ASE10 Experience Extravaganza: Monday

Expo Hall Booth Duty, The Best Steak Ever, & Trivia Tweet-Up

After going to bed at a relatively decent time considering I was still battling with a 3 hour time difference, I got up in time to get ready, rush up to grab a little breakfast, and make it into the ballroom for Frank Luntz’s keynote.  I have his book, Words That Work, though I haven’t yet sat down to read it.  I’ll spare you the details here, as I plan on writing another post with the notes I took, so let’s skip ahead to the FMTC booth.  We had a sparse set up, but simplicity worked.  Despite issues I had working with PromoPeddler.com, the notepads we ordered came out looking great.  And the flyers we ordered from PsPrint were awesome as well.  I was sweating bullets for weeks because we had the pieces shipped directly to the hotel, sight unseen, so if they were messed up, so were we.  Everything at the booth went swimmingly, and after a long day I was headed out with the Schaaf-PartnerCentric crew for dinner.

This is the part where the food lover in me comes out.  Of course, I’m a big girl, so I must love food of all shapes and sizes, right?  In reality, I’m actually a very finicky eater with an almost ironic love for Food Network. The night before, I’d passed on going out with the team as they were going to a Greek place, and that’s not for me.  So a steakhouse sounded much better.  Let me tell you, we went to Rothmann’s Steakhouse and I had a fabulous fillet Mignon.  It was, hands down, the best steak of my life.  That’s not really saying a whole lot considering I’m just 29 and am accustomed to steak places such as Texas Roadhouse and Black Angus.

After said fabulous dinner, the crew went to a party thrown by Google and I opted to go back to the hotel for some Trivia.  Unfortunately, someone forgot to send the Trivial Pursuit disk down from their room, so Drew Bennett came to the rescue with some Mario Kart he had brought with him.  Not being the biggest Mario Kart fan, I opted to utilize the room for the free conference WiFi and get some work done.  For whatever reason the wifi in my hotel room wasn’t working, so I hadn’t been online and checked emails since the previous Thursday!  I was able to get some work done, have a nice impromptu meeting, and even play a couple of heats of Mario Kart before the evening was through.  And by the end of the evening, Trivial Pursuit was brought down and extended the evening from 12 am to 1 am.  I stayed until the bitter end when they kicked me out… utilizing as much free wifi time as I could before getting back to the grindstone of booth duty the next day.

Please feel free to view all the photos I took in New York: Affiliate Summit East 2010 on Flickr