Join us with Shannon Vogel on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 1:00pm EST for a webinar presentation entitled “Top 10 Things You Need to Know About Social Media.”

Register now – space is limited: Top 10 Things You Need to Know About Social Media

What is the webinar about:
This presentation will cover basic social media strategy to educate the audience on the right approach and mindset for social media in business, what customers want and how to stay out of trouble.

This presentation will teach you some basics on why social media works, how differences in the tools allow you to reach different audiences and some easy tips to set yourself apart from your competition.

About Shannon Vogel:
After more than 10 years in retail, Shannon changed her focus from helping people one at a time to helping business owners and executives promote and grow their businesses through social media.

Her passion lies in education. Helping businesses use social media to create conversations that lead to long lasting relationships and customers as brand ambassadors and advocates is what drives the business.

Shannon currently works with several different industries throughout the country including consumer products, local brick and mortar business and food and beverage companies helping to strengthen their brand awareness as well as create and maintain a positive and productive online reputation.

About The Be-Scene:
Since 2006, The Be-Scene has been helping customers demystify social media one step at a time! Our strengths are education, training, consulting, strategy development and management. We work with business of all sizes and individuals looking to learn how to properly use social media to build or grow their business.

Be sure to register for the this FREE Webinar: Top 10 Things You Need to Know About Social Media – space is limited.

If you are interested in presenting in the Affiliate Summit Webinar series, please contact Mary Poiley by email or by phone at 813-438-6279.

Also, you can see a list of all Affiliate Summit past and present webinars on this page.

The photos from Affiliate Summit Central 2012 are now up at the Affiliate Summit Flickr page.

Feel free to download and use these pictures on your site, but if you do so, we would appreciate if you’d link back to the Affiliate Summit site.

Please visit and tag the pictures on Flickr. And if you’re uploading any pictures to Flickr from Affiliate Summit Central 2012, the tag is ASC12. You are also welcome to post links to your pictures in the Affiliate Summit forum.

The photos were also posted in Facebook. Tag away!

• Educational Sessions at Affiliate Summit Central 2012
• Networking at Affiliate Summit Central 2012
• Misc. from Affiliate Summit Central 2012

Affiliate Summit Central 2012 photos were taken by Jerry Hughes of Artist Studio 12.

Also, I took some Affiliate Summit Central 2012 pictures and posted them to my Flickr account.

Issue 18 of FeedFront Magazine has reached mailboxes and the attendees of Affiliate Summit Central 2012, and now we’re on to issue 19.

The next issue of FeedFront will be coming out in August 2012, and the deadline for article proposals for issue 19 of FeedFront is May 25, 2012.

If you are interested in writing an article, go to the FeedFront article proposal form to submit a one sentence summary on what you’d like to cover.

No ghost-written articles. We only want content from people writing from their personal industry experience.

If you have previously been accepted to write an article and either failed to meet the deadline or did not adhere to the editorial guidelines, please submit your article proposal elsewhere. We take our deadlines and guidelines seriously.

Do not submit a complete article now – just a one sentence summary.

We will contact everybody who submitted a proposal on whether the article ideas are accepted or denied.

The presentation slides from Affiliate Summit Central 2012 have been posted.

The slides have options to share on Facebook and Twitter – please share with your friends and colleagues if you enjoy them.

• 6 ‘Creep Factors’ of Online Behavioral Advertising
• The 7 Mistakes Killing Your Affiliate Program
• 10 Ways to Drive Site Traffic
• Affiliate Playbook – 2012 Edition
• Brainfluence Conversion: Turning Browsers Into Buyers
• Emancipate Yourself from Mental Slavery
• Famous: How to Build Your Digital Reputation
• Google Proof SEO Driving Clickless Direct Traffic
• How to Turn Your Customers Into Affiliates
• Is Social Media Changing the Fundamentals?
• Keywords Hiding in Plain Sight
• Maximizing Click Revenue: 2 Billion Clicks Analyzed
• The Nitty Gritty of Affiliate Marketing Compliance
• Optimizing WordPress for Speed and Conversions
• Repurpose Your Content to Gain New Audiences
• Step-by-Step: Podcasting for Business

Please note that not all sessions had slides.

Check out the Affiliate Summit Central 2012 agenda for more details on sessions.

The Affiliate Ball, taking place during Affiliate Summit East 2012 in New York City, has announced some details about the upcoming event.

The networking event is being called Neverblue Presents The Affiliate Ball, as Neverblue has been secured as the title sponsor.

