!. As I said before, many, many people said they got their money’s worth on Sunday after the ShareASale party. The networking there was great.
2. One fellow stopped my husband and said, “Aint that the finest bleep bleep girl you ever laid eyes on?”, talking about the girl in the red dress at one of the dating/chat booths. And, I have to interject, she was very, very pretty. All the booth babes were gorgeous. My husband, a semi-uptight pastor laughed and said, “Well I’m rather partial to my wife. She’s a hottie.” Kudos to him, of course.
The guy was taken aback and said, “You have gotta be bleep bleep kidding me!” And went on to explain that he went away to these things with NO thoughts of his wife and was hoping to hook up with someone.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, Vegas is the city that forgets your indiscretions, but I was surprised by the number of men (not at the Affiliate Summit, but in Vegas in general) that indicated they wanted to ‘get to know me better’ when my husband was not around. It was an eye-opener to say the least.
3. One speaker’s video was pulled
I missed this session, but a pal told me that one of the speakers on Wednesday called an attendee an idiot from the stage and they pulled his video. It won’t appear on the site. (WARNING: unsubstianted rumor)
4. I overheard an employee getting reprimanded pretty soundly.
The lady wasn’t smiling and the supervisor (an Aff Summit employee, not a Bally’s employee) told her that the people at this conference were important and she was to show them the respect that was due to them or she could leave the premises immediately. Then she finished by telling her to smile and help the next registrant.
5. Unlike every tech conference I’ve ever been to, people were hesitant to step in front of the camera. They indicated they either 1-weren’t successful enough to get quoted yet or 2-had nothing they wanted to share. This was interesting in that most people are camera hogs, so I was very surprised to find this out.
> One speaker’s video was pulled. I missed this session, but a pal told me that one of the speakers on Wednesday called an attendee an idiot from the stage and they pulled his video. It won’t appear on the site. (WARNING: unsubstianted rumor)
I am one of the organizers and we haven’t seen any of the video, yet. This is the first I’ve heard about this.
Which speaker called somebody an idiot? Please elaborate.
As I said, unsubstantiated as of yet, but I heard it was on Day 3, in the affiliate track room, but was not the Pepperjam session (I was in the Pepperjam session and it was great).
I am assuming it was one of the two in that room that day before Pepperjam’s session.
> I am assuming it was one of the two in that room that day before Pepperjam’s session.
I’ll check it out when I get the videos.
Still not clear on the video being pulled. As far as I know, all sessions were filmed from start to finish.
Thanks for the heads up.
Thanks, once you see the videos and if they’re all there I’ll edit the entry to reflect the information.
Nice report, Robyn,
RE: #2, yes it’s a bit sad to say the least. It’s one of the reasons I avoid Las Vegas whenever possible. I don’t consider myself a prude (although I am happily married and don’t screw around) but I dislike their continual ‘what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas’ attitude. I also have run into a few prominent ‘Netizens who seem addicted to the foul mouth syndrome. After nearly 40 years with the military in one capacity or another I would dare to say I can cuss with the best of them, but except for whacking my finger with a hammer or accidentally pressing ‘OK’ to format c:, I try to show people my vocabulary is a little more advanced. I recall a while back one of my on-line heroes, Darren Rowse did a podcast with some acquaintance of his who found the need to interject the ‘F’ word into at least every other sentence. Darren put up with it, I sure didn’t. Dumb to perhaps lose your chance with someone by showing off your foul mouth.
RE #5 Another online eminence, Brendon Sinclair did a nice podcast on this subject a few months back .. in his story a fellow was selected by a local business group to talk about his business success and started out by saying “I don’t feel I have anything to say, I’m not that successful ….. ” what a missed opportunity. How many blog posts, affiliate conversions, SEO successes will it take the average person to get to the point they are asked to go on camera at a major conference. Remember this, if ever asked “You’re no worse than anyone else” haa ha