Affiliate Summit East

November 18, 2013 By adamriemer

100+ Reasons to go to Affiliate Summit West & East

Whether you follow my blog posts about Affiliate Summit or read the one about if you regret not going to Affiliate Summit, you definitely need to. Affiliate Summit has changed multiple times over the years and is always a show that I turn a positive ROI from. Whether it is finding clients, or having them come to me after Affiliate Summit is over, finding partners for them, learning something new, finding content sites for backlinks and to sign up as Affiliates, or even meeting other agencies and finding ways to make money with each other, Affiliate Summit is the best affiliate marketing conference in the country and possibly the world. If you are thinking about going to Affiliate Summit East or West, below are 100+ reasons to go to Affiliate Summit broken out by different attendee types and categories. Feel free to add your own reasons to attend Affiliate Summit East or West below by leaving a comment.

Why you should go to Affiliate Summit East and West.

Bloggers
Merchants (Stores and service providers)
Affiliates
Marketers
Networks
For Education
Agencies
Recruiters and Staffing Agencies
Email Marketers
Other

Why Bloggers should go to Affiliate Summit:

Unlike other blogging tradeshows, Affiliate Summit has Bloggers that speak at the sessions that actually make money and many do this for a full time income. Other blog shows have some people who have some success but haven’t turned it into a full time job and maybe a few Bloggers that launch new sites and make a full time living with their sites. They may have gotten lucky, started early or was at the right place at the right time, but many of the Bloggers I have seen at Affiliate Summit that speak at the show make a full time living with their websites and are happy to share what makes their Blogs successful and give a ton of tips and advice that you can use.
Affiliate Summit has sessions about launching and optimizing blogs. At the last show and the one coming up there was an entire session where people built and launched a blog in front of you showing you what you may have forgotten, not thought of or didn’t know. That is one of the things that makes Affiliate Summit a bit more unique for Bloggers.
Sessions about monetizing your blogs. You can learn multiple ways to monetize your blogs besides with affiliate marketing at Affiliate Summit including how to test ads, test effectiveness and optimize your revenue. I have seen everything from Heatmapping to social media and even which plugins to use and avoid and actual reasons why.
Learn how to write posts for your audience and that can rank. Whether you go to a clinic or a session like mine at #ASW14, you can learn to write posts that are search engine and user friendly to help drive more traffic and hopefully make more money.
You can meet other bloggers for backlinks, content ideas and partnerships by going to Affiliate Summit East or West. Unlike other blogging shows that claim the advertisers and Bloggers get and can provide branding, Affiliate Summit is about sales and measurable metrics. I’ve met a lot of key partners in helping my sites become more successful and the Bloggers that come to Affiliate Summit East and Affiliate Summit West are Bloggers that love their sites and their audiences but are also businesses and can drive measurable results and metrics instead of saying you’ll get branding.
At Affiliate Summit you can go to sessions or meet with vendors to learn how to optimize every piece of your blog including the server you are on and why it is good or bad for the search engines. You can also find vendors specifically designed for wordpress hosting and are already optimized and can help to boost your current blog posts and they’ll be able to explain why.
Discover new frameworks and systems for your blogs to help bring them to the next level. This is where I finally started trying this one and absolutely fell in love with it. I now host all sites I want to grow and expand on their framework including this blog.
Find answers from some speakers and some other bloggers about how to find out who your real audience is, why your traffic won’t convert and what you can do to build a real following and make money from your visitors, readers and from your blog.
Learn how to monetize your blog. Affiliate Summit is awesome for learning to monetize your blog, but here you will see it in action. Remember to not promote programs that have sites that rank for merchant url + coupons with active Affiliate links, that allow trademark bidding or adware (toolbars, PPV, CPV, etc…) to help reduce your changes of losing sales and make sure you read this post and ask these questions for an Affiliate Manager when a Merchant pitches you. That post will help you with questions to ask the merchants and answers so you can figure out if it is worth promoting them and if they’ll help protect your commissions or not.
Learn why banners and text links may not work as well as how to get more click throughs on them, ways to incorporate product links, deep links and even storefronts into your blog that can actually generate revenue. It will depend on the attendees that you talk to at Affiliate Summit on the quality of advice, but you can definitely get a ton of different opinions and discover a lot of new strategies for your blog by going.

Why Merchants should buy tickets to Affiliate Summit East and West:

(Merchants are stores and service providers.)

11. Affiliate Summit is a place where I have always been able to find everything from valuable content sites that drive sales to adware companies that steal. Coupon sites that rank for your trademark + url and add little to no value as well as ones that have double opt in newsletters and email lists that can add value. I have found Bloggers that generate high quality sales and leads and even some PPC partners that don’t bid on trademarks and drive high quality, value adding sales for my clients. Affiliate Summit is a great place to help you find quality partners and help you find the bad ones that will have a great pitch for why you should work with them so you know what to look for and how to find current partners that might not be adding value to you.

12. Although it is the only thing I don’t like about Affiliate Summit, adware, toolbars and theft is always at the show in full force with fancy words and great pitches to make you think it is a good thing. The good thing is that if you go in knowing that they can cause harm to your company, you can now learn their tips, ideas and tricks and begin to discover who in your program may be ripping you off and how to find and remove them.

13. You can hear a ton of speakers with years of experience managing clean and managing dirty Affiliate programs. They’ll help teach you to find new ways to recruit, activate and build stronger relationships with your Affiliates.

14. Building relationships with current partners. Sometimes you have a site that has been inactive in your program for a long time. If they are attending and you get a chance to meet them, you can easily find out why you are no longer on their site or why it has gone inactive and turn an inactive Affiliate into one that produces sales. If you have one that no longer sent sales because you no longer let it rank for your url or store name + coupons or bid on your trademark, you can work on getting space in their newsletters which can sometimes drive sales and add value to your company. This is a great way to generate nice boosts of traffic and sales when you need them.

15. Discover other merchants. One nice thing about going to Affiliate Summit is that you can find other Merchants and create a group of peers to bounce ideas off of, share things you learned and have a resource that does the same job you do to help you with problems like getting in contact with partners, ideas for newsletters or contests and even to help find and remove bad partners from your program.

16. Cross promotions with similar or complimentary companies. Another great thing for Merchants that go to Affiliate Summit is that they can find other Merchants with complimentary products and programs. By meeting these people you can help to introduce them to top performers and help grow each other’s programs more easily. There are tons of ways to do this, just make sure you have the Affiliate’s permissions first if you are sharing their contact info.

