ASW Session's to Attend?

Status
Not open for further replies.
thesilly1

thesilly1

Trying to Live the Dream
Mar 6, 2008
219
0
0
www.blog4money.ca
Yes, I know that the real reason to go to ASW is networking. But I have a gold pass so I might as well use it. So what sessions are people planning on attending?

Besides Nickycakes' session, obviously.

Agenda
 


There's a session with Cakes on a panel (Affiliate Strategies for Traffic Generation and Monetization), which might be worth it. I'm not going to be able to make it to Vegas, but I took a look at the session listing in FeedFront Magazine and most of it looked like a rehash of sessions from ASE 08 (or even before that).

Other interesting sessions for affiliates may be "Future of Affiliate Marketing - Offline", "The Ultimate Pitching Guide", "Automating Websites and PPC Management", "Whitehat Linkbuilding Strategies: Beginner to Advanced" (probably good for beginners in SEO), "Advertising on Facebook" (Though Zac Johnson + Shoemoney on a panel might not be worth it), and "Advanced Optimization for Landing Pages". There's a lot more for advertisers than for affiliates, and at that, most of it is pretty beginner.

Ask the Experts is a good time to network, as well as get some personal face-time with some people who are experienced in their respective areas.
 
I might just go to cakes' thing to see some comedy. Other than that, if you want to see the equivalent of a toddler giving a press conference about the current state of foreign affairs, go to all of the sessions to learn some REALLY valuable info.
 
kidChaos said:
Are they really all that useless? With the gold pass I'd probably say sit in on Jeremy Palmers 'black ink session'

My work bought me a platinum pass so I'll be attending 3 days of the training sessions.

I'm sticking to the PPC courses and those on improving LP conversions.
Click to expand...

If you are pretty new to this game (< 6 months) then you might get something out of some of the sessions. Otherwise, don't bother.
 
I am seriously disappointed every time i look at the list of sessions and try to figure out the draw for anyone to pay for a full pass. The value for the affiliates is that you get to talk to other affiliates...and get to go to some fun parties...the sessions seem pretty much worthless. The value for the networks and merchants is....a bunch of affiliates there to sell themselves to.

Please try to refrain from throwing anything at me during my session, although, andrew wee's giant cranium would probably make hitting me an impossibility.
 
Thanks guys. It's sorta what I figured.... plus I'm having a hard time believing anyone's a qualified 'expert' on a field with the list of speakers on the facebook talk. Thank fuck I never paid for the platinum pass.
 
nickycakes said:
I am seriously disappointed every time i look at the list of sessions and try to figure out the draw for anyone to pay for a full pass. The value for the affiliates is that you get to talk to other affiliates...and get to go to some fun parties...the sessions seem pretty much worthless. The value for the networks and merchants is....a bunch of affiliates there to sell themselves to.

Please try to refrain from throwing anything at me during my session, although, andrew wee's giant cranium would probably make hitting me an impossibility.
Click to expand...
I was comp'd a full pass to ASE, and the sessions were worthless, both to advertisers and affiliates (of which I am both). The only worthwhile full-pass experiences for me was the ask the experts part (just since individuals with similar interests congregated at tables clearly labeled, making it really easy for specific networking), and Wil Reynold's SEO presentation (since I'm a beginner in regards to SEO). All other benefits were gotten from the exhibit floor (networking and sharing ideas), bars (same), and parties (same). The one thing I missed out on was networking with WFers (explicitly, since I didn't ask everyone I met whether they were on WF, and if so who) since I somehow seemed to miss the planned meetups, but I guess it saved me the tranny bar experience :)
 
johu said:
The one thing I missed out on was networking with WFers (explicitly, since I didn't ask everyone I met whether they were on WF, and if so who) since I somehow seemed to miss the planned meetups, but I guess it saved me the tranny bar experience :)
Click to expand...

Oh christ. Thanks for the warning!

I went to ad:tech in NYC, just to the expo part and it was awesome for networking. I imagine vegas will be better than that. Hope to get some knowledgable suckers drunk. haha :p

I work full-time doing SEM for product launches. SEO & PPC for all sorts of different niche stuff. I've been running PPC professionally for companies going on 2 years and was hoping to zero in on some stuff I might be missing.

I'm entirely self-taught so I really figured a lot of these sessions would be fairly valuable. (Beyond that of my being an affiliate on the side)

I'll try to avoid gaining stalkers, but the ones I'm looking forward to sitting in on:

The panel nickycakes is be on
Jeremy Palmer's 'black ink session'
Automating Websites & PPC Management
Whitehat Link Building Strategies
Organic SEO Review of audience sites
Landing page testing to improve conversions
Super Affiliate PPC Strategies

I'm sure the trip will be worth the bosses tab. :music06:
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top Bottom