Keeping In Touch at ASE

Posted on August 4th, 2008 in Affiliate Marketing

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Ok, so ASE is less than 1 week out, and judging from the number of people signed up just through Nickycakes’ link alone, turnout should be awesome.  At affiliate summit west over the winter, things were a little crazy.  Had the Cakes not hooked up with some peeps early on, it would have probably been pretty hard to find out what everyone was doing at night after all the official conference stuff was over.  That’s why you need a solid gameplan for getting in touch with people when you’re in Boston.

First and foremost, if you’re a fan of this site and want to hang out with other nickycakes.com readers, make sure you join Cakes Chat.  There are usually around 80 people at any given time in #cakes on irc.freenode.net which will make it an ideal place to ask where everyone is while you’re relaxing in your hotel room trying to make plans.  Even if you’re not at the conference, you’re missing out on a great resource of some of the smartest internet marketing folks in the business who regularly answer stupid newbies questions and such.

Once you’re out and about in the city, if you don’t have everyone’s phone numbers (which is very likely in this business), you should hook up with people on twitter.  If you don’t already have twitter, you should get it.  Yes, the name sounds retarded, but it’s actually kinda cool.  It’s like they took the facebook status updates and mad a whole website based on that where you could direct message people and allowed you to tie everything to your cellphone.  So get signed up and then follow nickycakes on twitter, as well as affsum.   If you have half a brain, you should be able to figure out how to turn on mobile updates from the affsum feed.  So then, all you have to do is send a twitter message like “@affsum where is everyone hanging out tonight” and it will be broadcasted to everyone else following the affsum feed as well.  Nickycakes will try to keep his twitter updated as much as possible during the conf.

Nickycakes.com readership has grown tremendously in the short time since Affiliate Summit West this year.  Subscriber count back then was about 200 or so, which made it pretty for Nickycakes to hang out with everyone he knew online simply because nobody knew who the fck he was.  This unfortunately makes hanging out with everyone almost impossible so make sure you show up to the meet market thing on sunday to exchange info with Cakes and the rest of the crew who should be meeting up there at some point.