Affiliate Summit Day 1

What’s up guys, Paul here (I’m gettin a little snapshot picture of my mugshot to go with each post so you always know it’s me and not one of Derek’s posts).

I’ve finally gotten a chance to take a breather here at AS, got a few minutes to put on the bathrobe and sit down and blog/relax. Affiliate Summit is awesome so far, already well worth the money invested going to it. I have a ton of pictures that I’m going to upload when I get home, I forgot the wire to connect my camera to my computer. If anything, it’s worth it to go for the free t-shirts haha. So for those of your curious as to what goes on in a typical day, I’ll give a little “tour” of my experience so far at my first summit :

Saturday

Flew all evening Saturday, and got in about 11 o’clock. I was standing outside the hotel lobby and spotted Shoemoney talking to some people. So I went up, started talking to him. Found out that he was hungry, so went out to Dennys to have some late night dinner (or early morning breakfast, we were there until about 4am). Had a nice conversation, Jeremy’s an awesome guy. Alright so that was cool and I get back and get to bed about 5am.

Sunday

Sunday was the registration for the summit. We registered, then met up with our good friend Santiago, a member of our forum. He took us out on his boat, and we went into the ocean and chilled on a sandbar for a while. Got some dinner, and then headed to the Under the Stars party. Awesome time there, met some more cool people, hung out with Shoe for a couple hours. I got some pictures with a nice fella from CaptchaKiller.com, so somebody has them and if I get it I’ll post it up. Went up to a little private party thing (I dunno if it was) on the roof in the penthouse of the hotel. Open bars are awesome.

Monday (today)

Today is the first day that the seminars started. I slept in a little too late and missed the opening speech, not really a huge deal. First I went to a speech that Joel Comm gave on contextual advertising. Not really PPC affiliate marketing stuff, but he’s knows his stuff and it was a great speech on programs like AdSense, YPN, Auctions Ads, etc.

Went to lunch after that, picked up business cards, and headed to the second seminar. Jay Berkowitz gave a speech on The Ten Critical Affiliate Strategies. Solid speech with lots of information as to where the web is going (with 2.0), and relating that back to affiliate strategies.

Next came my favorite speech of the conference so far, Amit Mehta from Super Affiliate Mindset (great blog) gave a speech on Secrets of a PPC Super Affiliate. Maybe it was my favorite because it was targetted the most to me so far. He talked all about setting up campaigns, researching keywords/niches, how to get them rolling, just a bunch of stuff. Emotional speaker, funny guy, was a really great speech.

Now I’m just relaxing in the hotel, waiting until a domain auction starts at 6:30 that I’m going to run and check out for a little. After that it’s to the main event – Affiliate Bash at the Mansion. I’m pumped for this, it’s gonna be awesome.

I wish I could post pictures of what I have so far to make this post a little more colorful, but ah well you’ll see them in a few days.

Once the conference is over, I’ll make a write-up about the things I learned from it, the things you should prepare for in going to a seminar like this one, and just other useful things I gathered from the experience. It’s great so far though, and if you guys have any questions just comment here and I’ll answer them. Make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss my next posts about the Summit and the main points that were taught.

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