Sunday January 17th

I’d arrived in Las Vegas Saturday afternoon, so I was all ready to get busy Sunday morning.  My morning meeting had been rescheduled, so first on my agenda was meeting with a client of PMG.  We had a good meeting, discussing Valentine’s Day promotions and going forward & my departure.  It went well, though the food was a bit lacking.  It was our fault though for getting a late start & needing to run to the Sports Deli instead of sitting down at the All American Bar & Grill as we’d sort of planned.  Afterward I went over to the Meet Market, which was OUT.  OF.  CONTROL!

The Meet Market could not be contained to just one room!  There was a smaller room first, which I thought was the whole thing until I didn’t see a few companies that I knew had tables (namely PMG).  So I got in & out of there as fast as I could and found the other portion of the Meet Market, which was in a larger area adjacent to where the expo hall would be the next day, and it was not as stuffy, but still a mad house.  I wandered to see what was there, but still had to high tail it out of there after talking to some people.

Next up was a session, which you’ll see  a recap & notes for soon.  After the session I went in search of the bloggers lounge, which was way out in the boonies.  Lori Herren was awesome enough to go get Heather Smith and I cool buttons from the Facebook table.  I hung out in there for awhile to mooch off the internet capabilities to upload photos I’d taken at the session before.  I had every intention to purchase the internet access in my hotel room, but it wasn’t working and I did not have the patience for tech support.  So I ended up staying downstairs until Lori had the inspired idea to go get dinner from the local In-N-Out Burger.

We got back and pretty much went straight into the ShareASale Under the Stars Party.  It was awesome, as usual, with a terrific spread of pizza, bread & cheese plates, ice cream sundaes, cupcakes, a chocolate fountain, and of course, open bar!  They had a plethora of things to do, from Wii Sports games, stand up arcade games, darts, fun gambling (no money involved), the photo booth, a DJ, dance floor, Karaoke, and the most awesome of all – a JUMP HOUSE!  I was not adventurous enough to get into that bad boy, though I really, really wanted to!  At one point, the spire knocked into the chandelier in the ballroom and knocked some panels off – party foul!

I had a good time with the chocolate fountain in particular & shaking my booty on the dance floor when they were giving away feather boas.  I wasn’t even drunk!  But who can resist a feather boa?  I attempted to stay sitting for most of the party because I knew that the Strike Out Breast Cancer charity event was coming up afterward.  I’m already a bad enough bowler, so I needed to conserve energy!  Maybe I should have partook in the Wii Bowling to gain some confidence!

On to the bowling – it was fun despite my atrocious score of just 39.  It began at midnight and was hosted by GTO Management, BowlingShirt.com, Things From Another World, and Affiliate Marketers Give Back as a fundraiser for the National Breast Cancer Foundation.  We got awesome pink and black bowling shirts with the logo of the event on them, and had a great time.  There were over 100 people there easily by my estimates, which is quite a feat for an event that started at midnight!  It was good times, and I dragged myself back to the Rio and straight into bed to get ready for day 2!

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Affiliate Marketing Fanatics – A Publisher (Mike Buechele) and an Affiliate Manager (Trisha Lyn Fawver) talk about all things Affiliate Marketing. From blogging to branding, social media to search, video and more!

We’re back together again!  It feels like it’s been 10 years, but with technical problems and schedules we’re finally back in the saddle.  And just in time for Affiliate Summit!  With the show about a week away, this is our Pre-Show.  Follow along with the agenda for the summit and make this interactive!  This week we clock in at an EPIC 1 hour and 12 minutes.  In in this episode we discuss:

• Affiliate Summit East 2009 Agenda
• Christian Affiliate Marketer’s Gospel Brunch at the Cotton Club.
• The parties surrounding Affiliate Summit (Thanks to Missy for putting the post together with them all!)
• Trisha’s husband Dominic experiencing Affiliate Summit as a student interested in marketing and affiliate marketing.
• Dominic’s awesome airbrushed shirt for Blinkstar Media.
• Shout out to Sticker Giant for donating stickers for Affiliate Marketers Give Back and for the Getting Noticed FAST Panel.

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Like a lot of people, I’ve had my head down working. I’ve been working hard managing the MyJewelryBox.com Affiliate Program.  I’ve had so much to do I haven’t had a ton of energy at the end of the day to keep up the blog. Regrettably that means that you, dear reafer, have suffered.

Actually, I’m not so full of myself to honestly believe that you’ve suffered without my blogging.  There are many other resources to get your news in all things online marketing.  I started this blog almost exactly two years ago, and I still question whether people actually learn something from my mumbles here.

Coming up at the beginning of next month I’ll be attending Affiliate Summit East 2009 in New York City, speaking on a panel called Getting Noticed FAST.  Our goal is to help others make a name for themselves within the industry as we’ve tried to make a name for ourselves.  We’ve put a lot of time into our preparation; we want to make sure that the attendees walk away with concrete, actionable items to apply to their own careers.

My husband Dominic Fawver will be attending with me.  He’s currently finishing up a degree in business, focusing on pro0ject management.  He’s interested in potentially going into affiliate marketing , so he’s attending to help me cover all the sessions for this blog.  He’s excited to learn more about what I do and the people I interact with, and I’m excited for him to get this introduction to my professional world as well.  We’re also tacking a couple days onto our trip to do some sight seeing.  Neither of us have ever been to New York, so we’ll be seeing Avenue Q the Friday night before the conference and meeting up with some friends who live in the NYC area.

I’ll also be staffing the Meet Market table for Affiliate Marketers Give Back from 5-6pm Sunday August 9th during the show.  In an effort to raise money for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, AMGB will be offering limited-edition Affiliate Summit hats (available for a $40 donation) and Affiliate Marketers Give Back laptop stickers (available for a $10 donation).  If you won’t be attending and would still like to make a donation, you can do so at AMGBWalk.com.

On Tuesday I’m happy to be participating in GeekCast Live.  I’m betting since this one has an open invite and is officially on the schedule, it’ll go a lot more as planned than when they tried to do one in Boston at ASE08.  By “as planned”, I know before they had more of a Diggnation vision in mind than the devolved drunken conversation that happened.  It should be a good time and a great way to end the conference.

So what now?  I hope to come back from Affiliate Summit with a renewed passion for this blog.  More great content for you.  Stay tuned!

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