Affiliate Marketing

In my efforts to keep my 10 for 2010 going. I will be attending a TechFlashLive event on March 23rd: How to Make Money Online in 2010 and Beyond

I’m looking forward to hearing what the panelist have to say. And where they think online advertising is heading. Also what is the next new media in advertising. I have a pretty good idea where it’s heading, but I’m curious to see if they feel the same way.

Here is a synopsis of the event:

Panel Discussion: As the economy recovers, companies are searching harder than ever for new ways to create viable business models in the Internet economy. Many technology startups are faced with a dilemma – bet the future of their businesses on advertising, or look for alternative sources of revenue?

During this special TechFlash Live event, hosted by editor John Cook and Todd Bishop, we’ll tap the minds of an experienced panel of experts in digital marketing and publishing for insights on the changing landscape, and new ways of thinking. Attendees at this unique event will come away with practical tips for the present and long-term strategies for the future.

Moderators:
• Todd Bishop, co-founder & managing editor, TechFlash
• John Cook, co-founder & executive editor, TechFlash

Expert panelists:
• Aaron Finn, founder and chairman, AdReady
• Jeff Lanctot, managing director of advertiser and publisher solutions, Microsoft; former chief strategy officer, Razorfish
• Brian McAndrews, managing director, Madrona Venture Group; former CEO, aQuantive
• Charlie Tillinghast, president, msnbc.com

If you’re in Seattle and interested in attending, you can register here:

Also If you see me there, come say “HI”. Hope to see you there.

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I started out day one by hitting up a couple of sessions.

First up was Effective Social Media Techniques. I was really disappointed in the session I picked up a couple of pointers, but nothing ground breaking. Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld and the PubCon conference had a case study of what they were doing and that was pretty interesting, except he was flying through his PowerPoint slides and there was hardly any time to write down anything.

Rebecca Kelly gave a funny presentation as always. Other than that, pretty boring.

Next up was the Monetizing Blogs for Affiliate Marketing and SEO. This session could have been so much better and talking with a couple others they were saying the same thing. They spent way too much time talking about the WordPress and the install and what plug-ins to use. I thing people went there already had blogs up and running and they were looking how to expand the advertising and SEO tactics, but this session fell well short of the session’s goal.

Then it was time to hit meet market and walked into the first Meet Market room and the room was small and packed and I thought the room was going to be larger than the ASE09, come to find out there was another room. Unfortunately it was way out of the way from the first room. But headed there and that room was like 10 times the size. The larger room was well laid out and was well attended. It was nice that you could actually walk around without touching everyone. Visited we a few people and that was about it.

After hanging out in the Meet Market for just a little bit I head to lunch with Bethany, my Bloosky affiliate manger. After a great lunch at All-American I headed back up to the room to do some work and then get ready for the Share-A-Sale party, which in all my times attending Affiliate Summit I have never been to a Share-A-Sale party before.

So finally made it down to Share-A-Sale party and I was a little disappointed, because everyone that told me about their parties that they were cool and not loud, and more for networking. But I was a little shocked about how loud it was (maybe I’m getting old) But the music that was being played was pretty cool. At the party I finally got to meet Jamie Birch of JEB Commerce, and we talked for a little bit and one of his clients was there, so I had chance to talk with him also and I think we will be doing some business together real soon.

I hung out and played a little bit of Blackjack at the party with a few folks, then after that I headed back to my room to get some work done and got a call from Logan Thompson who just got back from Ian’s dinner and decided to head downstairs to the iBar and grabbed a couple drinks. After just a couple I was dead beat and headed to bed.

Day 2, coming tomorrow.

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I know it’s late, but been trying to get all my notes together for all my other post about the show.

After an early flight to Las Vegas (left Seattle at 6 AM), I finally landed in and meet-up with David D Ochoa at the airport and we headed over to the Rio. I was really hoping to catch up with a nap, but the Rio was full from the night before. So instead we headed over to the poker room and played in a no limit tournament, get some practice before the Purpose, Inc. Charity Tourney.

After getting knocked out I headed up to the room. I was going to take a nap, but couldn’t sleep. So I decided to get a group of close affiliate friends together and do some dinner. First we headed down to registration and then over to dinner at Cafe Martorano.

Those who attended dinner was Eric Nagel, Logan Thompson, David D Ochoa, and Eric Schechter from Clickbooth. Martorano had some killer food; along with some great friends it was perfect.

After dinner we checked into the charity poker tournament where Eric Nagel, Logan, David and I all were pick to play at the same table, so of course we didn’t want to try and knock out each other, I played pretty tight, but had fun.

After getting knocked out in 38th place I hung around and cheered on some of my buddies, but after a little bit I was exhausted, so I headed back up to the room did a little bit of work and headed to bed. It was a pretty long day and it was only getting started.

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