Missy Ward

Affiliate Summit East 2009 Sellout

by Missy Ward

Affiliate Summit East 2009 is on schedule to sell out by Friday, July 31, 2009, based on sales patterns of past Affiliate Summits.

Shawn Collins announced that as of yesterday, there were 325 registration slots remaining.

Well, as of this morning, there are now only 272 seats left.

If you're planning on attending the conference, I wouldn't delay registering any longer. Having been through many Affiliate Summit sell-outs before, it isn't pretty. The wait list typically does not clear ahead of time and we can not guarantee that you will be able to get into the conference if you just show up.

The keynote speaker for Monday, August 10 is Chris Brogan, President of New Marketing Labs, and the keynote for Tuesday, August 11 will be Peter Shankman, founder and CEO of The Geek Factory.

This time around, Affiliate Summit will feature the largest exhibit hall and Meet Market of all of the Affiliate Summit East shows, with over 230 booths and tables to swing by.

There are a limited number of sponsorships still available, though all exhibitor booths are sold out.

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Affiliate Marketing

Advertising Tax Talk & Crab Feast Recap

by Missy Ward

The Advertising Tax Talk & Crab Feast, sponsored by Affiliate Summit and buy.at took place on July 9th in Baltimore, MD.

Shawn Collins and I presented information on the history of Advertising Tax; where we stand today and what affiliates and advertisers can do to help fight it.

Ideas were discussed; crabs were devoured and the connection between Advertising Tax and Crabs was revealed.

For those unable to make the event, a video of the presentation is below, along with pictures, crabby videos and a PubCast of the post-event Pub Crawl.

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Don't know how to eat a Maryland Crab? Watch the video above.

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[display_podcast] Listen above for the BigMouthStrikesAgain.fm: Live From Baltimore PubCast

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TheSpew

TheSpew, Episode 13: Boobies, Crabs and Taxes. Oh My!

by Missy Ward

TheSpew

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Listen above, on GeekCast.fm or download to iTunes.

Lisa Picarille (@lisap), who is a consultant specializing in social media, online marketing and content creation, was the moderator for this week’s show. You can find her blogging at lisapicarille.com

The panelists this week were:

Karen Garcia (@karengarcia), co-founder of GTO Management and Ultimate Foodie.

And me (@missyward) co-founder of Affiliate Summit and co-editor-in-chief of FeedFront magazine.

Here are some of the things we talked about:

My new podcast Big Mouth Strikes Again where she interviews all sorts of industry leaders and wise guys 😉

Affiliate Marketers Give Back: I'm leading a team of great folks participating in the 40-mile Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in Los Angeles and why championing the boobies is important to me.

The Problem Solvers session at the upcoming Affiliate Summit in New York lets attendees get expert advice and donate some funds that will benefit Big Brothers and Big Sisters of New York City.

Karen’s firm, GTO Management, will once again be sponsoring the Christian Affiliate Marketers Association (CAMA) brunch at ASE09. It’ll be at the historic Cotton Club.

At the end of the show we got to the advertising tax issues:

Tax and crabs – mmmmm!

The advertising tax news was mixed for other states. But we all send Arnold a big shout out for keeping affiliates on track in California. Also Overstock will continue to do business with California affiliates. And a warm Aloha to Governor Linda Lingle of Hawaii, who seemed to be influenced by the affiliate rally.

We also decided that to hammer home the issue about affiliates and taxes, the industry needs a charismatic, powerful spokesperson.

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Affiliate Marketing

Advertising Tax Fundamentals and How it Affects You

by Missy Ward

Advertising Tax Primer

View more documents from Shawn Collins.

Affiliate Summit and buy.at, will be hosting our Tax Talk and Crab Feast this Thursday, July 9th in Baltimore at the buy.at office.

Shawn Collins and I will be giving a brief presentation covering the fundamentals of Advertising Tax; how it affects small businesses; and what people can do to help fight it.

We plan on taping the presentation to make it available to folks who won't be able to join us in Baltimore. In the meantime, feel free to peruse the slides above or download at http://www.slideshare.net/affsum/advertising-tax-primer.

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