Affiliate Summit East 2009: Day 1

The Affiliate Summit event for an affiliate newbie and passionate blogger can be very challenging and surprising on many levels. First because the process of learning and understanding exactly What affiliate marketing is during the event is something that happens almost in a subliminal way if you are attending the show for the fist time.

If you have a personal or professional blog you probably already heard that you can make money on Affiliate Marketing, but do you really know the meaning of that term? The first step to understand the difference between the written “Merchant” and “Affiliate” on the badges that people wear during the event.

The video above shows the Affiliate Summit East 2009 Exhibit Floor and its Bloggers Lounge, open during the three days of event, at the Hilton Hotel, in New York

What is Affiliate Marketing?

The Merchant is also known as the advertiser and the Affiliate Is also known as the publisher who create content to sell products or services. The Affiliates can make money per click on the links they have on their sites or receive a commission on sales that come from those links.

The relationships in the Affiliate Marketing industry happen between Merchants, Networks, Publishers and then Consumers. Now you can also include Affiliate Management Agencies, Super-Affiliates and Specialized Third Parties vendors in that game. If you search on Google, you will find a good definition on Wikipedia for “What is Affiliate Marketing”.

Attending the Affiliate summit is a good opportunity to see how the super star Bloggers are rocking that world. It is interesting to watch to many different styles of speakers, the ones who have amazing cases of success and the ones who give up the rule of thumbs for how to do it.

Bloggers School attended with press passes the three days of event. From August 9 -11, we had the chance to participate of a few educational sessions.