Huge Thanks and We’re off to Amsterdam

This was posted on: April 24, 2009, by Matthew Wood

Well, it’s finally here, a4uexpo Europe. Our first venture into mainland Europe. We’re really excited to be expanding the Affiliate Marketing Conference series. We’ve grown the show steadily in London over the past two years to focus on quality and delegate experience and we very much hope to replicate this in Amsterdam next week.

Our aim for a4uexpo Europe has been to create a true pan-european conference for the veterans and newbies of the Affiliate Marketing industry across Europe and by looking at the quality of the delegate list I think we’ve achieved this.

40% of our delegates next week are affiliates, and we are expecting 800 people from 30 countries to attend. In a time of economic crisis this is fantastic! We’re not a trade show, but a fully paid Conference with a high quality of attendee.

We’re in an industry where there are no borders to opportunity, a4uexpo provides an excellent networking opportunity for delegates who are attending to discover new revenue streams and a perfect environment to build relationships, learn new strategy, new technologies, do business and look for joint european ventures. All in a fun and relaxed environment.

When I started in Affiliate Marketing 10 or so years ago, nothing like a4uexpo existed. So we organised regional meets for affiliates around the UK. These grew and grew until we took the plunge and organised a4uexpo London 2007.

Many years on it’s great to see some of the people who attended our regional get2gethers back in 2002-2008 build lifelong friendships and in some cases build their businesses into corporate companies employing 50+ staff and earning tens of millions of pounds each year from the Affiliate Channel.

I hope some virgins to a4uexpo next week will also be inspired to put faith within the Affiliate Marketing sector, embrace its values and continue the trend for many years to come.

Finally, I just wanted to say that we’re not a big corporate events company, just a small team who are passionate about Affiliate Marketing -  I’m immensely proud of the team who have once again worked so hard to get everything together ready for the event.  I have a feeling we’ll all be dosing up on pro plus to survive the very long hours at the show and of course the 5 networking parties that we’ve planned for you all.

My advice now if you’re attending is to get plenty of sleep before the show, bring loads of business cards and most important be open to new ideas, get involved, ask questions, talk to people and enjoy yourselves!

We’re all looking forward to the event, I really hope you are and enjoy it too.

See you in Amsterdam!

Matthew Wood