17. One of the reasons Merchants should buy tickets to Affiliate East and Affiliate Summit West is because there are different groups of Affiliates at both. Because the show has grown so large and because it isn’t the cheapest to go to for some smaller Affiliates, some Affiliates will not go to both shows. Instead they go to the one closest to home. This helps you to always meet new people and let your company know why you need to buy tickets to Affiliate Summit East and Affiliate Summit West instead of just one of the shows.

18. Merchant’s can discover new networks or reasons to change networks. One thing that is great about Affiliate Summit East and West is that you can find some niche networks for your specific company. Some of the networks are fly by and won’t last, but you can find some like Red Galoshes (Bridaluxe) that did last for a long time before it disappeared which only worked with content sites and only wedding sites for a long time. It was a great second option for wedding related Merchants and Affiliates. Although you should never be on more than one network, the only exception is when something comes around and lasts for a long time like Bridaluxe.

19. You can learn about brand new tools like this one or storefront and datafeed tools like GoldenCan, Popshops and Sellfire.

20. You can learn how to pitch Affiliates, what they are looking for, how to reach them and what is important to say to each type of Affiliate. Here is a post I wrote about how to pitch Affiliates, which includes pitching Affiliates at Affiliate Summit.

Reasons why Affiliates should buy tickets to Affiliate Summit.

21. You can meet Merchants face to face. This builds a bond, usually results in more close attention, increased commissions and better help when you need it.

22. It is an affordable way to meet your peers, people who work in the same industry as you and find people to talk to during the day that know what you do for a living. One of the things Affiliates miss the most when they go out on their own is the communication with peers that do the same type of jobs. By building a network of peers by going to shows like Affiliate Summit, you can find peers that can help when you need it or even take a break with you since they do the same work and have other relationships with vendors and partners that you may need.

23. You can learn new ways to monetize your sites from some of the Merchants that come up with unique strategies, other Affiliates and even some of the networks. Affiliate Summit has sessions about everything from AdSense an Ad Networks to Affiliate Marketing so you can learn a ton of new ideas, ways to make money and how to use them on your site.

24. Affiliate Summit is a great way to discover new tools for you to use to make more money with on your sites.

25. You can find new ways to optimize your websites, strategies to drive traffic and hopefully be able to make more sales.

26. If you are a new Affiliate, you can hear from people that do this full time as a living and help keep yourself motivated to be able to quit your job and become a full time Affiliate.

27. Learn how to use new types of sites or channels like creating a Pinterest strategy to drive traffic and hopefully sales.

28. It’s a work related vacation. If you’re spending an insane amount of time on your sites, especially if you are Q4 driven, it is the perfect way to get away after the holidays to relax, have fun and grow your business.

29. You can learn which programs you should drop and how to find a good replacement. By attending the right sessions you’ll learn that if you are a content site, you shouldn’t work with company’s that have active Affiliates and coupon sites that rank for the merchanturl + coupons, trademark bidders or adware and how to find them and replacements for them. Affiliate Summit attendees can help you learn how to find affiliate programs that can help you make money, not send your traffic to have a coupon site, trademark bidder or adware company have the chance to take credit for your sales and steal your commissions.

30. If your site started to tank or dive in the search engines, there is almost always a great SEO site clinic with people like Rae Hoffman, Kenny Hyder, Michael Grey, Roger Montti, etc… that can help you learn why you got hit by an algorithm update, which update it was and how to fix it or even what you could do better with your site to get your rankings back.

Why Non Affiliate Marketing Marketers should go to Affiliate Summit East and West.

31. Affiliate Summit isn’t just for Affiliates. You can learn PPC, SEO, Email marketing, etc… Affiliates use all types of marketing, tools and methods to market their businesses so Affiliate Summit is actually one of the most inclusive Online Marketing trade shows you will ever find.

32. By attending Affiliate Summit and learning about Adware in the form of Toolbars, PPV, CPV, BHOs, Interruptive, Interstitial, Popups, Popunders, Contextual, etc… you can learn how Affiliates, Media Buying companies and PPC Marketers are possibly stealing from your channel, how to properly attribute sales and show that your channel is performing better than it appears. This could also help build your budget within your company and help remove the theft from other channels.

33. Compliance. Regardless of what type of marketing you do, the FTC is now going to be cracking down on you. I go to a ton of conferences and none of them even come close to comparing with the sessions on FTC compliance like Affiliate Summit. You can learn about CANSPAM, Nexus, Disclosures, etc… from actual Lawyers and Licensed professionals for free. This alone makes Affiliate Summit worth attending.

34. If you are a PPC Marketer, an Email Marketer, a Social Media Strategist, if you do traditional media buys or anything else, you can find ways to incorporate what you do into other channels and learn how they can work together to make everyone’s job easier and hopefully grow your company and sales.

35. Affiliate Summit provides a platform for new talent to gain exposure. Although you do have to go through three sets of voting to get to speak at Affiliate Summit West or East, you don’t have to have previous experience speaking at tradeshows. You do have to be knowledgeable, have a topic that can provide value and be an expert in your niche. Affiliate Summit East and West have helped launch a ton of amazing speakers and has given them a chance to shine. Like I said above, Affiliates use a ton of channels to market their sites and offers. By sharing your knowledge in your session about whatever channel you know well, you could build a following and begin your speaking career.

36. After you finish speaking at Affiliate Summit, you may have people come up to you looking for advice or help. I’ve gotten SEO, PPC and even Newsletter writing clients from speaking at Affiliate Summit. Just because it is about Affiliate Marketing doesn’t mean people aren’t looking for your skills. You can use Affiliate Summit as a way to help grow your PPC, Email, SEO or other type of company.

37. PR Firms are making a huge mistake if they do not go to Affiliate Summit but go to other blogging shows. Unlike some of the other online marketing and blogging shows, Affiliates have trackable and measurable results. That’s how we make our money. The goal from some shows is for the attendees to write a post and send a link, tweet the company name or mention them on Facebook. The Affiliates at Affiliate Summit drive traffic and sales which you can measure. Because Affiliates measure impressions and deliver results, you can easily see the return on investment and bring back measurable results to prove your value to your clients.

38. SEOs should definitely go to Affiliate Summit. If you’ve seen me speak about adware at Affiliate Summit or other shows, you know that almost all of the applications used by Affiliates try to take credit for the sales driven from SEO and every other channel. SEOs can learn who to tell their Affiliate Manager to remove, why they should remove them and show the true value and amount of sales they are driving from SEO, Email, etc… and how Adware Affiliates (toolbars, browser add ons, etc…) are causing damage their company’s revenue by poaching sales they didn’t earn, offering coupons and further decreasing their company’s margin. This applies to all channels including PPC, Email, CSEs, Marketplaces, Social Media and other Marketers within a company.

