More people the penguin met in Boston

September 26th, 2008

Does it ever amaze you how many smiley people I continue to meet? I think sometimes it’s just because I am so darn cute. But really, if I stop for a second to get over myself, these are just down right happy people. I love humans, thank goodness they love penguins!

Now, this first woman is Amy (top left), one of the gurus behind the scenes of the conference. She is absolutely amazing! Always running in 5 directions to make sure everyone is doing what they need to do and helping and just go go going. She’s great! This next group photo (top right) is my absolute favorite photo from this event. I first met the man in the middle, Oz Sultan with Tacit Knowledge. I took a photo with hi and then he called his crew to join in the fun. Within a literal 1/2 second this pose was created… it was an awesome on-the-spot moment of cool. It was like watching a groovey commercial but I was in the middle.. loved it!

The 3 in one photo (bottom left) is a great crew I met after listening to Scott Polk, from Purplestream Marketing speak as part of a panel. This last smiley guy is Anik, a man I had heard of for well over a year, and finally had the chance to meet. Anik is the creator of Affiliate Classroom, a fantastic resource for affiliates of all levels.

I love causal introductions. Each of these people were chance meetings… being at the right place at the right time to cross paths, and I’m glad we did. First we have Bill from We-Care.com, he came up to me because he is a huge penguin enthusiast - hooray for penguin fans!

Then I met Kit from Sage Blossom Consulting (top right), Michael Buechele with 11 15 Media (bottom left), and Donna with Affiliate Karma (bottom right). I had the pleasure of eatting lunch with these great people - we had a pile of lovely conversations. Hopefully I will have the chance to connect with them again.

Turns our Kit and I live fairly close… well, within the same state anyway. Always nice to meet another Colorado local.

Affiliate marketing and internet marketing companies are an enormously wide spectrum of personalities. I love this combination of photos because its such a diverse group yet they all have theone fabulous thing in common… internet business (and me of course). First there is John Hayes from Zacks Vertical Reach (top left). We hung out at the bar after the events for a little bit. John sang a bit at a mixer earlier - the man can sing! Then there is our favorite SEO man, Wil Reynolds hanging out with Rebecca Madigan from Mad Again Media (top right). I didn’t get the chance to ask her, but I am going to go out on a limb and assume it’s mad again like crazy good, not grumpy Monday, kind of mad. Dispite her enthusiasm in this shot, she is quite the happy kind of gal.

Next we have Steve Schaffer of Vertive. He’s got the perfect pocket for me, I think I need to hang out with him a bit more!

Lastly for today, there is Heather Paulson, owner of Paulson Management Group (aka PMG). Currently she is in Colorado as well.. not too far from me at all. I need to take some time to go visit her. We didn’t get to spend too much time togehter.. me and my socializing while she was working hard, but I’m glad I was able to grab her for a minute for this fabulous kiss. Next time… there’s always next time.