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Posted by: Beau Blackwell, Community Manager

The first day of Affiliate Summit East 2009 was a big success! The Meet Market was packed from before it opened at noon until after it was scheduled to end at 6pm. The ClickBank staff was kept very busy meeting many affiliates and vendors and discussing how we can help them grow their businesses and add ClickBank to their mix of promotional efforts.

Affiliate Summit East is bigger and better than ever this year, and it really shows. The Meet Market room was jam-packed with people meeting and networking, and the main event, which starts today, promises to be just as busy and eventful. ClickBank’s booth is set up and looking great (photos coming soon!) We’re excited to meet even more people at our booth today, and have members of the Clickbank staff ranging from client support to marketing to IT ready to answer questions and help affiliates work with ClickBank more effectively. We hope to see you on the floor today! Below are just a few pictures from yesterday’s Meet Market, but to see even more, visit our Flickr album.

Terra Goeres, ClickBank's Manager of Client Development, meets with a visitor during the Meet Market.

Ashley and Kylee of ClickBank's Premier and Apex client support team chat with visitors at the Meet Market.

New ClickBank booth to be unveiled at this month’s sold-out affiliate marketing conference

ClickBank VP Dush Ramachandran

Broomfield, Colo. – (August 6, 2009) – Dush Ramachandran, vice president of sales, marketing  and business development for ClickBank, a major online retail outlet, will share advice and industry insight on microniche marketing at Affiliate Summit East Aug. 9-11 in New York City.

ClickBank is widely considered to be an international leader in affiliate marketing with more than 100,000 active affiliate marketers working with the company to market its products and drive sales to a level of more than 26,000 transactions per day.

Ramachandran’s presentation is titled “Microniches – the Way to Mega Profits.” It will be available to only platinum and gold pass holders at Affiliate Summit East, which is now sold out with more than 2,000 affiliate marketers registered to attend.

“Using real-life case studies, I’ll demonstrate how affiliate marketers can promote products in a wide variety of small and focused niches, where there is little competition and marketing and advertising costs are inexpensive,” Ramachandran said.

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ClickBank also will unveil its newly designed trade show booth at Affiliate Summit East. The booth features a sleek new look, two oversized flat screen monitors, Astroturf flooring and an electronic ticker that displays ClickBank client payouts in real-time.

Ramachandran serves on the advisory board of Affiliate Summit and Affilicon, the international counterpart to Affiliate Summit, and helps plan content for both organizations’ affiliate marketing conferences. The conferences are widely considered a key source for affiliate marketing thought leadership and industry expertise.

Ramachandran joined ClickBank in 2005. He is responsible for ClickBank’s sales and marketing activities and alliances with affiliate and vendor organizations worldwide. Ramachandran has held executive leadership positions with domestic and international firms such as Requisite Technology, Conceptual Technologies, Computervision Corp., Prime Computer, Inc. and Datapoint Corp. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore University, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management.

Posted by: Beau Blackwell, Community Manager

In a few weeks, ClickBank will participate in Affiliate Summit East 2009. At past Affiliate Summit events, we’ve only attended the show and participated in the Meet Market. However, at this year’s event, we will attend, participate in the Meet Market, exhibit on the trade show floor with our beautiful new booth, and Dush Ramachandran, our vice president of sales, marketing, and business development, will present a session on microniche marketing.

Meet Market

ClickBank will be at Meet Market Table 63 on Sunday, August 9, from noon to 6 p.m. We’ll have staff from multiple departments on hand to meet with affiliates and vendors to talk about their marketing efforts and upcoming ClickBank features, answer questions, offer advice, and more! If you’re interested in learning more about ClickBank or just want to say hello, be sure to stop by and see us.

Trade Show Exhibit

For the first time, we will also exhibit on the trade show floor in our sleek new trade show booth! The booth will give us a great opportunity to meet and mingle with current and future ClickBank clients and show off our new features on the multiple flat screen monitors. Members of the ClickBank team from various departments ranging from client support to IT will be on hand to answer questions and offer advice and assistance. You can also enter to win an iPod Touch! Come find us at booth 2004!

