Recently, I had the chance to speak with Roger Dooley who will be speaking at Affiliate Summit Central, taking place in Austin, Texas on May 15-16, 2012 at the Hilton Austin.

Roger and I discussed details about his Affiliate Summit Central session called “Brainfluence Conversion: Turning Browsers into Buyers” which is being held at 3:15 P.M. on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012.

During this session Roger will discuss how to use the knowledge of how the brain works to improve conversions.

About Roger Dooley
Roger Dooley is the author of Brainfluence: 100 Ways to Persuade and Convince Consumers with Neuromarketing as well as the popular blog Neuromarketing. He is the founder of Dooley Direct, a marketing consultancy firm, and co-founded College Confidential, the leading college-bound website.

Dooley spent years in direct marketing as the co-founder of a successful catalog firm and also was director of corporate planning for a Fortune 1000 company. He has an engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the University of Tennessee

More details on Affiliate Summit Central 2012 can be found here.

Recently, I had the chance to speak with Steve Schaffer who will be speaking at Affiliate Summit Central, taking place in Austin, Texas on May 15-16, 2012 at the Hilton Austin.

Steve and I discussed details about his Affiliate Summit Central session called “Deals and Coupons Vouchers – Oh My!” which is being held at 12:00 P.M. on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012.

The panel includes: Steve Schaffer (Moderator), Robert Gilbreath, Durk Price, and Carly Volk

During this session the panel will discuss the different deals, vouchers, and coupons that are available for merchants and advertisers. Steve hopes merchants and advertisers walk away understanding the difference of each promotion and when to use one over the other to increase their sales and bottom line.

About Steve Schaffer
Steve Schaffer is a Performance Marketing Thought Leader. He is an accomplished Internet strategy and product marketing professional with a 20-year track record of growing start-ups and established Internet and consumer software companies. Steve founded Vertive, LLC in May 2003 to provide search engine marketing services. In Jan, 2004, he shifted the company’s focus to performance marketing and moved it to Austin from Palo Alto. The company has been profitable and growing at a steady rate since it was founded.

More details on Affiliate Summit Central 2012 can be found here.

Recently, I had the chance to speak with Evan Weber who will be speaking at Affiliate Summit Central, taking place in Austin, Texas on May 15-16, 2012 at the Hilton Austin.

Evan and I discussed details about his Affiliate Summit Central session called “10 Ways to Drive site Traffic” which is being held at 9:00 A.M. on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012.

During this session Evan will discuss everything from web traffic, SEO, page search, social media, how to leverage content to drive traffic, how to get inbound links, how to put partnerships together with other websites, how to post in different venues and more. Evan will outline all of the different ways of generating traffic to your website, both free and paid. Come prepared to take lots of notes and ask lots of questions.

About Evan Weber
Evan Weber has been in the Online Marketing industry since the late 1990s. He was formerly a Marketing Director for a large e-commerce consumer health portal where he coordinated all online marketing including: SEO, Paid Search, Affiliate Marketing, Email Marketing, Content Production, Link Building, Customer Loyalty Programs, and Conversion Optimization. Evan launched his digital agency, Experience Advertising, in 2007 to effectively grow and manage affiliate programs for companies. Evan’s company has worked with more than 70 online merchants and Evan has personally worked with coached thousands of affiliate marketers in his career in the online industry. Experience Advertising now offers social media management and paid search management in addition to affiliate program management.

More details on Affiliate Summit Central 2012 can be found here.

Recently, I had the chance to speak with Jason Cohen who will be speaking at Affiliate Summit Central, taking place in Austin, Texas on May 15-16, 2012 at the Hilton Austin.

Jason and I discussed details about his Affiliate Summit Central session called “Optimizing WordPress for Speed and Conversions” which is being held at 11:00 A.M. on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012. This session will be led by David Vogelpohl, Jason Cohen, and Chris Pearson.

During this session Jason will cover hosting, infrastructure security, plugins, and caching. David Vogelpohl will cover how page load time affects SEO, conversion rates, and the amount of time visitors spend on a website. Chris Pearson will cover on-page optimization, the structure of WordPress plugins, and how to manage themes. Make sure you attend this session so you can learn how to turn WordPress into a revenue driving machine.

