Affiliate Summit East 2009
Jun 5, 2009 Affiliate Marketing, General
On August 9th through the 11th of 2009, Affiliate Summit East will be going full force to talk about Affiliate Marketing on the Internet. It will take place at the Hilton in New York City. 
For those of you that do not know about affiliate marketing, it’s simply selling someone elses’ products to get a commission for it. You’re basically a salesman (over the Internet) for the representing company.
When I started this blog, Jay Berkowitz, from The Ten Golden Rules of Internet Marketing, was helping me with it on his podcast. Well, Jay will be one of the speakers along with Twitter famous Chris Brogan, who will be a keynote speaker. As an avid Twitter user, I’m very familiar with both of these gentlemen. They’re both extremely knowledgeable in their fields and I’m sure they will not disappoint you with the amount of information they provide.
As of this writing, there will be 68 speakers. That’s a lot of information to absorb.
I plan on attending the event for the whole three days. I applied for a press pass and was accepted to attend and review any of the sessions that were happening. The Press Pass is great as it gives me full press access to the blogger room, all 3 days of sessions, Meet Market and Exhibit Hall.
During those days, I plan on taking a bunch of photos and video to write about. I already own a DSLR camera and plan on purchasing the Flip UltraHD video camera to record the event. Plus, the Flip is small, light and can easily transfer the video to your notebook computer or YouTube via its flip out USB connector.
I read during previous Affiliate Summit shows that video was not allowed. So, to be sure, I contacted Shawn Collins, the co-founder of Affiliate Summit, via Twitter and he informed me, in his own words, “Neither audio nor video recording of Affiliate Summit sessions are permitted #ASE09.” I also asked him about shooting still photos and this was his reply, “photos are encouraged - video and audio outside of Affiliate Summit sessions is fine, too.”
So, no sessions are allowed to be recorded, which I can surely understand as many of the speakers may record their own sessions to sell as future products. That’s absoulutely fine by me as I’m not there to copy their programs or teachings. I’ll be there to connect with the people I’ve been chatting with online. I’ll finally be able to put a body to their Twitter avatars.
Of course, learning as much as I can from the speakers and others’ I meet won’t hurt either. I hope to meet you there. If you see me, say hello.
Tags: Affiliate Summit, Affiliate Summit East 2009, ASE09, Chris Brogan, Jay Berkowitz, Shawn Collins
5 Clean Fonts for Website Design
Mar 24, 2009 General, Graphics Design, Website Setup
This week we’ll discuss some Fonts that are clean for website design and best of all, FREE. How about 5 of them?
The first that I like is Lois Ann font. This font goes very smoothly from one letter to the next. It has a long and lean design to it that gives it that elegant look.
The Aldo font has the clean but unique horizontal lines that that slant up while the top and bottom of the letters are rounded.
The Eurofurance font has that tall and lean look with the squared off corners. This one has various versions of it and is compressed into a zip file.
The Asenine font is short and fat design. It has the thin, clean lines with smooth, rounded corners. This font also includes multiple variations and is included in a zip file.
The Opticon Font has the very round rounds, and very square squares.
Download them, try them out and enjoy.
Tags: Fonts
Bombarded by Spam
Feb 14, 2009 General
I am absolutely getting killed by spam coming from Russia. I am literally getting several hundred per day. I can’t delete all of them in bulk in fear of erasing the one or two of value. I can see many of them come from the same IP address and therefore can quickly get rid of those. But the rest, I have to go and translate to see what they are asking or talking about. The other thing I also do is go into my spam settings and block that string of IP addresses. I guess it helps.
For the rest of the comments, I’m actually using Google Translate to read what is being asked or mentioned. What a great free service Google Translate provides. I’m able to read the comments that are written as well as write back in Russian for a reply. The main problem of is that it’s time consuming.
I understand it doesn’t help the US readers when the comments are posted and replied in Russian, but for the time being I don’t have a problem with doing it this way.
On a side note, I noticed that I didn’t write a blog post for the book review I wrote about. There was no tips or techniques blog post last week due to scheduling on my part. I should have one up this weekend.
Time Tracking Tools
Jan 5, 2009 General
How much time do you spend online? Not sure? Well, try using some of these tools and it will account for your time spent behind the computer.
These tips are for those with the need to track their time spent on a particular online activity. They could be from browsing the Internet, blogging, social networking or just emailing.
These are great time tracking tools to help you keep track of your time spent online.
And, again, as most tools mentioned on this blog, they’re free.
Tags: Time tracking
