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Affiliate Summit West 2010: Las Vegas Recap Day 3

Posted by JasperP on February 1st, 2010

Day 3: Monday – Exhibit Hall

The exhibit hall is probably the same as the meet market except that there are booths instead of just tables.

Met up with the Convert2Media crew to hang out and get our beer breakfast.  They had some cool name tag stickers (NINJA OPTIMIZATION!), which was pretty funny:

Meetup202 Las Vegas

This was a  pretty sweet event.  I heard there was about 600 people in attendance and we got to hear about the Bloosky/Tracking202 deal from Wes Mahler and Matt and Ryan from Bloosky Interactive.

Here’s a short video of the event:

Some of the affiliates I met over there:

• James Seligman
• Ian Fernando
• Justin Biggs
• Charles Ngo
• Bryn Youngblut
• Andrew Payne
• Justin Biggs
• Kris Trujillo
• Andrew Wee
• Wes Moehlenbruck
• Justin Barr

They had some cool raffle prizes  and a neat photo booth as well as speakers from the different meetup202 organizers across the world.  I was actually one of the speakers at the event.  I was kind of nervous because of the fact that there was 600+ people, but since it was only like 2-3 minutes it wasn’t so bad.

I ran out of battery from my video camera, so I only have some really crappy video of it.  I think the tracking202 guys will  be uploading the video from the event soon.

CX Digital Roll Like a Billionaire Party @ The Palms

There were like 3-4 other parties above us, but we ended up chillin’ at CX Digital Billionaire Party.

Here’s some video of some guys messing around with the silhouette thing. lol

(Thanks to Roger Lee from TrouveMedia.com for some of the pictures)

Club XS @ The Encore

We finished the night off at XS and got drunk.  Check it out:

Affiliate Summit West 2010: Las Vegas Recap Day 2

Posted by JasperP on January 28th, 2010

Day 2: Sunday – First day of ASW: Meet Market

I got up kind of late, but managed to hit up the meet market in the afternoon.

The meet market is basically a meet and greet of different affiliates, networks and companies in the industry.  I usually come to meet other affiliates and make new connections.  Check it out:

Meeting Affiliates at the Meet Market Part 1

Meeting Affiliates at the Meet Market Part 2

Here is a list of the people I met that were in the video:

Afterwards, Michael Salwet and I had dinner at Bellagio “Prime” with Ryan Eagle and Victor Mittelman from EWA network.  Got to meet Letien, Steven, and Christian as well.

Party Time at The Palms!

Then it was off to the Neverblue/Nickycakes/PPC.bz/Plenty of Fish Party!  It was at one of the sky villas at the Palms. It was pretty sick.  Didn’t take too many pictures though…

James Seligman Interviewed by Clickbooth

Posted by JasperP on August 3rd, 2009

James Seligman is an affiliate marketer doing big things in the industry.  He’s been in the industry for 3 years, so he definitely has some experience in affiliate marketing.

I think I first met him at Affiliate Summit West (I forgot.. lol).  But we definitely partied it up in Ad:Tech San Francisco 2009.  He’s a real chill dude, if you ask me.

Anyway, he has an interview on clickbooth about how he first got started in the industry.  Check it out:

http://blog.clickbooth.com/2009/07/meet-an-affiliate-james-seligman/

Check out his blog too at:

http://jamesseligman.net

Another Weight Loss Challenge?

Posted by JasperP on May 10th, 2009

So I’ve decided to start working out again.  I’m going to start hitting up the gym 3 times a week.  I started playing basketball again as well so I want to be strong enough to be able to push people around on the court since I’m not as fast as I was before.  

A couple of bloggers like Jon Volk, Tyler Cruz and James Seligman are blogging about weight loss, so I figured I post one too.  

Is this going to be another Weight Loss challenge? probably not.  Since, I’m bulking up and trying to pack on some muscle, I’m most likely going to be gaining weight. lol

Anyway, I took some pictures and wrote down my starting weight, body composition and measurements.   I’ll think about posting pictures later on. 

5/10/2009
Starting Weight: 198 lbs @ 23.3% BF
Biceps: 13.75″
Forearm: 11.5″
Chest: 40″
Waist: 38.5″
Hips: 41.25″
Thighs: 23.5″
Calves: 16″ 

Ad:Tech San Fran and Lake Tahoe Recap (With Pics!)

