Live Feeds from the Underground®
I was pretty disappointed when I had to cancel my trip to the Underground seminar this year, but as it turns out, we can tune in to what’s happening.
Yanik’s Y.S.S. Agency has allowed a mole to tap into the video feed and broadcast the closed-circuit footage… LIVE …twice a day! Each day they’ll be sending out 24 minutes of footage of actual content from the presenters.
Tune in LIVE at the following times:
- Friday – 9 AM, PT (12:00 PM, ET) & 4:02 PM, PT (7:02 PM, ET)
- Saturday – 1:52 PM, PT (4:52 PM, ET) & 3:33 PM, PT (6:33 PM, ET)
- Sunday – 11:02 PM, PT (2:02 PM, ET) & 2:52 PM, PT (5:52, PM ET)
Check out Underground LIVE here, where in addition to the live feed, you’ll be able to pre-sign up for Underground® 5 in 2009… which is already on my agenda! 
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PubCon Las Vegas Dates Announced
In a press release yesterday, PubCon announced that its Las Vegas event to be held in the North Halls, Las Vegas Convention Center will be held November 11-14, 2008.
Brett Tabke, PubCon’s organizer and WebmasterWorld’s CEO, said, “It’s great to be back to our November dates in Las Vegas, this time with a switch to the North Halls at the Convention Center. Our 2007 Las Vegas PubCon once again broke records for attendees and sessions, attracting the industry’s top speakers from the Internet’s leading businesses around the globe.
Once again, our aim, for Las Vegas PubCon 2008, is to deliver an extensive program of educational, highly topical and cutting-edge Internet marketing know-how, and to bring extensive networking opportunities to every attendee. It’s a great place to meet and learn!” Tabke continued, “Anyone wishing to speak at the conference should apply with their proposal as soon as possible.”
PubCon is hosted by SearchEngineWorld & WebmasterWorld and registration for attendees will open later in the year at http://www.pubcon.com.
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Matthew Mullenweg to Speak at Elite Retreat
According to the following press release, the co-creator of Wordpress software, Matt Mullenweg, is to speak at the Elite Retreat..
Lincoln, NE (PRWEB) March 10, 2008 — Matthew Mullenweg will be speaking at the Elite Retreat Internet marketing conference (http://www.EliteRetreat.info) this coming April 3 and 4 in San Francisco. Matthew Mullenweg is co-creator of WordPress, blogging software which is used by millions of users worldwide. WordPress takes on more significance at this time as iFOCOS released its study that more people in the U.S. are now getting their news from the Internet than from traditional media. The Elite Retreat was created and will be hosted by Internet marketing expert Jeremy “Shoemoney” Schoemaker.
Other speakers at EliteRetreat include:
- Jeremy Schoemaker
- Neil Patel
- Brian Clark
- Aaron Wall
- Andy Liu
- Guy Kawasaki (keynote)
A warning!! Elite Retreat attendance is capped at 35, regardless of how many apply to join and there is only ONE retreat each year. Cost to participate in Elite Retreat is $4,950 per person — the price you pay for personal attention.
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Ros to Speak at IMC Event
I was honored to accept an invitation from Derek Gehl to speak at his event being held April 12th and 13th in Orange County, California.
Other speakers include Brian Tracy, Tim Knox and Janet Switzer.
Free tickets to the event will be given to the first 300 people who purchase the new “The Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on The Internet — Version 2008” system, launching on February 19th.
If you miss out on being one of the first 300, not to worry. Free invitations will also be extended to those who add the $2.95 Internet Entrepeneur’s Club trial at the time of their order.
Those who have been Internet Entrepeneur’s Club members for 2 months or more also get a free ticket.
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Underground Seminar: Yanik’s $10,000.00 Wager
I hate conferences that are nothing but “pitch-fests“.
If you’re not familiar with the term (lucky you!), a pitch-fest is a seminar at which the speakers spend the last half of their schedule hour-long talk pumping you up to buy their latest and greatest product or coaching program. Worse, they probably didn’t give you any information that you could actually use during the first half-hour.
That’s just one of the reasons why I keep going back to Yanik Silver’s Underground Seminar year after year - it’s one of the few Internet marketing seminars that is NOT a pitch fest. Actually, it’s the only Internet marketing seminar that I have plans to attend this year.
