John Hasson

Wow, quite a day. Spent several hours at the Meet Market (where you stop by everyone’s desk to say hi and get to know people)–this is different from the booths and so on that all the exhibitors will have tomorrow. I met a ton of people there, traded cards with everyone. I had a few meetings already scheduled through contacts I made with the affiliate summit confab networking thingy.

The ShareASale party was a blast. I meet a lot of the “famous” guys in the industry. I’ll post daily pics for a while when I can. But right now, I am finally tired, and am going to crash.

Today was essentially running around saying hi to people I don’t know and finding out what they do and just trying to be a nice guy. It was the first time I have ever had to go and network at an event. Usually in the past I was just the tech guy and others were the networkers. It was a first for me and I completely enjoyed it.

My guide to networking (at a networking event–this won’t work at, say the movies):
1) Find someone who isn’t talking to someone else (they will usually be standing around looking– sometimes they are looking for a friend, other times they are just lonely)
2) Say Hi, I am John (use your real name, duh) and shake their hand.
3) Ask them what they do.
4) Care what they do, and just chat with them about it. (If you don’t care it is obvious– you can’t fake caring about people)
5) Ask them for their card, trade cards if it is appropriate.

Where else can I talk about subjects such as Snow in Minnesota, whether a guy with my same name looks like me (our noses are identical), Why the US and Iran have issues with each other, the finer points of industrial printer drivers, ways to drive PPC traffic, European affiliate marketing, video chat and holy cow.. so much other cool stuff I am probably leaving stuff out. Anyways it was fun, and much thanks to shareasale and everyone who helped in hosting it.

Tags: Affiliate Summit 2008 //