The Affiliate Ball has booked legendary DJ of the Beastie Boys, Mix Master Mike, to perform a set.

Many more surprise guests will be announced as the event gets closer. The party last summer, during Affiliate Summit East 2011, was featured on TMZ with hip hop legends Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Cas and Dougie Fresh performing.

This year they plan to have Ice-T and his wife, Coco, walking around the crowd to shake hands, take pictures with guests, and host the entire night on stage.

RSVP now at http://affiliateball.com/registration.html.

Affiliate Summit Central 2012, the first Affiliate Summit in Austin, TX, kicked off with the official welcome party on May 14, 2012 with live music from The Cody Jasper Band, Sam Sliva and the Good, and FallenAsh.

The first day of the conference started at an early (by Affiliate Summit standards) 7am, when registration opened up.

Full pass holders got a limited edition Affiliate Summit t-shirt.

Emcee Heather Romiti began the day with some announcements before turning things over to Maribel Sierra, Social Media and Communities Director, Listening and Engagement at Dell.

This first day also included a Meet Market, two sets of sessions, and Ask the Experts Roundtables, which were complemented by Nate the Great, a local balloon artist.

The first day finished up with ShareASale.com hosting their traditional Under the Stars party for conference attendees.

The second and final day kicked off with a drum circle, organized by Benjy Portnoy, to wake up attendees.

This was followed by a series of sessions in a new, truncated format where they only lasted 20 minutes each.

The conference finished up with open networking after an intensive day and a half off fun and business.

Big thanks to the sponsors, speaker, and attendees.

I look forward too reading the session feedback and hearing what folks have to say about the conference.

Have you signed up for Affiliate Summit East 2012, yet?

It’s taking place August 12-14, 2012 at the Hilton New York.

This three day conference includes an exhibit hall with affiliate merchants, vendors, and networks, as well as multiple tracks of educational sessions covering the latest trends and information from affiliate marketing experts.

We will not be filming the sessions at Affiliate Summit Central 2012, so if you are attending the conference, be sure not to skip any sessions.

We have been filming conference sessions since Affiliate Summit East 2006, so we typically encourage attendees to choose networking over sessions if they have to make a choice.

But not this time – if you want to see a session and you miss it, you’re out of luck.

We strictly forbid recording audio or video of sessions when we are recording them. But we’ll permit it for Affiliate Summit Central 2012.

Note: this is a one time thing. Future Affiliate Summits cannot be recorded in any way, unless we specifically say it’s permitted.

Check the Affiliate Summit Central 2012 agenda to determine which sessions you will want to attend.

Affiliate Summit East 2012 is taking place August 12-14, 2012 in New York City, and there are a number of sponsor opportunities available where 100% of money received will go to the Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Crusade.

These opportunities are only available through Monday, May 21 at 11:59PM PT.

Funds raised will be donated in support of the Affiliate Marketers Give Back team, a group of affiliate marketers who will be walking 39.3 miles around New York City in October 2012 to raise money to fight breast cancer.

Want to get your logo on the Affiliate Summit East 2012 staff t-shirt, as well as advertisements in the August 2012 issue of FeedFront magazine?

Get more details on the available charity sponsor opportunities for Affiliate Summit East 2012.

Do a good thing and get big exposure at Affiliate Summit and beyond.

The WiFi for Affiliate Summit Central 2012 will be available in conference areas and sleeping rooms in the Hilton Austin for the day before and two days of the conference.

Here is the logon information…

• SSID: Hhonors
• user name: AffiliateSummit
• password: ASC12

Logon to the WiFi from Salon A, B, and C on the 4th floor of the Hilton Austin, as well as sleeping rooms for attendees staying at the hotel.

As a reminder, the 10th annual AffStat survey of affiliate marketing statistics is now open through May 31, 2012.

We’d like to encourage all affiliates to take part in the survey by rewarding three lucky respondents with a VIP Pass ($879 value) to Affiliate Summit East 2012.*

This AffStat survey is focused on affiliates, so please do not complete the survey unless you are an affiliate.

Data from the AffStat survey will be published in future editions of FeedFront Magazine (get a free subscription), and the full report will be available for free.

Take the survey now.

Affiliate managers and networks – please encourage your affiliates to take the AffStat survey.

If you’re interested in the 2011 edition of the AffStat report, it is available to download or read online.

*Three winners will be chosen randomly and will be contacted by email provided after the survey has closed.