I started the night off by going to NYC and meeting up with Ian, Brandon, Vinnie and Rohail. My goal was to get there earlier so I can get my badge but I couldn’t make that happen. After, meeting up with Ian and the crew we headed straight to the WickedFire party. They had a bunch of other drinks in the fridge besides Coors Light but that didn’t faze me because I took a few drinks of Cristal… that did the trick. One thing I did like about the party is that I got to meet a few affiliates that I haven’t seen in months or even years. I was trying to see the UFC 101 in the suite but they were playing it right threw yahoo website, which was extremely lagging. I got to meet the Shoemoney once again, I had a face to face conversation with him in Vegas and when he saw me at the WickedFire party he introduced himself to me again but I guess he forgot who I was. It’s annoying when you don’t get recognized but let’s hope it won’t happen again, I don’t wanna do something crazy so he won’t ever forget about me…. Yeah, I probably pore some cold activated Coors Light. He won’t forget about me again trust me. Anyways, The other’s took it down early so I headed to the strip club in NYC.
The strip clubs in NYC are expensive! I met up with Andrew from Cashtactics but I came pretty late. Just when I paid for the $15 dollar entrance they came out telling me they where leaving. Mind you… I needed to buy a beer because it’s against the strip club policy or something. Yeah $10 beers oh well, I took a chug of the Coors and left. I stayed at the Casablanca for the night.
Woke up pretty late but managed to get my badge with no hassle. ASW: Vegas lines where more insane. After, I got my badge I headed to the meet market and hung out with the affiliates and managers. I met up with Kris and Andrew then headed to the Marketleverage Yacht Hang-out. We got in the limo and the driver took us to the wrong dock. It didn’t bother me because Kris and I were DJing the whole limo with music. Check out John Chow’s video and you will see us controlling the music and making things happen. Upon our arrival we got inside the Yacht and started drinking and lurking. The food was amazing! Casey Thompson owned it.
I headed back to NYC and met up with Kris and Andrew once again and ate lunch at Ray’s Pizzeria. The pizza where HUGE and couldn’t finish my second slice. After, I went to the exhibit hall and walked around for a bit then headed to the Bloggers Lounge to meet up with Gary Vaynerchuk. I recorded a video of him playing thumb wars with some dude but during the recording someone ruined it by calling me. I then went to the Meetup202 get together. I caught up with Bryn and we both decided to head down to the Convert2Media booth and drink some Blue Moon beer. Hand’s down to C2M for the best booth and location. I didn’t stay for long on my 3 day, I was really tired so went back home and called it a day.
Shout out to Ian Lerner for making DAY 4 happen. I got to give the biggest shout out to OpesMedia for throwing the hottest party I’ve attended. They were throwing money like na naa na na. If you saw my twitter updates you already know the great time I had. The craziest thing that ever happen to me was when OpesMedia made it happen! They brought me like 30 bottles of Coors Light. It def made my day and I would never forget what they did for me that day.
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Man I was so gonna go to that club at Marquee but a ton of people told me not to bother since there was a huge lineup and we wouldn’t get in…I woulda killed those coors with ya haha. Oh well, I had enough crazy nights.
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Great to see you again, Benny. We learned our lesson from those Vegas lines last January and changed a bunch of things to fix it this time around.
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Great seeing you as-well Shawn. Thanks for the press pass really appericate it. Yeah, you guys really did a great job with the setup this time. see you soon!
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Bryn you should’ve came! I didn’t know you where still here in NYC. Def was a great time and I know you and I would’ve finish those Coors Light. Way to many for me!
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Yeah I didn’t get a chance to come out to the affiliate summit this year, I was able to read some notes that a friend of mine took and it seemed like they had a few keynote speakers that delivered new ideas and strategies that could pay off nicely if properly utilized.
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