Affiliate Summit East 2009 (ASE09), the biggest of any Affiliate Summit East with 3,076 attendees, kicked off in New York City on August 9, 2009.

The previous peak attendance for an Affiliate Summit East show was 2,341 in Boston last year.
Day one of ASE09 featured a series of educational sessions and the Affiliate Meet Market, where six hours of networking took place.

After we experienced some long lines this past January at Affiliate Summit West 2009, a number of things were changed to alleviate the time for picking up badges and registration materials, and lines were low throughout the day.

The second day started with the keynote address from Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, co-authors of the New York Times bestselling book, “Trust Agents”.

The capacity crowd was engaged as the keynote ran beyond the end time with the entertaining banter between Smith and Brogan.

After the keynote, Chris Brogan and Julien Smith signed copies of Trust Agents for a line of Affiliate Summit attendees.

The day also marked the opening of the exhibit hall, which spanned two floors and was crowded until closing.
There were also a series of packed educational sessions on the second day.

Towards the end of the day, there was a progression of roundtables hosted by a dozen experts on various topics related to affiliate marketing.

Day two wound up with a four-hour session of networking and karaoke at TechKaraoke, where a long list of folks in the industry sang their hearts out.

The final day of Affiliate Summit started with a keynote address from Peter Shankman, who had the crowd laughing and thinking with his talk.

The day also featured a series of educational sessions and the final day of the exhibit hall.

The final session was GeekCast.fm Live, where podcast hosts answered questions from the audience on podcasting and a host of other issues.

Finally, ASE09 wound up with the Affiliate Triathlon, where participants contributed $100 each to Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City for the chance to win a booth or five Platinum passes at Affiliate Summit West 2010.

The three sports in the competition were toilet racers (motorized toilets on wheels), Skee-ball, and Whack-a-Mole.

As things drew to a close, I was chatting with a number of people about the syndrome that hits attendees as they leave an Affiliate Summit (or any other conference).

After several days of networking, we strengthen our bonds, and there is a sense of emptiness when everybody goes their separate ways.

But it doesn’t have to be that way – we’ve got YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, the Affiliate Summit Social Network, and other venues to stay together.

Then again, there is no replacing Affiliate Summit West 2010, taking place January 17-19, 2010 in Las Vegas. We look forward to seeing everybody again next January.

Shawn is a Co-founder of Affiliate Summit and Co-Editor-in-Chief of FeedFront Magazine.

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The eighth issue of FeedFront, the official magazine of Affiliate Summit, is at the printer and it will be hitting mailboxes in early October 2009.

Issue eight of FeedFront will also be distributed at ad:tech New York, Blog World Expo, and PubCon.

This issue of FeedFront Magazine includes a recap of Affiliate Summit East 2009, as well as articles on auditing affiliate programs, productivity, pro digital video camera formats, PPC, email, advertising tax, and the death of an affiliate network.

Plus, interviews with Loren Feldman of 1938 Media and Joel Bauer from the “Your Business Card is CRAP” video.

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Affiliate Summit East 2009 is taking place August 9-11 in New York City. The agenda is packed with three days of educational sessions. Here are some of the speakers and their sessions you can look forward to attending.

SEO Tools You Can Use Today
Wil Reynolds
SEER Interactive
Associate
Twitter @wilreynolds

What will attendees learn if they attend your session?
We’ll review the pros and cons of some of my favorite (and many unknown) web tools. Expect to learn how to use YouTube to build links, along with advanced tactics strategies like using no-follows and other tactics to help maximize your internal link power to the pages that need it most.

What are you looking forward to during Affiliate Summit East 2009?
If you’ve ever seen a competitor outranking you for some of your key terms this session will give you the tools and strategies to put up a good fight. The people, I look forward to interacting with and learning from are all of you guys!

Getting Noticed FAST
Lisa Picarille
LisaPicarille.com
Consultant
Twitter @lisap

What will attendees learn if they attend your session?
How a handful of savvy online marketers have leveraged the latest social networking tools, – along with good old -fashioned networking, – to go from virtually unknown newbies to instantly recognizable (and well-respected) names in the affiliate marketing space in just one year. Attendees will learn the tips, tricks and proven techniques that made these personal branding efforts highly successful.

What are you looking forward to during Affiliate Summit East 2009?
Affiliate Summit is always the perfect combination of education and networking that enables me to take away practical advice, expert opinions and real- world lessons that move my business forward. Plus, the show always manages to incorporate some fun implementation of cutting- edge technology that ends up being critical to me down the road.

Seven Deadly Sins of Landing Page Optimization
Tim Ash
SiteTuners.com
President & CEO
Twitter @tim_ash

What will attendees learn if they attend your session?
How a few simple fixes to common problems can skyrocket your conversion rate.

What are you looking forward to during Affiliate Summit East 2009?
Power networking and hanging out with positive enthusiastic people.

Organic Site Review Panel
Scott Polk
Bruce Clay, Inc
Sr. SEO Analyst / Evangelist
Twitter @scottpolk

What will attendees learn if they attend your session?
Real- world SEO recommendations on how to improve their organic listings in Google, Yahoo and MSN Live search engines. Attendees will have the opportunity to have their websites reviewed in real-time by a panel of experts in the SEO field.

What are you looking forward to during Affiliate Summit East 2009?
I am definitely looking forward to the Nnetworking opportunities, – both professional and personal that always occurs at Affiliate Summit. Also, new business opportunities and partnerships with some of the smartest people in internet marketing.

Social Media Marketing for Affiliates

Brent Csutoras
Brent Csutoras, Inc.
Social Media Consultant
Twitter @brentcsutoras

What will attendees learn if they attend your session?
A comprehensive understanding of the benefits to marketing within the top social media aggregation sites like Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon. Through the many examples and tips the panel will provide, attendees will learn how to use these social sites as a brand, visibility, and link building tools. Basically if you want to know what social media marketing is really all about, this is the panel for you.

What are you looking forward to during Affiliate Summit East 2009?
This being my first time at Affiliate Summit, I am really looking forward to meeting and networking with the attendees.

Web 2010 – Ten Trends Defining Your Future

Jay Berkowitz
www.TenGoldenRules.com
CEO
Twitter @JayBerkowitz

What will attendees learn if they attend your session?
The ten leading trends that will allow businesses, individuals and affiliates to succeed online in 2010 and beyond.

What are you looking forward to during Affiliate Summit East 2009?

I am looking forward to the affiliate marketing community taking on the Big Apple and shaking it up!

Register at www.AffiliateSummit.com – passes are expected to sell out within a couple weeks of Affiliate Summit East 2009.

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The seventh issue of FeedFront, the official magazine of Affiliate Summit, is at the printer and it will be hitting mailboxes in late July and early August 2009.

Issue seven will also be distributed at Affiliate Summit East 2009 in New York City next month.

The cover story is an interview with Lauren (aka Turbolapp on WickedFire) on doing her affiliate work on a treadmill desk, as well as articles by Chris Brogan, Will Martin-Gill, Mari Smith, and Ted Murphy.

Plus, there are also pictures of affiliate workspaces, profiles of affiliate fatbloggers, and the program for Affiliate Summit East 2009.

Issue 7 of FeedFront can now be viewed online, downloaded, and printed from Scribd.

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We’re starting to work on issue 7 of FeedFront Magazine, which will also be the conference guide at Affiliate Summit East 2009.

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