the company.
  2. I’d love the chance to meet some of the major players in the industry and do some networking.
  3. I know I have a lot to learn, and I think this will give me a barometer as to how much.

The Cost vs. Return

This is my first big conference, so I’m pretty excited.  I booked my flight and room and the Rio for just over $1200 with my travel agent.  I’ll be there from the 9th until the 13th.  If I didn’t win them, conference passes would have cost $700 more than that.  I would imagine that I will spend at least $1000 additional to that while I’m there.  On top of all of that, I will be missing 4 work days, with reduced productivity at best, reducing my normal income.

All in all, adjusted for R&R, I think I need to probably get a return of about $3,000 to break even, and we all know business isn’t about breaking even.  I think I can do it pretty easily.

I plan to cover the event and give updates every night (or maybe the morning after).  I’ll see you there!