Full-Agenda

 10:25-11:10am • Track 1 • Room: Club

Defining an Affiliate and Merchant Partnership

Communication, personal contact and honesty are the keys to a true partnership. What techniques and tools have an affiliate and merchant (OPM) created to optimize sales and provide a competitive advantage to the partnership.

Chuck Hamrick
President
Hamrick.Biz

Jeremy Palmer
Palmer Digital Assets

 10:25-11:10am • Track 2 • Room: Foothill G

One Size Doesn’t Fit All—Choosing the Best Affiliate Types for Your Program

Coupon or Loyalty? Content or Display? What’s up with Social? When it comes to categorizing affiliates, the options are endless—more importantly, the outcomes are endless. A merchant’s engagement with various affiliate types is essential to the long-term success and growth of its affiliate marketing program. Does this mean a merchant should dedicate time and budget trying to incorporate a category of affiliates known to be a non-starter in meeting the merchant’s revenue goals? Not exactly. Learn how to navigate through the maze of affiliate types and create a balanced affiliate portfolio to drive your program’s ongoing success.

Choots Humphries
Co-President
LinkConnector

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 11:15am-12:00pm • Track 1 • Room: Club

Understanding Analytics and Key Metrics to Uncover New Growth Opportunities

One of the most overlooked and least understood areas of affiliate program optimization are the opportunities that lay within your data. Numbers and KPIs tell an important story that help you identify where to get that next big affiliate, how to drive faster new customer acquisitions, where to focus your marketing spend and where to leverage strategic partnerships for higher ROI.

This session will give both best practices and case studies around how data can be used for smarter, more profitable and more sustainable affiliate program growth.

Sarah Bundy
Founder & CEO
All Inclusive Marketing

Connor Kane
Analyst
All Inclusive Marketing

 11:15am-12:00pm • Track 2 • Room: Foothill G

How to Launch an Affiliate Program Against Giants

I have recently launched an affiliate program in one of the hardest industries online… hosting. I’ll walk you step by step on how to outrank and outthink your competition online.

John Rampton
President
Hostt

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 1:00-1:45pm • Track 1 • Room: Club

10 Key Takeaways from Scaling Affiliate Program to 25 Countries

Brook Schaaf, Chairman of Schaaf-PartnerCentric, will co-present with Max Ciccotosto, Head of Growth LightInTheBox, on how LightInTheBox (NYSE: LITB) handles its complex, global affiliate program.

Brook Schaaf
Chairman
Schaaf-PartnerCentric

Max Ciccotosto
Head of Growth
LightInTheBox

 1:00-1:45pm • Track 2 • Room: Foothill G

Managing TM+ Affiliates – Beyond The Basics

I will share information on how to integrate TM+ affiliates as an extension of the paid search team to create a dynamic synergy through varied promotions, ad titles, ad descriptions and display URLs. I will also walk through TM+ Terms and Conditions and how to screen for nefarious activity and communicate to your partners. Beyond the basics will include keyword matching, creating a comprehensive negative keyword list, ad rank and more. This session will also uncover some unique insights on how brand terms can be hijacked by affiliate without any recourse from the engines.

Martin Marion
Affiliate Manager
Deluxe Corp

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 3:25-4:10pm • Track 1 • Room: Club

In-House or Outsourced? This is the Question

Find out what’s the best solution for you given your current company and affiliate program context. While an in-house hire may have its advantages, especially cost-wise, going with a specialized agency usually brings you a higher level of expertise. What should you choose?

Michael Ni
CMO/SVP, Marketing & Products
Avangate

 3:25-4:10pm • Track 2 • Room: Foothill G

Affiliate Program Numbers: A Deep Dive

An in-depth look at various numbers every affiliate manager should understand.

We’ll review the value of knowing how front end and back end metrics, affiliate participation numbers, discounts, fees and discrepancies can effect profitability.

Paul Schroader
President
PS Web Solutions, Inc.

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 4:15-5:00pm • Track 1 • Room: Club

Case Studies In Attribution: Here’s How Top Merchants Are Doing It

An overview of how top merchants have implemented tag management, clickstream analytics, and attribution into their programs and the results they have experienced.

Chad Waite
Marketing Manager
AvantLink

 4:15-5:00pm • Track 2 • Room: Foothill G

Combating Affiliate Fraud

Affiliate fraud is a threat to both merchants and other affiliates. As the strategies of deceptive affiliates become more sophisticated, so too must the responses and tools used to identify and remove them. Implementing and enforcing the three stages of compliance helps to reduce fraud in any program. Learn how to identify and combat several deceptive practices, and gain insight on the future of compliance.

Jeannine Crooks
Senior Account Manager
Affiliate Window

 10:35-11:20am • Track 1 • Room: Club

101: How to Build Your Own Affiliate Network

What are the top things a new comer to performance marketing should know? Let’s get the basics down. Learn how to start an affiliate network, get an offer, find affiliates and pricing. HasOffers has helped over 2,000 businesses start an affiliate network, and we can show you how it’s done.

Cameron Stewart
General Manager
HasOffers by TUNE

 10:35am-11:20am • Track 2 • Room: Foothill G

CPL or CPM: What’s Best for Your
Email Marketing Budget?

