Affliliate Summit (pic)
 

In our never-ending quest to provide the finest service to our clients, goodgirl attended the Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas, which started as Internext ended.

She got the opportunity to meet with some of the movers and shakers in the affiliate program community, including our own J$tyle$ and Gary from Joe Bucks

http://a1der-babe.com/joebucks.jpg

She came away with lots of good ideas and new connections.

FYI, for those of you that think Internext was expensive, tickets for this event go for $1,500 a pop.

Two of the sessions I went to had speakers that mentioned adult marketing. They were basically telling merchants and affiliates they had a lot to learn from adult marketing and that they should be watching.

I guess they need to be reminded sometimes.

Reminded of what?

Goodgirl, I know you have been knee deep in the mainstream side of things for a while. I have 2 questions for you:

1. Which side has better sales techniques, mainstream or adult?

2. Which is harder and why?

glad you got to meet David and Gary Goodgirl
I think you can see where I represent one hell of a company!

I love JOEBUCKS
My affiliates love JOEBUCKS
And I hopemore people sign up for Joebucks.com/kb

I'd love to work with any webmaster who wants to make serious money upselling great pill products!

I was told they were sold out, I wanted to go but the tix were out and even the sponsor passes were out by the time I rolled around. I waited to last minute though.
WG

There is NO money to be made in Mainstream :winkwink:

see above post :winkwink:

That's why I was looking to getting a sponsor badge, like I could afford my own, lol.
WG

DIE THREAD ... DIE!

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I just need enough money for a 40oz of Olde English 800 every weekend. That's all J$. Can I make that in mainstream?

hmm
gonna have to read more about this event

1. Which side has better sales techniques, mainstream or adult?

I couldn't really pick, each have some unique techniques. Mainstream has some really nice video ads now build into their sites and emails. Some can even take orders inside the email itself. Sometimes I think their pitches of their products and services are way to long. But maybe I have just been on the internet too long. While Mainstream worries about the look and control of their ads, Adult worries much more about conversions. And as mentioned at the conference they are more then willing to send their traffic to their competitors just to make a sale. If they can't convert them, they find another way to get the sale.

2. Which is harder and why?

For me mainstream. I don't believe it is hard to get SE traffic for many mainstream sites. But it is hard as an affiliate to get some really unique ads and custom type content (not the gallery type content) but custom anything for an affiliate. Adult is very much a community, not just of one web board but crosses all of them. Adult definitely has better networking then mainstream from boards, resources, internet radio and every other way we come up with to be able to stay in contact with each other. And none of them fear to link to a competitor. Which this really does make it much easier for adult webmasters to find what they need information on.

I can probably go on and on there are so many differences.

I could bitch all day about mainstream marketing on trademarked keywords... lol. At least in adult, its an open marketspace.
WG

goodgirl
if i was to email you - would you be able to point me in the direction of some good mainstream resources? :)

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I've attended this event since it's inception and know the people who put it together. If anyone has questions feel free to ask, it gets bigger and bigger each year. Over 1300 attended last week. Next one is in Orlando I believe.

Nah, I can lend you a few bucks a weekend at a nice rate (slightly above WSJ Prime) if you want :winkwink:

LOL

We will have something available soon. Patience my son, patience.

That is so true! Please market my product, but you can't use my name. :thumbsup Let affiliates really market the names, and more people would know who they are. Some day they may learn.

I don't mean to sound mean...it just doesn't make much sense to me.

Awww hell J. Sounds like you channeled the spirit of your cousins in Williamsburg with the curly sideburns with that comment! You will loan me $1.50 with above prime intrest. Jeez. :disgust







LOL :winkwink:

Yup, u know what I'm talking about :)
Frustrating as hell. Although I don't blame them, they don't want more competition on keywords they believe is rightfully theirs, it just sucks that I have to give up a certain marketshare because of this mentality!

WG

Oy vey ... you jewing me down?

What's your fico score?

Maybe we can come to a mutually beneficial arrangement :winkwink:

BTW - wtf? You can get a 40 of O E for $1.50 in the bad apple?

Get the fuck outta heah?!?!?!

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Hahahahahahaha!


What's the old saying... You can take the boy outta Brooklyn... ;)

The Temple, the pj's or Brooklyn ... the saying (and these last few posts) apply to all

:thumbsup :winkwink: :1orglaugh

I'm off to catch some :sleep - I gotta wake up early and follow up with all my mainstream leads from the summit

:winkwink:

PEACE OUT, PW!!!

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Not every mainstream restricts PPC. Out of the 5 that I manage, only 1 does :thumbsup

I don't think anyone has ever implied that every of anything does anything. Just that there is a pattern.

I'm going to try to post some resources between these 2 blogs:
http://www.conferencewhoswho.com
http://www.tanyamartin.com

You can email me, tanya @ tanyamartin.com

This year was only internext for me, but next year I am planning to sponsor some event during the Affiliate Summit

Yeah, I guess I am going to have to attend next year as well