If you could meet us, face to face, what would you ask us? Well now’s your chance. We’ve been asked to speak at several forthcoming events over the next few weeks: two in the UK, one in the US and one in Germany. If you’re nearby, come along and say hello!
Each of the events is excellent in its own way. If you want to learn more about increasing your website’s effectiveness, come and hear our all-new talks…
When: 14th–15th October 2008 (that’s next week). We’re speaking on Wednesday 15th at 12:30pm
Where: ExCeL, London, UK
Why it’s great: It’s the UK’s biggest conference of affiliates and merchants. Affiliate marketers live or die based on the quality of their conversions, so they care passionately about “marketing that works”.
How to register: Visit www.a4uexpo.com. Use this registration code to get a 10% discount!: CRE10. (That’s not an affiliate code, even though it looks like one; we don’t receive any kind of payment for getting you to sign up.)
a4uexpo is organized by ace affiliate marketer and all-round good guy Matthew Wood. It was our favourite web marketing conference of 2007. Many of our friends are affiliate marketers, and they usually meet in small invitation-only groups, so it’s great to have so many affiliate marketers in one place. This year’s event will have over 1000 international delegates. The speaker list is impressive too.
Last year, we didn’t have time to stick around for the evening’s networking event—the evening events tend to be the best part of any conference—but we were extremely happy with all the nice feedback our session received. (Some of it’s on our buzz page.)
This year, we’re giving an all-new talk entitled…
“How To Increase Conversions—A New Approach, Based On Psychological Methods”,
…which will be on Day 2 (Wednesday October 15th) at 12:30pm, in Room 3. We’re incredibly excited about it; we feel it’s the best thing we’ve ever done.
We look forward to meeting you in person, and saying hello!
When: 17th October 2008 (that’s next week too—sorry for the late notice).
Where: Nuremberg (Nürnberg), Germany
Why it’s great: Some of Europe’s top affiliate marketers will be attending this small gathering.
If you want to attend: Contact us
If you can get to Germany, and you can persuade WebGains to let you attend (tip: contact us to see if we can get you in) this one-day event promises to be fantastic.
Partly because our Chairman, Dr Karl Blanks, has been given two hours to teach as much as he can about conversion rate optimization.
And also because he’ll be sharing the stage with a world-class SEO. (We’ll not mention his name because we’re not sure whether it has been officially announced yet.)
When: 10th–11th November 2008
Where: Mountain View, California, USA
Why it’s great: It’ll be our only remaining visit to California this year.
If you want to meet up: Contact us for details
Our third event is a visit to the Googleplex, Google’s company headquarters. If you’re a Google-authorized consultant for Google Analytics or Website Optimizer, we look forward to catching up with you during the day.
If not, and you can get to Mountain View, California, let us know and we can meet up on the evening of Monday 10th.
When: 15th–16th November 2008
Where: Heathrow, London, UK
Why it’s great: It’s an intimate get-together with some direct marketing legends.
How to register: Visit this page. That is an affiliate link but we don’t want to profit from it, so we’ll forward the affiliate payment, which is just under $1000, to you.
Last year, we attended a conference in Chicago, called The System Seminar. If we were given the challenge of training someone, from scratch, to make money from the web, we’d start by sending him or her to The System Seminar. The attendees tend to be owners and employees of small- to medium-sized businesses, who are looking to learn every aspect of web marketing. That makes it a fantastic hands-on training in marketing and entrepreneurship.
The organizer of the System Seminar, Ken McCarthy, has now organized a one-off mini-System in London. Unlike the main seminar, this London event will be a much smaller get-together, with a lot of time for discussion in the corridors and in the bar.
One of the speakers is Drayton Bird, author of Commonsense Direct and Digital Marketing. Drayton has decades of experience in direct response marketing. In fact, when the legendary adman David Ogilvy wanted to enter the UK market, the only way for him to do so was to acquire Drayton’s firm, which had become the largest, most dominant direct marketing agency in the country.
Ken McCarthy himself is an excellent teacher of online marketing and persuasive copywriting. Back in 1992, he organized the first-ever conference to discuss the commercial potential of the internet. One of the main reasons we’re attending is to listen to Ken speak.
And, of course, during our session—and during the breaks—we’ll be doing whatever we can to help as many businesses as possible. Our talk title will be along the same lines as the one we’re giving at a4uexpo, but because the audience will be smaller, we’ll be able to make it much more interactive.
Which other events should we attend?
If you’re unable to attend any of these events, use the comments box below to let us know which events you think we should attend.
Will you be at any of these events?
If you can make it to any of these events, let us know in the comments below, so we can look out for you! In fact, maybe we should develop a special code-sign for readers of our blog—a special handshake perhaps, or a cheeky wink—so we can pretend we’re all part of some exclusive club.
Leave it with us, we’ll work on that one.