For many advertisers, the decision isn’t easy when it comes to acquisition email campaigns: should you run CPL or CPM? A cocktail of both maybe? In this session, we will examine the pros and cons of both from a customer acquisition standpoint as it relates to your email budget. We’ll provide examples across different advertiser verticals of what works and what doesn’t when running CPL and CPM campaigns. Get best practices and some tips on how to maximize customer acquisition opportunities no matter which email offer type you run.

Daryl Colwell
Senior Vice President
Matomy Media Group

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 11:25am-12:10pm • Track 1 • Room: Club

Why Independent Program Representation Is More Important Than Ever

It’s a confusing time in the affiliate industry, with networks buying affiliates and networks being acquired as part of marketing/e-commerce platforms. Now more than ever it’s essential for programs to seek independent representation to drive their strategy and key decision-making.

Robert Glazer, founder of Acceleration Partners, will explain how independent representation puts a merchant’s interests and brand first and ensures a program is as optimized and efficient as possible. Independent firms are uniquely capable of playing a strategic role as a program expands, working with SaaS platforms and technology partners to develop innovative solutions and guiding expansion to global markets.

Robert Glazer
Founder and Managing Director
Acceleration Partners

 11:25am-12:10pm • Track 2 • Room: Foothill G

Bloggers and Affiliate Marketing: Recruitment & Retention

1. Overview of the development of the blogger and affiliate marketing relationships

• PR vs Affiliate marketing
• Niche affiliates vs bloggers
• Education on the client and blogger side

2. Recruitment

• tools such as Buzzstream and Lindex as well as network tools in CJ, Shareasale and Avantlink
• going where the bloggers are
• education online and locally

3. Crafting blogger outreach – research, personalize and concise. Will show examples of converting creative

4. Compensation – discuss Go Live bonus and other incentives

5. Retention Tips

Stephanie Robbins
OPM
Robbins Interactive

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 1:00-1:45pm • Track 1 • Room: Club

Everything You Need to Know About Attribution & Affiliate Marketing

Everyone is talking about attribution but not many companies are actually doing it? How do you get started or how do you know if what you are doing it right? Todd will walk through all of the moving pieces for tracking, analyzing and optimizing your performance marketing partnerships using attribution and big data.

• What is attribution
• Why it is important
• How to leverage it
• Issue that can affect your results
• Example data

Todd Crawford
Co-Founder
Impact Radius

 1:00-1:45pm • Track 2 • Room: Foothill G

Maintaining Brand Integrity at Scale—Ensuring Affiliate Content Is On-Brand

When working with hundreds or even thousands of publishers, it’s a major challenge to keep up with what types of content those publishers are posting and how it reflects on your brand. While every marketer wants affiliates to represent their brand in its best light, there’s simply too much to keep up with!

In this presentation, I’ll cover some of the core issues in content compliance—including inaccurate offers, expired promotions, off-brand or offensive language, and affiliate disclosure—as well as strategies and free tools for maintaining compliance on publisher websites.

Sam Engel
Marketing Manager
BrandVerity

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 3:15-4:00pm • Track 1 • Room: Club

The Data Behind a Top Performing Affiliate

The data behind a top performing affiliate: Grow your affiliate program by understanding how a top performing affiliate thinks and works. Our Affiliate Benchmarks report surveyed more than 7,000 affiliates across nearly 30 questions and in this session we’ll show you how their results compare to the industry.

Chris Kramer
Partner
House of Kaizen

Lisa K. Picarille
Content Director
Performance Marketing Association

 3:15-4:00pm • Track 2 • Room: Foothill G

Transparency is a Two-Way Street

Marketing goals are often plainly defined: “We want X results which will be measured by Y actions.” But, marketers also request from publishers to include “HOW” they aim to achieve those actions. In other words, marketers want transparency on the sources of actions being delivered. However, affiliates don’t have insight into the larger picture of attribution and therefore also have tunnel vision on other marketing strategies already in play. In order for marketers to achieve stronger results from their advertising and affiliate partners, it becomes critical for both the affiliate AND the marketer to share more information and make transparency a two-way street.

Matt Sexton
Business Development Manager
Pulse Mobile

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 4:05-4:50pm • Track 1 • Room: Club

Content Driving Sales in a Cross-Device World

Editorial traffic is quickly becoming the “must buy” marketing channel for affiliate marketers. Oliver will cover recent innovative and disruptive mobile trends that provide an opportunity for new revenue streams. Learn how to gain a competitive advantage across fragmented audiences in a cross-device world.

Oliver Roup
CEO & Founder
VigLink

 4:05-4:50pm • Track 2 • Room: Foothill G

The Legs to the Stool – Considering All Traffic Sources for Affiliate Program

Affiliates have changed over the years, and the way that we think about affiliates should change along with that trend. Affiliates are no longer just content websites or blogs in their basements, or coupon aggregators that throw deals onto their sites for you. The affiliate channels is as complex as the web itself, and you should be armed with strategies to work with all different types of traffic. The affiliate mix is a lot like “legs to a stool”, and without each leg, the program is weaker. Join us to discuss what you need to consider when evaluating each source of traffic. You shouldn’t turn away traffic just because it’s difficult to measure or understand.

Matt Frary
Chief of Chaos
SmarterChaos.com

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