Overview

Taking place on Sunday during Summit, typically from 12 p.m.-6 p.m., the Meet Market is a one-day event that allows conference attendees to quickly meet as many Affiliate Summit exhibitors as possible. However, unlike the Affiliate Summit Exhibit Hall, there are no elaborate booths or multiple floors of exhibitors at the Meet Market. All Meet Market exhibitors are located in one hall and booths are replaced by tables. This simple layout allows for Meet Market attendees to move quickly from table to table.

With major conference networking taking place in a venue that is about 1/3 of the size of the Affiliate Summit Exhibit Hall, the Meet Market can be a little hectic for Affiliate Summit first timers. With a little help from the tips below, you should be able to have a successful Meet Market experience:

Map it Out: Prior to attending the Meet Market, we recommend that you check out the Exhibit Hall and Meet Market Map to determine which exhibitors are potential fits for meeting your business objectives. This map not only provides the location of each of the exhibitors at the Meet Market, but also provides a description of each exhibitor and their contact information. As you review the map, make sure to jot down the table numbers of Meet Market exhibitors that you would like to meet with. Then, when you do decide to enter the Meet Market, you will be able to easily move to your intended business targets.

Visit Key Exhibitors First: Though one day at the Meet Market can be extremely productive for an exhibitor, it can also be tiring to make hundreds of connections in a single day. Therefore, around 5 p.m. during the Meet Market, you will notice that some exhibitors will start to close up shop. For this reason, we recommend connecting with the important exhibitors on your list earlier in the day.

Keep it Brief: As previously mentioned, with all activity taking place in a single hall, the Meet Market can be a noisy place. Therefore, we recommend keeping your conversations short and to the point. Trying to go into the specifics of your business model might not be too productive with conversational noise humming loudly around you. For best results, think more elevator pitch, and less formal meeting. The goal of your conversations should be to simply find out if you and the exhibitor are a fit to work together in the future.

One and Done: Finally, not all Meet Market exhibitors will have booths when the exhibit hall opens on Monday. Therefore, we recommend cross-checking the companies that will exhibiting in the Affiliate Summit Exhibit Hall against those who will be exhibiting in the Meet Market by using the Exhibit Hall and Meet Market Map.

Come See Us!

While you are enjoying the Meet Market, don’t forget to stop by the Adscend Media table (#721)! Here is a brief overview of our services:

Publishers: Performance Marketing Network, Content Monetization, Virtual Rewards Monetization

Advertisers: Quality Web and Mobile Traffic

Networks: Traffic in Over 180 Countries, High-EPC Incentive Offers

App Developers: Monetization, User Acquistion

Visit AdscendMedia.com for more information about any of the services listed above.

See you at the Meet Market!

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In case you weren’t familiar with us, here is a quick overview: Adscend Media is an incentive advertising network that has a large global inventory of CPA offers, innovative content monetization technology, and high quality lead generating advertising solutions.

How can we help your business?

There are three potential ways that Adscend Media can help your business grow in 2014 and beyond!

Providing You with Premium Offers from Around the World: Adscend Media has an enormous offer catalog of over 2,000 high quality incentive offers. Our catalog contains mobile apps, web installs, offerwall offers, and pin submits, just to name a few of our many offer types. If you are searching for offers for a country that can often be hard to find, chances are that we have a few offers that will work for you. During Affiliate Summit, we would be happy to go over our offer catalog with you and provide you with a general breakdown of our inventory for any country of your choice!

Helping You Generate Cost-Effective Leads in Over 180 Countries: We specialize in driving quality, budget-friendly leads to your products. Running an advertising campaign in the Adscend network allows you to reach global audiences on a pay-for-performance basis. You tell us what you consider to be a lead, and our network of publishers can deliver a steady stream of leads to your products. Our advertising team can guide you through the campaign setup process and will provide you with the support that you need to help make your campaign a success! Whether your products are cutting-edge like mobile apps, or more “old school” like insurance services, we can deliver leads at rates that allow you to reach your advertising objectives.

Arming You With Leading Content Monetization Tools: Whether you own a mobile app or game, online tool, album, online game, eBook, software, or any other type of digital item, we can help you maximize the revenue that you are currently generating from your premium content. Since our inception, our publishers have generated an average of 600% more revenue by adding our content monetization tools into their monetization mix, as opposed to those who chose to only use traditional advertising solutions.

Essentially eliminating the factor of price in content purchasing decisions, our free content monetization tools allow you to offer your premium content or features, such as in-game or in-app items/currency, upgrades, or bonus levels, to your users at no-cost to them AND you still will be able to generate revenue from your content!

If any of the three areas listed above are of interest to you, we would love to meet with you at Affiliate Summit! Scheduling a meeting with the Adscend team can even be done in less than five minutes by using our automatic meeting scheduler! To schedule a meeting with us, please visit: http://www.meetme.so/adscend.

If you would like to learn more about Adscend before Affiliate Summit, please visit: https://adscendmedia.com.

