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Affiliate Summit East 2009

Loukas — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:42:37 +0000

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.