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We know that networking is critical your success. Yet many people just can’t afford the time and expense to
attend 2- or 3-day conferences in distant cities.
That’s why DOMAINfest is now offering a series of one-day, high-impact, regional networking events. The
second in this series will be held in New York City on Wednesday August 18, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel.

Wednesday August 18

Details on subject matter experts and discussion topics will be released as they become available.

From their website:

WHIR Events are a chance to do face-to-face business and networking with executives, solution providers and corporate decision makers in a relaxed environment with complimentary drinks and appetizers. Our goal is to provide a local venue for you to do business, make new connections and learn more about those in our exciting industry.

WHIR Events: If you work in or will be visiting New York or neighboring cities come out to the WHIRs’ Web hosting networking events and meet like-minded industry executives and corporate decision makers face-to-face in a relaxed environment with complimentary drinks and appetizers. Our goal is to provide a great local venue, to do business, make new connections and learn more about those in the web hosting industry.

Affiliate Summit is the most well recognized affiliate marketing conference in the world, attracting scores of companies and affiliate marketers. And 2009 is looking to be the best yet!

There will be a wide range of expert speakers including Dush Ramachandran of Clickbank, David Lewis of Cashbag, Jim Kukral of TheBizWebCoach.com, Chris Brogan of New Marketing Labs, Woody Wood of Amazon, Jay Berkowitz of Ten Golden Rules, Jeremy Schoemaker of ShoeMoney Media Group, Alex Schultz of Facebook, Peter Shankman of The Geek Factory, and many more!

These experts will lead sessions on…

• Microniches – The Way to Mega Profits
• Dynamic Shopping – Content, Conversion, Analytics
• Getting Noticed FAST
• Optimizing Google Adwords Performance
• Creating Lasting Publisher and Advertiser Relationships
• Personal Branding 2.0
• Advertising Tax Impact, Accomplishments and the Future
• Igniting Viral Campaigns by Creating Relevant Conversations
• Rolling Out Across Europe
• What the Heck is a Website Nowadays?
• Offline Affiliate Marketing
• SEO Site Clinic
• Advertising Tax: What Happened and What’s Next
• How to Monetize Your Site With Widgets
• Seven Deadly Sins of Landing Page Optimization
• SEO Tools You Can Use Today
• Managing Privacy & Maximizing Data in Affiliate Marketing
• Social Media Marketing for Affiliates
• Web 2010 – Ten Trends Defining Your Future
• The Conversation Prism v2.0
• Advertising on Facebook
• Keeping Your Affiliate Program Clean
• Bullt-Proofing Your Afiliate Agreement
• Profitable Performance Marketing; More Money for You
• Lead Generation: Driving the Future of e-Commerce
• Affiliate Marketing – MLM Convergence: How to Profit
• Hot Topics in Marketing Compliance and Enforcement
• The Truth About Coupons
• Key Trends in Performance Marketing

Click here for more information on Affiliate Summit East 2009 so you can find out if it’s right for you.

If you register before the event, you will save a lot of money on registration fees. Click here to register today!

What: LeadsCon East

LeadsCon East is a conference aimed at the online customer acquisition arena with a specific focus on lead generation. LeadsCon Las Vegas drew over 600 people in year one and over 1400 in year two, receiving rave reviews for its quality content and high-profile attendees. However, even though LeadsCon Las Vegas draws people from all over the world, LeadsCon East was created to take things to a bigger stage – staging itself in New York City.

More information coming soon.

• What: Tageted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2008
• Where: Brooklyn Bridge Marriott, New York, NY
• When: September 23-26th, 2008
• Who: Domainers, Marketing, Investors

Why New York? Because the “Big Apple” is the center of the universe when it comes to commerce, banks, advertising and especially Web 2.0, 3.0 and beyond . It’s the toughest marketplace in the world but still the most liquid and fairest in many respects.

We are in a fast moving business. What is important now may not be important next week. Having the ability to keep up with changes in business is perhaps our single biggest strength. What we do know is we will bring the biggest and the best together once again and the show is sponsored by the top businesses on the net. Together with our partners, we promise a show that continues to be better and more important than the last. Built around networking with the key people that can affect our futures in a very positive way.

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• What: Search Marketing Expo East
• Where: Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City
• When: October 6-8, 2008
• Who: Leading vendors in search marketing

Under the leadership of the conference chairs Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman, the expo will surely be a “must-attend” event for those who want to excel in the field of search marketing. The expo will have presenters of the best minds in search marketing. They will share their tactics and experiences and teach practical techniques and strategies to give the attendees that extra advantage over competitors. The top companies will also be present to discuss and provide for your business needs. The best part of this is that it is fun and the occasion is conducive for live networking.

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• What: ad:tech New York: The business of modern marketing
• Where: New York Hilton
• When: November 3 – 6, 2008
• Who: Marketers, advertisers, publishers and vendors/service providers

If you are in a business that requires you to have conversations with your current clients (and potential ones), this conference will help you much in achieving your goal to sell or provide service to others. This conference surely tackles everything under modern marketing, making the participants learn from high level overview keynotes to workshops that focus on performance. Keynote presentations will be imparted by Nick Brien, worldwide CEO of Universal McCann. He will tackle things regarding the different opportunities and challenges companies and individuals might encounter in this new media age. He emphasizes the need of industries to focus on new models of media and of communication interdependence.

Stuart Elliot of The New York Times also points out the importance of the efforts of companies to engage in new technology to satisfy and connect their customers and prospects. Other notable speakers include Susan Whiting (Executive VP of The Nielsen Company), Beth Comstock (President of Integrated Media), Carla Hendra (Co-CEO of Ogilvy North America), Peter Blacker (SVP of Telemundo), Imran Khan (Managing Director of JP Morgan Research), Ted McConnell (Director of P&G’s Interactive Innovation Group), Nada Stirrat (EVP of MTV.com) and other notable speakers that will contribute to the marketing know-hows of the people. The exhibit is for free and for those who wish to promote their ventures, they will be given the opportunity to exhibit on the 3 floors of the expo site.

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• What: Web 2.0 Expo New York
• Where: Javits Center, New York, New York
• When: September 16 – 19, 2008
• Who: Designers and developers, product managers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers and business strategists.

The Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last April was flocked by interested parties mainly from the West coast. For the sake of those who live in the East coast, a Web 2.0 Expo is scheduled to happen in New York three months from now. New York is said to be the home of some of the finest financial, advertising and consulting companies, and the Web 2.0 Expo shall bring together developers, designers, entrepreneurs and other web professionals for some new learning when it comes to the internet. Web 2.0 Expo serves as a learning ground for the moguls and internet developers alike, so that they can gain knowledge of the different new things the internet can do, as well as learn from the past failures they have committed.

Sponsors for the Web 2.0 Expo in New York include the software giant Microsoft, SaaS and PaaS leader Salesforce.com, as well as other premier corporations such as Amazon Web Services, Curl, Force10 Networks, Intuit Quickbase, ONEsite, OpSource, Sun Microsystems, Acquia, Awareness, BlueArc, Coradiant, Dixero, Jive Software, Kapow Technologies, LithiumTechnologies, Panther Express, SynthaSite, TSOT, Inc. and WebAsyst LLC. Media coverage is also made possible by Berlin Partner, Fast Company, Revenue Magazine, Topix and WOW (WEBPROTRAINING.org).