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Taking place on the first day of the  Affiliate Summit conference, the Meet Market is a fast-paced networking event that typically takes place in an area about 1/4 of the size of a regular convention exhibit hall floor. There are no elaborate booths with beckoning lights, plush couches, or wacky game areas at the Meet Market, there are only rows of tables. With its layout designed for speed, Meet Market attendees are often able to meet a large number of companies in a short period of time. If you are looking to “check off” a lot of companies from your Affiliate Summit pre-conference networking list, the Meet Market is the event for you!

Adscend Media will be hosting a table at this year’s Affiliate Summit East Meet Market on Sunday, August 18, 2013 and would love if you would stop by our table to:

• Ask us any questions that you may have about our network
• Provide us with more information about your business goals and needs
• Let us give you a brief rundown of our offers, values, technology, and traffic
• Allow us to assist you with any account related questions that you may have
• Discuss any performance marketing related topics that are on your mind

To connect with the Adscend Media team during the Affiliate Summit East 2013 Meet Market, stop by table #67 or click here to schedule a time to meet. To view a map of all of the participating companies at the Affiliate Summit East 2013 Meet Market, click here.

Affiliate Summit East 2013 is being held in Philadelphia, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, from August 18-20, 2013.

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Members of the Adscend Media team will be headed to Affiliate Summit East 2013 (August 18-20, 2013, Pennsylvania Convention Center) and would love to connect with you during the conference.

If you are a publisher, advertiser, or see a potential synergy in working with us, we are interested in meeting with you!

This year, there are three ways to connect with the Adscend team at Affiliate Summit East:

• Stop by table #67 during the Meet Market
• Schedule a meeting through our online meeting scheduler: http://meetme.so/adscend
• Drop us a note via Facebook or Twitter

See you in Philly!

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A sound post conference follow up strategy is based on organization, research and timeliness. Every business has their own unique goals, clientele and objectives, however, the following best practices should be included in every post conference follow up plan:

Time is Fleeting: Whatever methods you choose to reach out to conference attendees post conference, make sure to employ them quickly. The longer you wait, the greater the chances are that the person who you are reaching out to won’t remember you or pertinent details about your business that appeal to him or her. Basically, unless you are dealing with someone with an eidetic memory, or who takes incredibly detailed notes, waiting to connect may zap all of the momentum that you generated with that contact at the conference. If your contact doesn’t remember you, or why he or she should work with you, you are essentially stuck giving your “elevator pitch” again over the phone. Therefore, we recommend that you wait no more than one week to reach out to potential business partners after your conference. This short break allows attendees to get back into their normal work habits and handle any pressing business that arose while they were at the conference.

Forget Me Not: Unless your timing is impeccable, chances are, you wont get a hold of everyone that you reach out to on your follow up list. Therefore, it is important to track your communication activities to be able to determine when it’s time to send out another email, place a follow up call or send another quick Skype message. Creating a simple spreadsheet, which includes communication dates, is a common method that many people use to manage their follow up activities. Others prefer more integrated solutions like Zoho CRM, Basecamp or activeCollab. Additionally, your follow up list can be used to evaluate the ROI of a particular conference and help you decide on whether it’s worth attending or exhibiting at the following year.

Well Read: Before you decide to pick up the phone, send an email or reach out to someone you met at a conference via social media, make sure you do some research. Everyone is “slammed” with work, and if they are not, they have better things to do than think about work. Therefore, it behooves you to spend some time studying the company or individual who you will be reaching out to. Check out their site, Facebook page, LinkedIn profile, and any information that you can gather online. The more prepared you are, the greater the chances are of establishing a working relationship with your contact. Most importantly, knowing a company’s or individual’s skills, services, and prices will help you determine the end goal of your meeting with your contact.

Using Every Club in your Bag: In an ideal world, everyone who you meet at a conference will be able to easily be reached via telephone. You can just call them up, and they will happily be able to chat with you. Unfortunately, not everyone prefers to conduct business via telephone or keep regular phone business hours, and some people dont even use a phone for business at all. Therefore, to reach many of the contacts on your post conference follow up list, you will have to get creative. Email is obviously a great second option. Social media though, is where the real follow up “magic” happens. Using an email address, name or company name, you can easily locate most conference attendees on your follow up list on major social media channels. Once located, feel free to send conference attendees a short and informal message requesting a follow up call. Instant messenger services are also a great secondary follow up option due to their perceived low level of time commitment (compared to a phone call), after hours availability and worldwide usage.

Hopefully, these tips will help you maximize your ROI from the last conference you attended. Perhaps, these tips will be so effective that they will pay for your next conference attendance?

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What happens in Vegas…

The Adscend Media team will be heading to Las Vegas for Affiliate Summit West 2013 (January 13-15) and will be live blogging throughout the entire conference!

Starting Saturday, January 12, Adscend team members will be live blogging their conference insights directly from fabulous Las Vegas! These short posts will cover anything Affiliate Summit related, including conference highlights, event photos, and notes from team member travels.

Stay tuned to the Adscend Media Blog to catch all of the action!

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