This is an opportunity for affiliates to discover the affiliate programs available to them.
Attendees with a badge type of Advertiser, Affiliate Management, OPM/Agency or Network will have a chance to claim one roundtable and camp out at it. There will be limited tables, so it’s first come, first serve.
After claiming a table, Advertiser, Affiliate Management, OPM/Agency or Network attendees can put out business cards, pamphlets, etc.
The Affiliate Program Showcase will run 10:00 am – 12:00 pm on Sunday, January 18, 2015 in Paris Ballroom – Vendome A.
We’ve gone through the feedback from Affiliate Summit East 2015, and the most popular city (again) was NYC. Affiliate Summit East 2016 will be July 31 – August 2, 2016.
We’re going to be back at the New York Marriott Marquis for Affiliate Summit East 2016. We read through all of the feedback from this past August, and the New York Marriott Marquis got high marks.
More details to come shortly.
Hotel rooms at the special Affiliate Summit group rate will be available soon to book at the New York Marriott Marquis.
See the history of Affiliate Summit for the history of the premier affiliate marketing conference.
Vote for Affiliate Summit West 2016 Sessions
Affiliate Summit needs your help to pick sessions for Affiliate Summit West 2016. Voting will be open through September 18, 2015.
The speaker proposals have been pared down to the titles, speakers, descriptions, and classifications (experience level, target audience, and main subject).
Vote for submissions you’d like to see at Affiliate Summit West 2016 by clicking the “Vote” button next to the proposed session. You may vote for as many sessions as you’d like. Sometimes there are glitches with certain browsers, devices, etc. Sorry if you experience any difficulties.
You can find sessions that interest you by sorting the Experience Level, Niche/Vertical, or Target Audience from the header, as well as using the search box.
Also, you can see a tally of the most popular sessions.
Create an account now and start voting if you are attending Affiliate Summit West 2016. If you voted on this site previously, your account should still work fine.
You must register to vote for sessions and then submit a user name and email. A password will be emailed to you.
If you don’t see it right away, check your spam folder for an email with the subject, “[Vote for Affiliate Summit West 2016 Sessions] Your username and password”.
Speakers for Affiliate Summit will be chosen based on the combined votes from the public, votes from the Affiliate Summit Advisory Board, votes from Affiliate Summit founders Missy Ward and Shawn Collins, and feedback received on past speakers.
Vote now through September 18, 2015 at AffiliateSummitVoting.com!
Greg Gifford to Keynote Affiliate Summit West 2016
Greg Gifford, Director of Search and Social at DealerOn, will be a keynote speaker at Affiliate Summit West 2016 on Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at Paris Las Vegas in Las Vegas, NV.
Greg Gifford is the Director of Search and Social at DealerOn, a software company that provides websites and online marketing to new car dealers all over the country. He’s got over 16 years of online marketing and web design experience, and he speaks internationally at both automotive and SEO conferences, teaching thousands of small business owners and marketers how to get their sites to show up higher in local search rankings.
Greg also spends his time doing freelance website design and SEO for local businesses. He graduated from Southern Methodist University with a BA in Cinema and Communications, and has an obscure movie quote for just about any situation.
He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the DFWSEM, an organization dedicated to promoting search engine marketing through best practices.
I saw Greg give a presentation on local SEO at the AUSOME (Austin Online Marketing for Entrepreneurs) meetup earlier this year, and he delivered great information in a fun format.
Be sure to add this keynote to your schedule at Affiliate Summit West 2016 for some top notch learning and entertainment.
Do Affiliates Have an Advocate?
Q: Do affiliates have an advocate? I feel that advertisers and networks egregiously take advantage of publishers and I want to know if we have any recourse.
A: I guess in days past in affiliate marketing the promise of the networks was to be an impartial middleman if there were any disputes between affiliates and merchants.
But I guess, in your experience, the networks and merchants have colluded against you? If that’s the case, it’s certainly a shame.
How about turning to the Performance Marketing Association (PMA) to see if they could advocate on your behalf?
According to the PMA site…
“The PMA’s mission is to champion and protect accountable performance marketing. Our main goals are:
- To promote the growth of the industry,
- Help model standards and best-practices and
- Advocate on behalf of the businesses that comprise the performance marketing industry”
I think it would be worth the effort to go to the PMA to see if there is some way they could help you.
