Posts Tagged ‘Affiliate Summit West’

Save 10 percent on Affiliate Summit registration

Oct 14, 2008 Affiliate Summit West

I’m really excited to be able to offer a nice incentive to my blog followers to attend Affiliate Summit West in January in Las Vegas.   I highly recommend this event for a couple of reasons: sessions and networking.

In the sessions you can learn from some of the top folks in the industry on a variety of topics in the industry.   The most important aspect of attending Affiliate Summit West (or any live event) is networking face to face with real live people.  In an industry where most business is done by email, chat or phone, it’s nice to be able to connect live with folks you may have  been following from afar for a long time.

There’s one more great reason to go - The 3rd Annual Affiliate Summit Gospel Brunch at the House of Blues - this is the ultimate affiliate industry networking event for believers.  It features awesome food, off the hook networking, and a stage show that will have you on your feet and singing along.  It’s a great way to kick off Affiliate Summit on a spiritual high note.  More info to come.

Shawn and Missy (the show organizers) are great folks and friends who have been generous to give me a coupon code for followers of the CAM Blog - you can save 10% on any registration level by entering “CAM10WEST” as the coupon code during checkout.   Please use one of the links on this page to click through as the affiliate commissions will support the CAM Blog.

Register now for Affiliate Summit West and Save 10%

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Online Marketing Through Consumer’s Eyes from Affiliate Summit West 2008

Jul 3, 2008 Affiliate Summit West, Tips for Affiliates, Uncategorized

At Affiliate Summit West in February, I had the chance to sit down with Geno Prussakov, the owner of AMNavigator, an outsourced program management service, and author to chat on his new book “Online Marketing Through Consumer’s Eyes” that he has just released the day before.

Geno is also the guy behind “A Practical Guide to Affiliate Marketing” that I really enjoyed as well.

Geno and I spent some time together (thanks to oneNetwork Direct for supplying the hospitality suite where we did the interview) and chatted about the new book. We talked about how the idea came to be (his lovely wife inspired it) how his data was collected (over 2700 respondants returned surveys and average Joe’s and Jane’s were interviewed) and some of the findings in the book that he considered to be key. He also talks about 5 of the key findings that he thinks are compelling to affiliate marketers. One of my favorites deals with an issue that has been debated between affiliates, merchants and affiliate managers over the ages regarding the commission leaking potential of toll free customer services numbers posted on ecommerce sites.

87% of the survey respondents reported that they would complete their order through a shopping cart on a site even if a toll free number to call and order was provided

The book is a series of graphs and explanations of findings that are presented in super practical and easy to understand form. I was able to blast through the book in the first day of Affiliate Summit in my down time and I found it really useful. I agree with Geno in that this book would be a good read and desk top resource for anyone involved in ecommerce - from merchant to affiliate to consultant.

User experience is often overlooked and is critical to successful affiliate marketing and ecommerce.

You can pick up a copy today at Amazon.

NOTE: This is a video interview from the vaults of ChristianAffiliateMarketers.com. Because of the file size, it took me forever to get it live and I am sorry - it’s good stuff and I want to thank Geno for taking the time to chat with me.   He’s a good guy, a friend and a brother in Christ.

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Affiliate Summit West- Interview with Joel Comm part 1

Mar 14, 2008 Affiliate Summit West

Due to illness, I missed a lot of the action at Affiliate Summit West including a lot of my beloved CAMA Gospel Brunch at the House of Blues.

As the Summit wrapped up on Tuesday, I got the chance to sit down with Joel Comm of the The Next Internet Millionaire and Secret Classroom fame (not to mention a really awesome course on monetizing your site with Google Adsense) and get his feedback on the Brunch and on Christian events at industry events in general.

We also chatted about the Secret Classroom and TextCastLive, a really interesting new mobile phone marketing platform project he is involved in. Those videos to come.

God Bless,

Wade

(this post contains affiliate links)

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Colin McDougall at Affiliate Summit West 2008

Mar 13, 2008 Affiliate Summit West

I had the chance to sit down and chat with a friend and Christian brother Colin McDougall at Affiliate Summit about his new project Constant Conversation. It’s s system that he claims that anyone can use to leverage the social networks to get quick and effective natural search rankings for their online projects. Colin is offering a free PDF download that covers the info and techniques you need to know to get started. He’s also offering access to his full body of content on how to take charge of the Conversation and leverage it for your business in his “Fly on the Wall Club”

As a perk for my blog readers, I’ll kick back 10% of the purchase price for any business you do with Colin if you purchase through the link below.

Get your Free Constant Conversation Report 

God Bless,

Wade

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Affiliate Summit Recovery Mode

Feb 28, 2008 Affiliate Summit West

Hi,

I have so much to blog on here in the next couple of days with a wealth of video and insights gained from Affiliate Summit. I have to say that from what I was able to experience, this was probably the best Summit I have hit to date. The sheer scope of it (3000+ attendees) was awesome.

I was held back a bit because I came down with the flu and missed most of Sunday and Monday’s events and all of the parties.

I did runs into lots of great folks once again who were believers that I didn’t know about previously and got awesome feedback on the Gospel Brunch event.

Stay tuned for video featuring Joel Comm, Geno Prussakov and Colin McDougal as well as my own observations.

God Bless,

Wade Tonkin

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Live Blogging Affiliate Summit West: Arrival

Feb 22, 2008 Affiliate Summit West

Just got into Vegas and checked in at the pleasantly not-burnt-to-a-crisp Monte Carlo Hotel and Casino

Heading to the Rio here shortly for dinner with some other early arrivers and looking forward to seeing the “Family” again.

