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Add me on SphinnSo I’ve been up in Toronto for the CX Digital Affiliate Advisory Board all this week and well, that’s why I haven’t blogged lately.
So what is the AAB? Basically they flew 15 of the “top affiliates” in the industry with various backgrounds to discuss current issues in affiliate marketing and what we want from affiliate networks. I say “top affiliates” because realistically most of the wealthiest affiliates like staying under the radar and not going to anything. Needless to say there were some very smart PPC guys and mailers there. They also kept saying “this isn’t about CX”, but I mean comeon…yeah it is. Anywho, here’s what happened :
We woke up the first day and started the roundtable discussion at 10am. We talked about what’s hot now, emerging trends, and raised ethical questions in affiliate marketing (that was a long and interesting discussion). A lot of people were very open in sharing how they do things and what sort of niches they run. I was pretty open in saying a lot of what I promote and how I promote it because it doesn’t really matter if people know. Anyways it was more fun than anything for me, I just liked getting out of the office and talking about the industry with a lot of cool and young people (the mailers there were the oldest and by far the wealthiest hah).
Then they took us all out to dinner (they sent my gf to the spa at the hotel -really nice hotel btw- for the day) and it was another good time. There were 2 long tables and everybody divided pretty comically – all the affiliates were at 1 table discussing business and strategies and all the CX managers/owners/staff were at the other long table. My girlfriend and I were at the CX table and basically just goofed off True Tier 1 Gay style the whole time. Afterwards they took us out to a club and most of us got our groove on pretty hard. There ended up being a battle between me and Raj between 1 handed pushups and straight levitation. Good times for sure.
Next day we had the advisory board thing again at 10am…everybody was there on time…except for me. I kinda slept in until noon and got there when it was halfway over haha. We talked about building the “perfect affiliate network” and what we liked/disliked about networks. Then we went out to another really nice dinner, goofed off some more, and then most people were worn out from the first night so there wasn’t much dancing. The restaurant turned into a club and we stayed there for a bit and my g/f and I went back to the room.
Saturday comes along and we get to sleep in until noon again, and it basically was a free day. I went out shopping with my AM Fraser and g/f and CX bought me a really nice overcoat………..oh sh@t I have an urge to talk like Amit!!!
CX Digital took me out and bought me an AMAZING designer overcoat. The total cost with tax was around $1,500 and it was the absolute best designer coat on the market. I would not have been able earn such expensive things if I wasn’t the superest of affiliates!
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Erm, anyways. So then we walked around the city with some other affiliates/CX people for a few hours before dinner. Then we went out to another nice dinner, and as everybody left for the club my girlfriend and I drove home because we had to be home on Sunday. So I just wanted to make this post saying thank you to CX for bringing us all in and I’m already en route to making money with one of the guys I met. Here’s a few pics from the time :
Night 1 dinner, me, Jen, and Fraser.
Night 1 dancing, Mike (CX affiliate manager) and I.
Night 3 dinner, a bunch of people.
Take note of the creep guy in the middle (that is NOT me).
October 6th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Looks like a sweet trip, I wish my AM’s would buy me stuff
October 6th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Hey Paul,
nice post… ;)
quick question… about the “wealthiest am’s” and mailers… u mean direct mail right? can u talk a little about that strategy? are they driving to a landing page and collecting opt ins first?
Thanks
October 6th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
emailers
October 6th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Nope, mailing as in sending out millions of emails.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Oh i love the way you talked like Amit lol, sounds so funny!
October 6th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
I applaud the choice of nicks picture.
October 8th, 2008 at 3:58 am
Konrad might as well live in the states, he comes over on affiliate trips like every week it seems, good stuff!
October 6th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
rather a polite word for spammers if you ask me.
October 6th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
ah gotcha lol
October 6th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Nice photos & I like the sarcasm tone…
I was brought to a similar meet up in Mauritius for a week last year & most of the guys there were also mailers, or should that be spamers…great time was had though.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
“CX Digital took me out and bought me an AMAZING designer overcoat. The total cost with tax was around $1,500 and it was the absolute best designer coat on the market. I would not have been able earn such expensive things if I wasn’t the superest of affiliates!”
LOL – So dead on, it’s kinda creepy! :P
October 6th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
WOW sounds like a fun fun time you had out there with your gf…hmmm:)
October 6th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Cool, I finally get to see some pictures with you. glad to see you have fun and glad you’ve decided to share it with us in a post.
October 6th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
you mentioned “I was pretty open in saying a lot of what I promote and how I promote it because it doesn’t really matter if people know” …
sooo..
You gonna tell us?
October 7th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
ha no way i guess he was only talking about the people out there in CX digital.
January 28th, 2009 at 1:45 am
Stop fucking stalkin this guy
October 6th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Damn, your gf is hot!! When I become the best affiliate do I get one of those too?
October 6th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Man the “advisory board”?
That’s big boy stuff, congrats.
Great pics, You sure did have fun.
Roby
October 7th, 2008 at 10:41 am
hey man fuck you if you got a problem with the way i post come down to boston for a spanking.
October 7th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
hahahahahahahahaaha that is so fucking funny. Amit how about some hand to hand man to man fight with paul hahahahahaha this is so funny.
October 7th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Don’t listen to the haters, they are just jealous of your corduroy pants.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
It looks like you need to be the center of attention huh?
October 7th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
CX Digital rocks. I wish I’d found them sooner not knowing that they have their team do custom landing pages if I asked. Certainly would help me roll out new campaigns at a faster rate than my 1 per millennia.
October 7th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Nice post. I love seeing the HQ pictures. The event looked like a blast. I would like to see some more videos up. Hopefully some video tutorials and such. I just got Camtasia Studio and started making videos, so I enjoy seeing the techniques that other marketers use in their videos. I just did my first video, it is posted on my blog.
It is a tutorial on Tube Automator and how to use it to boost your YouTube videos to the main pages of YouTube to make money at YouTube video marketing. Click on my name if you want to see my video. Be sure to comment, I hope the video is good enough for you guys.
October 8th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
It’s cool that you were selected for that. It must have been great exchanging ideas with other industry leaders. Great photos!
October 8th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Very nice post. I’ve been working with CX a bit lately and I definitely like some of their offers. I have never heard of anything like what you went to though. That’s a pretty cool idea, more of those should be done so you can go tell those affiliate networks what we want!
October 8th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Konrad buddy, you were in Canada and didn’t come visit me??
October 10th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Cool pics. Would have loved to be there!
October 13th, 2008 at 5:40 am
Ha! Love the Amit joke!
October 18th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
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October 23rd, 2008 at 10:12 am
Weren’t you just ripping on CX digital on a forum thread like 2 months ago? Did they buy you back?
October 28th, 2008 at 7:21 am
I am sure that there are plenty of positives out there, but what have you seen for yourself? Are you tuned in to my adaptable proposal A joke for you peoples! What does a dog get when it finishes obedience school? A pet degree.
November 2nd, 2008 at 2:38 am
Hey Paul -
That “straight up levitation” I was doing was a crow. Yes, I was doing yoga on a dance floor.
But those one-handed push ups were unreal. I think you have more strength in your pinky than I have in both arms. :)
Good times brother! See you again soon.
Raj
November 28th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall during those meetings!