Affiliate Summit West 2011 in Pictures #ASW11
So, I found out what was wrong (I guess). It seemed my installation of WP Unlimited was severely outdated (pay attention to those update release emails, people)! I updated it and low & behold, all of a sudden today I can create the album using NextGEN Gallery!
Without further ado since it’s been a whole month since Affiliate Summit West 2011, please enjoy my pictures from the show. As you may be able to tell, I took notes via taking photos of the slides during the Drew Eric Whitman keynote. I forgot my notebook 🙂
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Please leave comments letting me know if this was valuable to you… or just commenting on any of the photos! They can also be viewed on Flickr in my Affiliate Summit West 2011 Set. Remember that you don’t want to miss the fun and excitement of Affiliate Summit East 2011 in New York City, so register today!
Read MoreAffiliate Marketing Fanatics 50: #ASW11 Recap
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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 a couple of weeks since Affiliate Summit West 2011 was over & done with, and it’s taken us this long to recuperate, follow up with all our leads, jot our ideas for improvement down in notebooks and on whiteboards, and had the time to breathe and record our recap! We had different experiences at this show than some of the others in the recent past, so we share it all with you in a super sized episode this week. For 1 hour & 14 minutes we babble on about:
- Saturday pre-registration ease & the lightly sponsored conference tote bag.
- The short, but sweet, buy.at party and the drinks, view, and having to interact with the “public”. And a brief insight into Trisha’s bath.
- The packed sessions, Mike’s session went well, and our Sunday in meetings and the insanity of the Meet Market.
- Elvis costumes, Marilyn Monroe impersonators, and legend Warren Moon.
- The lovely ShareASale 10 year anniversary party & the Strike Out Breast Cancer bowling party.
- Our quick review of the Drew Eric Whitman keynote, yet neither of us attended the Brian Solis presentation.
- Mike finally met Lewis Howes & they talked about Lewis’ book, LinkedWorking: Generating Success on LinkedIn the Worlds Largest Professional Networking Website
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- Affiliate Summit Forum is now live, so go sign up!
Want to catch up with us & ask questions for the next show? Find us on Twitter: @AMF_Podcast, @MikeBuechele & @TrishaLyn. Like us on Facebook! Leave us a comment!
Special thanks to GeekCast.fm for hosting Affiliate Marketing Fanatics.
Read MoreThe Best Schools Online For Affiliate Marketing
Guest post is by Stella Waldorf.
Marketing has existed ever since farmers, craftsmen and even simple laborers have existed. Whether it was just saying simply, “Hey, can I work for pay?” or “Excuse me. Would you like to buy this?” it was marketing…even before the term was invented.
Over time, as with most things, marketing has become more layered and complex. And now there are a number of elements such as affiliate marketing that exist within the marketing field.
What Exactly Is Affiliate Marketing?
Basically, affiliate marketing is a concept that allows those working within it to draw the largest portion of their earnings from the profits they incur through their efforts. In other words, it is similar to many traditional commissioned sales positions in that a small (or advance against future earnings) salary exists as a base connected to a percentage of later profits.
More specifically, affiliate marketing is not unlike employment that offers little or no pay which is later deducted from an agreed upon percentage of specific overall profits. And believe it or not, this agreement typically benefits a hard-working affiliate marketing professional far more than similar efforts paid on an hourly or salaried basis.
More Specific Information
Affiliate marketing as a career is not unlike a sales job that offers, for example, $800 (or sometimes $0) a week for pay to be deducted from 10% (or whatever is agreed upon) of the customer traffic an affiliate marketer causes through their efforts; this not unlike an awards for efforts proposition.
So if you’re game to put up or shut, affiliate marketing is definitely a field you should consider.
The Most Practical Application Of Affiliate Marketing
In case you hadn’t noticed, nearly every business on planet Earth currently has a presence of some sort on the internet. So it’s important to realize this obvious fact as you pursue a career in affiliate marketing.
In the past affiliate marketing was primarily a pursuit that was employed through means of purchasing agents who secured advertising on television, radio, billboards, restroom walls, etc. And this is still true today. But the real cash cow where affiliate marketing is concerned currently is the internet.
Here’s How It Works
Affiliate marketing as an internet venture is a proposition that’s simple enough. You generate client and/or customer interest and you succeed.
For example, most clients offer commissions for original clients/customers you bring to their site through your affiliate marketing efforts. But to properly maximize your efforts and profitability in doing so you’ll need to be educated in the best approaches to employ.
How To Learn What You Need To Know About Affiliate Marketing
As with all forms of education, enrollment at a conventional college or university should be a means to an end that should be seriously considered. But often such an education proves to be impractical.
There are often issues involving cost, scheduling and campus location that make learning at a traditional college or university a near impossibility for many. So other options should be considered if you’re one of these individuals.