And to make sure that his presenters provide attendees with real, useful content; Yanik is again putting up $10,000.00 as incentive .
The speaker who provides the best content wins the ‘Top Underground Marketer‘ award, gets a huge trophy and the 10 grand goes to his or her favorite charity… ’cause these folks don’t need the money.
About the speakers - once again, Yanik is bringing in a completely new group of ultra successful marketers who have been making money online selling real products to real people - not just information products about “how to make money online”.
For that reason (and the excellent early bird bonuses which expire on January 25) the Underground Seminar always sells out weeks early. Yanik has also lined up some really good fun for ‘early birds’ during the event, including a secret spy mission followed by a VIP closed-door dinner.
That’s all I can say for now. To get your ticket and learn more about the event, visit the Underground Seminar site right now.
See you there!
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PPC Classroom to Close Doors to New Students on January 1st
Anik Singal, CEO of Affiliate Classroom, just let me know that as of January 1st 2008, they will no longer accept new students into the program.
This is being done to concentrate on making their existing students successful and to plan for the second PPC Classroom Live event.
So, consider yourself fortunate if you got in on time.
On the other hand, if you were sitting on the fence about joining PPC Classroom, then this would be the right time to do so and get in the on the next PPC Classroom Live event. (See the pics).
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Underground 4 is open for registration…
Yes, Yanik has done it again. He’s holding the 4th Undergound Online Seminar and I’m definitely going to what is my FAVORITE IM event. In fact many big-name successful Internet marketers will be there — but we WON’T be speaking.
What makes this seminar special is that Yanik gathers a completely new group of Internet “Players” who have their successful online money-making techniques a secret.
These “underground” successes then spill the beans about how they collectively earn millions of dollars every year online at the Underground Seminar being held from March 28 - 30th, 2008.
Rogue agents include…
- Agent ‘Get Smart’… ($20M virtual info empire)
- Agent ‘Doctor Zhiva-dough’…($15M health site)
- Agent ‘Bad Mama Jama CPA MoFo’…
- Agent ‘Fine Wine Millions’…
- Agent ‘Podcasting Princess’…
- Agent ‘Tycoon Tyke’…
- Agent ‘Mr. X #1 and Mr. X #2′…($4M with their simple membership site - techniques are so under-the-radar that this session will NOT be videotaped)
Plus, there are TWO featured keynote speakers including the CEO of Zappos.com, an $800 Million business!
The Underground typically sells out early (last year it sold out 6 weeks early) and as it gets ever more popular, it will likely sell out even more quickly this time.
There are discounts and special bonuses for Early Birds not available to others
(including a private VIP networking dinner with the rogue Underground agents and an *actualSPY mission.)
Hope to see you at the 4th Undergound Online Seminar!
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Conference Pictures Uploaded
I’m just back from PPC Classroom LIVE seminar held in Las Vegas this past weekend and have uploaded pictures from the event to my Flickr account.
Shown on the upper-left is a picture of Brad Haslam (our Chief NPT Moderator extraordinaire) and myself.
BTW, that wasn’t me dancing at the Voodoo Lounge! REALLY it wasn’t.
If you find those pics on someone else’s blog, please let me know ASAP.
Actually, there are pictures from a variety of conferences there, including:
- Double Birthday Bash 2005
- Underground Seminar 2005
- Performics Client Summit 2005
- Ungerground Seminar 2006
- Affiliate Summit West 2007
- Affiliate Summit East 2007
- AdTech New York 2007
- PPC Classroom Live 2007
- Other Conference Pics
BTW, if you have photos from this weekend’s conference that you’d like to share, or of any other conference listed on my Flickr account, and would like to add them to my Flickr collection, please drop me a line through the Support Desk and I’ll give you an email addy to which you can send them.
Thanks in advance!
Ros
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Lessons in Marketing at AdTech New York
We’ve only just returned home from Adtech New York followed by a quick weekend in Toronto to visit family.
Adtech was huge, and I found it fascinating to observe many of the different marketing tactics used to grab the attention of almost 11,000 attendees.
The first thing I heard after the elevator door closed for the first time was a loud and serious voice wanting to know whether I was concerned about click fraud. Well heck ya, so I turned my attention to watch ABCSearch’s elevator ad for the first time of many over the course of the next 3 days.
