My Affiliate Summit West 2008 Weightloss Trek: Day 144 lbs LOSTso farFebruary 25, 2008 by Israel Lagares | 18 comments
I got in to Las Vegas on Saturday afternoon and was extremely tired. I checked into my hotel and just ate some dinner before getting ready for Sunday’s Affiliate Summit. I went to bed early, had jet lag, on Saturday night.
Sunday morning was an adventure. I had to find a way to get to the Affiliate Summit at the Rio All-Suite Resort and Casino, which is about 2 miles from the hotel I am staying at. Being the warrior that I am, I wanted to walk the 2 miles, but it proved to be too much: I had a 15 lbs back pack on. What I did was take a shuttle halfway there, then trekked the rest of the way. It turned out to be a pretty good workout.
It wasn’t that bad a walk, I got there in about 15 minutes. Here are some shots of Vegas as I walked to the Rio:
Bally’s Las Vegas
Ceasar’s Palace: This place was huge, it looks like it spanned 5 square blocks.
A Poster of Toni Braxton on the side of the Flamingo Hotel
The Rio All-Suite Resort and Casino: home of he Affiliate Summit West 2008
After registration, I walked around until the Meet Market opened up. The Meet Market was a cool place to meet some affiliate managers for many of the programs that are available online. It was a cool place to meet new people. I met Zac Johnson for the first time, he was pretty cool. I also got a shoot with one of the Beauty and the Geek girls from a couple of seasons go.
Beauty and Geek model and I
Later that night I attended the Share A Sale Under the Stars Party at the Palms. It was an awesome venue and proved to be an awesome networking party. I didn’t have any drinks, I just had a few bottles of water. Here I finally got to meet of the folks that I read and see online. Some of them were:
Ian Fernando, Joe Tech, Roger, John Chow, and Mark of 45n5.
Here are some of the pictures from the party:
Finally met Zac Johnson, Super Affiliate
Ian Fernando, cool guy
John Chow, a normal geeky, cool dude
The infamous John Chow, trying to force feed me ice cream
Joe from Joe Tech, that goatee is super long
Joe, Mark and I
Monday morning has been great so far, I met Jim Kukral and Tristram Hussey. I am in the Press Bloghaus and then am heading over to the Un-Keynote. I am looking forward to the rest of the day. I plan on walking around and networking some more. What’s better than a workout and meeting new people?
Jim Kukral, cool guy
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HOW FUN!
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is it me?
should I know what youre attending?!
do tell.
M.
It’s the largest affiliate marketing conference there is, they hold them a few times a year.
get that networking in man. good timing with the release of health ranker. hopefully you can get some others to put in a word for it on their blogs.
Wow. John Chow really is evil! LOL
Yeah, trying to force me to eat that vile stuff. He’s lucky I didn’t pummel him.
I didn’t know John Chow was so tall. Great job networking Israel.
He is pretty tall , so is Jim Kukral.
Hey Israel, it was great meeting you. You disappeared after the keynote speech.
Sorry about that, I went back to grab my backpack and lost track of you guys.
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I’m glad I was able to meet and talk to you at the party. I’ll probably bump into you again tomorrow, as I’m sitting tonight’s party out.
Same here man, it was cool. Hope to see you around tomorrow.
hopefully you can get some others to put in a word for it on their blogs.
hey great meeting you! where was you the other days? the pictures gon to be up soon once I get back in jersey - so you can see how big I look against you - lol
Same here, can’t wait to see the “guns” and “water pistols.”
Great pics! I’ll be in Vegas in March at Treasure Island… should be a good time. Have fun!
vegas is a fun place.
Yes, In future I will do that too. I love to travel and if I could combine my future work with travel it would be super cool.