Affiliate Marketing Fanatics – A couple of hyper-caffeinated affiliate marketers (Mike Buechele) and (Trisha Lyn Fawver) talk about all things Affiliate Marketing. From blogging to branding, social media to search, video and more!

Like the great prime time dramas of yore, we’ve done a crossover arc episode with the guys at Geek Dads Weekly, Daniel M. Clark and Drew Bennett.  Our fun started during Emo Wolverine Feels Nothing – Geek Dads Weekly 101 and continues here. In in this episode we discuss:

• Ad:tech NY & Mike’s experience there last week.  It seems more folks are more directed at building mobile networks instead of mobile content, necessarily.
• Using the broader point of reference of Internet Marketing instead of Affiliate or Performance Marketing.
• Some Affiliate Summit West 2012 info, talking about our Affiliate Improv! panel with Mike, Daniel, Eric Souza, and myself.  The panel will be at 3:30 Sunday January 8th in the Augustus V room.
• We’ll be manning a speaker booth Tuesday January 10th at 2:00 pm for any follow up!
• The discovery of Pinterest, the inundation of crafty folks there, and how it is divided a bit among gender lines between who “gets it” and who doesn’t.
• The Affiliate Summit Newcomer Program – Our code name for Caesar’s will be Castle Greyskull.
• Show our guests some love: Daniel M. Clark is a podcast production consultant at QAQN.com and Drew Bennett is a dad, photographer, and blogger at BenSpark.com.

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Affiliate Marketing Fanatics – A couple of hyper-caffeinated affiliate marketers (Mike Buechele) and (Trisha Lyn Fawver) talk about all things Affiliate Marketing. From blogging to branding, social media to search, video and more!

It seems longing for a simpler time, back when we all religiously listened to Geek Cast, is a virus that’s going around.  Before the band got back together last week on Affiliate Thing, we had a similar idea to emulate that model for fun.  Mike is back, and we were also joined by Wade Tonkin of Fanatics and Drew Bennett of BenSpark.com. In in this episode we discuss:

• Our collective love of the original Geek Cast with Shawn Collins, Sam Harrelson, Jim Kukral, and Lisa Picarille.
• The passing of Steve Jobs… would the reaction be similar if Bill Gates had passed?
• CityCrashVille Hometown on iPad.
• Speculating on what Affiliate Summit Central will be.
• Upcoming Affiliate Summit West in January and how the session voting is going.
• Mike’s recap of the New York Comic Con

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Affiliate Marketing Fanatics – A couple of hyper-caffeinated affiliate marketers (Mike Buechele) and (Trisha Lyn Fawver) talk about all things Affiliate Marketing. From blogging to branding, social media to search, video and more!

You’ve come to love it – our interviews!  This go-round we’re interviewing speakers at the upcoming Affiliate Summit East at the New York Hilton in New York City.  Today we’re chatting with Erin Cigich about her origins in affiliate marketing & her presentation “Making Affiliate Marketing a Career”. In in this episode we discuss:

• Erin’s ascent to the top at Clickbooth, her origins in marketing , and SEO.
• Determining your strengths to maximize your longevity and stability in affiliate marketing.
• Clickbooth’s new CPC network & staying flexible with your niches and traffic sources.
• Follow Erin on Twitter: @ErinCigich
• Include Erin’s presentation on your calendar, Sunday August 21st at 3:30pm in Room 4
• Show some love to today’s co-host Eric Nagel! Blog: EricNagel.com & Twitter: @esnagel

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Affiliate Marketing Fanatics – A couple of hyper-caffeinated affiliate marketers (Mike Buechele) and (Trisha Lyn Fawver) talk about all things Affiliate Marketing. From blogging to branding, social media to search, video and more!

