Conferences - Bryn Youngblut

Was Ad-Tech Worth It?

Bryn Youngblut — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:11:57 +0000

I feel like there is a lot of emphasis on partying and having a good time rather than getting as much business done as possible at these events. I for one am guilty of this as I do love to have a good time, especially when in a new city.

To be completely honest I probably didn’t get too much out of ad-tech itself, which is my fault, but I did get some good insight that has helped me re-think certain ways I do things.

As far as new traffic sources go, I found a few I haven’t used so that will be useful to test. I already have my hands full in many as it is so that doesn’t bother me.

I think the most important thing I got out of ad-tech was simply seeing people I already knew and meeting others, constantly building long term relationships that might pay off down the road.

I see too many people asking if it was worth it to go to events like this. It really depends on what you are looking for and if you’re thinking long term. It’s taken me 2 years to realize the long term and slower route is much better. Being the impatient person that I am, it took me a while to adjust to this.

I personally think ad-tech was completely worth it for me and it was great seeing everyone and meeting some awesome new people too.

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One Tip For All Affiliate Networks Showcasing At ASW

Bryn Youngblut — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:52:42 +0000

GET A KEG AT YOUR BOOTH!

This was Convert2Media’s booth at ASE in NYC. If you saw it you probably also saw the ton of people that were constantly around it.

Yeah they had free beer, but that is the point. It gets people to come over and hang around…while their standing there drinking they’re gonna ask questions about your company. Also the more people hanging around your booth makes you look a lot more popular, hence more people will come to check out what all the fuss is about.

You also don’t have to try and stop people walking by because most people will come to you.

All I gotta say is, and I said this at ASE over and over, any smart network has a keg or drinks at their booth!

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Affiliate Summit East 2009 Craziness

Bryn Youngblut — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:45:21 +0000

Day 1 (Saturday, August 8 )

I arrived a bit early on Saturday around 3pm with Max, we dropped off our bags real quick in The London Hotel (amazing hotel), and grabbed some grub with Ratko and his buddy. I forget the places name but the portion sizes were HUGE…I asked the waiter if anybody ever finishes and he just laughed and said no.

From there we headed back to the hotel to unpack a little. We then headed to the Wickedfire party by Sybarite Elite or sybelite as I like to call them. The network is owned by Bryan, who I had just met that night and I must say he is a really nice guy. I would definitely work with them in the future.

The party was great, we were gonna watch the UFC fight but the Hotel was being a bitch on bandwidth and would not let it live stream…oh well I just kept hitting up the booze.

Some pictures of me that night:

The night was great and ended with some drama but I didn’t see it so it didn’t bother me…thanks again for the party Brian.

Day 2 (Sunday)

Headed to the meet market and pretty much hung out there all day. I walked around a few times then decided to just hang out in the middle where everyone was constantly walking by.

Me, Ian Fernando and Adhustler just stood there in a group and it seemed everyone noticed at least one of us so it was great to meet tons of people…as well as mess with some (shaking their hands and not letting go until they pried their fingers away…lol).

So after the meet market I headed back to The London NYC hotel and had a short dinner with my boys from Pinnacle Dream. I had to rush out early to make it for Ian’s IANteract Dinner which turned out to be great with a nice surprise at the end of the dinner:

We were all given a bottle of Dom Perignon from Elite Profits.

After dinner we headed to the Shareasale party which was….eh ok. It was pretty boring to be honest, I was only there for the booze.

I got a message from my boys at Pinnacle Dream and a few of us headed over to their penthouse suite at The London NYC. They told nobody to invite friends but it of course turned from about 15 people to over 100, soon enough we were all getting escorted out by security for noise complaints. What I don’t get is how they can even do that…the room beside the penthouse was taken by another guy at the party and the music wasn’t even that loud. What do you expect to happen to a penthouse suite anyway?

We hadn’t had enough booze apparently, so we headed down the street to a bar called Faces and Names in which we drank our faces off even more…I gave a bum 5 bucks to give me a 10 second pitch about why he’s homeless.

