I am Nick Throlson based out of Southern California. I make money online through different methods. Primarily, I am a performance marketer and drive traffic to several different sites I operate. I utilize SEO and PPC to bring traffic to my websites. My blog will discuss several different topics. The main purpose of this blog will be to cover different tools and methods I utilize to make money online!
Affiliate Summit West 2012 was awesome! I met some amazing people & had a blast at the ShareASale party & the Affiliate Ball Party.
Day Zero: I decided to get to ASW12 early this year due to the crazy lines day one at Affiliate Summit. So around 5:30 me & Kathryn Ekman headed to get our passes early with no Lines…
Day One: To start off the morning I headed from my Hotel the Flamingo to Cesar’s Palace. I attended the following session: Effectively Monetizing Traffic with Daily Deals. It seems like Groupon is making smart moves in the affiliate space. Widget, tracking generator Local API integration into apps. There are numerous opportunity to generate leads just by using there API within an app showing best local deals. After attending the session, I headed to the Meet Market. Later that night I headed to the ShareASale Under The Stars Party The party was held at the Chateau Nightclub inside the Paris Hotel which provided all 5,000+ attendees an open bar, desserts, dancing and more. I ran into John Chow & Syed Balkhis of WPBegginner as you can see in the picture below they both know how to party & have a good time…
John Chow, Nick Throlson, Syed Balkhis
Day Two: I started the morning off by getting some steak & eggs then headed to the following session: Mastermind Groups Exposed – Success in Affiliate Marketing @ericnagel@toddfarmer@sunshinetricia I learned that committing time to a master mind group is key everyone has to be on the same schedule & a group of 3 or 4 is the max to keep things from getting too crazy. After the session I headed to the exhibit hall where I saw my good friends at Blue Global Media. After exploring the exhibit hall seeing all networks & getting hooked up at the PeerFly booth because I was wearing there T-Shirt under my suit pretty much the whole time I was at ASW12.
Day Three: I started the day off late on Day Three due to the ShareASale party going on pretty late I needed to get much needed rest. In the morning I attended : Go Mobile or Go Home Session learned that QR codes are not going away any time soon & if your business is not mobile or looking into either creating a mobile site you need to go home because people are using there mobile devices for everything. They are attached to our hips at every moment. During the session I decided to go up & ask couple questions about having a sub domain example m.nickthrolson.com they recommended using plugin such as WPTouch for WordPress sites & numerous others that can automate this for you.
Later on that night I had dinner, got ready for the Affiliate Ball at Rio Crown Theater Featuring Nelly,YT Cracker,Rob Hustle. A Big thanks to my good friends at Max Bounty for hooking me up with VIP Passes. We were right up front stage Kathryn actually touched Nelly’s hand for a good 5 seconds. I recorded some good video of the beginning of the concert due to my Flip Mino only having 60 Min of recording time. Over all Affiliate Ball was off the hook! I cant wait until next year.
Rob Hustle Dedicated song to a great Affiliate who passed away Brandon L Barnett was an amazing affiliate and will be greatly missed.
To End Affiliate Summit I decided to be one of the hardcore affiliates & stay until Shoemoney gave his Keynote. he said it will be one of his last for awhile.It was great hearing his story and how he got started in the industry. I have the most respect for him and everything he has done even though some of the stuff is pretty out there.
Affiliate Summit Central and East 2012 Registrations are Now Open so what are you waiting for? Don’t wait until its sold out get your pass early when its the cheapest. Click Here to register…
I don’t know about you but I’m really excited to be attending Affiliate Summit for my fourth year in a row. Affiliate Summit is by far one of the best events that you can go to. Networking with affiliates going to sessions & listening to outstanding keynotes. what more could you ask for?
I will be at ASW12 from Saturday evening 1/7/12 until Tuesday 1/10/12 evening after Shoemoney‘s keynote I will be on the road back to southern Cali. So if anyone wants to meet up message me on Facebook email me . I would be more then happy to network with my readers. I will be recording interviews with networks & updating my readers via my Blog,Twitter,Facebook & Youtube.
Day three at Affiliate Summit West 2011 was a great day. I started off the day with some coffee and decided to hang out with Luke Smith from Motive Interactive. Around 10am the exhibit hall opened up. Luke and I stopped by several booths and entered several contests wish us luck winning Ipads. After the exhibit hall I decided to go to the “Are You Buyers Mobile, Yet?” session. In this session they talked about how using services such a appmakr allow pretty much any business can make an app. Also how paypal and other merchants are making it easier for you to make purchases for pretty much anything using your phone to pay for food,clothes,apps etc. I’ts going to change the way we use our phones.
As I was leaving for lunch I ran into Shawn Collins Founder & Owner of Affiliate Summit. If you have never been to any of the Affiliate Summit events you should defiantly go to ASE in New York this summer.
Day 2 started off early I headed to the exhibit hall. I stopped by BlueGlobalMedia booth and shot a quick Q&A with Chris Kay using my Flip Mino. Chris talked about BlueGlobalMedia and how they recently upped the referral program to 7% . He also talked about how they have exclusive offers and publishers do really well with their in house offers such as financial services, “100 Day Loans” is one of the biggest financial offers out there so be sure to sign up with BlueGlobalMedia.
I ran into some of the wicked fire guys Ad Hustler,Pappa John to name a few. Then I decided to go to leverage your brand for affiliate success session with Jim Kukral. Then headed to the blogger lounge to meet up with Syed Balkhi and John Chow. The three of us decided to go to the SEO – Ask the Pros session with Todd Friesen, Greg Bower, Stephan Spencer. They gave some great tips!
SEO – Ask the Pros ASW11 Session
Avoid domains with more than two hyphens as Google considers them spammy.
Don’t focus too much on exact match keywords. Google is getting good at detecting gaming of exact match keywords.
Never write any post about how good you are doing in Google.
After the Ask The Pros about SEO session I decided to make my last run of the day through the exhibit hall with John Chow & Syed Balkhi. We stopped by the ShareASale booth and John got a record breaking 750 points playing the ski ball game ShareASale had there.
Day one of Affiliate Summit West 2011 was pretty awesome. I decided to skip some of the sessions and head for the Meet Market since the Exhibit Hall did not open until Day two of Affiliate Summit West. It was packed. I stopped by the Media Trust booth and hung out with Peter Bordes founder and CEO of Media Trust he talked about their new platform for CPC and how this will benefit the affiliate industry. I personally think Media Trust is on to something big & will test out their new Performance Exchange CPC bidding platform.
Nick Throlson & Peter Bordes
After hanging out at the Media Trust booth, I headed to one of my favorite networks booth Blue Global Media. They have grown into an amazing network over the last couple months. If your not with BGM you need to be! I highly recommend them they are very experienced affiliates & test the offers before they go live which is one thing I have not seen any other network do.
Later that night I decided to go to the ShareASale Under The Stars Party. I had an amazing time Tryst club was packed John Chow & Syed Balkhi were on the dance floor showing everyone up. Syed decided to start break dancing, good times.
Overall the first day was a great experience. I met a ton of great networks and entered into every contest at the meet market so wish me luck on winning another Ipad
