Affiliate Summit Review
This next Affiliate Summit Review is one close to my heart as I have been attending the Affiliate Summit for over 12+ years. Affiliate marketing is a unique and enjoyable way to make money online, if you know how to do it right. While you have e-commerce websites and blog writing that are popular ways to earn money online, affiliate marketing is a highly rewarding medium. The more sales you bring to a business which is part of the affiliate system the more money you make.
But not all affiliates are created equal and more importantly not all affiliate conferences are created equal. Affiliate Summit is one such conference with an A-list of keynote speakers, info-packed breakout sessions and exhibitors as far as the eye can see.
About Affiliate Summit
Missy Ward and Shawn Collins are behind the success of Affiliate Summit. They have over two decades of experience in affiliate marketing.
Affiliate Summit was founded in 2003 by these two affiliate marketers with the objective of providing knowledge about the current industry issues to affiliates and to foster a highly productive environment for networking.
Since its inception, Affiliate Summit has expanded its offerings to encompass Performance Marketing Summit, Affiliate Summit Social Events, GeekCast.fm, AffStat.com, ReveNews.com and FeedFront Magazine.
The company traditionally conducts two huge conferences every year (one in NYC and the other in Las Vegas) and also does occasional niche centric events which are sold out well in advance.
Who can benefit from Affiliate Summit?
Affiliate Summit offers an excellent opportunity for all people including but not limited to:
- Individuals or companies who want to enter affiliate marketing industry and profit by attracting prospective affiliates to their affiliate program
- Online bloggers and publishers who want to form successful partnerships
- Managers of affiliate marketing programs who want to add to their affiliate portfolio
- People who want to sell or buy web traffic
- Social media handling companies
- Experts in SEO and SEM and many more.
Advantages of Being Part of the Affiliate Summit
With attending the Affiliate Summit you can become more knowledgeable about the entire affiliate marketing niche and get to have new, unique and successful ideas for your affiliate marketing program. Some opportunities you are exposed to with Affiliate Summit events include:
Great Education Sessions That Help Pick Up New Ideas On
- Blogging
- Website promotion
Excellent opportunity to Network
Since networking is the lifeline of affiliate marketing the events at Affiliate Summit offer the right environment to kick start or enhance your affiliate marketing career. The Meet Market and Exhibit Hall are perfect for you to forge new contacts with individuals connected to various top-level companies in affiliate management.
Furthermore, there are other events and parties conducted after hours during the week that the conference is held where you will get to meet with fellow bloggers, affiliates and affiliate management people. Impromptu meetings are as effective as the formal meetings to make new contacts.
Orientation for Beginners
For beginners who attend their first ever affiliate marketing event, an orientation event is hosted by Shawn Collins, the co-founder of Affiliate Summit.
The orientation program helps newcomers to know the basics in affiliate marketing and the ways to exploit the conference to their utmost. Books and other treats are also offered at the orientation.
Useful Sessions
The sessions held during the conference aim at providing important tips on affiliate marketing that includes SEO tips for both beginners and intermediate marketers so they can do an effective optimization of web pages to top search engine rankings. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear popular bloggers’ perspective on the industry and success tips for building a branded affiliate marketing blog from scratch.
Enjoy While You Work
The events and conferences sponsored by Affiliate Summit include smashing parties that feature open bars, performances at the Affiliate Ball by superstars such as Tone Loc, Young MC, Warren G and others.
And you also get to meet popular personalities including Shoe Money, Rae Hoffman, Missy Ward, John Chow and more. The best part of it all is all industry “celebrities” are approachable and open.
Drawbacks of Affiliate Summit
Many attendees complain about the abundance of marketers with fake or scam products being part of the event. But since Affiliate Summit is a conference that welcomes everyone interested in affiliate marketing, the presence of such affiliates is inevitable.
My Verdict
Affiliate Summit is just what a beginner or intermediate in affiliate marketing needs to gain a strong foothold in the industry. Affiliate Summit provides a wonderful networking opportunity and helps you form relationships easily.
The conference helps you get rid of your misconceptions and hesitations regarding affiliate marketing.
All in all, the various features of exhibitors and events organized by the Affiliate Summit are sure crowd pullers. For bloggers who want to make money from the popularity of their website or even for those who are just starting out on blogging, affiliate Summit provides ample opportunities they can capitalize on and reap the profits. Networking has never been so easy before thanks to Affiliate Summit’s innovative and effective conference.
“Affiliate Summit entered a new era in 2018. After so many years of being a US-centric event, we have gone global with a big splash in London this past February, and we’re headed to Singapore in October for the first Affiliate Summit in Asia. We’re very excited about expanding to other cities in the near future.” – Shawn Collins