Media Lyx

I was going to write a post where I talked about the sessions I attended and how some where good but most were bad.  But then it hit me, no one gives a shit about that stuff.  So instead I am going to write about my SES highlights, most of which contain lots of alcohol, so you know they are good.

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SES Day 1 Highlights

I’m counting Sunday the day before the conference as day one because thats when I had my first of many beers.  But clearly the highlight of the night was a comment I heard directed at Chris Winfield of 10e20.com. At the time I had never spoken with Chris but knew who he was because of a SEO contest Chris Hooley ran. So this is what I over heard:

Random guy: Hi, your Chris Winfield right…

Chris Winfield: Yea that’s me Nice to meet you…

(By the way Chris is a freaking nice guy and he will never forget your name after you tell him)

Random Guy:  yea I saw that you won that seo contest.

Chris stares blankly

Random guy:  Yea you won best hair in Chris Hooley’s contest… you beat out the girls

For the record I won “Best SEO you have never heard of”, I don’t know if that’s a good thing.

SES Day 2 Highlights

With the first night ending pretty early and Sujan Patel wasted after 3 virgin daiquiris, I woke up ready for day 2, at 11am.  Day two, or the first day of SES sessions or book sales pitches depending on which session you attended, was pretty uneventful until the internet marketers charity party.  First off this party was great, next to the google party easily one of the best.  They had the magic formula, make people happy about drinking and have an open bar.  This night had plenty of highlights but I’m going to stick with two…

Number1

Dan Rezmovits and myself got into a fun game of hitting the top of glass bottles so they would foam over.   Sounds frat boyish and stupid but after we sprayed any one in 20 feet radius of us, it got both annoying and hilarious.  Sorry to any one we got wet with beer.

Number 2

Neil Patel being the man that he is, won a set of Dewalt drill bits.  I walk up to Neil and ask him if he is exited about winning tools and Neil says:

I can’t fix shit what am I going to do with tools

Being the nice guy I am, I took them off his hands.

SES Day 3 Highlight

Day three can only have one highlight.  The Google “Glow in the dark party”.  I spent most of the night with Jon Heinl, Sujan Patel and the rest of the oversee.net guys.  This party was amazing, from free beer (always a plus) to huge dance floors. This entire party was to big and too off the wall to be explained. I dont want to end up telling you another “you had to been there” story… So instead look at this picture of Jon Heinl.

SES Day 4 Highlights

Day 4 contains the only session highlight I could think of and not because I learned anything but because Dave Naylor put the so called Seo Champion in his place.  The session was packed and with an all star panel and a title with the words ” black hat ” and ” white hat ” it is no surprise.

This so called seo champion pretty much tried to call Dave Naylor and Greg Boser hacks and spammers.  Thats like walking up to the beatles and telling them their music is shit.  You just don’t do it.  But then again that is probably why this guy was handing out cards made of construction paper.  But the point is this guy was DESTROYED by Dave the second he stood up and said his name.  I have never seen so many people happy to see some one being put in their place.

Besides utter humiliation there were several other highlights for the 4th and final day of parties (at least for me).  The guys over at webmaster radio gave us a party to be remembered.  They had everything from go go dancers ( one girl was answering her cell phone while dancing) to trapeze artist.  Now that’s a pretty kick ass party. I can’t mention that party with out thanking Dave Rohrer and Chris Winfield for all those drinks, I think I’m still sweating Amstel light.

After the bar closed we took a 60 dollar cab ride to in and out burger, but more importantly we ended up at the best of the web party.  That was just a flat out good time.  Everybody was having a great time and plenty of interesting people from all over the world of search were there from Shoe Money to Frank Watson.  We didn’t end up leaving till around 4:30am and there was still plenty of people there.  I wonder if Patrick Sexton ever went on that road trip he was talking about.

SES BEST

1. Google glow in the dark party
2. Dave Naylor telling of SEO champion
3. The internet marketers charity event
4. Best of the web after hours party
5. Web master radio partry
6. Last but not least this video of Sujan Patel

COMING SOON….