Had a great time at Affiliate Summit East. Conference was totally packed with people. Also nice to see a lot of old school friends from the search industry making their way into the performance marketing space. Many of which skipping on SES San Jose (the search industries flagship conference) for the first time in half a decade to attend Affiliate Summit East (they are the same week this year).
One of the most interesting things was constantly having people come up to me and tell me how much they love my site (head swells) and how they check it before they buy anything online (now I am confused….. then I figure out they think I am with retailmenot.com who paid over $11,000.00 to charity for me to wear their shirt for the entire conference. I was amazed at hear the stories of how much money people saved by using that site. Very happy to be associates with you retailmenot !!
The parties at ASE were incredible. Attendees literally could choose from many amazing social events every night.
On Saturday Night Eli from bluehatseo hosted a UFC party in his monstrous suite at the London Hotel. The party was sponsored Sybarite Elite affiliate network (see Bryan I did not forget!).
Sunday was the meet market day. John Chow has some great video of the event:
I also did a video with the lovely Michelle Feldman who I bought her shirt for charity for a very very very low cost of three hundred some dollars (incredible investment for all the photos/videos she took).
The meet market is a great informal event where all the companies and affiliates get to network. I did not go to last years ASE in Boston but I was there 2 years ago in Miami and holy crap has this thing grown. It was standing room only.
I took it easy on Sunday night because I had a 8am meeting the next morning with Random House books about something that might get published yet… but more on that later… I missed the shareasale party and other events but I heard it was awesome. I did goto dinner with good friends at Carmellos sponsored by Blitzlocal and SEOMOZ. Incredible Italian food…. Coming out of the eatery I spotted ELMO taking pictures with people. I knew my 3 year old would shit if she saw me with ElMO so I had to do it:
Then I went back to the hotel and to bed.
At 10am the show floor opened. This is the 2nd event we had a booth/table for our ShoeMoney Tools and I was ready for it this time. We had a great video playing and I was talking to people about the tools. We learned a lot from our first booth last January on what not to do and this one went much better.
Later Monday night after 6 hours on my feet pitching tools from our booth we went retired to change (well I did’nt change cause I was representing retailmenot) then went to the AzoogleAds gathering for a few hours before heading to
Del Friscos for dinner.
After Del Friscos we were invited by Atrinsic in their VIP bottle service booth to watch Biz Markie at the Touch club in NYC. IMA be honest. If you looked up washed up 1 hit wonder rapper in the dictionary you should see a picture of biz. He sang his 1 song then was like PEACE IM OUT! It was a lot of fun though hanging out with folks where we could actually talk. Great to see the PepperJam network girls in the Atrinsic VIP booth. I also ventured over to the GetAds VIP area to talk to my boy George and team. Sorry if I spilled a drink on anyone…. rumors are I was pretty inebriated.
Tuesday was d-day for me. I got up to work our booth and felt like death warmed over. My cold/flu hit me full blast. But I bucked up and pulled down booth duty and closed like I had the GlenGary leads. COFFEES FOR CLOSERS ONLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After the booth area closed I went back to my hotel and I shit you not I slept from 5pm until I had to leave the next morning.
Congrats to Missy and Shawn on an amazing event. See you all in January!
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always great meeting up and taking control of clubs lol – until next time
It was nice meeting you Jeremy. You wouldn’t have caught a cold if you had accepted my proposal to give you a ride when I met you on a street
The Market Leverage girl in the first video looks like she’s been smoking something
(before you actually play the video).
“Sorry if I spilled a drink on anyone…. rumors are I was pretty inebriated” lol only a few times on me…good times
to say the least.
Shoe – I think yuo talked to me about bacon explosion for 30 minutes stright on Saturday night
Heheheheh! Michelle reminds me of posh spice a wee bit, but I think your toenails stole the show, Shoe! It does seem like you had loads of fun at the Affiliate Summit. Good one!
Looks like a lot of fun. Maybe one day I’ll get to one of these events.
Thanks a lot for everything and all your support, Jeremy.
We’ll always have coffee for you.
“First prize is a Cadilac El Dorado, 2nd prize….a set of steak knives. 3rd prize is you’re fired!”. I only know that line because when I was sick one time I had the TV Guide channel on and it kept replaying that trailer bc it was on PPV.
I’ve probably repeated that line to 30 people and nobody has ever been able to guess what movie it’s from.
It sounds to be an awesome event surely next year i ‘ll join the party.
Nice… I wish I could make it this year. I see that January ASW registration is opened and looks like its gonna be in Vegas… Maybe it would be a good time to combine vacation and attending a conference.
Great videos and review, makes me feel bad for skipping it.
