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if you're building your affiliate sites mainly through reading blogs, forums and IMing a couple of guys, you're missing out on a huge chunk of the biz.
like mike says, a huge chunk of your learning comes from the face-to-face contact building and networking, and follow up after the event...
I got a lot of insight from talking to guys like smaxor and ILC at ASW earlier this year (2007!), and your trip pays for itself in your increased earnings easily 10x or 100x over (only if you act on it though)...
besides the affiliate summit, you might want to check out ad:tech and SES, pubcon and possibly SMX too.
Although I've got a full speaker's pass for ASW08, it's taking me 20+ hours to fly from singapore and more than $2k for travel and room and board, but the value I'd get from it is way more than what it's costing...
plus if you're lucky, you get to meet laura alter and planet andrea too.............
and I think lauren?
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