Shawn Collins who is one of the Co founders of Affiliate Summit has years of experience in affiliate marketing together with Missy Ward. Their insights and leadership channel a new way of sharing their experience since 2003. Its the well known Trade Show “Affiliate Summit“. Personally I always appreciate their true, kind and sincere attitude for affiliates, merchants, affiliate networks and agencies. They are always putting their heart and soul into what they are doing.  Today I am so glad to announce that Missy and Shawn have provided a 10% discount rate for the attendees of Affiliate Summit West 2010. Just using the special coupon code ASW10AFFMETER while registering, will help you out for increasing your understanding of affiliate marketing industry.

Unlike last year ASW 2009, there are two key-note speakers: Dr. Robert Cialdini who is the author of best seller books in the fields of persuasion, compliance, and negotiation and Brian Clark who is the author of CopyBlogger.com and owner of many successful internet ventures producing millions of dollars in sales.

If you look at the educational sessions running on during the Show, you will be amazed by their extent of coverage for affiliate marketing, Social Media, blogging and SEO issues.

Here is a quick list of the Sessions. Just check them out and you will get surprised to see that the topics addressed are really the ones that you are searching for the answers:
1.    A Primer On Search Engine Optimization
2.    Effective Social Media Techniques
3.    Increase Search Revenue While Protecting Your Brand
4.    Merchant Challenges in the Affiliate Space
5.    Monetizing Blogs for Affiliate Marketing and SEO
6.    MommyBloggers: Changing the Face of Affiliate Marketing?
7.    Using Pay-Per-Call to Grow Affiliate Programs
8.    Affiliate Program Case Studies: Strategies and Practices
9.    Start Monetizing Your Blog Today
10.    Video: Biggest Affiliate Marketing Opportunity Since Google
11.    20 Affiliate Program Management Mistakes To Avoid
12.    De-Duping: the Great Unknown in Affiliate Marketing
13.    Five Reasons Why SEO Efforts Fail
14.    Product Datafeeds: The Next Level
15.    Law Enforcement Risks for Advertisers, Affiliates, Networks
16.    Affiliate Marketing by the Numbers
17.    Self-Promotion Will Save The World
18.    Killer Facebook Advertising Tactics
19.    Running a Network: Business, Legal & Practical
20.    Affiliate Program Compliance: Working with the Networks
21.    SEO Site Review/Clinic
22.    Oprah, Flogs and FTC: Hot Topics 2010
23.    CPA Affiliate Marketing Opportunities in Europe
24.    Ask the Experts
25.    Site Clinic by the Women of SEO
26.    Scaling Article Marketing For Affiliate Marketers
27.    Coupon Problem Solving Clinic
28.    E-Commerce Site Deconstruction: Strategies for Affiliates
29.    How To Get Motivated For Success!
30.    Igniting Viral Campaigns by Creating Relevant Conversations
31.    Creating Lasting Publisher and Advertiser Relationships
32.    Using Thought Leadership to Generate Leads
33.    GeekCast.fm Live!

So what are you waiting for? Grab your discount code ASW10AFFMETER, register and claim your seat at Affiliate Summit!

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Performance Marketing Trade Shows are always the most powerful venues for establishing social networks, having empowered relations with your customers, getting acquainted by industry veterans, learning more about your business and business practices. Plus catching up with new developments and feeling the vivid organism of Affiliate Marketing industry gives you more motivation than you can ever imagine.

For any affiliate marketer (beginner/intermediate or pro) Affiliate Summit is a must go event.  Let me go over briefly how you will get the most during and after the “Affiliate Summit“:

Outcome: You will meet countless affiliates, merchants, network members or agencies and develop your business further.

Tip1: Don’t be shy. Always turn every opportunity to your advantage for meeting up with new people. You can meet them while you are waiting at the Starbucks Coffee Queue, during and in between the sessions, at expo hall, meet market place, parties or walk ways. Don’t buy the common saying that “Being alone at Affiliate Summits sucks”. Instead I found it to my advantage to meet up with new people. I become more open to any conversation by being alone. If you consider my situation, I’ve only visited US once a year and I have no opportunity left but to talk, meet with new people and enjoy their friendship. This MOTTO always worked out very well and makes everything so much fun. If you like you can also join mentor program of Affiliate Summit!

