Affiliate Summit News, Rumors, Updates

[Linda Buquet]

Since I could not make it at the last minute and had to cancel, I will be covering all the news and adding it to the 5 Star forum as I find good reports on blogs. So reading the 5 star forum will be almost as good as being at the event. Lots of bloggers are blogging live from the Summit, so I will just keep adding links to the news here in the forum instead of starting a new blog here for each one.

Stay Tuned to the 5 Star Channel!

[Linda Buquet]

New Podcast Series for Affiliate Summit With Declan Dunn and Paul Colligan. Declan and Paul will be interviewing Affiliate Summit attendees on topics of the audience's choosing. Submit a question and get an answer from one of over 1,000 great minds and industry thoughtshapers that are attending this event.

We're going to ask the affiliate community what will dramatically impact affiliate programs in 2006 with special, 5-Minute podcasts in the next two weeks. Share a questions and we'll share a special Juice media player with the Podcast Series for you to listen and learn now and during Affiliate Summit. The Podcasts will be posted on a regular basis to a special feed you can get by submitting a question.

Ask a question or listen up here: http://www.buildingbuzz2006.com/

[Linda Buquet]

Shawn has made an intro blog about the 1st day of the event - Sunday at the Summit. Jeff Molander stood up Lisa Picarille at the speed networking session. The drama begins! Follow the action as I report it here.

Affiliate Summit Kicks Off in Las Vegas
http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/arc...las_vegas.html

More coming soon as I find it, OR you guys can help me!!! Come on it will be fun! When you find Summit blogs or news with your blog reader post a short snippet and a link here.

Stay Tuned to the 5 Star Channel for More!

[Linda Buquet]

Multiplying Your Google AdSense Income

Jeremy Palmer a CJ ward winning affiliate just blogged a quick review of the Google Adsense Seminar at the Summit

I just got back from Joel Comm's session, "Multiplying Your Google AdSense Income", here at Affiliate Summit. The session got off to a slow start due to the long lines at the registration desk, however, Joel managed to get through his entire presentation without any problems.

Check out the rest at Jeremy's blog - Quit Your Day Job!
http://www.quityourdayjob.com/blog/

[Linda Buquet]

I am so glad to see this for reasons people who know about Wayne's current situation can relate to but also for all the work he has done for the Industry and especially for fighting spyware and malware.

From the Affiliate Program Tip Blog: Wayne Porter Honored with the Affiliate Summit Legend Award

"Wayne Porter was recognized on the first day of Affiliate Summit 2006 because of his extensive work in affiliate marketing dating back to the 1990's. Some of Wayne's contributions to the industry have been...

* AffiliateHelp.com - publisher of this early resource for affiliates
* Affiliate Union - on the Board of Directors for this effort to establish a group of affiliates to create a certification for affiliate programs
* AffTrack - VP of Product Development
* ReveNews - one of the founders
* Affiliate Marketing 101 - co-authored guide for Webmasters to succeed as affiliates
* Organizer and moderator of the Performance Marketing Summit in November 2002, which spurred on the networks to establish policies regarding affiliates using adware, BHO's, etc"

Read the rest... http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/arc...end_award.html

[Linda Buquet]

Paul Colligan, AKA the Affiliate Guy and now the PodCast Guy is at Affiliate Summit and has made quite a few posts about the event already incuding links to podcasts and his notes and slides from his presentation.

http://www.paulcolligan.com/index.php?s=summit

[Linda Buquet]

Shawn reports on the Affiliate Program Tip Blog:

"Anne Holland, Publisher of MarketingSherpa, gave the keynote address on the first day of Affiliate Summit, and covered the Top 5 Affiliate Marketing Opportunities for 2006."
http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/arc...ortunities_for

A copy of her presentation is available at the link above so you can see what she presented and what those top 5 opps are in her opinion.

[danay]

The summit was great, alot better than I expected. The sessions were informative and I was realy happy to see that there was alot of interest from many affialite managers about the "Affiliate fraud" session.

They fed everyone breakfast and lunch, which is more than I can say for most trade shows. The floor was filled with exvitement and a great vibe. The networking functions were also very fun and useful.

As an exhibitor I was very happy and am sold on exhibiting again by having had a great experience.

[Linda Buquet]

Hi Danay,

Thanks SOOOOOO much for posting and giving us your feedback about the event. I have been reading all the posts at AffiliateManager.net, Shawns forum and everyone says it was by far the best Summit yet. Unfortunately all the posts are in the private affiliate manager section, so many people here can't read them or see the pics.

Official event pics will be posted soon plus PartnerCentric and some others took pictures. I will post the links here as I find them so all of you can put a face to some names. I want scadalous pics of someone dancing on tables or falling into the pool, but have not seen any of those yet.

[danay]

Hey Linda,

You're very welcome!

I have some pics I will post here from the Real World Suite party that Shareasale hosted. My co-worker and I are RealWorld geeks, so we just went crazy taking pics of the suite and the folks there.

I'll try to give good captions and if I see any other pics, I'll try to give caps on the peeps I know or recognize.

peace,
D