Ad:Tech, Affiliate Summit , Old Faces And Modified To Do List

Well I was supposed to visit Ad:tech but got caught outside Euston on the train as the station has be evacuated and then had to meet James and Ciaran from Altogether Digital about co-presenting at the A4UExpo next month. (note to self to send pic and biog). We're doing the bit on Social media and how merchants (Ciaran's bit) and affiliates should / are making the most of the revitalised media-type.

So it was a quick meeting, setting out who's doing what and outline the content etc. Had a quick pint with Jimbo and headed off to meet the gang just off the Olympia centre. The only issue is that I walked from South Ken to Earl's Court (don't ask) and then eventually met up with everyone at some random pub.

It was great to see Helen Southgate who I haven't seen in years and regret not keeping in touch!! The was the odd face around that I'm glad I haven't seen in ages (but we won't go into details). Also thanks to Matt Bailey for the pint and the photo of Helen in a Citeh top!

The Buy.at piss-up was great (they always are). After being (attempted) chatted up by a wedding planner that kept stroking my leg and calling me darling I made a sharp exit and escorted Nic Cordingly to the tube.

The Affiliate Summit was actually very good. It came be summed up with "quality rather than quantity". The right people were there, I had a great chat with RO Eye again (great bunch vote for them!). It was also good to finally meet Julia Stent from Affiliate Window. They're now back in my good books and will be working very hard on my gadget projects with her.

And a blast from the past and who also most brought tears to my eyes was Carla Arrindell - an awesome, honest, truthful, caring person. If there's only one reason to work with OMG it would be because Carla's there.

And Jess, what can I say. A true legend. And if she was old enough (she's not by the way) she would be a surrogate mum. We've got the same views on the industry, it's problems, its solutions and the future.

So my to do list for October now includes:

1) Start to look at DGM for merchants - don't dismiss them out of hand because of their past problems;
2) Have a good play with Awin's new widgets and get back on to their gadget merchants like I did last year when I was told to stop promoting some because I was selling too many;
3) Forget my log-in headaches and start to take a good look at their current merchants and their new big one ;-)
4) Do stuff Jess was encouraging me to do;
5) Get secret project with secret agency implemented secretly;

So, all in all, a great time was had by all. And get your backside down to the A4UExpo if only to heckle me!