Day 3 (Monday)

Woke up and headed over to the exhibit hall in which I walked around then pretty much hung around the Convert2Media booth and drank some beers. They had a pretty sweet booth and an amazing location…it was farther away from the massive crowd of booths and so much nicer than to be jam packed around people.

I kept telling other networks who had no people around them that they should get a keg…seriously. Think of it this way, even if 90% of the people standing there are just there for the beer, it makes your booth look popular in which others will want to come and see what is going on. These companies spend thousands on their nice booths and girls when all they really need is an incentive…booze. Smarten up people.

I briefly went to the 202 Meetup and then left with Benny to grab some more beers from the C2M booth.

After the exhibit hall me, Adhustler, Dennis Yu (this guy knows his shit and is really open) and a few others headed to the NY Yankees game sponsored by Monetizeit in which we had our own private box to watch the game in. That day was frickin HOT so a nice Air Conditioned box was AMAZING.

After the game we headed over to Touch nightclub and weasled our ways into the VIP section which had free bottle service courtesy of Michael Guida from GetAds.

Then we headed down to the same pub as the night before and had some drinks again…NYC just doesn’t sleep I swear.

Then….we headed over to the Pinnacle Dream penthouse again where a few of us chilled and called it a night around 4am?

Day 4 (Tuesday)

By now the effects of little sleep and too much drinking were definitely catching up to me…I felt like crap and pretty much slept in the hotel all day…had a quick lunch with Ian Lerner of Opes Media than headed back for more rest.

I then made it over to the Blue Water Grill for some dinner courtesy of Mike Cataldo and Nate of Tatto Media. Also met Jesse Silver who was a cool guy and seemed really knowledgeable.

I drank atleast 7 Vodka Tonics at dinner and started feeling better…so I stayed out (which I regret now) and had a fun time just chilling with the Monetizeit crew on the rooftop of the Dream Hotel.

Day 5 (Wednesday)

I woke up and felt like I was going to die…and I had to pack everything and leave for my flight in half n hour. I popped about 4 tylenols within an hour, pounded water like it was going to run out and finally made it to the airport. Could things get any worse? Of course they could! Our flight got delayed by an hour…but I finally made it home around 6pm…what a trip that was.

All in all ASE09 NYC was AMAZING, I met a lot of great people and saw a lot of friends. I am still feeling sick as I write this with a really sore throat and cough but it was so worth it.

Thanks a lot to Shawn and Missy for the free press pass, you guys rock and do an amazing job with the shows. Keep up the great work.

Can’t wait for Vegas!

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Free Trip To Affiliate Summit East Contest Extended

Bryn Youngblut — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:59:06 +0000

A lot of people have signed up to the Tatto Network but not many have generated much income so we have decided to extend the contest another month until the end of July, and if nobody else chooses to participate than one of the guys who made a few sales will probably take it. Tatto has some great offers and great pay so you should really check them out if you haven’t yet.

Pretty sweet deal, a free flight and pass to Affiliate Summit East for such little effort.

Remember all you need to do to participate is sign up for Tatto Media under this link and generate revenue, whoever generates the most wins.

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Quick Update And What I’ve Been Up Too

Bryn Youngblut — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:13:58 +0000

If you talk to me on a regular basis then you know how busy and mia I’ve been lately. I won’t go into much detail because it’s not relevant but here’s a few of the reasons why I’ve been so busy:

Moving into my new house next week and having a bitch of a time finding proper insurance because insurance companies are super paranoid and don’t understand what my business is. I should have it all resolved soon but it’s not been easy.
—Removed this one for now—I will write a quick post about it next week – it’s a surprise and I don’t want my girlfriend to see it just yet. – not it’s not a proposal
Planning for Affiliate Summit East stuff.
Buying home furniture and everything else.
New computer system/setup arriving Friday, it’s a BEAST. Should have pics of my new office up within a couple weeks. This should be a funny comparison if you’ve seen a pic of my current setup.
Packing clothes and everything for the move next week.
More and more stuff I can’t even talk about.

FML.

P.S. A bunch of people have signed up for Tatto for this contest but I have barely seen anyone do much for generating revenue, remember whoever generates the most wins, even if it’s a couple bucks!

