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Thursday Afternoon/ Night was a charity dragon boat racing day with Tradedoubler. Which basically involves 10 people in a boat rowing, and someone at the front beating a drum.

Needless to say the powerhouse that were the Vikings reined victorious, the team including (i hope i havent missed anyone):

Rob “the power” Berrisford
Ennis “the adonis” Al-Saiegh
Lee “guns” Griffin
Siri “The Engine” Anderson
Wolfy “leading from the front” Light-Wilkinson
Jason “the beef cake” Norris
Daniel “the heckler” Richards
Claudia “Drummer Girl” Dimagile
Magnus and Dafydd the anchors at the back
George “The Capatin” Head
and Jason “the trator” Fuller

Everyone from drummer girl keeping us in line, to the two lads at the front setting the pace right through to the engine room in the mid section did a sterling job.

Was a great afternoon out, a great bonding experience, involving team work, heckling and some great sets of guns.

Over £10K was raised for the Anthony Nolan trust for leukemia.

Thanks Tradedoubler.

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I know I am late, and that this is barely a blog at the moment due to the absolute lack of new content but I would like to thank Matt and his cronies for the A4U awards.

A great night was had by all and I think it shows how far affiliate marketing has come as an industry that everyone was dressed in black tie rather than the traditional jeans and tshirt combo, or the more recent jacket jeans combo favored by the digital media agencies.

We started with a quick hour with dgm in the met bar, before another hour with TD and Sky on the 28^th Floor of the Hilton, and heading into for the obligatory Champaign reception.

Massive congratulations to all the winners, you all know who they are by now. I am gutted I missed the econversions video from Vegas, but I was at the bar. Though I have heard that JJJ didn’t even thank me, can’t be true surely.

Post the awards a few of us shot to the terminally bad Tiger Tiger, then into a casino. Eventually after looking for a 24 hour Chinese without success, 11 of us decided to cram into a lift made for 4 to raid someone’s minibar. I will leave the names of the selected 11 out of this as I don’t want to incriminate anyone, but let’s just say there were some highly influential members of the affiliate community and people who probably shouldn’t be drinking at 5:00 on a Friday morning.

After about 40 minutes stuck in somewhere between the basement and the ground floor, the fire brigade finally managed crowbar the door open and people made their way to the mini bar, via the stairs.

I thankfully, though unusually, knew my limits and stumbled home at about 6 am leaving the rest to it. Though I hear it all got very messy, with a member of agency staff vomiting on a member of their networks bed, and a prominent award winning affiliate manager going through the wire and going straight into the office the next morning.

Bring on the next one!

What am I wearing right now – Shorts, Flip Flops, and a jumper because it was getting a little chilly

P.s. Thanks to Cat for bullying me into updating this pathetic excuse for a blog.

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Like all the bloggers in the UK I am currently on holiday, I am taking a couple of hours off the tables and free booze to catch up on emails so I thought I would update the blog.

We flew into LA on Saturday and came across to Vegas yesterday for a few warm up nights out before fight night on Saturday.

All good fun so far, LA is a cool city. Full of beautiful and crazy people. For fans of the Hills

we stuck our heads into the Roosevelt for a few Sunday Drinks and had a night out in Area

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(not that i go to this sort of establishment obviously)

I was chatting to some mates this weekend about strip clubs and the things they do to take advantage of their drunk and horny customers.

In this line of work you tend to end up in lappys quite a bit. The industry is made up, in its bulk, by men, I know there are some very good ladies working in the industry, but the fact is, there are more men, meaning that social gatherings end up in these establishments some times.

I am not going to get into an argument about the rights and wrongs of peelers, just highlight how strippers and managers take advantage and how blokes tend to fall for it and how we can learn from these experiances.

1: Do business for the right reasons

Lets get this straight exotic dancers are in this for the money, they are not dancing for the fun of it and they do not “really like you”. Thinking you are in love with a stripper on a drunken night out is a very quick way to spend £300 on dances then go home alone.

2: Discuss payment terms before signing a Contract

This is a popular habbit of gentlemens establishments, charging you a 20% service change for drinks and dances paid for on a card. It doesn’t cost them any more to conduct business via credit card then ASDA so why do they add 20% on the top?

3: Consider your options before signing a contract.

Business shouldnt be done in the heat of the moment, you should always weigh up the risk reward of business transactions, consider what you are getting for your money and what you will gain from this transaction. By this i am talking about “shall i keep going?”.

Anyone got any to add?

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As promised below are some shots from the Pre Cap Party, I am sorry some of them are not the best images, I had to run screen grabs.

There are loads of pics on the Hollywood Affiliates website, but I picked out the ones of the people i know in the industry, plus the pretty girls obviously.

Me and young Mockford, worrying drop of the hand from Berrisford

Harry Hurst and Bradley Want From Tradedoubler

And last but not least J Lil, looking happy as Larry (why Larry the benchmark for happyness I will never know).

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