Affiliate Summit 2009 West Announced

Posted by Shawn Collins on March 23rd, 2008 | 9 Comments

Thanks for visiting the Affiliate Tip blog. Subscribe to my RSS feed or enter your e-mail on the top left to get updates by e-mail.

We collected the feedback on which cities were preferred for the next Affiliate Summit in the west and Las Vegas won by a wide margin, again.

Also, we got tons of great feedback on the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, so we are returning there, as well.

A handful of folks said they’d prefer to be on the Strip in Las Vegas, so I just wanted to point out for them that we are limited to five or so hotels in the whole city, due to our space needs. We’ve been to two of them already (the Riviera and Bally’s) and the majority of people far preferred the Rio.

The dates for Affiliate Summit 2009 West will be January 11-13, 2009.

This is right as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is ending, so don’t wait until the last minute to book your hotel rooms. Las Vegas has a big demand for hotel rooms at that time of year.

Save the date: January 11-13, 2009 for Affiliate Summit. More details to come in the Affiliate Summit newsletter.

Posted in Affiliate Resources

On March 23 @ 9:10 am Sam Harrelson said

Glad to hear it, Shawn. Even though I was pulling for Phoenix, I thought the Rio was a great place for the show and was easy walking distance to the Palms and just a quick cab ride to the Strip.

Looking forward to more jaegers at the American Bar and Grille in ‘09.

Sam
reply to this comment
On March 24 @ 10:05 am Wade Tonkin said

I would have loved Phoenix as well for a change, but if Vegas is the place people want to go, I have to say that I did enjoy the Rio.

It’s pretty nicely self contained, my room was awesome and I think the fact that it is a tad off the strip probably helped with attendance.

Good call….
reply to this comment
On March 24 @ 10:30 am Victor said

Cool. I’ll be there!
reply to this comment
On March 24 @ 11:12 am Jim Kukral said

Yeah, the Rio is a good choice. Getting a fleet of Segways this time? I’m going to rent a golf cart and charge a $5 fee to drive people down and back from the show area.
reply to this comment
On March 24 @ 11:20 am Shawn Collins said

We actually did work a couple Segways into the agreement.

And we will be in the conference rooms closer to the main hotel this time.
reply to this comment
On March 24 @ 11:24 am Sam Harrelson said

I sorta liked the long distance between the conference rooms and the main part of the hotel… it gave me a few mins to either make a last minute phone call/text/tweet or clear my mind before jumping into the madness of the floor.

Not sure why people were bitching about that so much… we could all stand to do an extra 5 min walk!
reply to this comment
On March 24 @ 1:45 pm Wade Tonkin said

which explains why the AffiliateFitClub walk was discontinued after day 1. After we figured how many miles we were walking anyway…seemed a bit unnecessary

I didn’t know there were closer conference rooms.

Nice call though… the Rio was the best to date in Las Vegas.

Now… if I can just convince you to start the Meet Market at 12:30 all would be right with the world.
reply to this comment
On March 24 @ 1:47 pm Wade Tonkin said

Advice for anyone coming with co-workers who want close rooms –

Check in at the same time.

I was supposed to be next door to Karen and Joel, my business partners. I requested this throughout booking.

I checked in early in the am and they assigned my room then. They checked in later and they put them in the other tower.

Should have kept insisting I guess… then they told me I could have an adjoining room if I was cool with a smoking room (not) with no Internet (double not)
reply to this comment
On March 25 @ 2:07 am Brook Schaaf said

Good choice on the Rio though I’d love to see West leave Las Vegas.
reply to this comment