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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.”

Posted by: Bob King, CEO

Have you seen the show Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? Sometimes I think our clients at ClickBank are smarter than the people in charge of our economy.

On Monday evening of last week I’d just gotten home, had a bite of dinner and settled into my easy chair to unwind after a particularly busy day. I was frustrated by the news that the U.S. House of Representatives had failed to pass any kind of rescue legislation to begin the turnaround and recovery of the U.S. economy. (I apologize to all of our global readers for starting this off in such a U.S.-centric way, but bear with me.)

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m mad about the greedy leadership of the financial institutions that are largely responsible for this mess. But we have to deal with them later. Right now we have to put some mechanism in place to restore credibility and confidence in the system, to make credit available to individuals, small business, and yes, big business too.

One more tirade and then I’ll get to my point. The mainstream media did a horrible job of explaining the whole picture of the bailout. They chose to sensationalize it as $700 billion right to the taxpayers, $2,000 to $3,000 for every man, woman, and child in the U.S. What baloney. The assets sold off and managed, plus the government’s ownership and interest in the ongoing institutions, causes it to net out to much less than $700 billion. We are close to the economic abyss, so let’s all get real here.

ClickBank is responsible for the livelihood of its employees and tens of thousands of affiliates and publishers who depend on us for income. I’m happy to report we are rock solid, no debt, and continuing to grow. Consumers will continue to look for and buy informational products. All of you in the ClickBank community do an amazing job of developing and promoting those products. It seems you always adapt to the changing times and come up with products particularly well suited to the issues of the day. I’m seeing some interesting new products in the last few weeks providing information on how to prosper in these trying times. Keep up the great work!

Now if we could just get the U.S. Government leaders to be as creative and hardworking as you, we’d be well on the way to recovery.

Thanks for listening. I feel better already.

Posted by: Beau Blackwell, Marketing Coordinator

This past weekend, Bob Dunlap, our director of marketing, and I had the pleasure of attending the BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas. The event has grown tremendously since last year. Attendance was great and many important figures from the blogging world spoke at the sessions. Sessions covered a wide variety of topics, ranging from blog widgets to SEO to using blogs for affiliate marketing.

One topic that many of the sessions addressed was how to more effectively make money from blogging. After attending several of these sessions, it became clear how mainstream blogs have become, and how they are an effective tool for anyone wanting to make money online, regardless of their niche. In fact, many of the speakers focused on how blogging in a niche is actually more effective for traffic generation and monetization, because niche visitors will be more motivated to buy a product you recommend, especially if you provide valuable content and information to them.

In addition to reinforcing the potential effectiveness of blogs, especially for small businesses who are looking to get more traffic and highlight their brand, many of the sessions talked about how bloggers can take advantage of social networking to drive even more traffic and increase visitor loyalty. We learned some impressive, often free, tactics for achieving this, and plan to share them with our ClickBank clients in the months to come.

If you haven’t already created a blog to highlight your product or products you promote, you’re missing out on the ability to communicate directly with your target audience. There’s no better time to get started, and soon you can be marketing more effectively than ever, often without spending much money at all. If you already have a blog and want to find out more about how you can use ClickBank in conjunction with your blog to dramatically increase your profits, check out our ClickBank for Bloggers page.

In addition to being able to help our ClickBank clients more effectively use blogs to boost their business, we’ll be using what we’ve learned to improve the ClickBank Blog and make it as useful as possible for our readers. Please comment and let us know if there’s anything you’d like to see more or less of in the blog. We hope to see you next year at BlogWorld 2009!

Posted by: Bob Dunlap, Director of Marketing

Working online is great. You can work from anywhere at anytime ­ – at home, your favorite café, even the beach. All you really need is a computer, Internet access, and maybe a cell phone. This ability to connect in near real-time around the globe from anywhere you choose is a major attraction of an Internet-based business.

On the other hand, there is still no substitute for meeting face to face. Whether meeting a colleague, client, or business partner, technology still can’t replicate a handshake or take the place of a live discussion. I was reminded of this recently when I had the privilege of meeting a group of ClickBank clients “live and in person.”

On Friday, June 6^th, ClickBank management met with a small group of clients in London for our second European Advisory Board. We invited a diverse group of product publishers and affiliates to spend the day with us and provide their thoughts and opinions on a wide variety of subjects important to the entire ClickBank community. During the meeting we had in-depth discussions on our product roadmap – what new and improved capabilities we plan to build in the coming months and years, how to better serve our current clients, and how to attract and recruit more product publishers and affiliates to the ClickBank community. The discussions were open and honest, and provided our management team with excellent insights into what is really important to our client base. I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who attended this year’s meeting. We genuinely appreciate your active participation and the generous use of your time.

This Advisory Board meeting is one important channel for feedback, but by no means the only one. In fact, another major vehicle for client input is just around the corner. In the coming weeks we are initiating our second annual client survey. The survey is sent to a random sample of ClickBank clients, so if you receive an invitation to participate, please do. The survey is a great opportunity for you to tell us what you think.

And if you get the chance to meet with your business partners or customers live, I highly recommend it. It certainly takes more time and effort, but it’s almost always time well spent.