39. You can learn how other channels can help your channel. You’ll discover that SEO and Affiliate have a lot of cross over and can help each other grow. You may also find out how people in PR, Affiliates and SEOs can work together and even boost social media. That is one of the biggest wins about working with an effective Affiliate Manager and going to Affiliate Summit East or West.

40. You can learn about your competitors, their strategies and even discover new tools that they use. One of these things that I found is a popular seo and social media tool that is actually great for Affiliate Management and other channels if Affiliate Management is only one part of your job. You can click the following link to find the tool and get a 30 day free trial. Click here for a 30 day free trial.

Reasons why Affiliate Networks should attend Affiliate Summit East and Affiliate Summit West.

41. The most obvious reason why Affiliate Networks should attend Affiliate Summit East and Affiliate Summit West is that they can recruit different Affiliates and Merchants at both.

42. Networks can find out what competitors are building and doing to make their technology outdated and learn about new tracking platforms like Impact Radius which offers much better vision across channels than traditional networks and has new payment models which could eventually wipe out the old models from older Affiliate Networks.

43. Some Affiliates like myself really dislike some of the networks. It doesn’t mean we won’t work with them, but it will be a lot harder to get us to promote a Merchant if they are on a network we do not like. Being at the show can bring us back and get us working with the networks we don’t like again.

44. You can present new features, tools and offerings to a targeted group of people, do live demonstrations of how to incorporate it into Affiliate sites or Merchant programs and get it going a lot easier. If the people that watch the demos like them, they may tell other Affiliates about it helping you to get more exposure for your new tools and products.

45. You can keep an eye on your competition. The networks complete with each other regularly about which is better. I’ve had a decent amount of network employees create Affiliate accounts and try to poach each others clients so they leave for a new network. This is a great way to see what other Affiliate Networks are doing, if they’ve changed their positioning and what their new messaging is.

46. You can learn about new technologies that Affiliates and Merchants are using by talking to them when you go to Affiliate Summit East or Affiliate Summit West and either incorporate it into your network, sign the technology provider as a partner or figure out how to build it in house.

47. You can meet new Agencies and Outsourced Affiliate Program Management companies and create relationships with them. By doing this you can help get us to want to work with you which means moving clients to your network, opening new clients on your network to test it out and growing your business by having us help with business development.

48. Discover what is going on with different types of adware, emailers and see if it could be a good fit and or benefit your network. You can also figure out if it is against the TOS of your network and learn how you can find and help remove some of the bad practices.

49. Get ideas for your own conferences. Many networks have private events like CJU, Share a Sale Think Tank or Linkshare Symposium. By finding out what works well at Affiliate Summit, you can try to incorporate it into your own niche events.

50. Because this is your industry, if you do not have a presence at the largest and most well respected Affiliate Marketing Tradeshow then you lose credibility and validity with a lot of us. That is probably the best reason for a network to go to Affiliate Summit East and Affiliate Summit West.

Why Non Affiliate Marketing industry people go to Affiliate Summit.

If you think Affiliate Summit East and Affiliate Summit West are for people in the Affiliate Industry only, you need to go to Affiliate Summit to see that it is for everyone in online marketing. Here are some of the reasons why people that are not in the Affiliate Marketing industry should go to Affiliate Summit broken out by reason, group and then some individual reasons for specific groups and people to go to Affiliate Summit. Affiliate Summit is awesome for a ton of people, even if they are not in online marketing.

Is Going to Affiliate Summit Good For Education?

51. Affiliates and Merchants can learn about Nexus Laws, what is happening in their states and if their businesses are at risk by attending Affiliate Summit East and Affiliate Summit West. I highly recommend talking to Melanie Seery, Brian Littleton or the Rebecca Madigan from the PMA.

52. This is where you can learn white hat and black hat SEO from people who don’t do it for clients, or for work, but to make a living for themselves. There is a huge difference since their lives depend on their traffic which is a unique thing with some of speakers and the education from Affiliate Summit West and Affiliate Summit East.

53. If you got lucky and have one or two posts that rank well or get a ton of social traffic, but aren’t sure how to capture leads, monetize them or drive the traffic to other pages and to help other pages rank in the search engines, Affiliate Summit has sessions and people that can teach you different ways to do this.

54. If you hate your job or don’t see any way to move upward, you can learn other marketing channels besides the one you know by going to Affiliate Summit. Because Affiliates use a ton of methods, there are sessions for almost everyone and at all levels and can help you to get inspired and create a plan to leave your job. You can also sign up for the new comers session and have an Affiliate Summit veteran help pick sessions and create a schedule for you based on what you would like to learn while at the show.

55. Affiliate Summit requires that all speakers sign a paper saying they will not pitch their companies. Because Affiliate Summit speakers cannot pitch their companies, experienced speakers will give a ton of actionable items that you can take with you to make money, grow your company, etc… Sharing information helps to show that you are an expert within your niche and can drive sales and leads for you after your session and after the show. It also helps the quality of the sessions and helps keep them informative instead of being a ton of speakers pitching their services.

56. Round table sessions. Affiliate Summit East and Affiliate Summit West both have round table sessions. Some of the speakers that don’t get solo presentations and other industry veterans have a topic and sit at a table to answer your questions in a small group. You can find a topic you like and sit down with the speaker or veteran and have a captive audience with a few other people to learn and ask questions about whatever topic or topics you choose.

57. Shawn and Missy are amazing at finding new ways to promote Affiliate Summit and to make it more interactive. By attending and participating you can learn how to actively use new apps, social sites and programs that they use during the show. You can then bring these tools and sites back to your company and find ways to incorporate them into your own strategies.

58. Many of the speakers at Affiliate Summit pay attention to the time cards at the back of the room enabling you to have time for questions and answers. You can now ask whatever you don’t understand from the session, sometimes about their blogs or posts they’ve written and get live examples to help with anything you don’t understand, find confusing or cannot find a good resource for. This is a great way to help learn and understand different topics or strategies.

59. There are panels with Lawyers that specialize in everything from taxes to CANSPAM and they will help teach you how to apply their knowledge and opinions into your own companies and strategies.

60. Regardless of the sessions and speakers, by going to Affiliate Summit I’ve found new blogs and books to read which have helped me with everything from creating ideas to monetize my sites. Some of them help me generate new ideas to help my clients and even learn more about channels or topics I am not that good at using. If I didn’t go to Affiliate Summit I probably wouldn’t have found these resources or actually continued to read and follow them. Not all of the benefits of going to Affiliate Summit come from being at the show. Following up after the show and talking to people later on and continuing to read the blogs and resources you learn about at the show can help build your knowledge.