About Jason Cohen
Jason is the founder of http://WPEngine.com, the premiere managed WordPress hosting company headquartered in Austin. He previously founded Smart Bear and ITWatchDogs. He blogs regularly about startups at blog.smartbear.com.

More details on Affiliate Summit Central 2012 can be found here.

Recently, I had the chance to speak with Todd Crawford who will be speaking at Affiliate Summit Central, taking place in Austin, Texas on May 15-16, 2012 at the Hilton Austin.

Todd and I discussed what his expectations are for Affiliate Summit Central as well as details about his session “Drive Incremental Sales Through Coupons & Loyalty” which is a roundtable topic during Affiliate Summit Central’s session Ask the Experts and Brainstorming Roundtables being held at 4 P.M. on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012.

During Todd’s round table he will be discussing how advertisers can best use coupons, deals, and loyalty programs to drive incremental sales.

About Todd Crawford
Todd Crawford is the co-founder of Impact Radius. Prior to Impact Radius, he served as vice president of sales and business development for Digital River’s affiliate network, oneNetworkDirect. Todd also contributed to the founding team at Commission Junction in 1998 and led its business and sales development efforts as vice president for more than seven years. In 2007, Todd won the Affiliate Marketing Legend Award at the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards in Las Vegas.

More details on Affiliate Summit Central 2012 can be found here.

Recently, I had the chance to speak with Kevin Bombino who will be speaking at Affiliate Summit Central, taking place in Austin, Texas on May 15-16, 2012 at the Hilton Austin.

Kevin and I discussed details about his session “Post-Panda SEO for Affiliates” which is a roundtable topic during Affiliate Summit Central’s session Ask the Experts and Brainstorming Roundtables being held at 4 P.M. on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012.

During Kevin’s round table he will be discussing the changes in SEO that were caused by Google’s Panda update. Kevin will provide tips and tricks that affiliates can use to increase their Google rank.

About Kevin Bombino
Kevin Bombino is the Co-Founder and CTO of Link Emperor, the link building “marketplace” where publishers can purchase SEO link building services from dozens of diverse link building vendors. In the Affiliate space, he co-manages a personal network of over 100 affiliate websites that are promoted almost exclusively through SEO. Kevin also co-hosts Gangster Profit, a web radio show about business and SEO. Kevin holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Harvard University.

More details on Affiliate Summit Central 2012 can be found here.

Recently, I had the chance to speak with Deborah Carney, also known as @loxly, who will be speaking at Affiliate Summit Central, taking place in Austin, Texas on May 15-16, 2012 at the Hilton Austin.

Deb and I discussed where the name Loxly came from as well as details about her session “Repurpose Your Content to Gain New Audiences” which is a roundtable topic during Affiliate Summit Central’s session Ask the Experts and Brainstorming Roundtables being held at 4 P.M. on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012.

During Deb’s roundtable she will be discussing how you can repurpose your current content (i.e. blog posts, podcasts, photos, videos etc..) and create eBooks that you can self-publish.

About Deborah Carney
Deborah Carney (also known online as Loxly) ) is the well known host of the popular ABC series of podcasts including AffiliateABCs.com, BloggingABCs.com, CreativeMarketingABCs.com and MerchantABCs.com, which can all be found on Geekcast.fm. Her newest podcast, BookGoodies, is aimed at authors of self published books for Kindle plus other eBook and Print on Demand services. Deborah is also the Administrator of the Affiliate Summit Networking forum, which is a great place to network between Affiliate Summit events.

As a podcast host, she has interviewed many industry leaders, enabling her to bring a unique perspective to merchant programs and the affiliate industry. As a successful affiliate and a successful Outsourced Program Manager, past in-house affiliate manager and consultant for many networks and companies, Deborah’s experiences have brought her to a point to start sharing that information with others via the ABCs podcasts and other training courses.

More details on Affiliate Summit Central 2012 can be found here.

