Just when you think you’re close to mastering a skill, in this case affiliate marketing you meet a group of people that know much more. When all these people are in one room brainstorming and sharing ideas the knowledge becomes invaluable. I’m talking of course about the Affiliate Summit meetup that was hosted at Mimeo’s offices in New York.
In an effort to raise awareness about affiliate marketing, Shawn Collins and Missy Ward along with Jim Kukral as Affiliate Summit ambassador have taken it upon themselves to organize affiliate summit meetups around the country. Deborah Carney and her husband Vinny O’Hare were in charge of organizing the meetup in New York. Jeff Grill of Mimeo gave a presentation and shared some of his ups and downs he has experienced in affiliate marketing both with his company and some of his personal sites. He was most recently upset with the latest round of Google slaps on several of his websites and looked as if a bully had stolen his lunch money.
Needless to say most of the night was spent talking about how to optimize webpages to rank higher on Google. Deborah and Vinny had the most helpful information and gave ideas of how to navigate around the Google maze. I think that by the end of the night everyone walked out of the room feeling a lot smarter and with a couple new friends. Deb and Vinny combined have countless years in the affiliate marketing industry and produce several podcasts to help affiliates, merchants and bloggers get started for themselves.
If your interested in affiliate marketing I highly recommend you check out the Affiliate Summit Meetup schedule and see if one is coming to a city near you. If there isn’t one scheduled yet, organize one. When affiliate marketers get together in an intimate setting like these meetups provide everyone seems to find answers to questions they’ve been struggling over for a really long time.
Below are a couple pictures of the meetup:
