Entries for the Affiliate Summit Ticket Sweeps can be made by Facebook or Twitter.
There will be fifty Gold Passes to Affiliate Summit East 2011 given away, each valued at $549 per pass. Winners will be notified by email or Twitter DM.
Some details on the Affiliate Summit Ticket Sweeps:
Prize Eligibility: Only persons residing in United States who are at least 21 years of age can enter.
Sweepstakes Starts: June 23, 2011 @ 02:01 am (EDT)
Sweepstakes Ends: July 23, 2011 @ 02:59 am (EDT)
The passes cannot be transferred, and the pass codes can no longer be redeemed in the event the conference sells out.
Also, anybody registering for a complimentary pass who neither checks in at the conference nor cancels will be ineligible for future complimentary passes.
Here are the ten winners of the 2010 Affiliate Summit East Gold Passes. These passes are worth $549 each and entitles the winners admission to the Affiliate Meet Market, Exhibit Hall, Keynotes, Sunday educational sessions, access to all recorded session videos, PowerPoint presentations and Affiliate Summit Social Network.
It was tough deciding who to award the passes to because there were so many good entries. In the end, I selected a group that I think represents a nice range of experience, skill level and background. I think everyone on the list will get a lot out of Affiliate Summit and I hope you take the knowledge you learn from it and run with it. All your entries were awesome and I look forward to meeting you. Congrats to the following winners.
Zander Chance
Lori Meyer
Rick Doggett
Travis
Keith
Andrea
Kevin
Lisa
Darryl Tott
Juliet Wentworth
Congrats to all the winners. I have sent each one of you an email with the instructions on how to claim your 2011 Affiliate Summit East Gold Pass. I’ll see you guys in New York!
This is a little reminder that you today is pretty much the last day for you to enter for a chance to win one of ten Gold Passes to the Affiliate Summit East in New York City. Winners will receive the $595 pass to the biggest affiliate convention in the world and join me for some New York pizza as well.
To enter, all you have to do is make a comment in this post telling why you should be given a Gold Pass. There are 95 entries so far and I have a feeling it’s going to be tough picking the winners. If you haven’t entered yet and you planned to be in New York during the time of the Affiliate Summit East, this is your chance to go to the show, learn a great deal about affiliate marketing and network with some of the biggest affiliate marketers in the industry.
Winners will be announced tomorrow during Dot Com Pho. The cut off for entries is Saturday, June 25 at 9AM PST. Good luck and enter now.
This is a little reminder that you today is pretty much the last day for you to enter for a chance to win one of ten Gold Passes to the Affiliate Summit East in New York City. Winners will receive the $595 pass to the biggest affiliate convention in the world and join me for some New York pizza as well.
To enter, all you have to do is make a comment in this post telling why you should be given a Gold Pass. There are 95 entries so far and I have a feeling it’s going to be tough picking the winners. If you haven’t entered yet and you planned to be in New York during the time of the Affiliate Summit East, this is your chance to go to the show, learn a great deal about affiliate marketing and network with some of the biggest affiliate marketers in the industry.
Winners will be announced tomorrow during Dot Com Pho. The cut off for entries is Saturday, June 25 at 9AM PST. Good luck and enter now.
The Affiliate Summit East 2011 happens August 21 to 23 in New York city and I have TEN Gold Passes, worth $549 each, to give away to ten lucky John Chow dot Com readers. The Gold Pass gives you admission to Affiliate Meet Market, Exhibit Hall, Keynotes, Sunday educational sessions; access to all recorded session videos; PowerPoint presentations; and Affiliate Summit Social Network.
To enter, all you have to do is explain in the comments why you should be awarded a Gold Pass to the Affiliate Summit East. The better your comment, the higher your chances of being a winner. Please only enter if you actually plan on going. If you are selected, you must attend. The pass is not transferable and cannot be resold because it will have your name on it. I am only giving away the passes. I am not paying for your travel or hotel. However, I should be hosting another Dot Com NY Pizza event that all winners can attend. I just need to find a sponsor for it first.
IMPORTANT – please note the following: You must notify the recipients that they cannot be transferred, and the pass codes become invalid in the event the conference sells out. Also, anybody registering for a complimentary pass who neither checks in at the conference or cancels will be ineligible for future complimentary passes.
The winners will be announce this Saturday, June 25 during Dot Com Pho. This should give you enough time to book your air and hotel if you need it. I know I have lots of readers in the big apple that want to go to the Affiliate Summit but can’t afford the cost of the pass. This is your chance to go! Good luck and enter now!
The BlogWorld Expo New York is held at the same time and location as the BookExpo America show. If you’re a Web 2.0 guy like me, then you might wondered why BWE would need to colocate with BEA. After all, isn’t the book dead?
One of the exhibitors at BlogWorld was Wiley. They’re the publisher of those “Dummies” books that many people buy but never read. The Wiley booth had only a sign and a table. Finding a rep at the Wiley booth was a big hit or miss. Most of the time the booth was empty, and today, we found the booth completely abandon. This allowed Syed and I to take over the Wiley booth to make the following video.