Recently, I had the chance to speak with Michele Price, also known as @prosperitygal, who will be speaking at Affiliate Summit Central, taking place in Austin, Texas on May 15-16, 2012 at the Hilton Austin. Michele Price is founder and CEO of Social Media For Smart People and radio host to Breakthrough Business Strategies and Women in Business Radio which broadcasts weekly.

Michele and I discussed why people should attend Affiliate Summit conferences as well as details about her session “The Forgotten Affordable Connector to the Online Consumer” which is a roundtable topic during Affiliate Summit Central’s session Ask the Experts and Brainstorming Roundtables being held at 4 P.M. on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012. During Michele’s roundtable she will be discussing how to use voice, audio, internet radio to drive traffic.

About Michele Price
Michele is an authority on building sustainable online communities, combining creating a difference in the world while generating a profit. She is a straight talking, bold and courageous female entrepreneur of 25+ years. Michele focuses on solutions and how to find the opportunities inside the challenges. By combining mindset brain-technologies with Communication-Relationship Marketing strategies, she has found a winning combination to align you with your purpose, passion and profits. She is the founder and CEO of Social Media For Smart People and radio host to Breakthrough Business Strategies and Women in Business Radio which broadcasts weekly.

More details on Affiliate Summit Central 2012 can be found here.

Recently, I had the chance to speak with David Vogelpohl who will be speaking at Affiliate Summit Central, taking place in Austin, Texas on May 15-16, 2012 at the Hilton Austin. David is the founder and CEO of Marketing Clique, an online marketing and web development agency.

David and I discussed details about his Affiliate Summit Central session called “Optimizing WordPress for Speed and Conversions” which is being held at 11:00 A.M. on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012. This session will be led by David Vogelpohl, Jason Cohen, and Chris Pearson.

During this session David will cover how page load time affects SEO, conversion rates, and the amount of time visitors spend on a website. Chris Pearson will cover on-page optimization, the structure of WordPress plugins, and how to manage themes. Jason Cohen will cover hosting, infrastructure security, plugins, and caching. Make sure you attend this session so you can learn how to turn WordPress into a revenue driving machine.

About David Vogelpohl
David Vogelpohl is the founder and CEO of Marketing Clique, an agency which helps clients build websites, develop mobile apps and market their service online. David has nearly 15 years of online marketing experience, including managing and promoting complex affiliate programs across a variety of platforms.

More details on Affiliate Summit Central 2012 can be found here.

Recently, I had the chance to speak with Daniel M. Clark who will be speaking at Affiliate Summit Central, taking place in Austin, Texas on May 15-16, 2012 at the Hilton Austin. Daniel is a podcast consultant and the founder of QAQN.com

Daniel and I discussed details about his Affiliate Summit Central session called “Step by Step Podcasting for Business” which will be held at 9:30 A.M. on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012. We also went off on a tangent about Affiliate Summit conferences in general and Daniel’s first introduction to the show during his Café Press days.

During Daniel’s session (which everyone should be well caffeinated for) he will lay all of the equipment he uses out on the table, showing you everything you need to start podcasting. Daniel will also provide you with 5 steps that can take you from having no podcast at all to having a great podcast that will bring in new business and build a brand. The session will be very interactive and Daniel will be around to field questions after his 20 minutes are up.

About Daniel Clark
Daniel is a podcast production consultant and the founder of QAQN, a collection of informative and entertaining podcasts. A resident of the internet since 1992, he either is or has been: a t-shirt designer, an art reviewer, a system administrator, a video game designer and programmer, a blogger, an affiliate marketer and a podcaster. Mostly what Daniel is right now is a work-at-home dad, raising two kids, ages 6 and 3 with his wife, Angela. And yes, he wears that hat pretty much everywhere he goes.

Daniel’s writing credits include Feedfront magazine and BlogWorld.com. His speaking credits include educational sessions at each Affiliate Summit starting with West 2010 and coming up in August 2012, he will be the Emcee of Affiliate Summit East 2012 in New York City.

More details on Affiliate Summit Central 2012 can be found here.