Ask Shawn Collins your affiliate marketing question and it will be added on the affiliate blog.
What is the Best Way to Promote the WP Engine Hosting Affiliate Program?
I was chatting with the WP Engine team at Affiliate Summit East 2015 a few weeks ago, and I was excited to be hear that they are paying a minimum of $200 per referral.
In addition to their high commission rate, WP Engine also has a nice setup for bonuses that starts at five referrals per month.
But now I have to figure out how to drive that qualified traffic. I’ve never been much of a PPC affiliate, and I don’t plan to start. Growing a social media presence related to hosting could be a long grind.
I am thinking the call is to make tutorials, either video or with screenshots and text, that take newbies through the process of signing up and setting up a WP Engine account.
I’ve got lots of sites hosted over there, so tutorials wouldn’t be too tough.
Stay tuned.
Meet Market is Sold Out for Affiliate Summit West 2016
The Meet Market for Affiliate Summit West 2016 has sold out. Affiliate Summit West 2016 is taking place January 10-12, 2016 at Paris Las Vegas in Las Vegas, NV.
Most of the booths in the exhibit hall are gone, too. There are still a limited number of other sponsorships available for Affiliate Summit West 2016.
If you’re not familiar with the Meet Market, it is an extended session of structured, face to face networking on the Sunday of Affiliate Summit.
Affiliate programs and networks have tables set to meet with affiliates to discuss their offers and cut deals. Vendors that cater to affiliates and merchants will also have tables to share information about their products and services.
Each table is a meeting spot for teaching, learning, closing deals, creating partnerships, and finding new opportunities.
Get on the Affiliate Summit West 2016 Meet Market Waitlist.
Don’t Forget to Submit Your Affiliate Summit West 2016 Speaking Proposal
Speaking proposals for Affiliate Summit West 2016, taking place January 10-12, 2016 in Las Vegas, are currently being accepted.
The submission deadline is Friday, September 4, 2015.
One complimentary VIP pass is provided to speakers. Travel and hotel are not included. There is a limit of one person per company on the speaker roster. No exceptions.
How are speaker submissions selected?
The speaker submissions are chosen based on the following:
- Public voting scores and comments.
- Voting scores and comments by the Affiliate Summit Advisory Board.
- Voting scores by Affiliate Summit founders Missy Ward and Shawn Collins.
- Past session feedback if you previously spoke at an Affiliate Summit.
- Meeting speaker deadlines if you previously spoke at an Affiliate Summit.
What topics are preferred?
Submit a proposal based on your expertise, not what you think we want to see.
Proposals should be of an advanced nature. We are not interested in introductory material. Also, it must be original material – don’t propose a session you’ve already given at Affiliate Summit or somewhere else.
Submit your speaking proposal for Affiliate Summit West 2016.
Meet Market and Exhibit Hall Sell Out for Affiliate Summit West 2016
The Meet Market and Exhibit Hall are just about sold out for Affiliate Summit West 2016, which is taking place January 10-12, 2016 at Paris Las Vegas in Las Vegas, NV.
The Affiliate Summit West 2016 Meet Market is open on Sunday, January 10, and the Exhibit Hall will be open on Monday, January 11 and Tuesday, January 12.
The Meet Market is nearly 90% sold out, and there are approximately 20% of the booths in the exhibit hall remaining.
Book a Meet Market table or booth in the Exhibit Hall before they are all gone.
Do I Know Anybody Who Hates Breast Cancer?
I will be doing the Avon 39 – The Walk to End Breast Cancer for the third time on October 17-18 in NYC. The Avon 39 is a 39.3 mile fundraising walk.
I hope that I can count on your support – I would be grateful for anything you could spare.
Our team will be walking up and down and all around Manhattan over the two days – we’ll pass through the Upper West and East Sides, Greenwich Village, SoHo, and Chinatown, as well as crossing into Brooklyn over the Brooklyn Bridge and then back across the Manhattan Bridge.
The money I raise will be managed and disbursed by the Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Crusade to help provide access to care for those who most need it, fund educational programs, and accelerate research into new treatments and potential cures.
I’ll be just one of thousands of people who will walk up 39.3 miles over two days, and I can’t do it without your help.
Please help me fight breast cancer.
If you’re interested in doing the walk, please contact me with any questions. While you might get some blisters and other various conditions that come with pushing yourself like that, it’s an amazing, inspirational time.
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