10. ADVANCED SESSIONS
#ASAPAC19
• Content geared towards industry
veterans
• Topics include SEO, fraud, mobile,
tracking, attribution, and influencer
marketing
12. FOOD CRAWL
#ASAPAC19
• Enjoy culinary delights of South East
Asia tomorrow in the Exhibition Hall
• Starting at 12:30 PM
• VIP passes: hot buffet in the VIP lounge
Welcome to Affiliate Summit East 2019 – I’m Shawn Collins, Co-CEO of Affiliate Summit and I co-founded the conference back in 2003.
Hi, I am Shawn Collins – Co-CEO of Affiliate Summit – here I am last year at this show with Missy Ward, who co-founded Affiliate Summit with me. Some random stuff – I have been in the industry since 1997, I have two dogs and four kids (not pictured, because I don’t know you people), and I love soccer. But enough about me.
While you are here you will likely be neglecting somebody back home, because you are immersed in an overwhelming 48 hours of networking and education. Get ahead of being in trouble at home and text that person or people now and tell them you are thinking about them.
We’ve got free wifi all around the conference area – check your badge for the login.
Get the Affiliate Summit app for Apple or Android phones to network, create a custom schedule, and more.
Conference badges hang down in a sort of inconvenient spot on women, so if you walk up and look at her chest to see her name it could get awkward. Instead, scope out her name from 5-10 feet away before you approach so you don’t get branded as the conference creeper.
You’ll have lots of business cards handed out and given to you, so it’s a good idea to have a plan to manage them. What I do is to pick one pocket as the inbox and another as the outbox, so I don’t get things mixed up and can efficiently exchange cards.
Slides for the sessions are up at Slideshare.net – check them out to view online or download to follow along at sessions.
We rely on your feedback – each future conference changes a little based on what we hear from you. Don’t worry – we have thick skin. We want to make this the most useful conference it can be for you.
You are in the company of thousands of marketers from dozens of countries, so don’t go liking nonsense on Facebook and posting comments about funny dog videos on Reddit while you are here. Unless you need to be on your phone or laptop for work, please put it away and be present to meet all of these amazing people.
While you’re here and even afterwards I would encourage you to share your experiences, opinions, pictures, etc. on Twitter with the hashtag to network with others.
The same goes for Instagram.
Most people won’t do this, which is exactly why you should – when you get back home get yourself some thank you cards and write follow ups to the people you met here. Then drop them in the mail. Assuming you have their correct address from business cards or elsewhere you can expect somewhere around a 100% open rate.
Groupon is sponsoring a happy hour in the exhibition hall today at 5pm – come have a beer or 5 and network with colleagues and new friends.
Webgains are hosting the official party tonight – best sure to RSVP.
We hope to see y’all at the next in Las Vegas – January 27-29, 2020.
Thank you to the Affiliate Summit APAC 2019 sponsors.
Contact me at any of these places if you have questions. And finally, I want you to leave here with at least one new connection – please turn to a stranger to your left or right or back or front and ask them what they are doing tonight? Maybe you’ll find somebody to grab dinner with.