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I will rep your brand out at Affiliate Summit West 2013 (for charity)

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 10:19 AM PST

I am auctioning myself to wear your company’s shirt for 3 days during the Affiliate Summit West Event January 2013 in Las Vegas.

This is a special year. If the auction goes over $5,000, our T-Shirt charity auctions will have raised more than $65,000 !!!!!!!!

All of the proceeds go to Matt Talbots Kitchen which feeds the homeless, in the name of the Affiliate Marketers Give Back foundation which is a non profit group lead by Missy Ward (Affiliate Summit Co-Founder).

The winning bidder can pay us by Credit Card, Check, or Wire Transfer.

This is a HUGE oppournunity to get your company out to a very targeted audience.  I normally take between 50 and 100 pictures with people and this year we will be doing video again interviewing people in the expo hall.

Go here to see the auction now

Here is the history of my T-Shirt Auction for Charity and details:

At Affiliate Summit West 2009 I agreed to wear your companies logo EXCLUSIVELY at Affiliate Summit west and the auction ended up going for $10,000 !!!!.

The winning bidders Trainsignal, makers of computer training software, were in attendance. We gave the money on behalf of the Affiliate Marketers Give Back foundation to the National Breast cancer society.

Then at Affiliate Summit East 2009 I did the same auction again for the Lincoln City People’s Mission Homeless Shelter and it ended at $11,000.00. The winning bidder was the giant coupon site retailmenot.com

Once more a year ago at Affiliate Summit West 2010 I held an auction that raised $10,100 for the People’s City Mission again, the high bid coming from ClickBooth.

In 2011 Banner Ad Rockstar won the Auction for $5,000.00

2012 ASW Hostzilla Webhosting company for $5710

2012 Leadscon NYC BMI Elite – $5000

2012 Affiliate Summit West – Anthony Morrison – $5,000

Its really been awesome raising over $50,000 at Affiliate Summit events by wearing a companies t-shirt.

But now its 2012 and I want to crack that $65,000 for charity mark!!!!!!

This is a great chance to get your brand out there and also support a GREAT CAUSE!

You will receive a TON of exposure. And A LOT MORE than just a handsome model wearing your logo!

Video Exposure:

At Affiliate Summit this year we have gone through all the background checks, union agreements, and other hoops to be one of very few people allowed to take video inside of Affiliate Summit West. I already have about 15 companies booked to interview them about their services and also will be doing some general video.
I also am asked about 10-20 times to be video interviewed (nobody is supposed to shoot video without authorization people will do it outside of conference areas) and your shirt will be shown.
I have over 10,000 YouTube subscribers and am by far the most subscribed to person in this niche. All of the subscribers get alerted each time I upload a video. Each of my videos also has a chance of being syndicated by techcrunch/mashable or another large HUGE website and giving your company more exposure.
I will also put the video on our CDN which will be ShoeMoney branded and get more exposure on the blog here.

Photo Exposure:

My photo gallery is the most visited section of ShoeMoney.com other than the root domain. Check these stats out from the last year.

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You are not reading that wrong… over 2 million page views and almost 1.7 MILLION UNIQUE page views. That’s quite an amazing reach!

But besides the TONS of photos I will have in my own gallery, there will be loads of them on flickr and Facebook that people will tag and they’ll be seen by many.

So put your logo in front of TONS of people NOW!

Click here to bid!

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Francisco Dao is a loser @theman

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 05:27 AM PST

I have had this in my drafts folder for a bit. When I first wrote it I was really pissed. I can’t disagree with this topic more. I stopped going half cocked and letting it fly (for the most part) on the post button so its been in my drafts. I let it go for a bit but I wanted to post it because its a really important top.

So I ran across this article called “Networking is for Losers“. The article is short and to the point.

This paragraph pretty much sums it up:

The kind of people you want to meet aren't out at networking events, handing out business cards. Think about it. Have you ever seen Marc Andreessen at a Tweet-up or a monthly chamber of commerce mixer? Of course not. He doesn't have time to hang out with smankers and people trying to sell him things. Going to an open networking event is like going to a dating party for really unattractive people. There might be an occasional diamond in the rough, but usually it's just rough.

Are you fucking kidding me?

Side Note – I have met Mr. Networking is For Losers, Francisco Dao, at a networking event in San Francisco. He was working for Neil Patel at the time on some project that I believe he eventually got fired from. You could tell he thought he was big shit in the VC scene. Even though hes like 50 years old or something and has never done anything other than work or write for others.

If you have been reading my blog for about any length of time you know I can’t stand people that give advice or talk about things that they have NO ACTUAL EXPERIENCE DOING.

Guess what? I have met Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Cuban, Kevin Rose, Paris Hilton and etc etc at private parties. I even got Mark Cuban to show up at our Tweetup in Minneapolis. I even ran into Tim Ferris at a networking event in Omaha, Nebraska. Guess how much business I have done with them? DICK.

General Networking is where it is you dumbshit.

This is why you (Francisco) have never accomplished anything. You are trying to ride these guys nuts attending elite parties hoping they will remember you from all the ass kissing you do.

I like to be with regular people. What you call “unattractive people” or “smackers” are what I call my people. I like to hang with regular people. This is why at any event you will find me at the expo hall meeting and talking with people. Ask anyone who has ever met me. I don’t care if your selling hotdogs or balling out of control. Ive been on both ends and love to talk with others and what they are doing.

Here is from my experience – all of my major successes have come from free networking events. At 3am playing poker with internet marketers someone suggested I make AuctionAds. At a free lunch someone gave me the idea to start my own conference series. At NYC I ran into a guy randomly who suggested I make my own info product.

And here is the best one. Before anyone knew who I was or ShoeMoney.com existed… I was networking with some friends and a guy said to me – You know what you should start your own blog…

I’ll stick with the losers…

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