Additional Options For An Affiliate Marketing Education
The internet currently provides almost every educational opportunity imaginable through links to not only online schools that exist there primarily, but also through some of the world’s most respectable institutions of higher learning. And these institutions include not only marketing schools but also most every other type of education imaginable.
For example, take a look at sites mounted by familiar names in education such as these:
- Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/
- New York University: http://www.nyu.edu/
- Northwestern University: http://www.northwestern.edu/
- University of California: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/
Then you’ll no doubt find after research that an education through online schools is not only practical, but often preferable as you choose from the various marketing schools where you can study affiliate marketing. Afterwards you can decide on your own which are the best schools online for affiliate marketing.
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Stella Waldorf is a marketing director in Chicago, and in her free time she loves to write freelance for onlineschools.org.
Read MoreQuick Affiliate Summit West 2011 Recap #ASW11
While I was at Affiliate Summit, I was taking more pictures than notes this time around. It occurred to me that the best way to post a recap would be in pictures. I use a plug-in on another site I manage for the San Leandro Historical Railway Society called Next Gen Gallery, and I figured it would be perfect for this application.
Of course, anyone who attends Affiliate Summit, especially the West Coast versions held in Las Vegas, knows that it takes a lot out of you. So I finally get around to installing the plug-in, but apparently I’m having some permissions issues on this website with my new hosting company that I won’t get into. In a nutshell, it’s not allowing me to create the new albums and upload the pictures.
So, while I get this sorted out with my new hosting company, just know that Mike Buechele & I will be recording our recap of the conference very soon for Affiliate Marketing Fanatics!
Read MoreAffiliate Marketing Fanatics 49: Interviewing Stephanie Lichtenstein, Lisa Picarille, & Lisa Riolo
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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!
Presenting the last in our series of interviews with speakers at Affiliate Summit West 2011, coming up next week at the Wynn Casino in Las Vegas. This time, we talk to Stephanie Lichtenstein, Lisa Picarille, & Lisa Riolo about their panel “Profit from Trendspotting”. Fourth panelist Scott Jangro was unable to join us, but we reference him plenty! In in this episode we discuss:
- The panelists include Scott Jangro of Mech Media, Stephanie Lichtenstein of Micro Media Marketing, Lisa Picarille of MyContentPro.com, & Lisa Riolo of Impact Radius.
- Lisa Picarille is the brain child of the panel, having spoken on trend spotting before at previous conferences.
- Stephanie will be discussing some different techniques to spot trends in the marketplace & pop culture.
- They’ll review the types of trends and how to spot them & how to make money!
- Check out http://bit.ly/dO0cxE for a live example of how the new question asking technology works.
- Reach out on Twitter to them: @jangro, @lisap, @lisariolo, & @microsteph or find their brands on Twitter if you’re interested in doing business with them: @MyContentPro1, @ImpactRadius, & @MicroMediaMktg
Want to catch up with us & ask questions for the next show? Find us on Twitter: @AMF_Podcast, @MikeBuechele & @TrishaLyn. Like us on Facebook! You can also ask Trisha questions through FormSpring.me. Or leave us a comment!
Special thanks to GeekCast.fm for hosting Affiliate Marketing Fanatics.
Read MoreAffiliate Marketing Fanatics 48: Interviewing Gary Kibel
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!
We’re continuing our series of interviews with some speakers at Affiliate Summit West 2011, coming up in just under a month at the Wynn Casino in Las Vegas. This time, we talk to Gary Kibel about his presentation “Social Media – A Marketing Bonanza!”. In in this episode we discuss:
- Gary’s humble beginnings as an IT guy before becoming an attorney at Davis & Gilbert LLP.
- Gary’s co-conspirators, er, panelists Sal Conca from NETexponent and Wade Sisson from Schaaf-PartnerCentric.
- They’ll share some personal war stories and case studies about social media gone wrong.
- Gary will talk about working on the most successful social media campaign in the history of social media! What a teaser!
- Contact Gary at gkibel@dglaw.com or at DGlaw.com
Now… here’s the bummer. No, we didn’t mess things up and forget to attach the episode. We record on Skype using Pamela Pro and between those two programs, probably Pamela’s fault, less than a minute of our interview was recorded. So, we have nothing but Mike & my intro to post, and you don’t want to hear us babble on about our flights into Las Vegas, my tablet vs. netbook debate, or the weather in New York and California respectively, so stay tuned later this week for our last interview in this series!
Want to catch up with us & ask questions for the next show? Find us on Twitter: @AMF_Podcast, @MikeBuechele & @TrishaLyn. Like us on Facebook! You can also ask Trisha questions through FormSpring.me. Or leave us a comment!
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