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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I have returned from another successful trip to an Affiliate Summit, this time the conference was Affiliate Summit West 2010.  It was an interesting trip, considering the new direction my career is now taking.

So here’s the scoop – at the end of the month, I’ll no longer be working as an outsourced program manager with Paulson Management Group.  They are bringing all work in-house to their Boulder, CO office. – which means that I’d have to move from California to continue to work with them.  Instead, I’m going to be transitioning over the next two weeks to work in client support and sales for ForMeToCoupon.com, an automated coupon feed service for affiliates.  I’m excited for the transition, into yet another aspect of affiliate marketing.

So at this Affiliate Summit, I did double duty.  I both represented Paulson Management Group and the client whose program I still manage, and represented ForMeToCoupon.com in their booth as well during the expo hall hours.  It was very interesting, but worked out better than I’d imagined.  Amy with Affiliate Summit was awesome enough to print me out a second version of my name tag badge that had the FMTC company name on it so I wouldn’t confuse anyone (more than I might already have confused people).  So, enough about my new role, which I am very excited about and have already started working on.

I didn’t go to as many sessions as I normally like to at a conference, what with the meetings I had and the time I put in standing at the FMTC booth.  Those recaps will come soon.  Until then, some brief recaps of my days at Affiliate Summit West 2010 are soon to come!  I don’t want to write the longest post in the history of TrishaLyn.com, so I’ll break them up.  You can see them later!

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 Affiliate Marketing Fanatics 17 [42:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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!

Well, it’s been awhile, hasn’t it?  Schedules have been ca-razy lately and Mike & I just haven’t been able to get together to record.  So, welcome back as stand in co-host Eric Nagel!  We got back to our roots in talking strictly from the affiliate vs. affiliate manager discussion.  We come in at a cool 42:50.  In in this episode we discuss:

• The new Retweet function on Twitter – meh.
• Holiday affiliate contests
  • Paulson Management Group’s “A Jingle for your Jangle”
  • ShareASale’s Fourth Quarter Frenzy
• Increased communications from affiliate managers during the holidays
• Still more emphasis on Black Friday than Cyber Monday
• Happy Monday: The Importance of Mondays this Holiday
• Affiliates buying products through their own links
• Debate: Affiliates Buying Clickbank Products

We promise not to go this long again!

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