ASE10 Experience Extravaganza: Saturday Night & Sunday
Where do I begin? For maybe the first time ever, I don’t have a plethora of post-conference posts planned for this blog. This is mostly due to the fact that the only session I attended, aside from both keynotes, was the one I was speaking in. I spent the majority of my time at this summer’s Affiliate Summit East 10 behind a table talking to people about For Me To Coupon. Nor did I use a single drink ticket provided by the staff! Overall I was able to get some great networking jammed into my time in New York, as well as catching up with old friends from all over that congregate at Affiliate Summits like a family reunion. BUT, let me tell you some great things about the parties I attended & working the show based in the expo hall – something I haven’t done in a couple of years since my days at PsPrint.
Before I go into my long recap, some housekeeping. For the sake of keeping my long recount of the weeks events from overwhelming you, I’m going to devote separate posts to each keynote, my disgust at some things that have become common behavior at conferences, the Audience Conference, & something we like to call Affiliate Super Friends. So keep an eye out for those posts in the next few days…
Saturday Night: ABestWeb.com Reception & Buy.at Black & White Affair
Saturday night, after I was done with the Audience Conference and had some dinner & a nice short rest, it was all about the parties. What lovely parties, put on by some lovely folks! First was the ABestWeb.com reception, put on at Cinema the Brasserie. Don’t be fooled, this was no movie theater – it was a very open feeling restaurant with a small lounge area near the bar that we inhabited. I drank a lovely white wine while chatting with some great people. Appetizers were passed around along with great conversation with other posters from the ABW forums. I was able to put some faces to screen names of a few folks I didn’t know in person, and also able to catch up with some old regulars. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m no where NEAR an old hat on the ABW forums, but I do like the crowd of posters that tend to show up when events are thrown.
Directly after, we walked over to the Buy.at party being thrown at trendy Inc Lounge. I LOVED the interior and vibe of the party when we first arrived. As a new advertiser on their network, Ghirardelli was sponsoring the shindig, so the trays of chocolate desserts were everywhere! There were comfy couches to hang back on, which was very well received by my tired feet after walking there from the ABW party. At the beginning of the evening as people trickled it, it was nice to sit & chat, have some drinks, and talk… but as more and more people showed up, it got very loud and hot and crowded. To me, it turned from chill lounge to something closer to a night club, which really isn’t my cup of tea. So a group of us left a bit earlier than the scheduled end time of the party & headed back to the deli across from the Hilton for some snacks before bed.
Sunday: Podcasting 101, the Meet Market, Newcomers, & ShareASale’s Under the Stars Party
To keep it short, I think our panel, Podcasting 101, went really well. If you were unable to attend, you can view the slide presentation here. My voice was almost gone from yelling to speak to people at parties, but I made it work. We didn’t have many people when the session began, but more filtered in…probably after they bum rushed the ShareASale meet market table to get their party passes first :). We got some good feedback from people, and I hope this finds a life beyond Affiliate Summit via the presentations and videos.
After the presentation and some questions afterward, I booked it over to the package room to grab the flyers & notepads we’d had shipped to the hotel in my name, then upstairs to the Meet Market to relieve Forrest at the FMTC table and deliver the goodies. BIG thank you to an unknown gentleman from Woot.com who noticed my struggle with the three boxes and kindly carried one up to the Meet Market for me! We sat for the remainder of the meet market talking to people about the service, save for one trip I made down to the sundry shop to grab some beverages and the short opportunity I had to walk around. Because most of my time was spent at the table chatting with folks, I didn’t get a chance to check out all the other tables, but I did walk an aisle or two to hit some that caught my eye (both via their products/services and brightly colored swag).
After carrying our materials down to the FMTC booth, I headed over to the Newcomer Program meet up, headed by the lovely Jen Goode. There I met my super newcomer Jennifer from Affordable Style, who opted to gift me with a fantastic purse from one of their brands HandbagHeaven.com. I am very glad that Jennifer seemed to really get a lot of help from what I clued her in on about the summit & she was able to have a very productive first conference and learn a lot about affiliate marketing in general while there.
