Hey Guys,
I’m not really busy the moment I arrived back into Santa Barbara and Havent had a chance to recap my recent travels…
I was in Las Vegas not attending the affiliate summit but I had some meetings and I really wanted to get a chance to meet my CX Digital Affiliate manager Debrani. I stayed at a ridiculous suite at the Venetian and had a great time. Although they gave me trouble when I was checking in (They wouldn’t accept my amex because I wasn’t 21, it took a few minutes to convince/talk to them) that was no where near the amount of trouble the Wynn gave me for my age. When I was walking with my friend Larby, and my CX Digital affiliate manager Debrani at the Wynn I was pretty thirsty so i walked up to a little cafe/bar and asked the bartender for a glass of water, He replied “Are You 21?” I replied “No” and he than told me “I can’t be in the casino alone etc.” He refused to give me water even after I told him I wasnt alone and was with Debrani who IS over 21 etc. They than carded Debrani for her to get me a glass of water, Vegas is pathetic in terms of age.
On Saturday Night i attended the Affiliate Dinner with Steve, One of the AffSpy guys. I went as “Paul Borque” (The Uberaffiliate) because he wasn’t in Vegas yet and I wasn’t cool enough to get invited etc. 
After that dinner me and my friend Larby hung out for a while and we just checked out vegas (As people under 21, it sucks).
Sunday was pretty sick since that was when I got to meet Debrani and when I got to go to the CX Digital Party At The Palms. I don’t know what I should blog about and what I Shouldn’t (I don’t want to get you guys in trouble) Lol BUT I will just sum it up in a few words: FUCKING AWESOME
I liked Vegas and had a pretty productive stay etc. Once I got back from Vegas I had two days to catch up on stuff and was than back on the road for SMX WEST.
I got into SMX west on Wednesday Night which was kind of weird since it was the first time I showed up for a conference right smack in the middle of it. It was pretty cool hanging out with a lot of Industry Leaders who I have met and chilled with at other conferences, I don’t see them to often ;). I also got to meet some people whom I have talked to in the past etc like Shoemoney and some people from various companies like Doubleclick etc. It was really funny when I was checking into the Hyatt Santa Clara (which is a piece of shit hotel by the way) I saw a few people from CX Digital walk by me which was totally ironic since I was 1. Wearing a CX shirt and 2. Had no clue that they were going to be at SMX.
While chilling in the bar of the hotel with a lot of people Neil Patel came up with this genius idea to actually go to Ihop for breakfast. After about 30 minutes of drunken laughs (I wasn’t drunk, sucks) we got up and hustled over to Ihop. A lot of fun shit went down but to sum it up I have to tell you guys what Jay (forgot his last name) did. This guy Jay was pretty hammered and ordered 12 eggs sunny side up. He ate them all with a whole bottle of Tobasco on top. He than had a bit of a run in with the cops lol but I left in my cab when the cops started being complete dicks.
Thursday Morning was kind of harsh waking up at like 9am since I ended up going to sleep at like 5 am and had to go speak. I was on the panel “Generation Google: A Talk With Todays Teens” and got to talk about how me, and other teens use search engines like google, yahoo, and msn. Although I wasn’t able to really talk about how I do Search Marketing/How I Promote To “Todays Teens” I enjoyed speaking on a panel and hope to do more :). If you want to read more about my panel you can check out The Live Blog Of My Panel
Well I’m going to go do another blog post on how I’m going to elite retreat BUT,
Later
-Harrison
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