Comments on: Affiliate Summit Speakers With Jaw Dropping Presentation Skills

By: Jeremy Reither

Jeremy Reither — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:03:02 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Rex. As you rightly point out there are two sides to every story. But yes, I’m a butter-and-cream-with-my-nuts-and-bolts kind of guy when it comes to these conferences. I say inform me first, but entertain me too!!1!

By: Rex

Rex — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:54:42 +0000

Well, in the speaker’s defense, I imagine you’re having speakers with quite a bit of knowledge address you. In general, computer types are not noted for a feel good, make you happy, jaunty conviction presentations, such as you might get from a self-help motivational speaker. You probably got nuts and bolts and wanted a little more butter and creme with that. In your defense, maybe the speakers could do a little better to know their audience and that they may expect them to be more like a salesman instead of a college level lecturer.

By: Jeremy Reither

Jeremy Reither — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:01:46 +0000

Hey, John. Thanks for the reply. I honestly had no idea that the $44$44 thing was a common “meme to indicate excitement.” If that’s the case then I learned something new today!!1!!1

Seriously, though, it is no easy task presenting to a large group of your peers. You put yourself out there, and the blogosphere gets to pick you apart.

In all honesty your session was the more enjoyable of the two that I mentioned in this post.

By: John Hasson

John Hasson — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:32:25 +0000

Hi, thanks for your comments about my presentation. It should be noted that the $44$$4 and the !!11!!!’s are on purpose. It is a fairly common internet meme to indicated excitement about something. Sorry you couldn’t read the font. (It looked better in the template I wrote it in, but I had to switch it over to Affiliate Summit’s template and some things were sacrificed.)

By: J. Reither

J. Reither — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:59:48 +0000

Thanks for the reply, Shawn. I just finished giving you props for this kind of personal attention to the conference (in another post):
http://blog.r3r.com/2008/08/21/affiliate-summit-silver-lining

To answer your question, though, yes I’ve been to Affiliate Summit in Miami before – as well as Vegas. Both of those were great. I guess I would just hope for higher standards from some of the presenters/presentations – they reflect on the whole show.

Thanks again for reaching out. You guys and your staff do a great job.

By: Shawn Collins

Shawn Collins — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:38:28 +0000

Thanks a lot for the feedback, Jeremy. It is much appreciated.

We will have videos of all of the sessions up in the coming weeks, and hope you’ll give some other sessions a look.

With regards to the exhibit hall, was this the first time you attended on the east coast?

The west coast shows are larger, but this was the largest of the east shows by attendance and exhibit hall.

We made the aisles more roomy than usual in an effort to alleviate crowding, and overheard many folks stating that it was smaller than past east shows.

I guess there is something to be said for keeping it crowded for perceptions sake.

If anything else occurs to you, feel free to reach out directly to me at shawn@affiliatesummit.com