We were feeling pretty smug with ourselves and decided to check out the BookExpo America show floor to see how dead it was. What we saw gave us a rude awakening.
The Book Is Not Dead
BlogWorld Expo and BookExpo are both held at the Javits Center, which overs over 675,000 square feet of display space divided among multiple halls and floors. This is the floor plan for the BlogWorld Expo.
Barely 50 exhibitors had booths at BlogWorld New York. Wiley was booth 308, a double sized booth. This is the floor plan of the BookExpo America.
Any preconceived notion on our part that the book was dead was destroyed when we got into the BEA show floor. It was MASSIVE! The 2011 BEA attracted over 2,000 exhibitors and nearly 30,000 attendees. To put things into perspective, the BEA had more exhibitors than BlogWorld had attendees!
So the book is not dead. In fact, it looks alive and kicking. Will BlogWorld ever get to the size of BookExpo America? No one can say for sure. However, I’ve seen trade shows much bigger than the BEA go from hero to zero in only a few years (COMDEX). The BlogWorld West shows have been doubling in size every year and I expect the East shows to do the same. I hope to be around when BWE finally overtakes BEA.
If you want to win one of those Wiley books, you’ll have to check with WP Beginner. I gave all my books to him. The book may not be dead, but it’s still too damn heavy to carry around!
The BlogWorld Expo New York is held at the same time and location as the BookExpo America show. If you’re a Web 2.0 guy like me, then you might wondered why BWE would need to colocate with BEA. After all, isn’t the book dead?
One of the exhibitors at BlogWorld was Wiley. They’re the publisher of those “Dummies” books that many people buy but never read. The Wiley booth had only a sign and a table. Finding a rep at the Wiley booth was a big hit or miss. Most of the time the booth was empty, and today, we found the booth completely abandon. This allowed Syed and I to take over the Wiley booth to make the following video.
We were feeling pretty smug with ourselves and decided to check out the BookExpo America show floor to see how dead it was. What we saw gave us a rude awakening.
The Book Is Not Dead
BlogWorld Expo and BookExpo are both held at the Javits Center, which overs over 675,000 square feet of display space divided among multiple halls and floors. This is the floor plan for the BlogWorld Expo.
Barely 50 exhibitors had booths at BlogWorld New York. Wiley was booth 308, a double sized booth. This is the floor plan of the BookExpo America.
Any preconceived notion on our part that the book was dead was destroyed when we got into the BEA show floor. It was MASSIVE! The 2011 BEA attracted over 2,000 exhibitors and nearly 30,000 attendees. To put things into perspective, the BEA had more exhibitors than BlogWorld had attendees!
So the book is not dead. In fact, it looks alive and kicking. Will BlogWorld ever get to the size of BookExpo America? No one can say for sure. However, I’ve seen trade shows much bigger than the BEA go from hero to zero in only a few years (COMDEX). The BlogWorld West shows have been doubling in size every year and I expect the East shows to do the same. I hope to be around when BWE finally overtakes BEA.
If you want to win one of those Wiley books, you’ll have to check with WP Beginner. I gave all my books to him. The book may not be dead, but it’s still too damn heavy to carry around!
While BlogWorld has been around for over three years (first year in New York), this is the first time that WordPress was on the show floor. Yes, amazing as it seems, the world’s most popular blog software has avoided the BlogWorld Expo until now.
WordPress set up a nice big display right at the front entrance, making them impossible to overlook. While that was great for them, it may have been a headache for their people staffing the booth since they had to put up with the Infolinks boogie every 30 minutes.
We welcomed WordPress to BlogWorld by asking them the most brain busting questions we can come up with: What is WordPress? The answer is in the video.
While we’re on the subject of WordPress, I should remind everyone that version 3.1.3 is now available for download. This is a security update so everyone must upgrade.
The Blog World Expo show floor featured about 100 exhibitors showing off their wares. As you can imagine, trying to capture the attention of show goers can be a challenge. Infolinks came up with a novel approach to grab people’s eyeballs. Do a boggie dance!
As part of their African Safari promotion, Infolinks hired a bunch of dancers to do a traditional African dance every 30 minutes. While the show goers enjoyed the performance, I’m not sure how the booth next door felt about it after the third or fourth boggie.
In addition to the Infolinks dance, the video features Syed and I getting into trouble (again) by throwing footballs at people. Enjoy!
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to make money off your blog without running a single banner ad? Well, if you were at my panel session at BlogWorld Expo in New York, then you would have learned how it’s done.
The session featured myself, Zac Johnson and Syed balkhi. The panel was moderated by David Risley. Zac, Syed and I shared our experience with monetization methods that does not involve the banner ads. Most bloggers think that the only way a blog makes money is by banner advertising. This is so far from the truth. The banner ads on my blog accounts for only 1/3 of my blog income.
We had a nice turn out for our panel and the audience asked a lot of great question. Hopefully, BlogWorld will make the session recording available soon. In the mean time, check this the great introduction David gave us. Unlike the other sessions, our’s is fun and off the wall.
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