Hey great getting to hang out with ya jeremy! I had a blast to. Can’t wait to do it again.
ps. it was actually syberalites suite. My suite was the one we were taking smoke breaks in. Thank god to their suite got traaaaaaaaashed lol
Shoe-
Do you have a way of tracking the signups that you were able to convert directly from the conference?
it would be great to see what kind of results you got.
Sure people either signed up right there or they used a special promotional code.
John Chow is crazy man, he tricked into win 2 ipods and ran away with all the bear.
Looks like everyone had a great time, Awesome photo with Elmo.
Looks like an awesome time… Michelle is great too… lots of fun!
Lolz ….shoe purple cutix is suiting on you…..hahahah..good choice…Michelle had specially put a head over it hahaha…
Sounds like a lot of fun. Hopefully, I will be there for next
You have to love the cookie monster.
Yes cookie monster is great movie star
What’d you learn from Elmo?
well it was a homeless guy charging $5 per picture… he probably did about 15 pics while I was there. We were guessing he pulls down about 80-150 a hour. Not bad
I guess he is not homeless anymore.
Will you give me $5? hehehe
I need to remember to bring Elmo suit on the next event.
That’s why Jeremy used “WAS” …
That is indeed a handsome amount to be earned by a “Homeless guy”.
So this means that such events also serve the purpose of giving a home to a “homeless guy”.
Great write up. Felt like I was there. I am becoming more and more of an AF fan!
I meant AS
You should’ve come DK! Will we see you at Blogworld?
what on…michele boops????
John Chow does a great job covering the event thanks for sharing these videos.
Looks like you had great time
The best contemporary monologue in American film. Baldwin was robbed by AMPAS for not getting Best Supporting Actor for this staggering perf. With this monologue (which was written for the film and not in the original play), Baldwin blows the likes of Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey, Ed Harris and even absent Al Pacino right off the screen. Majestic, profane, and utterly unforgettable. Great job, Alec!
Affiliate Summit East looks like a great time. I won’t be there, but I look forward to hearing from those who have and checking out reports on affiliate blogs.
Had a great time at this year’s ASE as well. Met tons of new people and also a lot of the affiliates and bloggers I’ve been working with for a while. Overall it was a great event!
Definitely look forward to the ASW in Vegas!
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Hey Shoe, Great meeting you at #ASE09 it was fascinating to hear about all the things you have in the works. I will be watching closely to see when things pop. BTW – how was that ‘Fish & Chips’ at The London Hotel?
I was expecting video from you Jeremy … please shoot some cool videos as John is doing … (John got horrible voice but I enjoyed)
So shoot such kind of videos we would love to see …
Great post. enjoyed reading it and the video was lots of fun to watch! Thanks Shoemoney.
Looks like you had a good time! Great coverage!
So what exactly goes on in these meets? It looks like a friend festival…
The videos show that you guys had a good time. I am sure the first timers and the others would have been able to enjoy some constructive advice from you.
I should say that such events add to the otherwise online mentoring that people get from successful people like you. And when we see such videos and photographs, we are able to set goals for ourselves.
See photos as well … there are some cool photos as well. I am sure you will like that.
Awesome post, Looks like you had great fun i wish i could have made it!
You are really famous now, you got you’re picture taken with Eimo.
Hahahahahahaha I agree with you GOld Coins
I think that affiliate marketing, online marketing, and online new business should be something that everyone should no about.
With the economy being what it is, I am learning my lessons so that the next time everything goes into the crapper I’m not looking for work, i’m retired and living well.
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Andrew Brinkworth
looks like it was a blast!!
Yes this one is … See John Chow videos as well and you will get full coverage …
your Sybarite Elite link is bad… their party was off the hook and deserves a working link doncha think?!
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Great movie to get yourself pumped up at work. Every sales person should watch that entire movie at some point in their life.
when I can see U shoe
classic, best sales training video ever!
It nice meeting you shoe, that is great meeting
I like picture when you with elmo
kekkekeke i can find the different kekekeke
Just Kidding shoe
That is great picture and the girl in your video is beautiful
We saw photos as well … but I think T shirts should have more colours and more attractive design as well.
I am so jealous you got to meet Elmo!
I am amazed that Eli was in the same conference as you and John Chow, given what he has said in the past.
I wish I could get his talk- well the frustating thing is that he is a serious coder but occasionally you can use his methods without coding.
Did he speak in code or did people understand what he was saying?
lol its funny how you guys buy into all the drama…. At the end of the day we are all just marketers and all respect eachother. Would you be surprised to know Eli has dated my sister and knows my parents pretty well? =P
It was nice to finally meet you. Hope you are over your cold by now. When I saw you, you could tell you were being a trooper and sticking it out for the show. Guess that was about 2 hours before your big sleep.