Presentation by Dush Ramachandran of ClickBank

On Sunday, August 9, at noon, ClickBank VP Dush Ramachandran will present a session entitled “Microniches – the Way to Mega Profits.” He will demonstrate how affiliate marketers can promote products in a wide variety of small and focused niches that have little competition, and where marketing costs are inexpensive. This session is available only to platinum and gold pass holders.

We hope to see many of you there! This promises to be a great event for networking and learning effective affiliate marketing techniques, as well as getting to spend some valuable face-to-face time with ClickBank. If you’re not able to make it, we hope to see you at Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas in January!

Affiliate Summit has announced that the Affiliate Summit East show in August has officially sold out. We hope you got your pass already and will be able to attend, because it promises to be a great show.

Clickbank has some big plans for the show, and we hope to meet many affiliates and vendors at our Meet Market table and trade show booth. We’ll post more details soon about all of the events we’ll be participating in, and how to meet some of our team members and get advice on being a successful ClickBank client straight from the source!

We hope to see you there.

If you’ve been in the affiliate marketing business for long, you probably already know that Affiliate Summit is the premier affiliate marketing event in the US, if not the world. It’s a fantastic way to meet other successful affiliates and vendors, learn new skills and techniques, and take your affiliate marketing game to the next level.

This year, Affiliate Summit East is taking place in New York City on August 9-11. It promises to be another great event, and ClickBank will be attending and exhibiting. To help more affiliates attend the show, we’re giving away 5 free Gold-level passes (valued at $279 each).

To enter, simply fill out the form below. The deadline to enter is 11:59 p.m. on June 8. One entry is allowed per person, and all passes will be processed through ClickBank, so please only register if you can actually attend. Passes are non-transferable. Travel and other expenses are not included. Winners will be contacted directly.

Good luck! We hope to see you at Affiliate Summit.

Global leader called on to address international affiliate marketing trends

Broomfield, Colo. - (May 19, 2009) – After recently being cited by Entrepreneur.com as one of the companies leading the pack in affiliate marketing, ClickBank says the company has joined a list of global industry giants that will share industry insight with nearly 1,500 attendees at Affilicon Israel, June 1-2 in Airport City, Israel.

Dush Ramachandran, ClickBank’s vice president of sales, marketing and business development, will take part in a panel discussion on international affiliate marketing and will be the featured speaker at another conference session entitled “Digital Product Marketing.”

Ramachandran said a variety of global topics and trends will be addressed. “All of which will focus on helping affiliate marketers move their businesses forward,” he said.

As part of the panel on international affiliate marketing, Ramachandran will discuss opportunities available to affiliates who want to take advantage of the growing global market in Internet commerce. During “Digital Product Marketing” he will explore in detail the benefits of marketing digital products versus physical products, drawing heavily upon his experience in working with some of the largest and most successful affiliates and vendors in the industry.

Affilicon, considered the source for affiliate marketing thought leadership and industry expertise, holds several annual conferences considered to be the premier must-attend events for marketing affiliates, exhibitors and online merchants. For more information on Affilicon Israel, visit the conference web site here.

Posted by: Beau Blackwell, Marketing Coordinator

Affiliate Summit is the premier affiliate marketing conference in the U.S. Affiliate Summit East 2009 is going to be held August 9-11 in New York City.

Attending Affiliate Summit is a great way to learn the best strategies and techniques in affiliate marketing and to meet and network with other top vendors and affiliates. ClickBank will be attending, presenting, and exhibiting at this year’s event.

ClickBank is pleased to offer ClickBank clients a 20% discount on any Affiliate Summit pass.

To get the discount, enter the coupon code ASE09CLICKBANK20 during registration. You can also save money by registering before June 12.

We hope to see you in New York!