Why Marketing Agencies Should Go To Affiliate Summit.

61. You can learn about new networks, tracking technologies and what they are offering.

62. Marketing firms and agencies can cut custom deals with the Networks for their clients to make themselves stand out from the competition.

63. You can learn about tools like Brandverity.com to help combat theft or at least to know what is happening.

64. You can talk to other firms about clients and pass them to each other if there is a better fit or find out why they didn’t want to work with them. Sometimes clients get passed around and no one will put anything in writing so you don’t know why. By meeting the old firm in person you could find out it if it was just personality differences, strategy differences or if the client didn’t pay, etc…

65. You can build leads for almost all channels. There are companies of all sizes that go to Affiliate Summit East and Affiliate Summit West. I’ve always found a bunch of leads from the show looking for everything from SEO to hosting, Affiliate Management to conversion rate optimization and even Email and Newsletter strategies. Agencies that can do good work or at least pitch themselves well can do very well with building new business at Affiliate Summit East and West.

66. By attending these shows you can find out other firms strategies, what they do and what tools they use. This can help you better compete or grow your strategies and make your company a lot stronger.

67. If you are just starting to add Affiliate Marketing as a channel or service your firm offers, you can find Affiliate Marketing Management companies like mine that you can hire to come in and teach your team how to manage programs, find and remove adware and theft. We also teach how to recruit, manage and provide support or strategies for Affiliates. This is one of the nice things about the show, even if you are going to offer a competing service, you can find firms that know how to manage and run programs and are happy to come do workshops to teach your employees and help you build a team.

68. You can gain access to a lot of unknown resources. Lots of Affiliate Management companies talk to each other and many of us are in private groups where you can find data on trademark bidders, adware, etc… By going to Affiliate Summit and other shows you can meet us and hopefully be invited to join. The information in the private groups is something that can make your life a lot easier since you won’t have to research and waste hours trying to find something we have readily available.

69. You can bring your other employees to the show to learn how Affiliate Marketing can grow and possibly hurt their channels. By going to Affiliate Summit, your employees can have a better understanding of the channel and how they can work with your Affiliate Manager to add value across your marketing firm and stop theft with some of the cross over.

70. By bringing other employees you could help them learn new strategies from relevant sessions within their channel, generate ideas for their own work and build friendships and partnerships that can boost their own careers and help with your company.

Why Recruiters and Staffing Agencies Should attend Affiliate Summit

It might sound weird that I would recommend Recruiters and Staffing Firms go to Affiliate Summit, but it is the perfect place to find passive and growing talent. Passive job seekers are people with jobs that aren’t necessarily looking to change companies. They are usually the hardest to find and sometimes the most expensive to find. By going to Affiliate Summit East and West, Recruiters and Staffing firms can meet people in online marketing that are growing and learning their career, experienced professionals and grow their databases of talented candidates. It can also help with their clients that need hard to find skills with contractors and programmers. They get access to tons of professionals to grow their database of talent including hard to find people like:

71. SEOs

72. Programmers

73. SEMs (PPC Marketers)

74. Email Marketers

75. Content Writers

76. Social Media Marketers

77. Business Development Specialists

78. Designers

79. User Experience and Conversion Rate Specialists.

80. Affiliate Managers

Why Email Marketers should buy tickets to Affiliate Summit.

81. You can find new tools, strategies and ideas for your lists.

82. Discover new offers, new partners and build relationships with new Merchants so that they may try working with Emailers because they have met you in person and now trust you.

83. You can find new services to build you lists like cross registration tools on confirmation pages, etc…

84. You can meet lead brokers and the owners of the offers and better negotiate payouts vs. having to go back and forth with emails or over the phone. It is sometimes a lot easier to get a better payout in person than through email,

85. The CPA parties for some of the Email Marketers are awesome networking events with really cool sessions. You can learn a lot about what they are doing before your competitors and start using the tools and systems before they get a chance to try them.

86. You can find new vendors that can help you with solutions like emailing video, etc… This company that is a client of mine has a pretty cool work around for sending video in email.

87. You can meet with the vendors that create the websites or landing pages and show them examples of what works and doesn’t work with your lists to help get them to create landing pages and sales paths to work better for your audience.

88. If there are offers that you want that are only open to specific Email Marketers, you can talk to the person that runs the offer and hopefully be able to show them why they should let you have the offer as well.

89. Many advertisers picture Email Marketers as spammers and won’t want to work with you. By being there in person and showing you are human you may be able to get them to let you run their offers and help to show that you can add value and drive sales without Spamming.

90. You can find large sites with audiences that are perfect for your list and work on creating partnerships with them to grow your list by having people double opt-in from their sites.

Other reasons why you should go to Affiliate Summit East and Affiliate Summit West.

91. Affiliate Summit is an incubator for small business. They offer scholarships for new Affiliates and Bloggers, sometimes deals on limited amounts of Booths for start ups (although I do not know this for sure) and they encourage and help you grow your business.

92. Affiliate Summit East and West gives smart people an opportunity to speak at a reputable conference and show off that they are an expert within their niche. This is a great way to launch your self into the speaker circuit if you want to try speaking at different trade shows.

93. You get to meet me. Ok, it’s a little full of myself, but I love getting to meet the people who read this blog. I also get to find new topics to write about or redo posts when you let me know that something was confusing or you want to hear more about a specific topic. You can also ask questions if you didn’t understand something I wrote.

94. No porn, no adult, no gambling. The merchants for the most part are actual stores with actual products and services for the main stream population. That is one thing that makes this show unique. I would prefer they kicked out the adware booths and advertisers, but they do prevent a lot of the things that make other shows less appealing to content sites and main stream Affiliates. This is just a preference and one of the reasons that I like Affiliate Summit over other Affiliate Marketing shows.

95. It’s a fun show. Many shows you go to everyone is wearing a suit and it can be a bit stuffy. Affiliate Summit is about growing your business, learning how to make money online and at the same time continues to be fun, casual and a great place to grow your business without all of the stuffy suits and attitudes.

96. It’s affordable. Compared to other shows that don’t require speakers to sign agreements that they cannot pitch their company’s or services, the prices for the quality of the sessions are extremely reasonable.

97. The sessions are all voted on so it is based on merit, past sessions and talent. Before a session is added to the show, the people attending get to vote for the sessions they would like to see at Affiliate Summit. After the sessions are voted on, the board votes on what they would like to see and then the sessions go through one more round with the owners of the show voting on which sessions should be at Affiliate Summit East and Affiliate Summit West. This also helps to keep the quality of the sessions good and relevant. If they get bad reviews, they probably won’t be back again.

