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Topics in this issue:
- 5 Questions for Affiliate Summit Keynote Jason Calacanis
- Affiliate Summit West 2008 Pinnacle Awards Nominations
- Affiliate Summit 2008 East: Boston or Foxwoods Resort Casino
- Affiliate Marketing Classifieds and Other Stuff
- Affiliate Summit 2007 London – “Cross-Pondization” at its Finest
Last December, Jason Calacanis was Danny Sullivan’s guest at Search Engine Strategies Chicago for the keynote conversation. The thing everybody remembers from that chat was Jason’s comment that “SEO is bullshit!”
So what does Jason think of affiliate marketing?
Jim Kukral asks him the following questions…
- I say the words “affiliate marketing”; what is your first immediate thought?
- Have you ever done affiliate marketing? If yes, what have you done? If no, why?
- What can the summit crowd expect you to talk about?
- What kind of crowd are you expecting? Do you know many affiliate marketing people?
- If “seo is b.s.”, affiliate marketing is…???
Read Jim’s interview with Jason Calacanis at http://www.jimkukral.com/5-questions-for-jason-calacanis-affiliate-summit-keynote-speaker/.
These awards recognize exceptional performance in affiliate marketing.
The Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards will be presented at Affiliate Summit 2008 West, taking place February 24-26, 2008 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
The categories for the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards are listed below:
- Affiliate of the Year
- Affiliate Manager of the Year
- Exceptional Merchant
- Affiliate Marketing Advocate
- Best Blogger
- Affiliate Marketing Legend
Note - these are nominations - not votes. No need to stuff the ballot box or campaign for yourself.
The First Annual Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards Show took place on Monday, January 22, 2007 during the Pure Imagination Party hosted by oneNetworkDirect and Wynn Las Vegas at TRYST the nightclub at Wynn Las Vegas.
There were six awards presented to recognize outstanding affiliate marketers.
Below are the winners for each category.
- Affiliate of the Year: Scott Hazard
- Affiliate Manager of the Year: Angel Djambazov
- Exceptional Merchant: Amazon.com
- Affiliate Marketing Advocate Award: Brian Littleton
- Best Blogger: Jim Kukral
- Wayne Porter Affiliate Marketing Legend: Todd Crawford
New York City took a close second in the voting. So we've been collecting proposals from any and all hotels that can accommodate our needs for space and hotel rooms.
Just recently, we had an idea that we wanted to throw by everybody.
Since most folks favored Boston or New York, and Las Vegas is always the runaway favorite for the Affiliate Summit West shows, we wanted to throw out the Foxwoods Resort Casino for consideration.
It's between Boston and New York, accessible by air, train and car, and it's got the casino action that affiliate marketers seem to enjoy.
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From a Meeting Planner's perspective, I have to say that this was the most difficult show to prepare for, out of the eight Affiliate Summits that we've put on so far. With obstacles such as time change, imperial versus metric, USD conversions to GBP and phraseology hiccups (sometimes quite embarrassing ones), it was definitely much more of a challenge than I ever expected.
Call me masochistic if you want, but as tricky as it all was, it was undeniably, 100% worth it and definitely one for the Affiliate Summit books.
Read the rest of Missy's post.
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