Five minutes after getting to the room Targusinfo slid a nice gold and black ‘ticket-like’ note under the door inviting me to booth #708 for a sweet treat. I thought that was a particularly slick tactic for getting attendees to take note of their booth number, considering there were more than 250 booths scattered across separate areas and several floors… although not sure how they got #708 in that case.
Once in the exhibit hall, I had to wonder how the staffers at all those booths were going to hand out all those trinkets (about 50 million pens and spongy balls) to all 11,000 attendees before the end of the convention.
I did my part and lightened their overall load when I stopped by to say hi to Evan Lovett of eAdvertising. A few folks such as Jay Berkowitz of Ten Golden Rules dropped off goodies for me and then lightened my load of books during my book signing on Wednesday afternoon.
Ed noted that he hadn’t seen ‘booth babes’ (young ladies dressed in extremely skimpy outfits) for many, many years at the technical trade shows he used to attend — and then suggested that this industry probably wasn’t quite as mature as was implied during our ‘Evolution of Affiliate Marketing‘ panel. Having tried unsuccessfully to source information from booth babes at other shows, I had to agree. But I suppose they manage to give a lot of pens to ecommerce industry pros, most of whom (like me) can no longer use a pen… not legibly anyway.
I was disappointed to see Zango’s booth in the far corner of the registration hall… or anywhere in the conference for that matter. I mean… isn’t it bizarre that a company whose model is based on stealing traffic, sales and commissions is allowed to exhibit at a reputable event? Hmmm.
The subject and Zango’s name came up again during the QnA portion of our panel and most participants found it reassuring to hear affiliate network executives such as Michael Hines (Zanox), Jivan Minhas (Advaliant) and Chris Henger (Double Click Performics) reiterate that advertisers with any such involvement are sumarily removed from their networks. I directed folks to my article in Revenue and reminded them that a good lawyer is the best weapon in the war against such bad actors.
Here’s a note I received from a subscriber who read that article…
I read your article about Zango, downloaded their software and found out one of my names was being targetted heavily by competitors. I wrote the BBB, FTC, and Zango lawyer directly and within 7 days, to my surprise and delight, they removed my url from their system. They sent an official legal note as well. Thank you for the informative article.
To sum up, it was great to finally attend an adTech and pick up some new lessons in marketing. Now I’m looking forward to meeting up and talking with many NPT readers at the smaller, more intimate PPC Classroom seminar at which I’ll be speaking next month in Vegas.
(In the picture above from left to right - Rosalind Gardner, Michael Hines, Chris Henger, Jivan Minhas and Josh Greene.)
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Countdown to AdTech New York
Less than a week now before I head off to my first adTech where I’ll be moderating the “The Evolution of Affiliate Marketing” panel on Thursday, november 8th, from 4:15pm - 5:15pm.
The panel description from the adTech site is “Last year, MarketingSherpa estimated that affiliates worldwide earned $6.5 billion in bounty and commissions in the areas of retail, personal finance, gaming and gambling, travel, telecom, education, publishing and forms of lead generation other than contextual ad networks. Far beyond revenue sharing, today’s affiliate marketing channel is evolving more and more into performance marketing and playing a larger role in online marketing strategies. Discover which industry sectors are the most active for affiliate marketers and those that are poised for the greatest growth. Learn the pros and cons of running affiliate programs in house versus using third-party services to track referral traffic or sales. And understand how advertisers are connecting with publishers through affiliate networks and how to extend, and protect, your brand through affiliate marketing.”
Our panelists include:
- Michael Hines, President, North America, Zanox
- Josh Greene, Director, Online Marketing and Business Development, DiscoveryStore.com
- Chris Henger, VP of Affiliate Marketing, DoubleClick Performics
- Jivan Manhas, President, Advaliant, Inc.
I am also scheduled to do a book signing on Wednesday November 7th between 2 and 3PM… so bring your book or buy a book there! Tell me you’re an NPT’er and I’ll do my best to make my signature legible. (Who knew that I’d lose the ability to write after 10 years in a computer / Internet business?)
Too, if you are in New York, the Expo takes place from Monday, November 5th until Tuesday, November 6th and a Exhibit Hall is free when you register before November 4th!
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