Never have I seen so much Idol schwag in one place and folks were handing over a bundle of cashola for it. I searched the kiosks for the David Archleta earplugs, but none were to be found. That kid just irks me for some reason.

Aside from the lame Guitar Hero intermission, the show itself was good. Getting to watch Jason Castro sing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” was cool. And of course, every one of David Cook’s songs were winners, including my personal Fav, “Hello”.

So all in all, it was worth all the laughs from my friends, when I told them I was going to see the show.

Check out the pics below.

I don’t have a final total of what we raised because many of us sold buttons over the course of the 3 days and donations are still coming in. However, I think we will wind up around $1,500 or so! These donations will be divided up amongst the team members fund raising accounts, who staffed the table during the Meet Market.

I’d like to also thank all the folks who let me “persuade” them into purchasing more than one button and raffle ticket because “I didn’t have change”

The generosity of the Affiliate Marketing community has been overwhelming. We’re well on our way to our $45,000 goal. Once these donations are applied to our fundraising account, we’ll likely be close to $32,000!

That being said, we still have hurdle to jump in order to hit our target.

This Friday (August 22nd), our Team Shirts will be ordered. There is room for four additional sponsors and we’d love to add you! The cost to have your logo placed on our team’s shirts and on the AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com website is $1,000.

Donations can be made in any of your favorite walker’s names here: www.60-milewalk.com. We’ll be wearing the shirts during the event and will be taking lots of photos and videos that will be placed on the AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com site.

Lastly, as many of you know, when it comes to raising money for Breast Cancer Research, I’ll do just about anything for donations.

Thanks for everything!

The dinner guests in the back of the room that were unable to view the subtitles have requested that I post the video online, since either their Spanish was lousy (or maybe it was the CEO’s accent)

In any event, here it is. Hope you enjoy.

It’s easy and everyone’s doing it (or should be)!

Buy buttons online until 08/09/08, midnight
For $10.00 (plus shipping) you will receive an exclusive Affiliate Marketers Give Back button AND an entry into our fabulously fun raffle. Offer only valid through midnight August 10th 2008. No tangible raffle ticket will be issued for online purchases, your order number will be your raffle number.

You can also buy buttons in person 08/10/08, noon-6pm
If you are attending Affiliate Summit Boston, stop by table #13 at the meet market (Sunday, August 10th) to buy your button in person and receive your raffle ticket.

Prizes include:

• Ice Wine - 2004 Saw Mill Creek from GayWeddingGear.com
  Bin 88, Ice Wine, a Vidal from the Niagara Peninsula in Canada
• 1 hour of consulting from Shawn Collins Consulting
• One of a kind Sterling Silver Unisex Necklace from Tiffany Spaulding Designs, valued at $200.00
• FREE Checks for a year from 4checks.com
  Winner receives free checks from any of the brands featured on 4checks.com for one year, up to 6 boxes.
• An original hand made Pink Ribbon Penguin and $50 gift certificate from JGoode Designs
• A Build Your Business Package from GigglePrint.com
  Winner receives one order of business cards, letterhead w/ envelopes, postcards and an endorsement stamp.
  
• A Ribbon Of Hope Checks & Accessories Package
  Winner receives 2 boxes of checks, one set of address labels and one leather checkbook cover in our Ribbon of Hope design
• 1 hour of phone consulting $300/hr value from Paulson Management Group.
• One iPod Nano and an iTunes gift card from Lisa Riolo
• 1 Free full conference pass to Affiliate Summit Vegas 2009
• 1 Month ad placement from Revenews
• 25 cases of Jones Soda

Support our team. Support the Cause.
Buy YOUR Button today!

Good Luck!

Here are my pictures of the entire event and movies are on the way.

Thanks Connie for inviting me and I hope I get to go again next year!

Download FeedFront, Issue 2

The online version is whopper size, topping out at over 107mb. So be patient, it will load.

Why don’t you go grab yourself a cup of coffee or an ice cold beer. You deserve it.

Better yet… sign up to get a free copy of FeedFront sent to your door to read at your leisure.

Enjoy.

These are some of the topics we covered:

. Conference almost sold out.
. Blue Man Group Performance
. Cory Booker - Keynote and his latest interview in Esquire
. Affiliate Summit Staff T-Shirt Sponsorship
. Great Affiliate Road Rally
. Affiliate Summit Mentor Program
. Affiliate Summit Hospitality Lounge, Sponsored by Partner Fusion
. Meet Market and Merchant Mart Sold Out and only 3 Booths Left in Hall
. ShareASale’s “Under the Stars” Party
. WebmasterRadio.fm’s Affiliate Bash
. Red Sox are in town playing the Texas Rangers on Tuesday, Aug. 12th
. Online Domain Auction
. FeedFront Magazine - August/September edition articles featuring an exposé on Haiko de Poel, Jr.

The podcast runs about 30 minutes.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

The party was held in one of the Sky Villas on the top floors of the Fantasy Tower in the Palms Hotel. In keeping with custom, Brian Littleton of ShareASale.com, did it up again — upscale style — a tradition we could all get used to.

I’m glad that the pictures are finally available. It brought back some great memories!

Almost everyone knows that I’d do anything for my friend and business partner, Shawn Collins. He is the yang to my yin when it comes to our business relationship.

It is with those heartfelt feelings that I am begging the online marketing community to help me, help Shawn stop creating these goofy videos, like the one above.

I don’t know how it started and I’m really not sure how it got to this point. All I know is that it’s completely out of hand now and I’m calling on the help of everyone I know to make it stop.

Please help me, help Shawn. Post your prayers and pleas for him to stop either here or on Obama2.com

Friends don’t let friends make goofy videos.

Goal: $45,000.00
Achieved: $25,621.09

We have a ton of fun stuff planned during the Meet Market on Sunday, August 8th at Affiliate Summit Boston.

So come swing by the AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com table (My Lucky #13) and get in on the action!

Want to donate in my name now? Visit Missys60milewalk.com!