Broomfield, Colo. – (April 22, 2009) – Dush Ramachandran, vice president of sales, marketing and business development for ClickBank, has been appointed to the advisory boards of Affiliate Summit and Affilicon, further strengthening Ramachandran’s ties to affiliate marketing circles in domestic and international arenas.

Both advisory boards work to provide thought leadership and industry expertise to Internet and affiliate marketers. Board members leverage their connections and standing within the industry for the betterment of the business and all of those associated with it.

“I look forward to working with Affiliate Summit and Affilicon to help ensure the success of Internet and affiliate marketers worldwide,” said Ramachandran. “Working with ClickBank’s community of 100,000-plus marketing affiliates, I can offer a well-informed, global perspective of the industry and what is needed to move it forward.”

In addition to being considered the source for thought leadership and industry expertise, Affiliate Summit and Affilicon hold several annual marketing conferences that are considered to be the premier must-attend events for marketing affiliates, exhibitors and online merchants. Conferences and events are held in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Asia, drawing marketing affiliates, exhibitors and merchants on an annual and semi-annual basis. As an advisory board member, Ramachandran will assist with the selection of speakers and topics at upcoming Affiliate Summit and Affilicon conferences.

Ramachandran joined ClickBank in 2005. He is responsible for ClickBank’s sales and marketing activities and alliances with affiliate and vendor organizations worldwide. Ramachandran has held executive leadership positions with domestic and international firms such as Requisite Technology, Conceptual Technologies, Computervision Corp., Prime Computer, Inc. and Datapoint Corp. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore University, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management.

Posted by: Terra Goeres, Manager- Client Account Management

Today is my first day back in the office after attending the Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas on January 11-13, and I’m excited! The conference was extremely productive and was a lot of fun, too!

We spent most of Sunday at our table at the Affiliate Meet Market. We had the opportunity to meet and speak with a myriad of people, whose knowledge of ClickBank ranged from “I’ve never heard of ClickBank. What do you do?” to “ClickBank!  I’ve been waiting for years to see you at one of these conferences!” We also thoroughly enjoyed meeting many of our current clients, several of whom we had corresponded with via email and phone calls but had never met face-to-face. How wonderful it is to finally be able to put a face with those names!

Monday was spent walking the show floor, talking with potential partners, and learning about other networks. We were blown away by how much the Affiliate Summit had grown since our first trip there last winter.

On Monday night, we hosted a VIP party at The House of Blues Foundation Room, an exclusive club at the top of the Mandalay Bay hotel with a fabulous view of the Las Vegas Strip. About 25 people attended and we had a wonderful time getting to know our clients on a social level, while listening to their ideas on what they like best about ClickBank and how we can improve our business. Thank you to all who attended-we had a great time with you!

We wrapped up the trip on Tuesday with a couple of meetings and another walk of the show floor, and then headed off to the airport for the return trip.

We would like to thank everyone who took the opportunity to introduce themselves to us at the Meet Market or while we were walking the show floor. We left with great memories and a boost of enthusiasm for the year ahead!

BROOMFIELD, Colo. – Jan. 6, 2009 – ClickBank, a world leader in online retail of high-converting, digitally downloadable products, is attending the Affiliate Summit West. The conference will take place Jan. 11-13^th, at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nev.

Come meet with ClickBank executives at Table 47 at the Meet Market on Sunday, Jan. 11 from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.

The Affiliate Summit West, the premier affiliate marketing conference of the year, provides an opportunity for affiliates, merchants and networks to attend educational sessions on the latest industry issues. The Affiliate Summit West presents an opportunity for ClickBank to meet its affiliates in person, receive feedback about its services and keep its affiliates up to date on enhancements coming in 2009.

“The Affiliate Summit West is an excellent opportunity for ClickBank to meet its affiliates in person and discuss the latest trends in affiliate marketing,” said Brad Wiskirchen, ClickBank’s chief executive officer. “We have a number of dynamic additions planned for our services in 2009.”