Biggie-Size Your Affiliate Summit East 2010 Pass

We’ve received a number of inquiries about whether passes to Affiliate Summit East 2010 can be upgraded. And the answer is yes.
The cost of upgrades is the difference in the price of your pass when you registered and the price of the higher level pass at the time of the upgrade.

There are four pass types: [...]

Call Me Anything, Just Don’t Call Me Late for Dinner

There’s been a lot of talk of late regarding a change in the affiliate marketing nomenclature; inclusive of the industry name itself.
Some argue that as our industry evolves, that the designation should take on a broader descriptive, e.g., “performance marketing industry”, in which affiliate marketing plays a vital role as a significant channel; yet one [...]

Affiliate Summit Donates $5,000 to the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade

The Affiliate Summit East 2010 Challenge, a Nike+ Challenge where Affiliate Summit pledged to donate $1 to the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade for each mile run (up to $5,000) through the challenge has hit the goal.
Affiliate Summit has made our $5,000 donation to the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade.
But the challenge is still running through August [...]

Missy Ward Gets “Approved” by Suze Orman

There was a fundraising contest going on during the 2010 Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in Chicago in which for every $250 that a walker raised between May 1 – May 10, they received a chance to win a 20-minute “Ask Suze” phone conversation with financial expert, Suze Orman. Additionally, the Top 5 fundraisers [...]

Affiliate Summit Get Together in NYC

Affiliate Summit hosted nearly 200 affiliate marketers in New York City on Monday, June 21 at the Antarctica Bar for a night of networking, complimented by free beer and Lombardi’s Pizza

There was lots of good conversation, complimented by an entertaining convergence of cost per action and cost per sale affiliates. And as @adhustler Tweeted, “CPS [...]

Brian Solis to Keynote Affiliate Summit West 2011

Brian Solis will be the keynote speaker at Affiliate Summit West 2011 on Tuesday, January 11, 2010 at the Wynn Las Vegas.

Brian Solis is Principal of FutureWorks, an award-winning New Media marketing and branding agency in Silicon Valley. Solis is globally recognized for his views and insights on the convergence of PR, Traditional Media and [...]

The Basics on Search Engine Optimization for Online Marketing

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a technique webmasters use to get search engines like Google to index and rank their websites well. It’s one thing to build a fantastic website, but if no one can find it, it’s useless. The goal for every webmaster is to have their website appear on the first page of [...]

Free Beer and Pizza from Affiliate Summit in NYC

Affiliate Summit will be hosting a meetup of affiliate marketers in New York City the night before LinkShare Symposium East 2010.
Join Shawn Collins and I for free drinks, food, and networking.
This will be a great opportunity to mix and mingle with fellow affiliate marketers on the evening before the LinkShare Symposium East kicks off.
(You do [...]

How to Block Safari 5’s New “Reader” (And Bite Off Your Nose)

Are you a website owner?  Have you seen the new “Reader” feature in Safari 5?
Basically, it allows your visitors to view a cleaned up version of the page you’re viewing.
They can view your website without your formatting. Without your ads.
Haven’t seen it yet?
Here’s what it does.
Here’s my blog…

And here’s my blog with the [...]

Picking Sessions to Attend at Affiliate Summit East 2010

We receive requests for various types of tracks for sessions every time we collect feedback on Affiliate Summit, and we’ve tinkered with tracks focused on experience level and topic.
But the realization we keep coming to is that the industry is so multi-dimensional that a handful of tracks don’t handle the topics covered.
So, we’ve enhanced the [...]