98. Affiliate Summit has a scholarship program to help small businesses and new Affiliates get to go to the show and learn how to grow their business. This is a great resource for newer companies that can’t afford the show but want to go.

99. Affiliate Summit has a newcomer program that pairs a new attendee with a veteran from the show to help with networking, finding which sessions to attend and also make the show a lot more productive for a first time attendee. Your mentor will help with everything if they are good and you will hopefully be able to get more out of your first Affiliate Summit and find the people that you need to meet to help grow your business.

100. They do a ton of charity work and encourage good health. Affiliate Summit has a contest called “Race to Summit” where for each mile you run, bike, walk, etc… they will donate $1 to a breast cancer charity. You do need to sign up for it and get approved, but it is a great way to get into shape and also help to raise money for a great cause.

101. If you haven’t been and aren’t sure how to grow, launch or start within the Affiliate industry, this is the perfect show to go to since they have everything for everyone at every level.

Affiliate Summit has been an amazing show that has helped me to grow my career, make friends that I love and also build a network to help other companies find people and talent that they need. Without Affiliate Summit I probably wouldn’t have this blog or have my career or company. It is an amazing show and I highly recommend you go. The banners and links in this post are my Affiliate Links so if you found this post helpful, I encourage you to shop through the links and also to say hi if you go. I hope you all decide to go to Affiliate Summit East or Affiliate Summit West and I look forward to meeting you there!

August 23, 2013 By adamriemer 9 Comments

Affiliate Summit East…Do You Regret Not Going?

If you’ve been to past Affiliate Summits, from the mid 2000’s, you might remember when there were content sites that added value and you could see all of your friends without having to look through crowds of thousands. You could make a deal with a site to give you a newsletter drop in exchange for a higher commission, and by making friends with a partner you could get higher commissions or even extra run of site exposure by just being yourself. That feeling may have started to fade when you would see PPV and Adware companies being allowed in and aggressive tactics being pushed during sessions like how to use PPV, however, after attending and having my first meet market table, Affiliate Summit may still have thousands of people, but the old feelings and great partners are back and in full force! My goal for this show was to meet at least 30 new people every day. With the new app, amazingly well organized show and the set up of the events and sessions, Affiliate Summit has taken all of your feedback and made the most kick ass, affiliate show in the country.

Not only was there a huge influx of content sites looking to learn how to monetize their traffic, but you had newbies going in knowing it will take years before they start earning a decent amount of money. You had actual relevant partners walking up to your tables instead of getting pitched all the time by irrelevant companies, and thanks to probably the best Affiliate network, the meet market was filled with merchants, many of which I hadn’t heard of and now have ideas on how to promote. If you think you made a good decision on skipping Affiliate Summit East, you actually made a horrible one and here are ten reasons why.

1. I met more content sites and partners that have actual traffic than both of the past Blogging Conferences (leaving the name out on purpose) I went to combined. The people at Affiliate Summit East are ready to go, actually know what they are doing and are serious business people. The people at the branding show tend to flake out on promises, don’t have real traffic and act as if people should bow down to them and pay a ton of money for a post on a site with no actual traffic (Just my opinion and my experience with the show). This isn’t all of them, but it does appear to be a high percentage once the show is over, they have their free stuff and then they feel like they can back out on the deals they made. (Again, this is not everyone, but it is probably 60 to 70% of the people I met and cut deals with from the previous shows I attended which is very disappointing). They were very friendly and have no problems asking me for favors or taking products, but when it comes to delivering on their end, some of these people tend to be very flakey. There is a huge difference in someone that makes promises or agrees to a business deal, then goes back on the promises and makes threats if you ask them why they are backing out. The deals were things like writing on each other’s sites, and building brands which is what the show was about. The people who attended Affiliate Summit are very different.

The bloggers and content sites that attended Affiliate Summit are ready to learn and grow a business, not live off their husbands and wives paychecks, beg for free crap and never post about or link to or follow through with what they promised. The sites and business people I met at Affiliate Summit are content relevant, niche and perfect to grow their sites into a business. If you didn’t go, you missed a huge opportunity with them. Numerous ones have already started signing up for my programs and one has already sent their first sale. I will probably not go back to the branding show, mainly because Affiliate Summit has found a way to attract the real site and business owners from those shows and can bring them to you at their events instead. It is a much better use of money and time to go to Affiliate Summit than some of the other shows (again, just my opinion).

2. The networking. No matter which party I went to, including a Clickbank one which I had never been to before, someone asked what I did and then walked me up to at least 3 new people I hadn’t met, but had some way to work with. I have never had another show where people walk up to you and help you grow your business because they have seen you speak, have heard about your clients, or know one or two of your sites. That is one thing that the people at Affiliate Summit are happy to do, they help people connect with each other to make money and grow their businesses.

3. Clients and meetings. There were in house merchants and companies going around looking for marketing firms from SEO to PPC and of course Affiliate Management Companies like mine. They came prepared with some questions, others found posts like this one on questions to ask an outsourced affiliate management company and they used them. People seemed better prepared and really knew their stuff. Others walked in blind and got back information from adware companies and networks, but at some point many of them found someone on the white hat side and learned what to look for and what to look out for.

4. People wanted to learn. Some got defensive in sessions, but most people had an opened mind, came prepared with a list of questions that they couldn’t find online and definitely gave some people and speakers a run for their money. You had everything from programming and tech questions to targeting, split testing and creating a better user experience, and even about the best types of cameras to use for shooting video and tools to distribute or make money by using video within your marketing efforts.

5. New tools and products to grow my business. I did a post a long time ago about a product called Shareist. Shareist is something I hadn’t thought about for a while, but when I sat down for 5 minutes with company founder and Affiliate Icon Scott Jangro, I learned it has now grown into a huge contender for a full marketing platform including content curation and scheduling. I also found a few new services that I am going to be testing on my different blogs. I had no idea this technology existed and once I test it I’ll be sharing the names and results of the tests.

6. Getting rid of bad impressions and gaining new opinions. I met with an Affiliate that used to work as a back door for sites I would kick out of every program I would manage. I would never have given them a second thought, except that they had knowledgeable people there and were working on solutions. (They are also non adware). We sat down for a couple of hours over the course of the show and they have now developed a system where you can opt partners and sites in and out from their content network. You can do it by state, category or niche and also block anyone you want. The reason I would consider working with them now is that I can actually go in and approve any of the sites that would have access to my offers. Anyone not approved will be blocked and not have access. This content monetization Affiliate tool has a gigantic reach and can hit a ton of sites that I would not have access to without them, or without an additional years worth of recruitment (small exaggeration). Because of the improvements they have made, and because I am helping them with their new merchant side interface to ensure it has everything I need, I will once again start working with them on select clients as a test.