You’ve come to love it – our interviews!  This go-round we’re interviewing speakers at the upcoming Affiliate Summit East 2011 at the New York Hilton in New York, NY.  Mike’s a busy beaver and needs a break, so my co-host for this episode is the awesome Eric Nagel!  Today we’re chatting with John Monarch about his origins in affiliate marketing & his “Ask the Expert” topic “High Risk Merchanting – Management and Risk Mitigation”. John is the President of Monarch Holdings LLC. In this episode we discuss:

• John’s origins in the Physics world and his transition into affiliate marketing.
• Some fellow former physicists Karen Garcia & Brad Waller.
• Merchants in certain niches need to be aware if their space is considered “high risk” by the banking industry (like smaller travel merchants).
• John’s ready to talk to merchants about their banking and how to avoid charge backs and keep their rates at a reasonable risk level.
• The difference between a charge back and a refund.  A charge back, whether won or lost, still counts against a merchant’s charge back number.
• Put John’s discussion on your Affiliate Summit Schedule! Monday August 22nd, 5:00 – 6:00 pm in the Networking Space.
• Follow John on Twitter: @papajohn56
• Show some love to today’s co-host Eric Nagel! Blog: EricNagel.com & Twitter: @esnagel

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Affiliate Marketing Fanatics – A couple of hyper-caffeinated affiliate marketers (Mike Buechele) and (Trisha Lyn Fawver) talk about all things Affiliate Marketing. From blogging to branding, social media to search, video and more!

Shady’s back.  Tell your friends!  Mike’s back after a podcasting sabbatical to focus on his consulting business.  Today we’re keeping that chatter to a minimum and speaking with Naeem “Yanni” Kayani, Senior Director of Product Strategy at Adknowledge.  In in this episode we discuss:

• The relevant targeting with email marketing that AdKnowledge can help with.
• The fascinating stuff that Facebook and the other email service providers are doing these days to give users more control.
• Yanni will be speaking at The Power of eMarketing Conference in San Francisco April 19th & 20th.  The format will be less presentation, more conversation.
• His fellow panelists are Daniel Kuperman of Aprix Solutions and John Janetos of iPost.

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Affiliate Marketing Fanatics – A couple of hyper-caffeinated affiliate marketers (Mike Buechele) and (Trisha Lyn Fawver) talk about all things Affiliate Marketing. From blogging to branding, social media to search, video and more!

You’ve come to love it – our interviews!  Once again, Skyping in for Mike is Jen Goode, Doodler-in-Charge at JGoode Designs.  This go-round we’re interviewing speakers at the upcoming PubCon South 2011 at the Norris Executive Conference Center in Austin, TX.  Today we’re chatting with Warren Whitlock about his origins in internet marketing & his panel.

You may have noticed a distinct lack of a 51st episode of AMF.  This is because, due to unforeseen recording difficulties caused by the recent updates to Skype, the episode wasn’t fully recorded, so we’re re-recording it with our guest later this week, so it’ll be posted out of order.  Deal with it!  Until then, for a juicy 29 minutes we like to call Episode 52, we discuss:

• Warren’s start in traditional advertising & stint in selling office equipment.
• Such a positive outlook on life, Warren has!
• Twitter Marketing : Customer Service and Loyalty Marketing – Warren will be speaking along side Michael Dorausch of Planet Chiropractic, Dan Zarrella of HubSpot.com, and Arnie Kuenn of Vertical Measures.
• You can listen to Warren’s podcasts on Blog Talk Radio.  Search for Warren Whitlock.
• Connect with Warren on Twitter: @WarrenWhitlock.
• Find my amazing co-host Jen Goode on Twitter and at JGoode Designs!

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Affiliate Marketing Fanatics – A couple of hyper-caffeinated affiliate marketers (Mike Buechele) and (Trisha Lyn Fawver) talk about all things Affiliate Marketing. From blogging to branding, social media to search, video and more!

