1st Affiliate Summit Day SF Recap

Posted on Apr 1, 2011 in Affiliate Marketing, Conferences & Networking |

Affiliate SummitThe first ever Affiliate Summit Day Meet Up happened on Tuesday.  I’ve had a lot of time to digest, and it was definitely a great time.  Knowing ahead of time that my best method of transportation into San Francisco would be BART, I was relieved to see that the meet up location was just 2 short blocks from the BART station.  I was delighted to wander up to Kate O’Briens to see the familiar faces of Julie Vazquez, Lisa Picarille, and Murray Newlands congregating outside the bar.

Inside, more affiliate marketers!  More familiar faces guided me through the crowd to point out where our nerdy group was assembled, but also, more patrons belonging to the group generally referred to as the “public”.  I really enjoyed talking to a few new folks, and was especially flattered when someone approached me, already knowing my name, and proceeded to thank me for the knowledge I shared during our Get Noticed Fast presentation at Affiliate Summit East 2009 in New York.  How nice!

Scheduled to speak was Murray Newlands about site monetiztion, however due to some unexpected limitations of the bar (noise, other patrons, space, etc) the presentation was scrapped.  Hopefully Murray will just shift his presentation to next month’s meet up!

Meetup.comAll in all, it was great.  A little rough, but hey it was the first one!  Huge thanks to Lisa Picarille for organizing the event – I’m sure it was NOT an easy task!  In case you live under a rock & haven’t heard, Affiliate Summit Day is going to happen once a month on the last Tuesday of each month.  You can follow the fun and track where your local meet up is happening on Meetup.com