Tip2: Introduce yourself and briefly explain what you are up to in terms of affiliate marketing business. Do not forget to exchange your business cards.

Tip3: Keep a small notebook with you to in order track down your acquaintances. Give reference to where you met, how you met and what you two talked about. If you don’t keep them as simple introductory notes, believe me when you get back to home, you can easily miss out an important acquaintance for the future of your business.

Tip4: Even you do not feel obliged to or thought that it’s not necessary, issue nice and simple business cards for yourself. You do not need to be designer; internet has penty of resources to get yourself a business card. Be sure to have lots of them.

Tip5: Establish links with some of the people even before you go to the Affiliate Summit. Many of the sponsors are waiting to meet with you at Expo Hall or Meet Market Place. Send them an e-mail and set up a suitable time to meet.

Tip6: Don’t expose yourself like a sales person or don’t be so pushy to build relations with new people. Be very polite and let the dialog between you and your acquaintances flows in its own natural course but be proactive whenever you feel its necessary.

Tip7: Exchange ideas and opinions with people and get a deeper insight and understanding about the industry. Join the conversations and sessions. Don’t hesitate to ask questions during the sessions or panels.

Check out what other affiliates are up to. This way you can analyze where the affiliate marketing trends are going and compare your position in affiliate marketing to get a wider picture of your business.

Tip8: When you get back to home, the most important thing is to ping an e-mails to the people that you have met during the Summit. This is a fresh start for keeping your relations alive and a good way to found a solemn relationship and friendship with your industry liaisons.

Tip9: Follow up any social gatherings, events or parties via Affiliate Summit web site or Abestweb Forum and do not hesitate make fun. Join Affiliate Summit’s social Website and get to know more people even before you arrive.

Tip10: Always wear comfortable shoes and clothing. I, by myself, always prefer to be on flats for avoiding aching feet and legs.

I hope that the above will help you to get the most out of Affiliate Summit!

By the way don’t forget to attend the Premier Affiliate Summit West taking place  January 17-19, 2010, in Las Vegas!

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Affmeter and Mediatrust has just announced their strategic partnership for boosting Advaliant’s Publisher’s performance over their affiliate marketing operations.

Affmeter is a Performance Analytic Tool to help affiliates and publishers to track their commissions, clicks and EPC statistics automatically. Affiliates/publishers can set up their network accounts along with Google Adwords accounts and check out their performance in net revenue terms. Affmeter Pro supports affiliates by multiple reporting capabilities.

Affiliates is going to

• See Overall Performance Statistics appeared as Commission, Clicks and EPC and network revenue share

• Top Revenue generating Merchants/Offers

• Poor Revenue generating Merchants/Offers

• Google Adwords Reports with peer to peer matching of associated merchants

• Compare revenue and click statistics over time

• Check out detailed merchant graphics over time
• Collect past performance data
• Customize merchants’ data that they would like to watch

Affmeter Team has been committed itself for developing cutting edge solutions for Affiliate Marketing and keen to add new networks and features into Affmeter.

Peter Bordes, CEO of MediaTrust says of the relationship: “MediaTrust is pleased to offer the Advaliant platform’s reporting to Affmeter’s customers. Affmeter is a great tool for affiliates, making aggregated affiliate marketing data available on a single platform. We are pleased to be a part of Affmeter’s network.”

MediaTrust is acceppted as one of the most innovative platform creators for publishers in Performance Marketing Industry. MediaTrust’s revolutionary approach and dedicated support services are the strongest points in their success. As a member of Performance Marketing Alliance, MediaTrust would like to carry this mission and spread it all around the actors of Performance Marketing Industry.

CEO of Affmeter Firuze Okten Gokce says that “Affmeter is so pleased to join forces with MediaTrust which is one of the most dynamic and visionary actors of Performance Marketing Industry. Both Affmeter’s and MediaTrust’s Culture is to support affiliates’ needs and enhance their by combining the efficiency and productivity criterias. In the long run our mutual aim is to highlight this industry by innovative technologies to empower overall online marketing activities”

Affmeter LLC is pleased to announce that starting from today all of the Support Forum issues will be directed to the” Affmeter Statistics and Analytics Discussion Thread” in Affiliates4u UK.

