Affiliate Summit Las Vegas 2008

One of the major reasons for our trip to the US was to attend the Affiliate Summit convention in Las Vegas. For those who would like to know what the Affiliate Summit is all about can click here for more info.

The Summit is held twice a year and we attended the last one in Miami in July 2007 which was our first time at one of these conventions. At that time, we were nervous and weren’t entirely sure how to even approach the various exhibitors so we didn’t get quite as much out of it as we should have. This Summit was a different story altogether. We were way more confident and didn’t have any problem talking and networking with the merchants and networks.

Attending an Affiliate Summit is a great motivational experience for anyone involved in internet marketing. We got to talk to a variety of people in the business including merchants such as ACLens, Expedia.com, Popshops.com and 1and1 Hosting and major affiliate networks such as Commission Junction and ShareaSale.

This was an extra special occasion for us as we got to meet James and Arlene Martell. James is a well respected Super Affiliate and teacher of Affiliate Marketing. We attend his Super Bootcamp and amongst other things have learnt from him how to rank naturally in the search engines.

We also met a number of fellow students and it was great to see them in person for the first time. As James Martell’s training is conducted online, this means that his students can come from anywhere in the world so it was interesting to hear where each of them hailed from.

We met for lunch at he convention centre and discussed how we each came into Affilite Marketing as well as problems we have faced and at what stage we are at in the business.

After lunch, James introduced us all to various exhibitors as being well known in the industry he has many contacts. Amongst the people we met were Linda Woods from PartnerCentric, Joshua Sloan from 1&1 Hosting and Greg Shepard from AffiliateTraction.

Wanda managed to find a stash of goodies amongst the exhibitors including pens, notepads, hats, t-shirts and even a remote controlled Mercedes Benz model car.

The official hotel for the conference was the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas. This was a great hotel and obviously really convenient as the convention centre for the Summit was right in the hotel itself.

There were a number of parties hosted by various networks and merchants during the course of the convention. The biggest being the ShareaSale party at The Palms Hotel. We were unable to attend as the tickets had run out but we were still feeling jet lagged anyway and were ready to hit the sack by this point.

All-in-all, it was well worth attending and we will definitely be coming back again.

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