Garrett Gee

Overall, I had a good time at the event. I did feel a bit lost, but that’s probably normal for a first timer. My pictures can be found on flickr, or with the tag ASW08. It was great meeting the various affiliates and marketers, and I hope I can do it again next year.
Paul Bourque […]

I usually attend technical trade shows and conferences, so I was expecting a similar environment when going to the Affiliate Summit. Was I wrong in that one! I was amazed when I hit the exhibitors hall to see so many booth babes and everyone giving out free stuff.

 
And I didn’t get to any […]

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First off was Jim Kukral MC’ing the event, and then Jason Calacanis had his keynote. His keynote generated a lot of controversy, as he basically said everyone in the room is a spammer. Some other takeaways from his keynote were to build quality sites for the long term, that you shouldn’t settle for $300k checks, […]

I was invited to cover Affiliate Summit West, and I wasn’t sure what to expect, as this was my first time to this event, and really my first experience going to a affiliate and marketing conference. But it was very enlightening experience, and I got to meet some great people in the affiliate scene.
However, my […]

It’s that time of year again, and it was a very wet one. Why couldn’t they have the parade in March like last year? And because of the rain, I didn’t get to see many costumes or even floats with people on it before the parade started. Miss Chinatown didn’t even come out yet by […]