Affiliate Marketing Tips from Super Affiliate Zac Johnson

I’ve been back from Affiliate Summit East 2007 for almost two days now, but still have a few more photos and topics to blog about! Here are some of the pictures I took while running through the exhibit hall.

Of course I had to meet up with Jordan and Tina from NeverBlueAds!

Always keeping it real and telling it like it is.. Jon from WickedFire!

With Brook and the gang from Schaaf Consulting.

Google… so advanced, my camera flash wouldn’t go off because of their lit up booth sign!

Behind the “Poker Table” with the Moniker Domain Auction guys.

At the Virtumundo booth… they have the crazy punching monkeys everyone wants!

With Greg Hoffman and the gang at ThinkPartnership (Kowabunga)

With Sagi Cezana at the FriendFinder.com Network Booth

At the WebmasterRadio Booth with co-founder Daron Babin

Brian from Shareasale. A straight up classy guy and one of my great long time friends!

They didn’t have a booth, but I did talk with the guys from Shopzilla.com for a while.

Unfortunately, all good networking must come to an end… as did Affiliate Summit East 2007. Here are a couple pictures of the massive removal process for the exhibit hall. Right as everything was being torn down and packed away, the next show was getting ready to move in. Time is money!

The last day of Affiliate Summit East started with keynote speakers Rob Kniaz from Google and Mark Papia from Fox Interactive Media.

Next it was lunch time, then I spoke in the “Elevator Networking” sessions.

Lee Dodd and Jeremy Schoemaker (Shoemoney) held a panel on how to manage and optimize your online forums.

The last speaker of the event was by Kristopher Jones, President & CEO of Pepperjam. This was a really great presentation and I learned a of from Kristopher. Like the presentation from Amit, Kris offered real lfe figures and help many people in the room start earning over $10k a month through PPC marketing. Very cool stuff!

The last session of the event was the “Closing Remarks”. Everyone in the room had an opportunity to listen and/or get up and speak about what they learned or how they felt about the event. Once again, I spoke to the crowd and let everyone know how fortunate they are to have attended the event and that there is still so much money to be made in this market. Amit and Kristopher also followed up with great comments on the event.

Lastly, all sessions came to a close and the only thing left to do was network and party! Everyone gathered outside for the “Poolside After Party” which went on for a few hours… but the networking and partying went on way into the morning hours.

After the poolside networking party, my father, Brad Waller and I went over to a steak restaurant and had dinner. We returned to the hotel and the networking was still going on. Brian Littleton played the piano, as he usually does at Affiliate Summit, while others sung (or at least tried) lyrics to their favorite songs.

And with that, another amazing Affiliate Summit comes to an end. Like all the events, this one was special… but I feel this one may lead to some new profitable projects for myself, and definately some new lifelong friends!

Affiliate Summit Day 3 had arrived and after lunch it was time for the “Elevator Networking Sessions”, where I was speaking. In the room there was a bunch of tables and each with their own topic and speaker. The purpose of this session was for people to visit the topic they were interested in, then ask any questions they had or wanted to learn about. I had “Word of Mouth Marketing”… but answered any questions my table had.

What started out as a slow session, actually ended up quite nicely. I was able to give out a lot of great advice to people on how to market and improve their sites/services. It’s amazing how many times I was asked if I offer consulting… hmm… good idea… but I’m giving it all away free on my blog!

Today was a really great day. I feel this Affiliate Summit has offered a lot more motivation and promise than past events. Not to boast, but it’s rare that I learn a decent amount of new information at any events. This time around I was very fortunate with the sessions I decided to attend. I will go into deep detail on some of these speakers later in the week.

Here are a few more pictures from today.

“What Super Affiliates Want” with Scott Jangro, Jeremy Palmer and Rosalind Garner

Chitika CEO, Venkat Kolluri gave an awesome presentation, but deserved a much larger attendance… which was lacking, due to following the lunch session.

Amit Mehta…. Just may be one of the most inspiring and motivational speakers/sessions I have attended. If I came to this event and only saw and met with Amit, it would have totally been worth it.

Melissa Salas of Buy.com, another good friend of mine that I plan on working with a lot more after this event!

One of my biggest fans, Tobias of Revenue Magazine!
(Their booth has been giving out the latest issue, which features my classified ad ☺ )

The last session of the day was a Q&A session, and unfortunately it did not get the exposure it deserved. The room was very large, but only had around 50 people inside, while hundreds still scurried around in the exhibits area. The purpose of the room was for attendees to go up on stage and introduce themselves and ask any questions or tell the crowd what they were looking to get out of Affiliate Summit, whether it be a new affiliate manager or advice on how to reach a targeted market. Missy Ward called me up to stage and I did a quick plug for ZacJohnson.com and let everyone know I was there as an example of what networking at events like this can produce, and that I’m also providing my real life examples and story on my free blog.

The last event of the day was the Moniker Domain Auction. This was my first live domain name auction and it was very neat. While most attendees left mid-way through the event, my father and I stayed till the end. With over $262k in sales and one domain going for $40,000… it was quite exciting!

I also just created a new blog category for all of the Affiliate Summit posts, so please make sure to check these out.

Lastly, tomorrow is the last day and I will be speaking on “Word of Mouth Marketing” at 11:30am. I will also make a final run of the exhibits and see what cool toys and promos I can pick up to give away through the blog.

Please keep the comments coming and spreading these posts among your Affiliate Summit attendees and friends. Please also let me know if you are enjoying the blogcasting straight from Affiliate Summit East 2007! Thank you.