Affiliate Summit
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Affiliate marketing
Affiliate marketing is a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's own marketing efforts...
industry veterans Shawn Collins (affiliate)
Shawn Collins (affiliate)
Shawn Collins is an affiliate, author, blogger and event producer. Shawn Co., a company owned by Shawn Collins, co-founded one of the USA's biggest internet marketing trade shows - Affiliate Summit presented by Missy Ward. Shawn is also the Co-Editor of FeedFront , He wrote the book "Successful...
, and Missy Ward and focuses on the affiliate marketing professional community. The next Affiliate Summit will be January 7–9, 2011 in Las Vegas
Las Vegas metropolitan area
The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...
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History of Affiliate Summit
Affiliate Summit started in November 2003 as a small, one day seminar at Baruch College in New York City. Affiliate Summit 2003 had 200 registered attendees and Affiliate Summit West 2011 had over 4,600 registered attendees.Chronology of Affiliate Summit Events:
• November 3, 2003 (New York, NY): Affiliate Summit 2003
• June 24–28, 2004 (Cruise ship from New York, NY to Halifax, Nova Scotia): Affiliate Summit 2004
• June 13–14, 2005 (Las Vegas, NV): Affiliate Summit 2005
• January 8–10, 2006 (Las Vegas, NV): Affiliate Summit West 2006
• July 9–11, 2006 (Orlando, FL): Affiliate Summit East 2006
• January 21–23, 2007 (Las Vegas, NV): Affiliate Summit West 2007
• July 8–10, 2007 (Miami, FL): Affiliate Summit East 2007
• September 28, 2007 (London, England): Affiliate Summit London 2007
• February 24–26, 2008 (Las Vegas, NV): Affiliate Summit West 2008
• August 10–12, 2008 (Boston, MA): Affiliate Summit East 2008
• January 11–13, 2009 (Las Vegas, NV): Affiliate Summit West 2009
• August 9–11, 2009 (New York, NY): Affiliate Summit East 2009
• January 17–19, 2010 (Las Vegas, NV): Affiliate Summit West 2010
• August 15-17, 2010 (New York, NY): Affiliate Summit East 2010
• January 9–11, 2011 (Las Vegas, NV): Affiliate Summit West 2011
Upcoming...
• August 21-23, 2011 (New York, NY): Affiliate Summit East 2011
• January 8-10, 2012 (Las Vegas, NV): Affiliate Summit West 2012
Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards
The First Annual Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards Show took place on Monday, January 22, 2007 in Las Vegas. Six awards were presented to recognize outstanding contributions to the affiliate marketing industry during the previous year.2007 Pinnacle Award Winners:
Affiliate of the Year: Scott Hazard
Affiliate Manager of the Year: Angel Djambazov, Affiliate Manager
Affiliate manager
An affiliate manager manages affiliate programs by helping affiliates generate sales, track purchases and send commission, among other activities.-See also:* Affiliate* Affiliate marketing* Affiliate Networks* Internet marketing...
of OnlineShoes.com
Exceptional Merchant: Amazon
Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
Affiliate Marketing Advocate Award: Brian Littleton, Founder/President of ShareASale
Shareasale
ShareASale is an affiliate marketing network based in Chicago, IL USA. ShareASale services two customer sets in affiliate marketing: the affiliate, and the merchant....
Best Blogger: Jim Kukral, Managing Editor ReveNews
ReveNews
ReveNews is an online publication founded in December 1998 by independent digital media firm GMD Studios and the original team of Brian Clark, J.D. Ashcraft and Wayne Porter...
Wayne Porter Affiliate Marketing Legend: Todd Crawford, VP of Sales / Commission Junction
Commission Junction
Commission Junction is an online advertising company owned by ValueClick and operating in the affiliate marketing industry. The company is the largest affiliate network in North America and operates worldwide. Among the top 500 retailers using 3rd party affiliate marketing software, 62% are powered...
(1998–2006), VP of Sales and Business Development / OneNetwork by Digital River
Digital River
Digital River is a U.S. e-commerce outsourcing company. The company’s platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud management, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, reporting and strategic marketing services...
(since 2006)
2008 Pinnacle Award Winners:
Affiliate of the Year: Connie Berg, Owner Flamingo World
Affiliate Manager of the Year: Melissa Salas, Affiliate Manager
Affiliate manager
An affiliate manager manages affiliate programs by helping affiliates generate sales, track purchases and send commission, among other activities.-See also:* Affiliate* Affiliate marketing* Affiliate Networks* Internet marketing...
of Buy.com
Exceptional Merchant: CSN Stores
Affiliate Marketing Advocate Award: Haiko de Poel Jr., Owner ABestWeb.com
Best Blogger: Sam Harrelson, Managing Editor ReveNews
ReveNews
ReveNews is an online publication founded in December 1998 by independent digital media firm GMD Studios and the original team of Brian Clark, J.D. Ashcraft and Wayne Porter...