7. New technologies and ideas. One thing I enjoyed was being approached by a couple of vendors that actually looked through my sites before hand. One was an adware PPV person that should have known not to bother, but the other had a really cool product. I wouldn’t recommend it yet, but I gave some feedback and hadn’t thought about what they did before and how it could help to increase sales and sign ups on my site. I am now looking for competitors if they cannot create a solution like I would need and will be writing about it once I find a good one. If I hadn’t gone to Affiliate Summit East I probably wouldn’t have found out about this technology, at least not right now when it would be relevant for me.

8. Exposure for my company and brand. I met a few people who write for some very large sites. Others have friends that contribute to them. By being at Affiliate Summit and talking about my company and my clients, I was able to pitch ideas and now need to write a couple of guest posts for some very large news sites. Gaining this type of exposure would normally need an expensive PR firm or a ton of luck. Doing it via a drink in the hotel lobby was a much easier and less expensive way to do it.

9. Rae Hoffman’s Keynote. If you’ve never heard @Sugarrae speak, you’ve missed some amazing advice on SEO. Instead of talking about SEO this time, she talked about what drives her, her personal life and what helped to make her who she is. Her keynote was a heartfelt way to motivate everyone in the audience and I don’t think a single person walked out without having gone through a million emotions. If you didn’t get to see it, go and buy the pass for the videos once they are available. If you need motivation, this is probably one of the best keynotes you will ever hear.

10. Hearing me speak. Ok, that’s probably a reason not to go. One thing that a couple people came up to me and said afterwards is that it is like reading one of my blog posts. The difference is that they can ask anything that wasn’t clear because we are there in person. They can also get examples and actually get a review of their sites depending on the time available. The same goes for any other speakers whose blogs or websites you might read. You can go up to the person after and get anything you want cleared up instead of having to guess or hope they respond to you. Sometimes you’ll have one that is a jerk and won’t help, but most of them are more than happy to clear things up from their presentations or even blog posts if you remind them what the post was about and how long ago they posted it. It is a great way to meet some amazing marketers like Will Reynolds, Rae Hoffman, Shawn Collins and many more.

If you didn’t go to Affiliate Summit East, you missed an amazing show. I definitely feel like I got my money’s worth and even if none of my meetings get me a new client, I still got re-energized about work and am ready to kick ass all Q4. Thank you everyone who made the show amazing and especially to Missy and Shawn for having me speak and Rae for an amazing Keynote.

March 5, 2013 By adamriemer Leave a Comment

How to Vote for Affiliate Summit East Sessions – Step by Step Instructions

Voting for Affiliate Summit East sessions is one of the most important things you can do. If you plan on going, already have your tickets or are waiting on a specific speaker or session to get approved before you buy a ticket; this is your chance to make sure they get to speak. Below are step by step instructions on how to vote for Affiliate Summit East Sessions (and west because they usually use the same site and process). After you’ve completed signing up, I would love if you wouldn’t mind voting for my sessions by clicking here, and then using my Affiliate Link for to buy tickets for Affiliate Summit East to help support this blog.

Here is how to vote for Affiliate Summit East sessions with step by step instructions and images.

1. Click here to go to the site. (The link will open a new window so you can go back and forth).

2. Scroll down the page until you find vote for Affiliate Summit East sessions and then click on the link that says to vote for them.

3. Now click register (you can see it on the image below) and create a quick account.

4. Now come back to this page and fill in your username and password and you are logged in. Here is where it gets tricky.

5. You end up on a page like the one below when you log in. Just click the link at the top that says “Vote for Affiliate Summit East Sessions” and you’re almost done.

how to vote for affiliate summit east sessions.jpg

6. Now that we’re logged in we can find sessions. There are 5 ways to do this. I have color coded where they are on the page below.

Red – the search box where you can search for a speakers name, a topic or something like adware, theft, recruitment, nexus, seo, etc…
Green – This will pull the possible lectures by experience level.
Purple – This will pull up the proposed courses and by Niche or Vertical.
Black – This will pull up the class options by target audience (Merchants, Affiliates, etc…)
I left off the fifth way to find and vote for Affiliate Summit sessions which is to click the most popular sessions link just at the bottom of the copy on the top of the page.

One thing I’d like to note is that it will pull up the most voted for sessions. What you should do is scroll through all of them to look for the people you want to see speak or sessions that stand out for you.

how to find sessions to vote for for Affiliate Summit.

Next you will see something that looks like this page:

7. Find the session you want and click on the session title.

8. Now look at the number in the yellow box, only click on it once and make sure the number goes up. If it doesn’t, you didn’t vote. If it does, you voted.

How to vote for Affiliate Summit Sessions

And that’s how to vote for Affiliate Summit East Sessions. Thank you again for reading and I hope you all come to the show, and shop through my Affiliate link here for your passes to Affiliate Summit East(shameless plug). I’d also love if you would vote for my sessions, there are two on the list. You can find them by using the search box and searching for my name or you can click this link and find them if you are logged into the site.

August 25, 2011 By adamriemer 10 Comments

Affiliate Summit East 2011 Recap.

So I am now home from Affiliate Summit East 2011 in NYC. Not only was this the largest Affiliate Summit East to date, but it was above and beyond the best one as well. There were tons of new faces looking to learn and Affiliates, Merchants and Agencies at all skill and knowledge levels. I got the chance to finally meet people who I have only spoken to online as well as re-connect with numerous people who I have become close to over the years. There were a ton of great sessions and even some new vendors that I hadn’t heard of. Here are some of the key things that I found at Affiliate Summit East this year…..btw stay tuned because I am announcing two new programs this week and next as well as one more launching shortly.

Three things that stood out:

Networks – Buy.at and Share a Sale.

These two networks not only stood out because of the events that they held where they didn’t exclude people, but the way that they presented themselves in a fun and professional way at their booths. Their presence and professionalism, not to mention their stance on adware, made it clear on the type of service you would receive and the type of network they are. Not only did they have enough people helping to answer questions at their booths, but every employee was busy helping people while some of the other networks had employees who were to busy talking to each other and ignoring people walking up. If you are looking for networks to work with or launch a program on, Buy.at and Share a Sale are above and beyond my two networks of choice.

People want to learn.

