{"id":964,"date":"2010-02-02T09:17:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T01:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/?p=964"},"modified":"2010-02-02T09:52:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T01:52:45","slug":"asw2010-pics-part2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/affiliate-marketing\/asw2010-pics-part2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eagle Has Landed – Affiliate Summit West 2010 In Pics and Words Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing on the people and companies I met up with at the recently concluded Affiliate Summit West 2010 in Las Vegas, it was great to have met up with many people, some of whom I’ve known and talked regularly with for 2 years or more over skype and AIM.<\/p>\n

Note: If you missed the first part, you can find it here: Affiliate Summit West 2010 in Pics and Words Part 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Ryan Eagle vs Maxbounty drama<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Nickycakes mentions in his post summarizing some of the “drama” at ASW<\/a>, I stepped into the meet market and heard that Maxbounty has a poster featuring a shady character that looked like Ryan Eagle (owner of the Eagle Web Assets <\/a>CPA network). I wasn’t aware that the Eagleman was angry or shaking about the picture. I did follow him to the booth to have his picture taken.<\/p>\n

\"Ryan<\/p>\n

The Birdman with the Maxbounty Ad<\/strong><\/p>\n

As we were taking the picture and Ryan was laughing about it, it was funny to see one of Maxbounty’s owners JP Sauve who was manning the booth and talking to prospects, try to grab the poster from Ryan.<\/p>\n

The episode was mildly entertaining.<\/p>\n

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I also sat in on the SEO Site Review clinic, moderated by Sugarrae, with a panel comprising Michael Gray (Graywolf), Streko and Greg Boser.<\/p>\n

\"SEO<\/p>\n

SEO Site Review Panel Streko, Graywolf, Greg Boser<\/strong><\/p>\n

I often hear how such panels can be brutal. On the contrary, I thought the SEO experts gave frank, relevant and constructive advice. If you think that’s “brutal”, you probably need to be in a different industry.<\/p>\n

10e20’s Rebecca Kelley gave a comprehensive roundup of the panel’s tips at her post “Top tips from the SEO site review clinic…<\/a>”<\/p>\n

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Hanging with the TriFoxMedia (TFM) crew<\/strong><\/p>\n

I hung out for most of the summit with the guys from TFM<\/a>, a boutique CPA network, with owner Josh Todd and senior affiliate manager Boone Riddle. They took good care of me, and we went to a number of the parties together.<\/p>\n

\"Josh<\/p>\n

Josh Todd, me, Boone Riddle<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since we already talk about business regularly over AIM, it didn’t make much sense to talk (much) business in Vegas. So it was pretty much 3 days of partying and our most frequent conversation topic was deciding which party to head too next.<\/p>\n

The major takeaway I got from this summit is I should probably RSVP to all the parties I get invites too because:<\/p>\n