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Does Nobody Want A Free Trip To ASE?

Bryn Youngblut — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:32:54 +0000

A whopping one person has signed up so far for the Tatto Media contest to win a free flight/ticket to Affiliate Summit East in New York City.

If you missed it last week…here’s the original post.

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Win A Free Trip to ASE from Tatto Media

Bryn Youngblut — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:54:56 +0000

For those of you not familiar with Tatto Media, they are one of the fastest growing Affiliate Networks around. For a while, the network was private, but now is your chance to find out what all the fuss is about. Not to mention, win a trip, on them, to ASE (Affiliate Summit East) 2009 in New York City! Make sure to read below.

Tatto has a few advantages of their network that place them at the forefront of the affiliate marketing game.

Tatto Media owns many of their own offers! This means more money in your pocket right away. Tatto can pay you more and they can pay you faster than some other networks.

Tatto Media built their own affiliate and tracking system from the ground up. Clearly, they have built this with affiliates’ needs in mind. They have their own proprietary tracking system that is both fast and accurate. They also have created for affiliates, the ability to place your own pixels in a matter of minutes!

Tatto Media has a variety of offers in many different verticals. These offers are tested by them before they are added into their system, insuring affiliates higher ROI on high-converting offers.

If those incentives aren’t reason enough to sign up for Tatto Media, here is one more reason. They have offered my readers access to this exclusive contest.

Any new affiliates who sign up through this link will be entered to win a free trip to ASE 2009. Between now and June 30th, the new affiliate who generates the most revenue under this link, will win a Free Flight out to NYC and a complimentary pass to Affiliate Summit.

This is a pretty awesome offer from the Tatto Media guys so if you still haven’t signed up you should do so now and get busy on them campaigns!

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Pictures From Affiliate Summit West 2009

Bryn Youngblut — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:05:30 +0000

Here’s some pictures of me with some buddies I met up with at Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas. It was really good times and awesome meeting everyone.

Adhustler, Ian Fernando, (no idea), Nate Whitehill, Ms. Danielle, Me, Matt Blancarte, (no idea)

Tangy, me, Barman

Neil, Ian, me, Michael Grabowski (cut off a bit)

Neil, Ian, Me, (forgot name) and Ryan from C2M

Tangy, Me, Ian, Barman

Me and Shoemoney

Me, Shoemoney, Barman, Nickycakes, Erik Ngo

Us again, getting pretty wasted

Me and the C2M crew (Steve, Ruck, Me, Ryan)

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Free Macbook Pro From Convert2Media

Bryn Youngblut — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:01:26 +0000

If you didn’t read my post already of why I love Convert2Media check this out first: https://bryn.me/2008/12/23/props-to-convert2media/

I met up with the C2M guys on Saturday night before ASW09. They are the coolest and most easy going guys to hang out with, I actually ended up hanging out with them and partying all over the place during the entire conference.

Ruck did an interview over at PPC.BZ explaining the reason for the laptop. Here’s the quote from the interview which pretty much explains it all, “We just incorporated a “Build Your Business” monthly prize in which we pick a publisher out and send them something that well help their business. Bryn from Bryn.me won this month’s prize with a macbook pro 15.4 and marware sportfolio.”

Here’s a pic of me opening the macbook up and another pic of me with the C2M crew.

I would just like to say again Thank you so much to the C2M crew, if you are not already with them you are missing out on what I consider to be one of the best upcoming networks to look out for. You can Sign up here.

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Meet Me At Affiliate Summit

Bryn Youngblut — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:21:00 +0000

As most of you probably know this is my first time attending Affiliate Summit and I plan on attending every one after this.

Also just so you know I’m a really relaxed easy going person so don’t worry about approaching or joking with me, I don’t take much seriously.

I’ve read lots of good information from various places about what not to do, what to do, what to wear, etc so I think I’m pretty much set. As far as my thinking goes right now my plan is to meet up with a lot of people and get really drunk (so basically the same as any night with my buddies).

Anyways I definitely want to meet all my readers so post a comment or send me an email so we can get in touch and meet up sometime. I will most likely be within 50 feet of the bar at all times (just kidding…well maybe).

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