Wow, I cannot wait for the next Affiliate Summit!
To all my readers – start saving NOW for the next Affiliate Summit. If you can’t manage to go in June, I just read today on Affiliate Tip that there will be another one early 2007 in Vegas again. If you’re a Vegas virgin like me, make a point to go to that one – Vegas is a trip!! Except for all the flying (I’m typing this on my last plane of the day, that’s a whole other story) I would go at least once a month – now someone just needs to figure out teleporting for me.
I think if I cover even just the really high points it will still take me a few days to cover everything, but I’ll do my best. First and foremost I have to thank Deb Carney from CafePress.com who introduced me to a bunch of great people, some of whom have now become friends, like Jen, Matt and Adam – last names removed to protect the guilty ;) I spent most of my awake time with those four and honestly, I KNOW it wouldn’t have been nearly as fun without them.
What I learned at the Summit has to do a lot with who I met. I mean, there were a couple of great sessions (Joel Comm replacing Rosalind Gardner at the last minute was very cool) and some not so great sessions (James Martell’s was full of glitches and he seemed nervous and it was repetitive for a student of his) but the best stuff I learned was from informal networking. I think the best contact I made (who’s now a friend!) is Colin McDougall. If you’re a JM follower you probably know that Colin is one of James’ original live class students. Andrea who knows him quite well, as well as BJ both, have told me that Colin is a super nice guy and Andrea urged me to go say hi at the Summit.
I didn’t actually see him till the ShareaSale party Monday night and only around midnight but after he was done chatting with JM (I was 10 ft away from JM most of the night but I didn’t talk to him) I screwed up the courage to go say hi to Colin. From word one he was the friendliest, chattiest and most gracious person I’ve met in a long time. We ended up talking about the business (and other random Canadian stuff since we’re both Canucks) for somewhere around 4 hours, give or take. (Much alcohol involved also so memory slightly fuzzy.) As it turns out I now can ask Colin a question anytime – with his permission. One great thing we were talking about was his new gameplan which is to help people. And the product of that is a great ebook called the VEO report. This is not an affiliate link but still, I urge you to go pick up Colin’s stuff!
There’s so much more to tell, but at this point it’s so long and it’s almost time to start thinking about putting away the laptop. So the continuation of this will be tomorrow… or today, depending on when I get a chance to post this. Please send me any questions you might have about the Summit or anything else I’ve left out, I’ll answer them in the blog. Good night!
Tara :)
I think if I cover even just the really high points it will still take me a few days to cover everything, but I’ll do my best. First and foremost I have to thank Deb Carney from CafePress.com who introduced me to a bunch of great people, some of whom have now become friends, like Jen, Matt and Adam – last names removed to protect the guilty ;) I spent most of my awake time with those four and honestly, I KNOW it wouldn’t have been nearly as fun without them.
What I learned at the Summit has to do a lot with who I met. I mean, there were a couple of great sessions (Joel Comm replacing Rosalind Gardner at the last minute was very cool) and some not so great sessions (James Martell’s was full of glitches and he seemed nervous and it was repetitive for a student of his) but the best stuff I learned was from informal networking. I think the best contact I made (who’s now a friend!) is Colin McDougall. If you’re a JM follower you probably know that Colin is one of James’ original live class students. Andrea who knows him quite well, as well as BJ both, have told me that Colin is a super nice guy and Andrea urged me to go say hi at the Summit.
I didn’t actually see him till the ShareaSale party Monday night and only around midnight but after he was done chatting with JM (I was 10 ft away from JM most of the night but I didn’t talk to him) I screwed up the courage to go say hi to Colin. From word one he was the friendliest, chattiest and most gracious person I’ve met in a long time. We ended up talking about the business (and other random Canadian stuff since we’re both Canucks) for somewhere around 4 hours, give or take. (Much alcohol involved also so memory slightly fuzzy.) As it turns out I now can ask Colin a question anytime – with his permission. One great thing we were talking about was his new gameplan which is to help people. And the product of that is a great ebook called the VEO report. This is not an affiliate link but still, I urge you to go pick up Colin’s stuff!
There’s so much more to tell, but at this point it’s so long and it’s almost time to start thinking about putting away the laptop. So the continuation of this will be tomorrow… or today, depending on when I get a chance to post this. Please send me any questions you might have about the Summit or anything else I’ve left out, I’ll answer them in the blog. Good night!
Tara :)
posted by Tara at
1:48 PM
2 Comments:
You've got to. Keep an eye on Shawn's blog, he does give away some free passes. Also, if any of your merchants (especially any that you're making a lot of money for!) are buying a booth at the show, or sponsoring in any way, contact them and ask them for a ticket, they get some to give away to affiliates I think. Doesn't hurt to ask, for sure!
Tara :)
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Tara, at January 16, 2006 1:04 PM
Hey Andrea!
Yeah, you have no idea how bummed I was when I found out you weren't coming, but you were there in spirit sending me to talk to Colin and Gary and Rob and John and, and and... lol
Fingers crossed for CJU!
Tara :)
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Tara, at February 02, 2006 10:47 PM
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