“22 January 2008 was a starting point for Affiliates4u members to discuss Affmeter . Since then forum members like to talk about Affmeter issues, requests or news at this special thread which has become “Moderators Choice“. It becomes a natural instinct for Affmeter users to check out Affiliates4u forum or post their support issues before sending us e-mails about their problems or requests” says Firuze Okten Gokce CEO of Affmeter.

Affmeter Pro which is an automatic revenue collection tool for affiliate marketers who has multiple network accounts is a big time saver for affiliates. Many affiliates like to use this tool since they can spend more time on their marketing activities or other projects instead of exhausting their energy for logging into different network accounts. Affmeter also collecting the statistics of Google Adwords PPC costs along with a net revenue analysis dashboard. Comparison Tables,  Top performing ,  Poor Performing merchants, Merchant Watcher Tools are helping  affiliates to grab the whole picture of his/her activities.

According to Matthew Wood Founder of Affiliates4u “It’s great that the future development of such as useful tool for affiliates being debated and discussed on the Affiliates4u Forum - any innovation that enables our members to drill deeper into their reports and analyse performance and ROI is a huge step forward”

Affiliates4u is UK’s largest Affiliate Communication platform with its forums, blogs and social environment.  Affiliates4u Team are also involving in A4uExpo (UK’s and Europe’s top events on Affiliate Marketing), A4uAwards (The prestigious Award Event for Affiliate Marketing Industry in UK) and many other event organizations. Affiliates4u is continuing to establish, educate and gather all the players of Affiliate Marketing Industry in one platform which is catalyzing the development of Performance Marketing Industry in UK.

Affmeter users are welcomed by Firuze Okten Gokce (CEO of Affmeter) in this Special Thread. “The friendly spirit of Affiliates4u forum makes it easier to handle any problems. Constantly being backed by the feeds of Affmeter user’s gives us speed to figure out the nature of the issues or requests. Affiliates4u is a complete communication platform for Affmeter to shape up its development path of with new features and requests” says Firuze Okten Gokce.

All the users of Affmeter from all over the world are invited to join Affiliates4u forum to experience a better support service of Affmeter and become a part of friendly and informative environment.

Affmeter LLC is continuing to add fresh networks such as Adcommunal, Adcanadian, Maxbounty and XY7. There are more networks waiting at the pipeline.

For those of you who are not familiar with Affmeter just let me remind you what you can do by Affmeter: Affmeter helps affiliate marketers to automatically fetch revenue and click statistics from multiple affiliate networks. Affiliates who have PPC activity in Google Adwords can also check their PPC costs and be able to do a net revenue analysis. Affmeter provides affiliate marketers with customized report options, comparison dashboards, top performing merchants or poor performing merchants. In a nutshell, it is a quick snapshot of any affiliates’ performance  marketing adventure.

So far Affmeter has already covered Affili.net, Affiliate Future, Affiliate Window, Amazon.co.uk,  Amazon.com,  AvantLink, Buy.at, Affiliate.com, Canadian Sponsors, Clickbank, Clixgalore,  Commission Junction, Copeac, DGM-UK Affiliates, DGM-AU Affiliates, Forex Affiliate, GlobalDirectMedia, Google Adsense, Google Adwords, Google Affiliate Network ,Hydra, Kolimbo, LinkConnector, LinkMo, Linkshare, Linktrust, Market Health, Market Leverage, Offerforge, OnenetworkDirect, OMG, Paid on Results,  PepperJam Network,  Reporting.net, Share Results, Silvertap, Tradedoubler, Trienta, Webgains, Zanox, Zzounds.

Affmeter team is already working on adding new features to Affmeter Pro. Keyword tracking is one of the top priorities. However, innovation and development keeps on coming.

Affmeter Team will be more than happy to hear any requests or suggestions. Please feel free to contact me at firuze@affmeter.com