JEBCommerce wasn’t able to attend the Affiliate Summit in NYC this year.  We very much wanted to, but we are working on some big things here, launching a few new clients and hiring new people, so a journey across the country was not in the cards.  If you haven’t attended an Affiliate Summit and are still on the fence, do it.  You won’t regret it.  Our entire team will be heading to ASW10 in Vegas next year.  We won’t be missing that and we hope to meet you there as well.

Fortunately for us, more than 50 attendees have posted their recaps of the event online.  Our team went through and found recaps from people such as Ian Fernando, Zach Johnson, Clickbooth, Missyward, the Martells, Murray Newlands and more.  We’ve listed many of these recaps here.  It sure sounds like everyone had an awesome time, and lots of business was done and networking took place.  If I missed your recap, just send an email to jamie@jebcommerce.com and I’ll add it today.

Revenews’ CT Moor’s Recap

Stephanie Lichtenstein’s Recap

Affiliate Summit East Slide Shows

James and Arlene Martell on Webmaster Radio

MissyWard.com

Murray Newsland’s Recap

ClickBank’s Recap

Affiliatetip’s Recap

Buy.at’s Recap

Eric Nagle’s Recap

Vinny Ohare’s Recap

HelpMeDrive’s Recap

TheChrista.com’s Recap

Ian Fernando’s Recap

AdHustler’s Recap

Affiliate Marketing Fanatics’ Recap

Nerdy Affiliate’s Recap

Mike Chiasson.com - Love his welcome to NY moment.

TrishaLynn.com

CashTactics.net

ShockMarketer

Super Affiliate Twins

DailyConversions.com

InternetMarketingWorldCup.com

I was so excited when I learned of my nomination in the Best Blogger category.  I couldn’t wait to get to the summit and see if I could pull off a win.  I had stiff competition.  Scott Jangro has really put together an awesome blog for our industry and Angel has always been a leader in this area, so I wasn’t too confident, but honored to be amongst this group.

And the moment came:

I was sure they said Jamie Birch, but alas, Scott won the award.  It was well deserved and now it seems that I may have slipped into the “Susan Lucci” role of Pinnacle Award nominees.  Two nominations and two, well, nominations.  I searched forever for that video as I promised many I would try to tie in Susan Lucci not winning into this blog post.

The even was great and the winners truly deserved the awards.  It was a truly amazing list of individuals and everyone really should be proud just to be nominated.  My hat’s off to you Mr. Jangro, but watch out for me next year :).

Here is a list of all the winner:

• Affiliate of the Year - Mike Allen
• Affiliate Manager of the Year - Angel Djambazov
• Exceptional Merchant - CelebrateExpress.com
• Affiliate Marketing Advocate - Melanie Seery
• Best Blogger - Scott Jangro
• Affiliate Marketing Legend - Kellie Stevens

Congratulations guys!  You all do an amazing job and I am proud to consider many of you close friends.  Keep up the good work!

Shawn/Missy - you should bring back the formal awards ceremony like the first year!  I loved that one.

Will you be in Las Vegas next week?  Will you be attending the Affiliate Summit?  If you answered yest to either of those, I’d love to meet with you.  I’ve attended more affiliate summits than I can remember and each one has been stellar.  The network is amazing and it is always one of my best trips of the year.

This year I am also up for a Pinnacle Award - Best Blogger.  Scott Jangro and Angel Djambazov are also nominated for this award.  I can’t say how honored I am to be considered for any award, but to be listed with these two amazing individuals, both leaders in our industry, is amazing.  I can’t thank everyone who nominated me enough.  I love blogging.  I love blogging on JEBCommerce.com, OneThousandThingsToDo.com, Revenews.com and other places.  Often times you put something out there and are not sure anyone reads it or gets anything out of it.  It’s extremely exciting to be recognized.

Angel and Scott are actually up for two awards this year.  Angel for Affiliate Manager of the Year and Scott for Affiliate Marketing Legend.  Here is the list of all the nominees:

Affiliate of the Year

• Scott Aikin
• Mike Allen
• Kim Rowley

Affiliate Manager of the Year

• Angel Djambazov
• Stephanie Harris
• Kim Salvino

Exceptional Merchant

• 4Checks.com
• Amazon
• CelebrateExpress.com

Affiliate Marketing Advocate

• Michael Coley
• Brook Schaaf
• Melanie Seery

Best Blogger

• Jamie Birch
• Angel Djambazov
• Scott Jangro

Affiliate Marketing Legend

• Connie Berg
• Scott Jangro
• Kellie Stevens

I will be arriving on Sunday afternoon.  I’d love to meet with you.  If you’d like to arrange a meeting, please email me at jamie@jebcommerce.com.