Affiliate Summit East 2011, which kicked off on Sunday, August 21 at the Hilton New York in New York City, started out early and ran late. Registration opened at 8am and a steady stream of attendees came through to collect their badges throughout the day. Booths for the exhibit hall were being assembled from 8am [...]
I started off Affiliate Summit West 2011 with my partner, Missy Ward, at a tattoo parlor to get inked up with the Affiliate Summit logo. You could say we have some passion for this conference, as we kick off our 8th year with 4,627 affiliate marketers at the Wynn Las Vegas for Affiliate Summit West [...]
The Affiliate Summit unConference, sponsored by SeaWorld, took place on Monday, September 27 at SeaWorld in Orlando, FL. The day kicked off with attendees suggesting topics they’d like to speak on during informal 20-minute sessions. We had twelve breakout sessions that focused largely on affiliate marketing, and it was fun to participate in the interactive [...]
I’ve often thought about how being an affiliate marketer means you can work from anywhere, and I’d daydream about one day making a move. The idea got some legs this past summer, when I was chatting with my wife, Vicky, about fleeing New Jersey for Austin, TX. Before we knew it, our summer vacation to [...]
I went out for a three-mile run the other day, and almost immediately I was looking for reasons to cut it short and take a hot shower. It was windy and cold. Rain was coming down. My foot was hurting. Side stitches. Then I got to thinking about Edison Peña. He was the Chilean miner [...]