Posted by JasperP on April 29th, 2009

Wow.  What can I say about ad:tech San Francisco? This has to rank as one of the best trips this year!

Day 1: Hotel Check-in

We drive up from Los Angeles to San Francisco and check-in to our room at around 8pm only to find out that our room doesn’t have cell phone reception! The hotel was kind of enough to let us change rooms with reception.  Me and Nick just walk around Union Square, had some pizza and called it a night.  This was probably the most boring day. lol

Day 2: The first day of the ad:tech!

We only got the expo hall pass so we pretty much spent the whole day there.  We met up with Danielle Nagami, Justin Barr and walked around looking for traffic sources.  The main thing was making new contacts and networking with other marketers in the industry.  I also ran into Diana Lopez, Ryan Machara, James Seligman and some of the tracking202 crew (Roland, Aaron, Nana, Feldo, Steven, Wes, Man, Lorenzo, to name a few).  Also saw Eleah and Shaunti from AKMG as well as Ruck and Michael Durham from Convert2Media.

At night time, we ended up going to the ppc.bz party at The Cat Club and watching the awesome acai berry jello stripper MMA fight.  It was supposed to be a friendly wrestling match, but ended up in a cat fight between the strippers!  We left and ended up getting drunk at the advertise.com party at Ruby Skye and the rest was history!

Day 3: Ad:tech Part 2

We hit up the second floor of ad:tech and met up with Eric Ngo and his friend Brian.  Also met Feldo Nartapura and Yan Zhang from eAdvertising.com and had some interesting conversations (NSFW, lol… well maybe for Yan).   

At night, we went to the very cool Meetup202 at MIGHTY.  It was a cool social event to meet other people in the marketing industry. Wasn’t anything too crazy, just a nice networking mixer.  Afterwards, we went to Advercircus where it was FREE DRINKS all night! That’s when we got all crazy.  Ordering shots after shots was fun. Thanks to Clickbooth for hooking that up!  

Day 4 & 5: Chillin in San Francisco

It was the end of the conference and I already felt like we’ve been there for like a week.  So much partying and drinking every night, but it wasn’t over yet.  We hung out at the tracking202 house for a little BBQ shindig and then toured around San Fran to the Golden Gate bridge and Fisherman’s wharf.  We ended up going to a lounge later that night and playing “I have never…”.  Interesting topics that night. 

On Friday, we left for Lake Tahoe for our mini-snowboarding trip at the Squaw Valley Ski Resort.

Day 6 & 7: Snowboarding and Road Trip

Squaw Valley was insane! I can’t believe they were closing the resort already.  I guess it costs too much to keep it open since no one wants to go snowboarding during that time.  The snow was amazing because it snowed the night before so that was pretty cool.  

Coming back to LA, we decided to just “wing” it on the way home.  We drove to Carson City (which was absolutely BORING.  You would think Las Vegas would be the capital of Nevada) and had lunch there.  We also drove past Mammoth Lakes and stopped to take some pictures.  We almost drove to Yosemite Park but it was closed.

We finally get home around midnight and we slept our asses off.  

The End. 

I just want to give a shoutout to all the people I met at ad:tech:

• Wes Mahler, Steven Truong, Roland Navarro, Aaron Glinski, Man Ma, and Nana Gilbert from Tracking202
• Nick Tumbocon, Joseph Regala, Danielle Nagami, Diana Lopez and Yan Zhang
• Lorenzo Green, Wes Moehlenbruck, Feldo Nartapura, Justin Barr, Christian Popoola, Silver Stoltsen
• Jimmy Ramos and Christian, Eric Ngo and Brian
• Jay Yukes and Danielle Vojta
• Ruck, Steve, MikeD and MikeK from Convert2Media
• Barman, Harrison Gevirtz, Ryan Eagle, and Jonathan Volk
• Frankie Brannon, James Seligman, Scott Elling, Adam Trentacoste, Steve Goltiao and Scott Pae
• Gemi Hartojo, Mauricio Vazquez, Joe Helewa, Allison Marks, Eleah Portollio, Shaunti Beaurline
• … and everyone else I missed! 

All you guys made this one of the best trips ever.  See you at ASE:NYC!!

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