My brother in law had tickets but could not go. If I had not been in Disney land I could have flown him there and gotten in with him. That is all past now 
, but at least I got pictures of the invitation for you.
Here is the link to the free geo-targeting database that It talked about in my session. http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity. As far as running the demo program, use F5 or hit the green play button on the toolbar.
Wow, what a crazy session. First my laptop display would not get off of dual monitors.. (mostly because my mac keyboard drivers for windows are borked and FN+F7 doesn’t work– couldn’t find a work around in time). So I had to flip everything around and give the demo with my back to the audience while trying to view the actual screen. Things kinda went down hill… PowerPoint wanted to display the sideshow on the primary display (not the big display hooked up to the projector)… So it was slow going. So we skipped most of the slides and went right to the live demo. My laptop froze… luckily it didn’t freeze till people had seen the actual demo.. whew.. But on reboot it was still dead, so no more slides. The rest of the session was me doing Q&A and the rest of the slides from memory. To make matters even crazier, several people started to leave throughout the beginning of the presentation…. But, those that stayed “got it,” and were very zoned in to what we were talking about regarding automation.
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Considering how bad things started I think it ended very well. People we asking good questions and I could tell a lot of people were excited about what was available to them as far as automating their daily stat downloads and ppc campaign creation.
The last few conferences I had very detailed plans and schedules. This time around I have things scheduled a little differently
The past several months I have tried outsourcing various things I do regarding PPC. Some things have worked pretty well (web design, site setup, etc) and some things have gone horribly horribly wrong. Content generation (gotta have native American’s for an American audience) and keyword grouping. So I have worked on writing software to handle these tasks. I’ve worked on a few automated content producing systems, but nothing worth writing home about or posting here.
However I have come up with a keyword grouping solution that I am very happy with. I’ve been running some private tests for me and my clients and so far we are pleased with the results. Really all you have to do is paste a big list of keywords in there and submit it for grouping, then wait while the servers crunch the data. You can download it and learn more here: KWGrouper.com.
At this point I am interested in feedback and thoughts on the Applications UI and export options. If you want some free credits to test it, thats fine, just let me know.
Kris over at Cashtactics.net is my hero…
Here are the basic points of the contest.
1. Tickets were given to them from Direct Agent
2. Silver pass
3. The contest is here
Well, “Sunny” was picked, but they havent responded. Sunny, check your yahoo email account for a message from me. If you don’t respond by 7am MST Tomorrow, I’ll be forced to pick somebody else.
The contest for a free affiliate summit west 2009 gold pass ends soon. Winner will be chosen December 1st. So make sure you enter 
I started playing around with SocialMedia.com again. A few weeks ago I was seeing some good results. Then my conversions stopped. Then I get obviously bogus clicks/data….. here… read this and tell me what you think. The [REMOVED.... ] are my editing. everything else is a direct copy from their support site. Now granted it is less then $50 but still they are being a pain about it.
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This is my first blog contest ever. I’ll be speaking at Affiliate Summit on “advanced concepts for automating daily website tasks (such as downloading stats, uploading changes, etc.) without access to an API.”
What that really means is I’ll be showing you how to automate some repetivie tasks. I was thinking of showing you a way to log in, download stats into a spreadsheet or database, etc. But I figured I’d let you all have some input. Post in the comments below a particular task you would like to see how automate and whichever one I pick wins a free Gold Pass to ASW09 (means you get to come to my presentation).
Here is an example: Show us how to log into site XXXX and download the daily stats per ad to a mysql database. (or spreadsheet, etc) or show us how to automatically upload a spreadsheet of ads to facebook, etc.
I’ll be going over a few basic techniques such as automating a webform, dealing with AJAX and so on. All of this will be done with FREE software. There will be NOTHING TO BUY to use the methods I’ll be showing in my presentation.
So to win, enter what you would like to see for the example used in my presentation and you win a free Gold pass.