One thing that I noticed about this show was that the sessions were definitely more full audiences than numerous other marketing shows I have been to. People come to Affiliate Summit to learn how to be a marketer, about FTC regulations and a ton of other topics. They aren’t afraid to raise their hands and ask questions and people were also using the text to screen, anonymous question system if they were to shy to ask into a microphone. The questions varied in skill level with each session that I went to, but the thing that remained consistent was that people were showing up, paying attention and asking questions because they were there to learn. Although I don’t always agree with the advice that is given, Shawn and Missy put together an amazing show of speakers who have a huge array of knowledge and regardless of opinion, can and will offer their best advice.

This industry has grown, but hasn’t even begun to reach its peak.

One thing that I love about the Affiliate Summit logo is that it is mountains with multiple peaks. While doing the breast cancer walk with Missy this year I grew to hate mountain tops and peaks because they hurt like crazy. What I did learn is that when you reach them and see how gorgeous it is from the top, you unfortunately have to go back down. Many industries have peaked and are beginning their decent, but the Affiliate industry is still growing amazingly fast. I met tons of experienced Bloggers with traffic as well as new Webmasters who had never thought about monetizing their sites before and were just coming to begin to learn how to do it. There were numerous merchants of all sizes who just learned about what Affiliate Marketing is and were there to find out more information, get answers to questions like which networks to choose (Buy.at and Share a Sale 😉 ), and Agencies from the SEO, Email and other industries who were trying to figure out if adding an Affiliate department would be right for them. The one thing that hasn’t changed in the years I have been going to Affiliate Summit is that there are always a ton of new people who are just discovering the industry and that it is still growing rapidly. Affiliate Marketing hasn’t even begun to see its peak and is still going strong.

Three things that I recommend.

Research all advice.

When I was walking the trade show floor I found the exact merchant I needed for one of my wedding sites. Their products were amazing and the price points were incredible. The people at the booth were friendly and so I asked them what network they were on. The person at the booth said they are launching on ten networks and they are going to wait and see which one drives the most traffic (not even sales) and keep that one as their network. I was shocked.

Not only did she not think about the fact that if someone is using adware, if the person is referred from one network originally but goes for a coupon code and clicks a link from a different network that the cookie from the original network who actually sent the sales won’t get credit and they will make the wrong decision on which network to stick with since the second network which poached the sale got credit. Not to mention other issues like if Affiliates that had sales coming in were on a network they canceled they would have to wait to be approved into the new network, then the program again and then change out links, etc… Most Affiliates would probably just drop them because of the amount of work and bullshit this uneducated and seriously knowledgeable merchant would put them through. This merchant was incredibly ill informed and the person kept spouting off really bad advice and said that the lady who was behind me is very experienced in this industry and is the one who is guiding their Affiliate plan.

Instead of trying to educate someone who didn’t want to learn, I thanked her for her time and when she asked if I would add them, I said that I love their products and invitations, but that I would never work with a company that is using the strategy she explained to me. I also recommended that they do more research and really understand how tracking works, Affiliate Marketing works and to rethink last click in for first click in since first click in gets the sale would show which network it originated on. Unfortunately I got a blank stare and it was clear that they are a Merchant who is going to have to learn the hard way.

Go to some sessions for beginners.

Even if you are the most seasoned Marketer in the world, you can always use a refresher. Going and listening to a session for beginners not only helps you to realize how much you have grown, but it also helps you to remember your checklist of things that you need to do to do your job. It could be anything from your SEO audit list to checking for creatives in your program and making sure they all have a call to action. Even the most advanced people need a reminder and going to beginners sessions is a great way to make sure you aren’t forgetting to build a base and foundation on your marketing plans.

Listen more than you speak.

Many Affiliates are type A personalities and numerous people love to get their word in. I used to be one of those people that always had to have my say and would jump right into conversations. What I’ve learned from coming to this show for numerous years is that by sitting back and listening to others instead of always having to jump in, I can learn more about this business than I could if I was always thinking about how to get into the conversation and respond to questions. I’m not saying you shouldn’t talk or share information, but I do recommend you sit back and listen to what people are saying at least some of the time.

Three new things I did or people I met at the show.

People

@SugarRae and @_SeanDolan. These two SEOs are amazing. Rae and I have tweeted back and forth and she had a guest post here, but I had never really actually met or hung out with her or her husband Sean before the show. Both of them are amazing people, incredibly smart and absolutely fun to talk to and watch at karaoke. If you’re looking for some seriously cool people that know their stuff with SEO, these are the two to talk too.

Solo presentation at Summit.

This was my first official Affiliate Summit solo presentation. I’ve done round tables and moderated panels but never presented on my own and especially not in a huge room with a great turnout. It was a bit intimidating at first but I definitely enjoyed it and hope to get to do it again. If you came to the session, thank you for your support and hopefully I’ll see you at the next Summit or another show.

Being published.

So at Affiliate Summit I got to finally see myself in two different marketing books. One is Missy Ward’s Affiliate Marketing Cookbook called All About The Cookies and the other is published by Wiley and written by @MurrayNewlands and they apparently quote me a few times. You can find that book here. I’ve been in a ton of magazines and blogs, but this is my first time in an actual book so it was extremely exciting.

Affiliate Summit East 2011 was above and beyond the best Affiliate Summit to date. I know I always say that but the truth is that they keep getting better and better. I’m meeting new people, seeing old friends and catching up with everyone I love from the industry. If you haven’t been to one yet, I highly recommend you register for Affiliate Summit West in Vegas this winter at Caesars Palace. You can find my banner for Affiliate Summit in the right hand advertising side and a banner for Share a Sale in the top right corner of this blog.

August 20, 2010 By adamriemer 2 Comments

Affiliate Summit East – One of the better Affiliate Summits

Affiliate Summit East is finally over and we are all getting our voices back, playing catch up and trying to remember what had happened during the last 4 or 5 days. At first I felt a little out of place with the large amount of people at the show, but after I settled in and started seeing faces that I recognized I remembered why I love Affiliate Summit.

Although a large portion of the show was CPA Networks and I walked in fairly aggravated about the adware companies who were allowed to have booths there, what I discovered was that there was a secondary group of newbies who wanted nothing to do with the adware theft in the industry and wanted to do things legit. I also ran into many established Webmasters who wanted to learn how to become Affiliates and they even started to pick up on the adware companies at Affiliate Summit and realized that theft was not for them. I honestly started to think that legit and clean Affiliate Marketing was going to die with some of the older generation of Affiliates moving out of the space, but to see a group of the new Affiliates coming in with the same clean and intelligent Marketing methods, it really recharged me. So with that said and with me being back to reality, here is my Affiliate Summit review.

