Quick Notes From The Affiliate Convention Day One

Not a lot of time before the next session but thought I would throw out a few notes and thoughts after the first two sessions, Morgan Linton and I have had a great morning and some very interesting conversations with several companies but Clickbank.com and InsuranceLeads.com really stick out at this point.

One of the first things that should be pointed out and Morgan and I both thought immediately is why are there no domainers here? Once again it comes down to the fact we like to educate each other about our products and talk to each other about how to monetize but if we continue to talk about CPA, Affiliates, etc as the new way to monetize doesn't it make sense that domainers should attend such conferences.

Also, as we all know targeted traffic converts best, seems a booth here to promote our targeted type in traffic would be value.

OK, enough about that.

One of the great things we heard in the first few minutes was that the convention thought that the people promoting affiliate products should get in for free, in otherwords the conference is free to the people actually promoting the industry and working in the industry. The money to run the conference comes from the sponsors. This means the people that are out there making money with the products learn from free and in turn promote the industry. Interesting concept compared to other conferences that cost thousands to get in too. Great turn out seems to ensue.

They consider the free access to info a "Stimulus package" to those in the industry. Very inclusive rather exclusive.

Although the first presentation today that was around driving traffic from alternate sources (Twitter, etc) was somewhat repetitive compared to what many of us already know there were a few points that stuck out:

Youtube.com is technically the second largest search engine, losing out only to its parent Google. I should point out that I have not confirmed this but it does seem to make sense with the large numbers of videos that are viewed daily.

In 6 months Youtube had more content uploaded than the big 3 networks did in 60 years. Although some of it may not be good I would say neither is much of the TV networks.

Real time search is something that is popping up everywhere, although we are all aware of the growth of realtime search it is becoming an SEO specialty all of its own. Good thing I own SEORealtime.com

One presenter is calling Adwords old school, social media new school.

And I have to love the comments from one of the presenters about traffic becoming local. Local Local Local. I may be biased there but I could not agree more:)

The fastest growing Facebook demographic is 50 to 64 year old women. That is important because those are people with disposable income. They are referring products and sites to their friends.

There are many more things that actually are likely more interesting but we have to head to the next session. Morgan is likely typing many of the same things (he is across the table here). Look for more later, we will be headed to the Affiliate Bash at the Aqualounge in Beverly Hills tonight, I really need to make sure I stay sober for my speech tomorrow AM...