Wayne Porter Affiliate Marketing Legend: Brian Littleton, Founder/President of ShareASale
Shareasale
ShareASale is an affiliate marketing network based in Chicago, IL USA. ShareASale services two customer sets in affiliate marketing: the affiliate, and the merchant....
2009 Pinnacle Award Winners:
Affiliate of the Year: Mike Allen, Shopping-Bargains.com
Affiliate Manager of the Year: Angel Djambazov for Jones Soda and Keen Footwear
Exceptional Merchant: CelebrateExpress.com
Affiliate Marketing Advocate Award: Melanie Seery, NYAffiliatevoice.com
Best Blogger: Scott Jangro, Jangro.com
Wayne Porter Affiliate Marketing Legend: Kellie Stevens, Owner AffiliateFairPlay.com
2010 Pinnacle Award Winners:
Affiliate of the Year: Nicholas Koscianski, NickyCakes.com
Affiliate Manager of the Year: Matt McWilliams, Legacy Learning Systems
Exceptional Merchant: eBay.com
Affiliate Marketing Advocate Award: Angel Djambazov, Managing Editor ReveNews
ReveNews
ReveNews is an online publication founded in December 1998 by independent digital media firm GMD Studios and the original team of Brian Clark, J.D. Ashcraft and Wayne Porter...
Best Blogger: Jeremy Schoemaker
Jeremy Schoemaker
Jeremy "ShoeMoney" Schoemaker is a web entrepreneur, founder of ShoeMoney Media, and co-founder of the AuctionAds service.In March 2007, Schoemaker and his business partner David Dellanave launched AuctionAds, an eBay affiliate marketing service that serves eBay auction ads on contextually...
, ShoeMoney.com
Wayne Porter Affiliate Marketing Legend: Scott Jangro, MechMedia and Jangro.com
2011 Pinnacle Award Winners:
Affiliate of the Year: Deals.Woot
Affiliate Manager of the Year: Carolyn Kmet
Exceptional Merchant: Zappos
Affiliate Marketing Advocate Award: Lisa Picarille
Best Blogger: Eric Nagel
Wayne Porter Affiliate Marketing Legend: Todd Farmer
Affiliate Summit Speakers
2009 :Advanced Landing Pages for Affiliates: Scott Brinker
Scott Brinker
Scott Brinker, born 28 September 1971 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, is a computer programmer and entrepreneur.- The Major BBS/Galacticomm :Brinker was the second customer of, and eventually one of the first employees of, Galacticomm, the company founded by Tim Stryker that created The Major BBS...
, President & CTO, ion interactive, inc.
Advanced Search Marketing For Affiliates: Gab Goldenberg, Owner, SEO ROI Services
Removing the Payments Headache: Yuval Tal
Yuval Tal
Yuval Tal is the founder and president of Payoneer, the global Internet-based payment solution.-Early life and personal:Tal was born in 1965 in Israel. He served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a special operations commander of an elite combat unit. During his military service, Tal was decorated...
, CEO, Payoneer
Payoneer
Payoneer is an Internet-based financial services business that allows users to transfer money and receive payments through re-loadable prepaid MasterCard debit cards...
Using Photographs in Your Websites to Gain Traffic: Deborah Carney, CEO, Team Loxly
Removing Enterprise Barriers: Budgets, Silos, Creating Dominance: David Dalka, President, Dalka Strategy Consulting
2010 :
Todd Crawford, Co-Founder, Impact Radius
Matt Enders, CEO, mgecom, inc.
[Marty Fahncke, President, FawnKey & Associates
Markus Frind, CEO, Plentyoffish
Liat Fuchs,Affiliate Director, AffiliatePLY
2011 :
Robert Adler
Robert Adler
Robert Adler was an Austrian-born American inventor who held numerous patents.-Achievements:Adler was born in Vienna in 1913. He earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Vienna in 1937.Following Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany in 1939, Dr. Adler, a Jew, left the country...
, President, The Link Builders
Mike Allen, President, Shopping-Bargains.com, LLC
Larry Bailin, CEO, Single Throw Internet Marketing
Drew Bennett
Drew Bennett
Andrew Russell "Drew" Bennett is a former American football wide receiver of the National Football League. He was signed by the Tennessee Titans as an undrafted free agent in 2001. He played college football at UCLA....
, Blogger / Photographer, BenSpark.com
Mike Buechele, Chief Performance Marketer, Adalytical
FeedFront, Official Magazine of Affiliate Summit
Affiliate Summit launched a magazine called FeedFront in June 2008. The content of the magazine is composed entirely by affiliate marketers.FeedFront Magazine is published six times per year.
Future of Affiliate Summit
Affiliate Summit typically place twice yearly in the United States, with the exception of an Affiliate Summit in London on September 28, 2007 at the Olympia Conference Centre.There are tentative plans to launch a book publishing imprint via Affiliate Summit.