Ad Tech 2008 Did you Go?

[ianternet]

Ad Tech was very exciting but in my nature of online marketing right now it did not seem to fit me. Affiliate Summit West proved to be more beneficial to me just because everyone was a blogger or an affiliate. Ad-Tech is I think geared towards the bigger businesses and startups. A lot of apps and services range from $1k to $40k a month. A lot of the services also looks for heavy volume, so not a lot of the booths really appealed to me nor did it proved to be in my nature, but a good thing to know.

Overall of San Francisco and Ad:Tech 2008 | Ian Fernando

First day it was exciting and exciting, you will see the video below on what I have experienced the first day. Over all it was exciting I got to meet up with Tracking202 CEO Wes Mahler and did not realize my hotel was next to his Mac Mansion (soon to be). So we had a night out and that night there were already pre parties for Ad:Tech, but I was tired from the flight so I didn’t bother with them. I just chilled and learned a lot from Wes that night.

[teomabanta]

Ahhh shoot, I forgot about that event... I was going to go but I forgot.

I did go to CES 2008 and CTIA 2008 in Las Vegas

CES was crazy, over 70,000 professionals attended and 10,000 for CTIA.

Well I'm not a professional. Not yet. Of all those 90,000 inside the convention center, I was the youngest. I'm not a professional with a company, so entrance fee was high. $200 for CES and $150 for CTIA. But as a young entrepreneur, I had to be creative. So I bought a $5 ID badge holder at Kinkos and made my own fake badge. I got stopped a couple of times, but I got away.