Instead of dinner, we went straight to the ShareASale Under the Stars party at the Empire Hotel, with a promise of food. We had some difficulty getting a cab in the rain as someone jumped into our rightfully gotten cab, and then had to stand in the rain outside the hotel waiting for the bouncers to let us inside as the line for the elevator was longer than space inside the lobby would allow. As usual, SAS knows how to throw a spectacular party! Despite the rooftop bar location, the venue had rolling awnings so no one was rained on, drinks flowed freely, and appetizers were passed around. The appetizers only seemed to last for about an hour or so as droves of people started showing up. It got crowded quickly, and a couple hours into the party we’d reached capacity and people were being turned away. Some say this is because the bouncers downstairs stopped checking for the SAS party invites and let just anyone in, but I can’t really confirm this beyond people telling me that no one asked to see the pass they had. It’s a shame that people were turned away, but I guess that just means a bigger venue next time! Or, tighter controls on invitations 🙂
Don’t worry your pretty head… there’s more to come when I recap Monday and Tuesday! Please feel free to view all the photos I took in New York: Affiliate Summit East 2010 on Flickr
Read MoreAffiliate Summit East 2010 Silver Pass WINNER!
About a month ago, I launched one of my best contests ever here, the chance to win a Silver Pass for Affiliate Summit East 2010. ASE10 will be taking place in New York City at the New York Hilton. I’ll be speaking on a panel called Podcasting 101 with Daniel M. Clark, Joe Magennis, & Lisa Picarille moderating. I wanted people to think outside the box & get creative with their reasons why they wanted to go to the conference. I read all the comments & put aside any personal relationships and went solely on the most creative comment, as I said I would!
And the winner is…
Daniel Chmielewski!
Daniel will be receiving a Silver Pass for Affiliate Summit East 2010 in New York City! Dan, you know you’re pretty much required to fill a seat in our session on Sunday at noon, right? 🙂 Ladies & gentlemen, enjoy Daniel’s winning comment:
Hi Trish!
We haven’t met yet but obviously the contest was made for me. It all began when I was born.. the doctors said I came out with a map of the internet clenched between my tiny hands. Then growing up I was raised in the wild by computers and modems… every once in a while I’d catch a lead gen and rest satiated — those were good nights. When I was a teenager I was attacked by a group of rabid ringtones and barely made it out alive… I still get chills every time an SMS goes off in the distance. After my teen years I was called away to war in the 9-5 trenches where I’ve been counting the days until the time that I may return home… and you see, ASE is my ticket out of here, my one true chance at freedom — to live the life I was born to lead!
… Well that’s how I see it anyway
Thanks Daniel for thinking creatively – check your email for more details on how to register for Affiliate Summit & redeem your prize!
Runner Up
I also said I’d be giving a copy of Internet Marketing From the Real Experts to the second best entry. The runner-up is Latease Rikard! Look out for an email so I can get your address to send you the book. Here’s her winning entry:
Hey Trisha…I want to go to Affiliate Summit 2010 because I will get to meet you. Now I can find out that you are not just some internet entity that I’ve been communicating with over the past couple of years. It will be like bringing my internet friend to life, and we will have control over it!
Congratulations to all the winners & stay tuned for more news about Affiliate Summit 2010 & another contest I’m working on ;).
Read MoreAffiliate Marketing Fanatics 22: Affiliate Summit Revolutions
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Affiliate Marketing Fanatics – A couple of hyper-caffeinated affiliate marketers (Mike Buechele) and (Trisha Lyn Fawver) talk about all things Affiliate Marketing. From blogging to branding, social media to search, video and more!
It’s been awhile, but we’re back! We have some questions to answer, but we’ll get to that next week. In the meantime, we talk about the new voting process for Affiliate Summit panels, the apparent controversy, and a little bit of discussion about transportation. In in this episode we discuss:
- New session selection methods for Affiliate Summit East 2010.
- The apparent controversy about the new voting component of session selection.
- How we determined which panels we voted for.
- Trisha’s panel, Podcasting 101, being accepted & officially on the ASE10 Agenda.
- Other panelists will be Daniel M. Clark of Geek Dads Weekly and Joe Magennis, also of GDW and Baseballisms.com
- Comparing taking the subway from the airport to the hotel vs. taking a cab. And then a brief comparison of the NY Subway System and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART).
- Mike’s venture into Burgers with Bloggers with the likes of Stephanie Lichtenstein, Mike Wayne, Mike Pomposello, Ian Fernando, and Udi Schlessinger.
Want to catch up with us & ask questions for the next show? Find us on Twitter: @MikeBuechele & @TrishaLyn. You can also ask Trisha questions through FormSpring.me. Or leave us a comment!
