Affiliate Summit Boston - Day 1 Recap
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- By Zac Johnson on August 11th, 2008
The first “official” day of Affiliate Summit East has come to a close. The main highlights so far are meeting with a ton of new blog/twitter readers that have been following my writing over the past several months. It’s really great to see of the new faces that were able to make it to the event this year. I will make an upcoming post on all of my contacts, and if you are at Affiliate Summit yet and still want to meet. Find me tomorrow at the “Ask the Experts” session (at 9am), or send me a message on Twitter.
The day started out with keynote speakers Cory Booker, than regular sessions began. Here’s a recap of the few I attended.
The first session I attended was “The State of Ad Networks“, which features the CEOs of Epic Advertising, MarketLeverage, Buy.at and ClickBank. While there wasn’t anything earth shattering about the session, it was cool to see the collection of CEOs from such great companies. During the session, discussion focuses on how networks pay affiliates, collect funds, what type of tracking softwares they use and how their networks best specialize and accomodate affiliates.
The next session that I attend was “Anatomy of a Great Affiliate Program“. The main reason why I attended this session, was because my friend Ian Fernando was on the panel. The concept and discussions around this session, were pretty basic questions on how affiliate networks manage their programs, run incentive programs and also how they are viewed by affiliates.
In between sessions, I found some time to hit the exhibit floor and meet with some new people and companies. I found that the short amount of time I spent on the exhibit floor, networking with others, proved a lot more beneficial and knowledgable than attending a few of these sessions. Unfortunately the majority of what’s being discussed, seemed to be so introductory and such basic information. After this session, I attended one more… but it seemed to keep the same tone and non-informational concept… so I skipped out early on. This is when I then headed to the exhibit floor and made some nice contacts.
After hitting the exhibit floor, I headed back to the hotel, then made my way back to the last session of the day. Amit Mehta was the speaker and his session was called “PPC Super Affiliate Strategies You Must Know“. This is the second time I’ve seen Amit speak and even though his presentation (slideshow) was most of the same material from the first time I saw him, he is still a great speaker and his real life examples and experience, makes you want to get to work and make more money than ever. Amit took the time to answer any questions attendees had, then stayed quite a while after he was done to talk with everyone that went up to him afterwards.
At the end of the conference day, the Affiliate Summit Road Rally took place. It costs $100 to enter (goes to charity), and the winner receives a free booth at the next Affiliate Summit ($4995 value). Of course at the previous Affiliate Summit (in Vegas), when I entered the race, there were around 20 race cars… this time there were only 3! Shareasale blew away the competition and won the race!
Tonight there is another networking party, and I look forward to meeting some new friends and getting more pictures to post for all of you. Tomorrow should be an exciting (closing) day for Affiliate Summit Boston 2008!
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"With great power comes great responsibility".... my Uncle Ben told me that. Haha, just kidding! I'm Zac Johnson and I've been making money online for over 10 years now. In short, I started making money online while I was in high school... but my passion for marketing and making money goes back way earlier than that. I created ZacJohnson.com to help motivate you to start making money online, and live the life the you always dreamed of.
Your article, plus all the tweets coming in makes me wish I was there! I definitely plan on making the next one.
Tim
http://twitter.com/workplusfaith
ReplyLike Tim, I wish I was could’ve made it. See you at BlogWorld!
ReplyI wish one day I have the opportunity to attend Amit Mehta session.
ReplyAn interesting session Mr. Amit held. nice to see him again on live with some new foods.
ReplySo no affiliate secrets to share???
ReplyNice toys!
ReplyWow, I wish I was there, It was just like heaven !
ReplyHope you get to share some of the knowledge you gleaned from this summit.
ReplySame here, but my 9 to 5 holds me back …
ReplyBlatant advertising, I LOVE it.
ReplyI bought my brother the hummer. He broke it, so I bought him the new toyota van and it goes much faster than that hummer. Just thought to share
ReplyClickbank was there?They’ve been around for years.
ReplyI’ve never seen a face to match up with clickbank
The session Anatomy of a Great Affiliate Program was disappointing. Of all the people on the panel NONE had ever even been an affiliate manager and it really showed. They couldn’t provide solid tips/advice. The one guy, acted like he didn’t know why he was up there. When the title of the session is Anatomy of a Great Affiliate, you’d think there would be at least one affiliate manager that is running a great affiliate program so they could tell us about it’s anatomy.
I remember the subject of joining multiple networks came up and all they said was, “Ya, do it!, Why not?” They never discussed the downfall of duplicate tracking. Why? Because they knew nothing about it, cause none of them had ever been an affiliate manager.
ReplyFirst time I actually met/saw the CEO from ClickBank as welll.
ReplyUnfortunately a lot of the sessions were pretty basic and boring… which is why I attended only one on the second day. I will probably make a follow up post on this and what Affiliate Summit should do to fix these problems.
ReplyI would also love to go sometime
ReplyAwwm lucky, u got to race remote control cars
ReplyGreat show!
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