It’s been a couple of weeks since Affiliate Summit West 2011 was over & done with, and it’s taken us this long to recuperate, follow up with all our leads, jot our ideas for improvement down in notebooks and on whiteboards, and had the time to breathe and record our recap!  We had different experiences at this show than some of the others in the recent past, so we share it all with you in a super sized episode this week.  For 1 hour & 14 minutes we babble on about:

• Saturday pre-registration ease & the lightly sponsored conference tote bag.
• The short, but sweet, buy.at party and the drinks, view, and having to interact with the “public”.  And a brief insight into Trisha’s bath.
• The packed sessions, Mike’s session went well, and our Sunday in meetings and the insanity of the Meet Market.
• Elvis costumes, Marilyn Monroe impersonators, and legend Warren Moon.
• The lovely ShareASale 10 year anniversary party & the Strike Out Breast Cancer bowling party.
• Our quick review of the Drew Eric Whitman keynote, yet neither of us attended the Brian Solis presentation.
• Mike finally met Lewis Howes & they talked about Lewis’ book, LinkedWorking: Generating Success on LinkedIn the Worlds Largest Professional Networking Website.
• Affiliate Summit Forum is now live, so go sign up!

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Affiliate Marketing Fanatics – A couple of hyper-caffeinated affiliate marketers (Mike Buechele) and (Trisha Lyn Fawver) talk about all things Affiliate Marketing. From blogging to branding, social media to search, video and more!

We’re continuing our series of interviews with some speakers at Affiliate Summit West 2011, coming up next week at the Wynn Casino in Las Vegas. This time, we talk to Gary Kibel about his presentation “Social Media – A Marketing Bonanza!”. In in this episode we discuss:

• Gary’s humble beginnings as an IT guy before becoming an attorney at Davis & Gilbert LLP.
• Gary’s co-conspirators, er, panelists Sal Conca from NETexponent and Wade Sisson from Schaaf-PartnerCentric.
• They’ll share some personal war stories and case studies about social media gone wrong.
• Gary will talk about working on the most successful social media campaign in the history of social media!  What a teaser!
• Contact Gary at gkibel@dglaw.com or at DGlaw.com

Now… here’s the bummer.  No, we didn’t mess things up and forget to attach the episode.  We record on Skype using Pamela Pro and between those two programs, probably Pamela’s fault, less than a minute of our interview was recorded.  So, we have nothing but Mike & my intro to post, and you don’t want to hear us babble on about our flights into Las Vegas, my tablet vs. netbook debate, or the weather in New York and California respectively, so stay tuned later this week for our last interview in this series!

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Affiliate Marketing Fanatics – A couple of hyper-caffeinated affiliate marketers (Mike Buechele) and (Trisha Lyn Fawver) talk about all things Affiliate Marketing. From blogging to branding, social media to search, video and more!

We’re continuing our series of interviews with some speakers at Affiliate Summit West 2011, coming up in just under a month at the Wynn Casino in Las Vegas. This time, we talk to Phil Akalp about his presentation “Make it Legal! Advantages of Legalizing Businesses”. In in this episode we discuss:

• The creative launch video for the Android powered Nexus S.
• Phil’s origins as a lawyer and a bit of what CorpNet.com can do for your program.
• You can join CorpNet.com’s affiliate program on ShareASale.

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Affiliate Marketing Fanatics – A couple of hyper-caffeinated affiliate marketers (Mike Buechele) and (Trisha Lyn Fawver) talk about all things Affiliate Marketing. From blogging to branding, social media to search, video and more!

We’re continuing our series of interviews with some speakers at Affiliate Summit West 2011, taking place at the Wynn Casino & Hotel in Las Vegas. This time, we talk to Amanda Orson about her origins in affiliate marketing & her panel “Local Lead Generation – Heaven & Hell”. Unfortunately, her co-panelist Ad Hustler was unable to join us. In in this episode we discuss:

• You might know Amanda better as @Phillian on Twitter (got questions for their panel, ask now)!
• Amanda got her start by picking up a copy of The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss and reading up on WickedFire.com.
• They’ll be looking at things from both an SEO approach and an SEM approach.
• Find good PPC stuff on Chad Frederiksen’s blog CDF Networks.
• Mike’s interest in how the local lead gen can be worked into Pay Per Call technologies.
• Amanda says don’t come for her, come for Ad Hustler!

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