On Saturday night I got to Summit and instantly ran into some people at the Hilton Lobby. We had a couple of drinks and then everyone went to change into their black and white clothing for the Buy.at party. (This is where I felt a little odd with the new faces, but then again it wasn’t just conference people staying at the Hilton). When everyone started to regroup I met with Kim Salvino from the Buy.at team and even though she was in heels she walked with myself, Andrew and Dale from Things from another world (On Share a Sale), Jeanine and Brad Crooks and a group of others to the ABestWeb.com (ABW) party.

When we got to the ABW party we had a great time. Michael Coley and iNet had put on a great networking and meetup event with gorgeous filet steaks on crostadas, bbq shrimp and sausage skewers, sliders and a great selection of cocktails and wines. It was a wonderful event that everyone enjoyed and I’m happy that I was able to attend. However, all great things have to end at some point and even though I was sad about leaving the ABW party at Affiliate Summit East, we had to move onto the Black and White Buy.at party sponsored by Ghirardelli Chocolates.

The Buy.at party was great this time around because not only did everyone get it, when you did get in you were handed a delicious chocolate martini and there was a lady holding a tray of a ton of different types of chocolates. The party started going and there were pool tables and great people everywhere. I had a few drinks, caught up with a few friends and then a couple of people who worked for a Client of mine showed up to show me that they got engaged. The night continued to go better and better and I think everyone enjoyed themselves. The next day was the Meet Market and check in.

The Meet Market is probably one of the most productive events of the show. People crowd into it and make their way through while they are still charged up and fresh. This is where you can get most of your business done in a short and effective time frame. I do need to recommend you bring tea, throat lozenges and hand sanitizer if you have a meet market table as there is a very good chance you will lose your voice. The meet market was great this year with the exception of the guy that brought two very unprofessional and rude girls in bikinis. It was ridiculous when they blocked the entire hallway to take pictures and made rude comments to people if they tried to walk through or behind them to see the Merchants and Vendors who were paying to be there because they didn’t want a picture. To be honest, they should have been put in their booth that their Client paid for and stayed there so people could get through hallways and not have to be insulted while they walked through the show to actually get some business done. After the Meet Market was over it was time to catch up with a bunch of friends and also get ready for the Share a Sale Under the Stars Party.

The Share a Sale under the stars party was hosted at the Empire Hotel again this year and was perfect. Share a Sale provided top shelf liquor, great snack foods and fun music. There were people from everywhere and all types of Marketing and it was an overall good time. The rain couldn’t even stop the fun of the Share a Sale under the stars party and people went out on the balconies in the rain and continued to smile, have fun and party and network. After the Share a Sale party was over it was time for the sessions and the show to begin.

Even though this Summit was much larger than others, it turned out to be one of the best for talking to new Affiliates, established webmasters and there were lots of Merchants looking for help with their programs and their websites. I was planning on recruiting new Affiliates the entire time and not focusing on Business Development but I ended up meeting a great group of sites that needed help with everything from Adware Removal to SEO and even Blogging. Speaking of blogging I did run into a very influential and knowledgeable person at the Buy.at party.

He was listening to me, Melanie Seery from Affiliate Advocacy and Patrick from ABW talk when he came up with an amazing idea. He told me that I should start a blog. Not only would I be great at it but it is something I could probably turn into a business. It doesn’t have to be about business or anything in particular but it would be best if I would focus on a topic and keep going from there. Well I was amazed at this idea and if I hadn’t already been doing it for years and years then I would have thanked him and bought him a free drink from the bar. It turned out he ended up being a really great person and we exchanged cards. He also turned out to have a great sense of humor about my sarcasm and I showed him a couple of my blogs. We’ll definitely be keeping in touch.

A lot of the sessions were good and there were ones I wanted to go to like Rae Hoffman’s site review clinic or Jim Kukral’s Keynote, but unfortunately I ended up having to go to meetings instead. My session went alright and I think the people who attended benefited. There was a line up after I finished so I am assuming they liked it.

Affiliate Summit was an excellent networking event and I think it ended up being a great event since there were newbie Affiliates, established ones and although numerous adware thieves and adware companies were allowed to exhibit at the show, if you could sort out the bad you probably got a lot of good and productive things done at the show. Affiliate Summit East was great and I am definitely looking forward to Affiliate Summit West 2011 in Las Vegas. Thank you Shawn and Missy, my new favorite Karaoke Buddy Angel from Custom Tailored Marketing, Andy Rodriguez from ARC, Kristen Kinsey from Mad Hatter Consulting, Mike Nunez for my new slippers, Lisa Riolo from Impact Radius, Pat Grady from RhinoFish, Robert Glazer and Pauline from Acceleration Partners and everyone else who made Affiliate Summit East one of the best shows.

August 4, 2010 By adamriemer 4 Comments

Meet me at Affiliate Summit

Hi Everyone,

I have a couple of potential programs in the works but also didn’t want to hold off and miss an opportunity to help you all with custom strategies for my current programs at Affiliate Summit. If you would like to meet there to discuss how to promote or how to help increase sales with any of these programs; how I can help you manage your programs or get it back on track, remove parasites and adware companies, if you would like me to join one of your programs, or you would like to meet about any of my other services, please email me at adamr (at) adamriemer (dot) me or leave a comment below.

Here are the programs I will be representing at Affiliate Summit East.

ExecutiveGiftShoppe.com – Share a Sale and Bridaluxe.

12% commissions
60 day cookies
10,000+ products
full datafeed

We carry everything from engravable gifts to sports teams gifts, a full smoke shoppe, home decor, picnic baskets, gift baskets and a lot more. We also have many designer and name brand gift items always on discount.

Join Executive Gift Shoppe’s Affiliate program here.

Internet Direct Response (4IDR) – Share a Sale

25% commissions
30 day cookies
Many exclusive offers
Coupons available
Heavy TV, Radio and Print advertising
Video available

Internet Direct Response specializes in creating high converting websites for full ticket As Seen On TV, Heard on the Radio and Seen in Print Nutricueticals. Join the Internet Direct Response Affiliate Program here.

Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm – Share a Sale

Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm has been around for over 40 years and has appeared on Oprah and many other well known venues. Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm sells worms, indoor and outdoor composters, books, tomato seeds and much more.

7% commissions
30 day cookies
A full Datafeed

Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm is perfect for Article Marketing, Green Sites, Gardening Sites, Fishing Sites, Eco Friendly Sites, Composting Sites and more. Join the Uncle Jim’s Affiliate Program here.

Thank you all again for promoting my Clients and I am looking forward to meeting and working with you. If you are not going to Summit but still want to talk or work on custom strategies, please also feel free to write me or leave a message below.

Best,

Adam