{"id":280,"date":"2007-01-30T23:02:29","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T15:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/internet-marketing-events\/affiliate-summit-west-2006-wrap-up\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T23:02:29","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T15:02:29","slug":"affiliate-summit-west-2006-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/internet-marketing-events\/affiliate-summit-west-2006-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Affiliate Summit West 2006 Wrap Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
I just touched down in Singapore earlier today and although the 14 hour time difference is causing major havoc to my body clock, I figured this is the perfect opportunity to reflect on Affiliate Summit West and the takeaways from having flown 20+ hours around the world to attend.<\/p>\n
Thanks to Shawn Collins<\/a> and Missy Ward who conceptualized Affiliate Summit<\/a> and have been grown it from strength-to-strength at about 200 participants in the first AS in 2003 till more than 2,000 at the recently concluded ASW.<\/p>\n It was a great opportunity to meet up face-to-face with a number of the online marketers I’d been reading and talking with over the past few months like ShoeMoney<\/a>, Scott Jangro<\/a>, Kris Jones<\/a>, PlanetAndrea<\/a>, Jon Fisher<\/a> from WickedFire<\/a> and Joe Whyte<\/a>.<\/p>\n Becky “Webmoxy” Ryan<\/a> was a friendly and intelligent person to talk to (even though I was deep in thought and seemed to have unintentionally ignored her when she called out a few times).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Maura, Robyn, Andrew Wee at the Pepperjam booth<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shoemoney’s assistant Nicole<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Webmoxy Becky Ryan<\/strong><\/p>\n More surprising still was the fact that a number of affiliate managers and affiliates whom I hadn’t met prior to ASW mentioned they enjoyed reading this blog.<\/p>\n Blogging can be a solitary affair and it’s comforting to have face-to-face validation (which gives a human face to the otherwise clinical awstats’ 6000+ monthly uniques).<\/p>\n Although I missed them, perhaps I’ll have a chance to catch up with Super Affiliate Ros Gardner<\/a>, BlogKits founder Jim Kukral<\/a>, Sam Harrelson<\/a> and SleepyBlogger Robyn Tippins<\/a> at the next event. I heard Neil Patel<\/a> and Cameron Olthuis<\/a> had to leave Sunday evening for school, so I probably missed them by a hair.<\/p>\n What I greatly appreciated was the opportunity to meet Mike Krongel and his team over at Copeac<\/a>. They threw a killer party for the WickedFire folks over at the Caramel Loung in the Bellagio.<\/p>\n It’s a great opportunity to have met up with WickedFire founders Jon and Brandon and WF members like John “I like c**k”, SEO_Mike<\/a>, chrislingle, lerchmo, jDog, DruSam, Surly, Kaveman<\/a>, Smaxor, Jon Warass<\/a>, ExEngima, Rick.<\/p>\n