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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.

Conferences

My Interview with Cart-Away

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Cart-Away

While walking around Blog World Expo I ran into a Cart-Away Supply MixKing. I thought to myself, “Why?” “Why is there a concrete mixer on the floor of Blog World Expo?” Well, I didn’t have to ponder too long because I walked over and talked to Bruce from Cart-Away Supply about what they were doing at Blog World Expo. Cart-Away has advertised with traditional media for years and wanted to experiment by coming to blog world expo and to see how far they could reach. Well, a concrete mixer on the floor of a blogging convention sure gets noticed.

I interviewed Bruce about why Cart-Away was at the show and here is that short interview.

When I got back to my hotel room to work on this post I read the literature on Cart-Away. Cart-Away Supply is The Concrete Rental and Landscape Store. They can help contractors and homeowners with many different equipment items and they also are looking to expand their reach as a franchise. There weren’t very many specifics on the franchise opportunity but if you are interested in franchising from Cart-Away you can call 1-888-MIX-KING (649-5464) or e-mailing [email protected].

As someone who has mixed concrete by hand for medium sized jobs for my Dad I can tell you that being able to mix up 1.75 Yard of concrete in a MixKing would have saved our backs years ago. I can see this business as a benefit to the small contractor and homeowner who isn’t looking for a giant concrete load delivered but rather just the right amount for the job they need to do. The Cart-Away MixKing looked like the right equipment for just such jobs.

I’m in no way in a position to start a franchise but I’d like to hear more about it especially since the economy is doing so poorly and housing market is going down I think more people will try and fix their existing homes and as the market rebounds and construction picks up again you would be pretty well positioned as a franchisee with Cart-Away.

If you are interested in how Cart-Away does with their little blogging experiment check out The Cart-Away Blog. Cart away offered nothing to the blogger’s of Blog World Expo except for the chance to aid in their experiment. I’m interested to see how they do.