MIA in 2016: An Update
I know, I’ve been missing in action on this blog. I have not really been in a mood to talk, kinda. But I will share my latest manicures with you, cause, they’re pretty great. This is going to be a long post to catch up, so get ready to dig in!
Read MoreWordless Wednesday: The Thanksgiving I Shot a Real Gun
The Thanksgiving I Shot a Real Gun
(A Winchester Riffle, no less)
Read MoreWordless Wednesday: The Thanksgiving I Met the Fawvers
The Thanksgiving I Met the Fawvers
(Please excuse the crappy, 2001 picture quality)
Read MoreFinally Perfecting Salon Effects Application
Don’t you just hate it when something hailed as fool-proof is anything but? I first tried the Sally Hansen Salon Effects Real Nail Polish Strips a couple of years ago when they were first introduced. I needed a cute manicure quick while in Oregon for my brother-in-law’s wedding. I went with the Sally Hansen Salon Effects Real Nail Polish Strips in Love Letter, and for my first application it wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t nearly as easy as they made themselves out to be, either.
Read MoreReflecting on an Origin Story: Affiliate Summit East 2007
Yes, you read that right. After a whirlwind trip to Oregon this week for a wedding, I’m making off into the night on a red-eye flight to New York for Affiliate Summit East 2012.
This marks a milestone for me. Affiliate Summit East 2007 in Miami was my first Summit, so this will be (counting last May’s Affiliate Summit Central) my 10th Summit and the 5 year anniversary of this blog and my participation in Affiliate Marketing. I was just a baby in affiliate marketing back then.
Wow… how things have changed! Back then I didn’t know what I was doing at ALL, somehow teaching my co-worker everything I knew about affiliate marketing on our red-eye flight from Oakland to Miami. And by everything I knew – that means everything I’d learned since about November of 2006, so not much. How naive we were – we totally blew off the Meet Market thinking it would be lame (maybe back then it was, I wouldn’t have known) and didn’t participate in hardly ANY networking. We were more interested in South Beach every night to eat dinner on the strip.
The trip was not all fun, and I did take it seriously and so glad I did. I still use the same college-ruled composition book for notes. The sessions I went to at that Summit might make you chuckle:
I remember some of the speakers, but not all… Jeremy Palmer, Scott Jangro, Rosalind Gardner, Stephanie Agresta, most notable in my mind at the time was Jay Berkowitz and his 10 golden rules session. I remember offering up the merchant I worked for at the time for analysis in the Conversion Rate Clinic and going back to my manager at our booth saying, “We have a LOT to fix when we get back! Josh Sloan made a magical impression on me with his magic tricks as we exhibited beside 1&1,. We went to ONE networking event and only because we were told we could win some sweet prizes. It was there that I met Karen & Joel Garcia, who I count as friends now. I remember returning from that show and deciding that I should start a blog. I started it on Blogger (I know, I’m ashamed too…) and later got with it and ported it over to self-hosted WordPress. Want to read my first post? It’s a doozy… but it was 5 years ago on 8/2 (also my wedding anniversary & Kevin Smith’s birthday).
So in a few days I’m off to Summit again, and I’m so glad I went to summit back in ’07. It set me on this career path when I just had a job, so I’ll be forever grateful to the speakers in the sessions I attended and the people I met back then that ignited this spark. I’m proud to say that 5 years later, I’m still loving it!
Want to sit down with me and chat about any of the affiliate programs I manage? Check out my schedule at Tungle.me/trishalyn and let’s set something up!
Another laugh… my random photos from Miami in 07!
Help Support St. Thomas Becket Academy
It’s that time of year again for the Renaissance Dinner & Raffle at St. Thomas Becket Academy in Veneta, OR. If you weren’t following last year, St. Thomas Becket is the church my in-laws go to and St. Thomas Becket Academy is the private Catholic school attached to the church where Dominic’s six youngest siblings still attend.
Times are still pretty tough in Oregon. This year they brought some nuns in to help teach and the school is responsible for housing these nuns, which isn’t cheap. Of course like all schools, public and private, they can use new books, art supplies, sports equipment, and scholarship funds to help some families pay their children’s tuition.
Please consider purchasing a ticket for their raffle! Tickets are $10 each and tax deductible. You have a chance to win big too – the top prize is $3000 cash money!
First Prize is $3000 | Second Prize is $500 | Third Prize is $250 | Fourth Prize is $100
Drawing to be held May 21, 2011 at their Renaissance Dinner & Auction.
If you’re interested in purchasing a ticket, please email me to make arrangements. I can either accept the payment myself and have my mother-in-law Michelle send you the physical tickets or put you in touch with Michelle directly if you prefer to send payment to them. If you’re in Oregon in the Veneta/Eugene area and actually would like to attend the dinner, you can call the school directly at (541) 935-0149 to make your dinner reservations. There are a lot of great items up for auction during their silent auction before dinner, and it’s a fun night.
Please, dig out your checkbook and buy a raffle ticket. You could win some cash, and help out a really good school and some great kids. If you’re on Twitter, please retweet mentions of this blog post so we can get more donations for the school. Also, feel free to join the St. Thomas Becket Academy Cause. Or like St. Thomas Becket Academy on Facebook.
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