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Central Florida’s Next Free Internet Marketing Meetup is Monday,…

by Missy Ward

The next Central Florida Internet Marketing Meetup (Sponsored by Affiliate Summit) is taking place on Monday, March 25th at 6:00pm at Caffe Positano in Apopka, FL.

Internet Marketing Meetup Agenda:

6:00pm-6:30pm: Announcements and Housekeeping
6:30pm-7:30pm: Session – Affiliate Marketing with Shareist
7:30pm-9:00pm: Q&A and Open Networking

Emcee: Chuck Mullins, Owner of SafeSiteCertified.org

Speaker: Wade Tonkin, Affiliate Manager at Fanatics Affiliate Team

Session details:

Being able to create and deploy unique content quickly and easily is more important than ever for affiliates. Driving traffic to your new content is a challenge as well. Shareist, a content publishing tool built by longtime affiliate Scott Jangro and his team addresses many of the challenges faced by content affiliates. Wade Tonkin will walk us through launching a Shareist-based affiliate site including setting up a private domain, creating content, categorizing and tagging the new content, publishing the content to additional platforms, and social sharing.

About the Speaker:

Wade Tonkin has been active in the affiliate industry since 1999, working as an in-house affiliate manager, outsourced affiliate manager, consultant, and sales specialist with companies including Kowabunga! Technologies, Forge Business, The United Sharing Network and GTO Management before joining Fanatics in November of 2010. Wade currently manages the affiliate programs for the official online stores of the NHL, NASCAR, NBA, NHL and ESPN. Wade is a regular contributor to FeedFront Magazine, has spoken at Affiliate Summit, the Internet Marketing Conference and the ShareASale ThinkTank. Wade blogs at AffiliateWarrior.com and podcasts on affiliate marketing and sports on GeekCast.fm.

Cost:

Admission is free. Positano's full menu is available if you'd like to purchase dinner

Click here to RSVP on Meetup.com

And don’t forget to join the Affiliate Summit Orlando Meetup Group and follow us twitter.com/otownaffiliates at to stay on top of our local events.

If you would like to present on a topic in the future, please contact Missy at orlando@affiliatesummit.com.

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Affiliate Marketing Happy Hour during SXSW

by Missy Ward

Join Affiliate Summit, DIYThemes, For Me to Coupon, Marketing Clique and Schaaf-PartnerCentric for an Open-Bar Affiliate Marketing Happy Hour at the start of SXSW.

All Affiliate Marketers Welcome. No SXSW badge needed.

When: Friday, March 8th from 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Where: J Blacks 710 W. 6th Street Austin

RSVP Here: http://sxswaffiliate-eorg.eventbrite.com/

Hope to see you there!

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Affiliate Marketers Give Back Raises Over $19,000 During Affiliate…

by Missy Ward

Team Affiliate Marketers Give Back raised over $19,000 through five events held during Affiliate Summit West 2013, which took place in Las Vegas, January 13-15 2013. The events included a poker tournament, basketball tournament, daily mile challenge, book signing, and bowling.

The Affiliate Summit West 2013 Charity Poker Tournament was held on Saturday, January 12^th in the Caesars Palace Poker Room. The tournament was a no limit Texas Hold’em style game. Todd Gellar took home the Grand Prize of an All Access Pass to Affiliate Summit East 2013 PLUS 3 nights stay at the official conference hotel during Affiliate Summit East 2013 (Prize valued at $2,849). Overall the event raised $7,000.00.

The Las Vegas Classic Basketball Tournament was presented by RevenueAds and held on Sunday, January 13^th at Impact Basketball. It was fun to watch top affiliate marketing companies compete in the first ever 3-on-3 basketball tournament held in conjunction with Affiliate Summit West. Overall the event raised $1,000.00
The Race to Affiliate Summit West 2013, an exercise challenge where Affiliate Summit committed to donating $1 to benefit the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in support of Affiliate Marketers Give Back team for each mile in the challenge, raised $10,044. Participants cycled, run, swam, and walked to add up miles for the charity competition. There were 61 folks involved in the challenge, and the top ten competitors accumulated 7,337 miles. Overall, there were 10,044 miles tallied by all of the participants.
Jeremy Schoemaker's did a book signing for his new book, “Nothing's Changed But My Change” at MaxBounty's Booth in the exhibit hall raised $700 for the Affiliate Marketers Give Back team.

Strike Out Breast Cancer at Affiliate Summit West 2013 was held on Monday, January 14^th at Goldcoast Lanes, Las Vegas. BowlingShirt.com, GTO Management, TFAW and Affiliate Marketers Give Back joined together for some bowling fun to raise money for Breast Cancer research at Affiliate Summit. The event raised $265.00.

Thank you so much to everyone who participated and helped make these charity events a success. We are very grateful for everyone’s support and generosity.

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Live Site Reviews by Mike Nunez of AffiliateManager.com

by Missy Ward

The Central Florida Affiliate Marketing Meetup, hosted by Affiliate Summit took place last night.

Mike Nunez, owner of AffiliateManager.com, provided an informative session to a packed house on Live Site Reviews.

Attendees offered their sites to this open session and got advice on usability, SEO, conversions and revenue streams.

If you missed the event you can find some of the key takeaways below:

Get to your main point quickly, so the user knows what your site is about
Add a person's face with your Call To Action (CTA) in the top right, with your phone number. People are drawn to faces and will usually look where the persons eyes are looking so make sure to place another call out where the persons eyes are looking.
Blue and Green are natural colors that we see everyday and therefore we instinctively pass over these colors. Try using a soft orange for your CTA.
Try “Get Started” or another CTA that suggests building a relationship.
Flashing banners are too distracting and take up too much real estate, put your main points above the fold.
Use http://www.clicktale.com/ to see where your visitors are looking on your site, see how far they scroll down, then move around your content.
If you are looking for newsletter sign-ups then have that be your main focus, put it at the top of your page.
Use Light boxes to highlight your CTAs, newsletter signups etc.. but don't over do them.. make it so the visitors only see them one their 1st visit.. a good resource for this would be AWeber.
If you look at your site and you can not immediately tell what the company does then the visitor will not either, make sure you clearly state what the company does and how you can solve the visitors pains. Your visitors are there for a reason, now tell them how you can help them. Don't make them search and scroll, just tell them.
Put your tag line under your logo a the top of your page
Add CREDIBILITY to your site, statement of what you do, how you can solve your customers pains, what results you have seen, companies who have endorsed you, media that has written about you, certificates you have etc.. do not lie, or fake it.. use real data or average.
CTAs work best with a lighter background color and darker text, no italics, or cursive fonts, make it bold and easy to read.
Do not over do the menu.. don't overwhelm your visitors with too many navigation options.
Use contrasting colors to draw eyes to your CTAs
Carry your brand scent on all pages, landing pages, and advertisements. This means – Keep the same look and feel across all platforms.
Improve page load time and optimization
Make sure all images have proper Alt Tag titles
Use text whenever possible, rather than images with text
Use your header tags appropriately (H1, H2, H3 etc)

Even the more advanced attendees left with action items to improve their sites.

To join the Central Florida Internet Marketing Meetup Group and find out about upcoming events, please check us out on Meetup.com.

Our next meetup takes place on Tuesday, February 26th where the presenter will be Davey Taylor Affiliate Manager at PeerFly. There is never a charge to attend our meetups.

To find an Affiliate Summit sponsored meetup group in your area, please visit http://www.affiliatesummit.com/meetups/

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