Read MoreVote for the Podcasting 101 Panel for Affiliate Summit East 2010
Affiliate Summit is making a lot of changes to this years’ eastern version of the conference. In addition to changing the Mentor Program to the Newcomer Program and offering an Affiliate Scholarship Program, they are now allowing the public to vote for Affiliate Summit East 2010 Sessions. In the past, panel selection has been a closed process, with the members of the Affiliate Summit Advisory Board discussing and voting on which panels they want to see on the agenda. For this year’s Eastern show, they have decided to open up the process to help narrow down the choices before the advisory board makes their ultimate decisions. Anyone who registers with Slinkset will have the chance to vote for as many of the panels as they want by clicking on the arrow to the left of the panel descriptions. Voting is open until May 14, 2010.
There are a lot of great potential panels, and later this week I’ll tell you all about which ones I voted for and why. In the meantime, you have the opportunity to vote for the panel I hope to be a part of, Podcasting 101! There have been live podcast related panels in the past, however they seem to have been less structured and more about current events than the business of affiliate podcasting. We want to give attendees a chance to get a really basic primer on starting a podcast.
What’s Podcasting 101 Going to Cover?
Podcasting 101 will be a panel for beginners talking about how to begin a podcast and monetize. In this era of self-publishing, anyone – including you – can produce a podcast (and make money doing it!) Come learn the basics of producing, monetizing, hosting and promoting your very own podcast. It’s much easier and cheaper than some people think, so we’re going to go over the various tools available for recording, mixing, and promoting a podcast. We’ll also touch on some of the more basic ways to monetize the podcast beyond text affiliate links in your show notes.
Who’s On The Panel?
Should we be selected, the panel will consist of myself, Daniel M. Clark and Tricia Meyer. Daniel is a co-host for the Geek Dads Weekly podcast, a podcast for parents raising kids in a digital age, along side Joe Magennis and Drew Bennett. Daniel will be able to talk about the production aspects of a podcast using a Mac, as well as monetizing the podcast. Tricia is the owner of MeyerTech, which runs the popular rewards site Sunshine Rewards. Along with Cindy Ballard and Angie Meeks, Tricia co-hosts the She Shops Around podcast, featuring seasonal merchants in the affiliate space. In case you’ve already forgotten (for shame!) I co-host Affiliate Marketing Fanatics with Mike Buechele. All of these podcasts, and more, are available at GeekCast.fm.
Sound Like a Winner?
Does this sound like a session you’d want to go to? Great! If so, please take a moment to register and vote for the Podcasting 101 panel! Remember that Affiliate Summit East 2010 is taking place August 15 – 17, 2010 in New York City at the New York Hilton. The early bird registration has already passed, but you still have time to register before they sell out!
Read MoreAffiliate Marketing Fanatics Episode 2: Sweet Success
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Success! After some trials and tribulations with Skype, wookies, Call Graph, Pamela, and a totally un-listenable recording from earlier in the week, we finally have a decent episode! HUGE shout out and thanks to Joe Magennis of Geek Dads @ Home for some great step-by-step instructions to help a couple of fledgling podcasters out! We still had some issues with sound quality but I think I got most of those out in the edit. So, without further ado take a listen.
Yes, I’m late on sharing this, but I also have a feeling that most the people apt to listen already pay attention to the GeekCast.fm network 🙂
In in this episode we discuss:
- WordPress Theme Wars between DIY Themes/Thesis, Woo Themes, and WP-Unlimited
- Affiliate Classroom Rebrands to Lurn, Inc.
- Using Posterous to consolidate my personal blogs.
- Gary Vaynerchuk on Tumblr.
So please, go check it out and comment and let us know what you think! You can listen here or at our wonderful hosts GeekCast.fm!
Read MoreGeek Dads At Home Podcast
A few geeky stay at home dad’s I know decided to convene during their daddy day care days for a new podcast, aptly titled Geek Dads @ Home.
Happy Birthday Ian Clark | Geek Dads @Home: “The premise of our podcast revolves around three dads working from home while we provide day care for our kids. We will share our insights on the tools that allow us to function in this set up, but more importantly the podcast gives us a record in our own voices of the experiences of raising our children. The hope is that some time in the future, when they can best appreciate it, our kids will subscribe to this RSS feed and hear their dad’s perspectives on their lives growing up ….”
Joe did a guest post here last week, Tales of a Home Office Worker Dad, so I’m stoked to listen to this. I’m sure it will be good stuff! Take a listen if you’re interested in dad’s doteing on their daughters and talking marketing and working from home!
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