a4uExpo 101
I’m still recovering and while I’m still in a position of not being able to string sentences together. Here’s my own personal a4uExpo 101.
- Drinking until 5am
- Full English Breakfast served late (oops missed the opening)
- Smoothies with Cat
- Jame’s Little saying I should get to Barbados (those sales are already trickling in)
- Seeing the London scenery by night
- Sunshine.co.uk’s new WordPress travel site
- Free Towel from Zanox
- Existem raffle swimming goggles, chocolate, spoon, …
- Hero Grigoraki presenting Effective Voucher Code Implementation
- Sunshine.co.uk bag to put all freebies
- Sky HD bloody mary’s
- Joost de Valk‘s wealth of wordpress SEO plug-ins and useful urls
- Caboodle Design talking design
- Katie from Zanox discussing Kodak
- Webgain’s served Peroni
- So much fun
- Chris Frost on the Voucher Code panel
- Conversion Rate Experts on the art of persuasion
- Free Web cam from Zanox
- Smoothies with Jess
- Dozens more Facebook friends
- Staying in the hotel with the late bar
- Mark Russell protecting me from OMG (can’t remember)
- Discovering new opportunities
- Chris Kamara from Middlesbrough
- Blagging Hong Kong rugby trip (fingers crossed)
- Doug and his promotions
- Charity auction that nobody could hear
- The Pink Patch
- Jo from Stream:20 converting me to rugby
- Afternoon sushi
- Jackpotjoy’s Claire and Jasper. Always a pleasure
- All those people at 4am I upset
- Hannah from Existem for being Hannah
- Extreme SEO
- Shak and his Viagra story
- Arriving with 1 full bag and leaving with 3
- Doug’s workforce wearing Doug tshirts
- Kirsty’s Duncan not just being Kirsty’s Duncan
- New drinking partners
- Dan Morley and his new plans
- Vodka Luge
- Jo from Superbreak (won’t ignore you next time)
- Conference agenda with notepad at back
- Pens – can never have too many
- A4uExpo mugs
- Double bed for being there at the end
- 12 noon checkout
- Being bigger than last year
- Meeting my blog readers
- Getting excited when the person talking to me realises I’m ‘Befuddle’
- Vodka Luge with sambuca
- New friends
- Talking about Soccer Saturday with Matt Le Tissier
- Pirate hour
- Existem bean bag to sit on (but the one thing I didnt blag)
- Lammo for drunken chats
- The Zak and Graham double act
- New Exclusive codes
- Negative SEO – come on admit it who did it?
- Free bars
- Kirsty disappointed there was no sexual gossip
- Teresa for the Sky VIP room pass
- All the beautiful people who work in marketing
- People taking photos to remind me of the carnage
- Lunch bags with apples (too healthy for my liking)
- Kieron saying I didn’t need ContentNow
- New business contacts
- Joe Connor’s lodger Dan asking questions that weren’t answered
- The chip waitress who kept winking at me
- Kirsty’s prize winner Rich Harper offering me his voucher domain
- The Benny Hill style chase for chips
- Bryant Hussey for keeping his restraint
- Joe Connor’s Cantbarsed business card
- Sleep which was bliss whenever it happened
- Redcar’s Elaine and Dave
- People not present, were their ears burning?
- Clarke Duncan and his mobile plans
- Lee Bradshaw giving me advise on the ladies
- Sneaking out of the hotel bar at 2am on the second night
- Matthew Wood and Claire for great organising
- Laura pushing up the bidding price in the charity auction
- Those people who I chatted to a lot and I can’t recall your name
- Liane from Linkshare complimenting my watch
- Matt Bailey telling me he told a merchant not to work with me
- All those stands and people that I didn’t approach
- Kirsty McGubbin getting through the champagne before I clocked it
- Kevin Sutton upset that I’d not remembered him from a few weeks back
- Paul Wright going missing
- Twittering whilst twatted
- The London Eye at night
- Buy.ats Hayley who gets to the same events I do
- Meeting Fraser for the first time
- The grey man playing with his balls
- The Super Affiliate session which shows that we’ve all got room for improvement
- The people waving at us from the London bridges
- Kirsty borrowing Hannah’s camera
- Claire from Existem singing Sweet Caroline
- My site being hacked whilst I was in London
- Not remembering much really
- Have you heard about Promotions?
… Ok, I can’t even string a list together. This is taking longer than I thought. The rest will be added a little later whilst I now head off to get a smoothy or shandy …
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What a great time I had too Ray. Particularly enjoyed having a giggle with you at various different points of the event. And of course my Duncan has a personality of his own – I wouldn’t have married him otherwise!!
number 34??? I hope this isnt in order!
[...] With so many people blogging about how great the A4Uexpo was, it seems a little boring to follow the crowd. So i thought i would look at things from another point of view… [...]
At least you made the list Hannah!
Great post Ray, nice to spend some time with you again dewde.
[...] Befuddled Me? [...]
I can clock champagne at 500 paces me. Not that many other people were drinking it TBH so I thought “Right… I’m not going to let this go to waste. I’ll drink it before Ray arrives else I’ll get none!!”
And another thing. Apparently there was, in fact, someone having a bit of a Frisson in the toilets at the Fox.
I’m still unsure if this actually happened or if Hannah made it up just so I’d shut up about there being no naughty goss!!
I hope this isn’t in order as you had a smoothie with Cat before me!!!
That was some intense reading Ray!
You have forgotten a huge amount on here…
The pink pills dude and the discussion about the £4 shoes.
The fact we all had a mini bar in our rooms (bad idea)
The balloons in the sky bar (i never did steal one)
Turning up drunk and late on the first day (that was me not you) and being forced to be nice to people when i just wanted to die.
The discussion on bras…
I should stop now, im supposed to be working
hey up Ray i’ll forgive you… specially as I can’t remember speaking to you this time round ; ) Here’s to more of them eh?
[...] Befuddled me [...]
Cheers Ray
Good to chat again.
How come I did not get your photo???
Doug
Hannah, you and your £4 shoes – classic! If only I could remember that first carnage night. On that note I’ve forgotten about the bras too.
Jess, it’s not in any order of preference of female marketer or taste of smoothie. It was intense writing it, or rather having to think.
Doug, where were the bandanas? Or where was I at that point?? I wasn’t in the toilets having ‘a bit of Frisson’
Oh Yeah Hannah….
102. Ray Theakston studiously looking at the ceiling as myself and Hannah Swift had a conversation during which we revealed our bra sizes, because he didn’t want to be accused of being a perv!
He looked, no quarms there… He definitely looked!
I see that you attend a lot of affiliate marketing conferences – would you say this is worthwhile or with them being so close together did they have similar content?