Affiliate Summit East - Review

18thAugust

Affiliate Summit East - Review

So now that I am back from Affiliate Summit East, I have to do the review of how things went. I know this post is a bit late but I have not been feeling all that well since I got back from the Summit.

Flying out to Boston:
I flew out to Boston from San Francisco the night before Affiliate Summit started. I got to the airport around 9 PM and waited to catch my flight. We all loaded onto the plane and waited... and waited... and then all of us had to get off the plane due to some technical issues. Doh! We waited till about 11:15 PM and another plane came. Things didn't go well again and we all had to wait another 45 minutes due to technical issues on the new plane. It was crazy. Once I finally got into Boston, my luggage was missing and so they were going to deliver it once they found it.

Day 1:
The first day of Affiliate Summit was pretty uneventful at first. I didn't have my luggage so I was in clothes that smelled like air planes (you know what I mean? haha), scrubby, and tired.

My awesome affiliate manager @ AzoogleAds, Ryan, hit me up to go get some lunch. I told him that I was scubby and he said, "It's not a fashion show, it's an affiliate conference!" Hahahaha. That was pretty funny.

Me and three azoogleads guys went and got lunch at The Legal Test Kitchen. It was pretty grubbin food.

The weather was nice and sunny until lunch was just about over. The rain just started to pour down.

We ended up catching a cab back to the hotel which was a few blocks away and relaxing a bit.

I wanted to go walk to exhibit floor and stuff but before I could I needed to get my luggage in order.

I ended up calling the airport again and seeing what time my luggage was to be delivered. They said sometime around midnight but had it waiting for me if I wanted to go pick it up.

I went, got my luggage from the airport, and went back to catch the last 5 minutes of the exhibit hall. It was cool because I got to meet Zac Johnson right off the bat. I also talked a bit with Adam from AzoogleAds.

After that, I went back and went out to dinner with some people from AzoogleAds and some publishers.

One guy that I really thought was cool at this dinner was Matt Marcin. If you read other affiliate blogs, Matt Marcin is a guy who won a contest over at NickyCakes.com by earning over $1,000 in 24 hours. He ended up winning an Xbox360 or something like that.

He was a really smart guy and we ended up going back to the Hotel Lobby (where there was a LOT of affiliate summit people) and talking for a couple hours. It was cool. He then introduced me to some really cool people such as Larby. Larby is a really cool younger guy that is also making a killing online. I learned a lot in the few hours that we chatted.

I was trying to find Mr. Uberaffiliate, Paul, but I didn't see him. It was at like 1 AM or so when I finally got to meet him in the Lobby.

We ended up talking for a little while and then... well... we met the spammer. Everyone called him the Russian spammer and he was one interesting character.

He came over and cornered us all and was telling us about his... rather interesting life. Hahahaha. Eventually all of us moved to the side and he had cornered Paul.

Hahaha. You can see Paul kinda backing up as this guy get's closer and closer to his face. It was so hilarious I had to take a picture.

That was the end of Day 1.

Day 2

Day 2 was pretty cool too. I slept in till about 11 AM which was awesome. After that I went down and walked the exhibit floor for about 20 minutes. Nothing seemed super extraordinary to me at first. I went back upstairs and I worked on some campaigns for a little bit.

I actually ended up just hanging out all day at the hotel till dinner.

I went to dinner with Paul from Uberaffiliate.com, Steve from Affspy.com, and some more AzoogleAds people (Ryan, Jeremy, Erin). This dinner was awesome. Most of us had some really got steaks.

I took a bunch of pictures but none of them really turned out due to the low lighting.

After dinner, I went back to the Hotel and hung out in the lobby again with Matt, Paul, Larby, and some other guys. We talked for a while and had a good time.

Towards the end of the night I got to meet some guys who regularly attend the Meetup202, including Wes (Owner of Tracking202 and Prosper202), Jimmy Ramos, and a whole lot of others.

It was really cool to meet everyone.

Day 3.

Day three was the day I was determined to check out the exhibit floor no matter what. I checked out of my hotel and headed on over to the floor.

It was really great to be at the exhibit hall on the last day because there was almost nobody there that I got to talk with pretty much all of the people at the booths.

While walking around from booth to booth, I got to meet up with some cool people.

First, I got to meet the cakes... that is nickycakes.

Nicky cakes was really nice and hooked me up with a skateboard deck from AKMG.

After that, we saw Zac Johnson again and took a picture.

After this I went over to the Market Leverage booth... Boy was that awkward. Hahaha. I tried just walking by slowly and of course they caught me and said hey to me either way. Hahaha.

I saw Wes again and ended the day with one more picture.