December 4-7, 2007 in Las Vegas. WebmasterWorld’s Search Engine & Internet Marketing Conference, PubCon, has announced it is returning to the Las Vegas Convention Center for another year.
The event is supported by the industry’s leading businesses, speakers, exhibitors, and sponsors, including Yahoo!
Brett Tabke, PubCon’s organizer and WebmasterWorld’s CEO, said:
“Our aim, for Las Vegas PubCon 2007, is to deliver to our attendees, once again, the same extensive program of educational, topical and cutting-edge know-how, along with many networking opportunities.”
“Las Vegas PubCon 2006 was our biggest and best conference, breaking our records for
attendees and sessions, and attracting top speakers from leading businesses around the globe,
including Guy Kawasaki as our opening Keynote,”
Yahoo! Publisher Network is a premier sponsor of WebmasterWorld’s PubCon Search Engine & Internet Marketing conferences.
Author of The Search, editor of the Searchblog, and chairman of the Web 2.0 Conference, John Battelle said:
“I’ve been to hundreds of conferences over the years. The ones that are still around today are those that can provide long-term value to sponsors and attendees. Multi-year sponsorship contracts prove that conferences have lasting and durable value for all concerned.”
Leading up to Affiliate Summit East 2007, there is going to be a set of free webinars to preprare attendees to get the most out of the show. For more details of Affiliate Summit 2007 East read here.
Issue one in the series will be a guide to networking, one of Affiliate Summit’s founders Shawn Collins will give you pointers & tips on getting the most out of networking at affiliate events. Even if you aren’t planning on visiting this event, watching the seminar broadcast on the web could help you for any networking event you are planning on attending soon.
Such as buy.at’s speakeasy next Wednesday in London or the A4u Summer Get2gether in Bristol.
The web seminar will last thirty minutes and will be broadcast on Tuesday, 15th May at 5pm BST, which is 12 midday US Eastern Time (New York).
You may well need skype or at least the ability to dial in to a 1-800 US number to access the audio of the presentation.
You have twenty four hours to take advantage of the early bird discount for Affiliate Summit East 2007. As of 1st May prices for the Full Conference Pass rise from $949 to $1,449 so you can save $500 today. If you just want the Exhibit Hall Only pass then you’ll save $100 on that today otherwise tomorrow you’ll be paying $299.
Affiliate Summit Registration
Affiliate Summit 2007 East is in Miami July 8th to 10th
a4uexpo have chosen the Novotel and Ibis hotels which are both situated within minutes of ExCeL,
London as the “Event†hotel for a4uexpo 2007 which runs October 25 - 26.
Rooms in both hotels have been reserved for a4uexpo delegates at the following rates:
Ibis ExCeL London +44 (0)800 587 3931
- Single -£70 B&B
- Twin - £75 B&B
- Double - £75 B&B
Download the Ibis booking form
Novotel ExCeL London +44 (0)870 850 4560
- Single - £110 B&B
- Twin - £130 B&B
- Double - £130 B&B
Download the Novotel booking form
This rooms could sell out fast so to book a room at either of these hotels download their booking form and fax it directly to the hotel. I imagine a means of booking via email or over the telephone at these rates will be added soon.
Wednesday May 2nd
- Evening - Pre-event party sponsored by Casino Partners
Thursday May 3rd
- Evening - First night party sponsored by Zipang
Friday May 4th
- Evening - Second night party sponsored by BeTheDealer
Saturday May 5th
- Afternoon - Pub Social sponsored in part by Casinomeister
- Evening - Details TBA
The votes have been cast and the decision is here, Affiliate Summit West will be going back to Las Vegas in 2008 after it was selected as the most popular destination for the American Affiliate conference.
Affiliate Summit are now looking for a hotel in the price range $140 to $169 in Las Vegas to host the event after that was the most popular option selected by users for the question asked: “What is the maximum amount you would be willing to spend per night for a hotel?”
Focused on merchants, a one day affiliate marketing course aimed at experienced practicioners and covers issues such as managing your pay per click affiliates and working with reward sites.
- London - 24th July 2007
- Manchester - 26th July 2007
- Glasgow - 31st July 2007
Advance topics to be discussed include:
- Understanding your affiliates
- Motivating your affiliates
- Achieving the ideal affiliate mix
- Working with pay per click affiliates
- How do you control your brand?
- Working with incentive sites to mutual benefit
- A review of emerging technologies
- London - 12th June 2007
- Glasgow - 19th June 2007
- Manchester - 14th June 2007
A one day course ideal for companies (merchants) with an active affiliate programme but looking to review and improve the performance of their programme. Topics to be covered include:
- Understanding the affiliate marketplace
- Increasing your affiliate results
- Achieving the ideal affiliate mix
- Working with pay per click affiliates
- Is it better to work in house, with just one network or with multiple networks?
- A review of emerging technologies
Costs £425 for more information and to book online click here.
The first affiliate marketing 5-a-side football tournament will be hosted in London on Friday 15th June by buy.at
To be held at Goals Wembley; the tournament will be played in a Champions League format, with four groups of four teams with the top 2 of each group progressing to the knockout stages. Buy.at will present the winners with a trophy and the title of Affiliate Marketing Football Champions 2007.
Space is limited to 16 teams to enter, registration is open to all affiliates, merchants and agencies. Teams to include a maximum of seven players, that is with the two recommended substitutes
Entry costs £50 per team, get registered ASAP as by sending your team name and the team members to events@buy.at
Affiliates looking to join a team can PM Kandevil via the a4uforum as he is trying to organise a Affiliate Rovers FC team. Or you can post a comment to this thread and he will be in touch.
Boot Camp for those running affiliate programmes as merchants from Friday 13 July 4pm to Sunday 15 July 12 noon at the luxurious Ettington Chase conference centre, located near to Stratford-upon-Avon, in Warwickshire, England, CV37 7NZ.
Boot Camp includes affiliate marketing focused sessions, lunches, dinner with contributions from the well known members of the affiliate community Zak Edwards of Prezzybox and Matt Reid Commission Junction.
For more information read here.
Costs £545 for the weekend and Boot Camp Partners only with no seminar attendance cost £295. Book online here.