Having a Blast at the Affiliate Summit, Part I
July 11th, 2007 by 
Amit
I’m writing from my room at the Miami Intercontinental Hotel where the Affiliate Summit was held. My wife and I got a room upgrade. Our room overlooks the beautiful biscayne bay.
My wife and I got there Friday night, giving us two days to explore Miami. We had dinner with Doug and Vanessa (good friend/super affiliate and his wife), who had also arrived early, at the Indigo restaurant inside of the Intercontinental Hotel.
Wow! Its was some of the best Seafood Shilpi (my wife) and I had ever had. 
The next day we all went to the local zoo where we had a chance to feed macaws and see a ligar (a male lion crossed with a female tiger). Check it out…
Later that evening Tom (my business partner), Paul (his brother in-law), and Jeff (friend and super affiliate) arrived. We had dinner again at the indigo!
On Sunday we headed to the pre-conference AbestWeb/Shareasale Party in South Shore.
At the party Felix suggested that we go next door to the Evolution restaurant in the Ritz Carlton South Beach.
Now this restaurant was swanky with a capital ‘S’. Felix was actually concerned that they would kick us out since most of us were wearing T-shirts, shorts, and flip flops! I told Felix not to worry, if they threatened to kick us out, I would pull out my black card. 
If you want to succeed at affiliate marketing, it necessary to think and act outside of the box. Be bold. I challenge YOU to go to a high class restaurant with T-shirts, shorts, and flip flops.
We all had an incredible time at Evolution, not only was the food incredible, we were laughing and cutting up the whole time! Let’s just put it this way, the waiters were NOT laughing. LOL
You see a lot of people think affiliate marketing or being a super affiliate is just about driving a lot of sales or generating a lot of leads.
It’s not.
This business is about relationships. Most of the people in the photo above are a part of my personal mastermind group. Not only are they great friends, but I’ve learned a tremendous amount from them. It’s really an honor to be in the association of such great people.
I’ve made lots of new friends at this Affiliate Summit, and I look forward to learning from them and sharing my knowledge with them.
If you’ve never been to the Affiliate Summit, or any other affiliate marketing related conference, I STRONGLY encourage you to attend the next one. Start networking, make some new friends, start a mastermind with other affiliates like yourself.
Stay tuned for the next post, I’ll talk about what actually happened at the Affiliate Summit, my talk, some really awesome people I met, and what I learned.
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Hey Amit,
Great to see you posting again.
Getting a little R&R in keeps ‘the biz’ in perspective and it’s good to see that Shilpi and you have a good balance.
If you head to Singapore, I’ll show you one of the world’s kickbutt zoos, which has a pretty awesome “Night Safari” night tour!
Looking forward to more updates soon.
PS: You might want to use “tagging” to improve your blog visibility to Technorati and other blog indexing services.
I like Tag Warrior (http://www.neato.co.nz/ultimate-tag-warrior)
Although some use SimpleTags (http://www.broobles.com/scripts/simpletags/).
I’d use one or the other. They both might clash.
Hey Amit,
Great meeting you @ ASE! I’ve got a few pics from the Mansion that I wanted to email you. Would you mind sending me a msg to my email address (I can’t find your contact info here
At the affiliate summit.. lucky bugger - or should I say deservedly so, since your achievements would largely be due to passion and drive, rather than luck.
Enjoy the summit, I’m sure you talk was a huge success!
And when you get back and have a spare minute I would really appreciate it if you could answer me email *hint hint*
Steve
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the tagging tip.
We will implement that immediately.
Hey Amit,
Was awesome to meet you at Affiliate. I’m looking forward to talking with you a lot more in the future. Once again, great presentation!
Zac
Hi Al,
My email is amit at superaffiliatemindset.com
Amit, glad to finally meet up in person and also meet your wife.
Great job on your talk. I heard several people mention it as a highlight of the summit. Here’s to your continued success!
- Doug
It was an awesome time at the AS…I’m still savoring that Ritz-Carlton dinner.
Great job on the talk…without a doubt the best one at the Summit.
Jeff
Got to see your presentation very inspiring
Mastermind alliance at work.
Waiting to learn what you learned from the summit.
Vijay
Nice talk at the summit buddy
Inspiring as always…
BTW, did you get dougs photos?
Thanks for the suggestions Amit! We launched a Mastermind Group Resources Blog to give entrepreneurs strategies to get the most from their Mastermind Groups and I was pleased to see your post! If you are interested in being a guest blogger on our blog to discuss Mastermind Groups, just email me!
Keep up the great work!
Evan.