Armed with my trusty Flip Cam, I shot some video in my cab on the way here to talk about what I’ll be up to and blogging on tomorrow. It’s goign to be a busy day with the Affiliate Fit Club 7:00 am walk, the Affiliate Classroom Live affiliate manager training day, service at the SinglesofFaith.com Workday, and a couple of parties (ThePartnerMaker and BuyAt)

I’m also meeting Geno Prussakov to get a copy of his new book, which I’ll be interviewing him on later in the week.

It’s going to be a busy few days in Sin City… stick around!

God Bless,

Wade Tonkin

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CAM will be blogging live from Affiliate Summit

Feb 21, 2008 Affiliate Summit West

Have you always wondered just what all those affiliate guys do at Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas?   Well - you are in luck.  This year, I’ve been granted a press pass that will allow me to blog live from Affiliate Summit.   I have access to all of the instructional sessions and  speakers and will do my best to bring you a view into the personalities that make the affiliate business tick.

Do you have someone you’d like me to interview?  Send me a suggestion and I will do what I can to track them down and get your questions asked.  Feel free to send me suggested questions as well.

I’ll also have my Flip in hand at the networking events and parties, so you’ll have a view of that side of the event as well.

Keep your eyes on CAM for Affiliate Summit coverage.

God Bless,

Wade Tonkin

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What I am looking forward to at Affiliate Summit

Feb 20, 2008 Affiliate Summit West

wow… Affiliate Summit really snuck up on me this year. I’ve been so busy with planning the Gospel Brunch and working on building my new company, GTO Management and helping to ramp up the sales and marketing effort at ThePartnerMaker, I looked up today and realized it’s just over 48 hours until I board my flight for Vegas. So much cool stuff is happening… what am I looking forward to? Quite a few things.

The Affiliate Meet Market- for the first time in the 5 Summits I have attended, I’ll be working for myself. That is both awesome and a bit scary and I am totally looking forward to joining my partners Karen and Joel Garcia at the GTO Management table. I think we’ve done an awesome job of branding and I look forward to seeing how it comes off. Come and see us at Table 42 if you are there. We’re just a couple of tables away from the Shareasale Block, dead center aisle in the room.

The 2nd Annual CAMA Gospel Brunch at Affiliate Summit- A labor of love.. some on ABW might argue an obsession for me. I am really stoked to see this all come off for a couple of reasons. The event is a sellout again with 55 folks from all over the world (Singapore, South Africa, etc) joining together for food, fun, fellowship and amazing Gospel tunes. Selling out last year was easy… it was a free event after all. This year we really stepped it up in terms of organization and program with charter bus transportation to and from the event and a private reception for the attendees. This of course ramped up the price tag and this year, we sold out with prices for tickets ranging from $45-55 each. Wow… thanks to all who attended last time who shared their testimonials and helped let people know that the price is a steal for what you get attending. The other thing I am excited about is the launch of the “CAMA Certified” badge. We’ll be announcing a program where affiliates and merchants can have their sites, programs and or offers reviewed and certified by a board at CAMA.

This will let merchants know that an affiliate is safe to work with and will let affiliates know which “Christian” programs are “Faith and Family” friendly and Gospel promoting and help them make wise decisions on who to work with and attach their name and reputation to.

Thanks to the Gold Sponsors oneNetworkDirect.com, Andy Rodriguez Consulting, IBSDirect.com, and to Silver Sponsors GTO Management, Manna Marketing and the United Sharing Network

Meeting the folks who bought their Summit pass through my affiliate link - Honestly, I so appreciate this. It was amazing how many people came to sign up for Summit through this nlog that is just over a year old. If you bought through my link, drop me a note and I’ll buy you a coffee or something.

The SinglesofFaith.com Workday- Las Vegas is honestly starting to wear on me more as my faith develops. I used to be a big fan of the philosophy “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” and really enjoyed the Strip and all of glitzy Vegas. I’ve been to Vegas for various shows and a vacation now about 4 times in 18 months and I’m starting to see more there. When you get off the Strip you can see a lot of peopel who are hurting and struggling and need the love of God and other people. Mike from SinglesofFaith.com has organized a work party where members of the SinglesofFaith christian dating site and other local volunteers spend 4 hours on Saturday 2/23 sharing God’s love with people in need. If you are in town an interested, please contact Mike at mike@singlesoffaith.com I’ll be there an hope you will as well.

AffiliateClassroomLive Affiliate Manager Course - this full day course tought by some of the best in the business (almost all friends of mine) looks like an awesome kickoff to the Affiliate Classroom Affiliate Manager Certification. I’m going to sit in as a refresher after spending a lot of the last 3 years selling management services and to see if their online certification and training of affiliate managers is something I can get behind here. I am a firm proponent of the value of quality affiliate management in any affiliate venture.

ThePartnerMaker Kickoff Reception- I’ve been working with Jeff Molander and David Delisle on getting ThePartnerMaker off the ground and we’ve had some initial success, and we’re poised for much bigger and better things. To really kick off this product, we’re hosting an invite only reception on Saturday with some of the best and brightest in the Industry.

The Affiliate Bash - this years big party is being held at Tao and features entertainment by The Blue Man Group. I have always wanted to see these guys and getting a chance to do it at a club (Tao at the Venetian) that a chubby middle class guy from Sedro Woolley, WA might not otherwise be able to get into is a kick. It should be awesome.

More to come….

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