It’s 8:00am and I’m at the Hilton posting this.
I’ve come down to Affiliate Summit one day early. I checked into the Hilton yesterday. This is the hotel where the conference is being held. The hotel is pretty nice. They gave me a free room upgrade but the room is pretty damn small. After check in I went to early registration and was greeted by Shawn Collins & Amy Rodriguez who are 2 really hospitable people.
Last night I went out to dinner with a few hard hitting affiliates and had a good time. We went to this Ichiban Sake bar and had some awesome food. Ian Fernando ate a Wasabi dumpling and freaked out a bit (videos yo come later).
After that we headed over to the Buy.at party at the Empire Hotel. It was a rooftop party and it was really cool to get a great view of NYC. I finally met some of you blog readers at the party and am glad to now know you personally.
Next we headed back to the Hilton and met up with Naomi from Bloosky. We chilled at the bar and she told us about her network and the offers that she’s agency of record on. The Hlton bar was apparently the place to be because we ran into a bunch of people there like MLDina, the Market Leverage crew, John Chow as well as a bunch of other people.
After thei swe headed to the Wickedfire party sponsored by Sybarite. I got to meet a lot of my wickedfire friends who I only know by screen names and avatars. It’s nice to meet people and put a face to a name. The party was fun but some weird stuff went down at the end that I am not going to get into here.
That was pretty much the pre-summit festivities. Today the actual show starts. I’l be trying to update on a daily basis so that I don’t have to write a 10 million word post after Summit is over. I’m here on an Affiliate Sumit press pass and damnit, I wanna do a good job covering this event.
What were your pre-summit festivities? Anything funky happen?
Please Note: I do receive a Press Pass to Affiliate Summit which get’s me in for free however, all statements and thoughts are my own opinions.
My pre-summit festivities was chasing you around with liquor at the WF/Sybarite party son. 😀