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Want to Go to Affiliate Summit West?

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Izea Insider

As an IZEA Insider I am privy to a bunch of great things, many of which I can give to my readers. I have been given a Silver Pass to Affiliate Summit West by IZEA, unfortunately I cannot go. I have no more vacation time for a long while. But I do know of three great bloggers who are going: Brett, Julie and Heather. They are also giving away Silver Passes to Affiliate Summit West.

I recently read on Shoemoney.com that Affiliate Summit West is one of the best places to make contacts and connections. Plus you would be in Las Vegas in Winter, and who doesn’t want to escape the snow, ice and rain to go someplace warm? Plus the tourism industry is hurting and that is to your advantage with flights and hotel rooms. You can totally do this whole trip on the cheap!

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About The Pass

The Affiliate Summit West Silver Pass gives you admission to the Affiliate Meet Market, Exhibit Hall, and the Affiliate Summit Social Network. The normal cost of the Silver Pass is $349 when ordered online, or $449 onsite.

Affiliate Summit West 2009 is taking place January 11-13, 2009 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, and you have to be 21 to attend.

How to Enter:

I’m going to give you two ways to enter (one on This Blog and one on my IZEA Inisders Blog http://imnotafamousblogger.com) and they are both very easy. 1st make sure you are following @benspark and @INAFB on Twitter.

1. Tweet this message “RT @benspark has a silver pass to Affiliate Summit West. He’s an IZEA insider and he has the goods. http://urlbrief.com/682b6e”
2. Then leave a comment with your Tweet url. Don’t know how to get your tweet URL?

And that’s it. There is a similar way to enter over on ImNotAFamousBlogger.com. Entering on each blog counts as an one entry for the ONE Pass that I have. So, in total, you can earn TWO entries into this contest, one for a tweet and comment here and one for a tweet and comment on ImNotAFamousBlogger.com.

# Last day to enter is Friday December 19th at 12:00pm EST.
# Random Drawing is Friday December 19th at 5:00pm EST.
# I’ll announce the winner of the Free Pass Next Friday the 19th at 5:30pm EST.
# Everyone that enters will be listed in a thank you post along with your url.

To increase your odds of winning a Silver Pass to Affiliate Summit West enter the contests that are going on at these blogs.

Heather of the TEDHeads crew has a ticket to give away.
Corrin of the Peanut Gallery Crew has a ticket to give away.
Julie of the IZEA Swarm Crew has a ticket to give away. She is also going to be at Affiliate Summit as the Blogging Lounge Mistress.
Lisa of the Spark-E Crew has a ticket to give away.
Steven Sanders of the IZEA Mafia Crew has a ticket to give away.
Brett of LiveWriterz Crew has a ticket to give away.

Photo-A-Day

At Red Robin – AKA Man Date

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At Red Robin - AKA Man-Date
Photo-A-Day #1341

Apparently when your wife goes out of town and you spend the night hanging out with your buddy it’s called a “man date” (See Below). Tonight I went and hung out with my buddy Mike and we went to Red Robin for dinner and then we went to the new showcase Cinemas at a Patriot Place. Dinner at Red Robin was really good, as usual. I had the bacon cheeseburger with blue cheese and Mike had a bacon cheeseburger as well. We took advantage of the delicious bottomless steak fries. I introduced him to the tasty flavor of fry sauce.

Now that is a tasty burger

We also checked out the showcase Cinemas at patriot Place. We saw the movie Transporter 3. It was an entertaining movie however there was plenty of suspension of disbelief. I suppose that’s what you go to the movies for anyway and so I really liked it. There are a couple of really hard to believe points as with any Transporter movie.

Some people have asked about what a Man Date is all about. Well, I did a little research and found a New York Times article about it. Here is the definition from that article.

Simply defined a man date is two heterosexual men socializing without the crutch of business or sports. It is two guys meeting for the kind of outing a straight man might reasonably arrange with a woman. Dining together across a table without the aid of a television is a man date; eating at a bar is not. Taking a walk in the park together is a man date; going for a jog is not. Attending the movie “Friday Night Lights” is a man date, but going to see the Jets play is definitely not.

And here is the rule of thumb on movies on a man date:

When attending a movie together – preferably with explosions or heavy special effects, never a romantic comedy – guys prefer to put a nice big seat between each other. (This only sounds like an episode of “Seinfeld.”)…

My contest is in full gear. I have quite a few bloggers out there who have been snooping around BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome! I mean, just today I got a whole batch more bloggers who uncovered items from BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome!that is okay however I repay their kindness by stumbling their posts. I also learned how to use Yahoo Buzz today. And of course there was post to twitter, Facebook, and del.icio.us. I’ve been using new site called TagFoot. TagFoot is a new site for social bookmarking is in beta right now I’m not sure if I have any invites, I’ll take a look. In the meantime check out these bloggers and what they found.

Heather of Beautiful British Columbia – Big Box of Awesome
Lisa of My Thoughts, Ideas and Ramblings – Big Box of Awesomeness
Loretta of Gadget Girl –Peeking into the Big Box of Awesome
Jennifer of The Dirty Shirt – Shh! Don’t tell Ben…
Scott of Average Dudes – Inside Scoop on BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome

Is there anything else out there, or rather in there? We shall see. Don’t forget to enter BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome! contest.