Heading To LA for the Affiliate Convention

I have spent the past couple days going hard trying to get loose ends tied up before I head out to LA in the morning for the Affiliate Convention. Looks to be some great sessions at the event even if they did let me on the agenda (although they made up for that error in judgement by putting Victor Pitts on, good save on their part).

I look to be spending a lot of time with Morgan Linton while in town as he offered to be my tour guide and host (sorry Hyatt, glad I did not pre-pay).  And it looks like this trip will end up much like my trip to West Palm Beach did when I hung with Chef Patrick as we have a couple other local domainers wanting to get together, one of them being fellow domain blogger Jason from DNPimping.com.

I use to speak at events in my "old industry" but this is my first speaking engagement at a convention in my "new industry". The topic is "New TLDs", and anyone who knows me knows that me fitting anything into 18 to 22 minutes can be a little interesting. Should be interesting. Actually though I am very excited about some of the other speakers on the agenda as I have been working on honing my affiliate skills. Even though my main focus is on building Localtek we still have many domains that we are not fully developing at this point and we know some would be very good with affiliate revenues but when doing that conversions are key and I want to get it right before we go hard at it. We are making big progress and this convention is right on time to take it to the level I want.

What I just realized though is this is the first flight I have been on since August when I hung out with the West Palm domainers for a couple days. That is a major difference compared to the schedule I had for the past 10 years. I am just 20 thousand miles or so shy of hitting 1 million miles on American Airlines and I have around 400 thousand miles total on other airlines combined. Now days it is more windshield time. I cannot say I miss the travel though....

Anyway, I have no idea how many blog posts will get out the next several days. I hope to have some good info coming from the convention though.