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I asked Tovio to write this up for us. It is a guest post on hotel options for ASW.
Also, to prepare for Vegas, please watch this video on how to give a lap dance.
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Now that I’ve recovered from PubCon, I’m looking forward to Affiliate Summit West, which takes place in Las Vegas January 16-19. Whenever I find out about a conference in Vegas the first thing I try to figure out is which hotel I’m going to stay at. ASW takes place at Rio, so I started my search based on that location for 4 nights stay starting January 16th. Unfortunately Rio is already sold out for Saturday, so that won’t be an option. Here are some options to consider:

Gold Coast and the Palms are close enough to the conference to walk. Gold Coast is the closest hotel and has some great rates – from $216 for the four nights, but it’s a pretty basic hotel and casino and is off the strip. Unless you have a really tight budget I wouldn’t recommend it. The Palms, which is across the street from the Gold Coast and Rio, is oriented toward a younger, hip party crowd and I found rates starting at $596 for the four nights.

If you want to stay at a really nice Strip hotel with short taxi rides (and who doesn’t), try Caesars Palace or Bellagio. These are both high-end hotels that will be a bit pricier for the four days – Bellagio starts at $706 and Caesars from $685. For more budget-friendly Strip options, I would go with Monte Carlo ($417), Luxor ($360), or Excalibur ($289). These are all comfortable hotels that are really good values.

The place I have decided to stay is ARIA. This high-end hotel’s grand opening will be on December 16th and it will feature not only luxury, but great technology in the rooms. I can’t wait to stay there. They have a “Winter Special” with rates from $786 for the four days, and offers a $75 resort credit. Vegas offers some great deals on hotels and you’re sure to have fun no matter where you stay.

Toivo Lainevool – VegasHotelSpecial.com

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Tovio is not sponsoring Purpose Inc for Affiliate Summit, this is simply a post of info. None of these hotels gave me a dam cent for this either!

First off, you guys are fricken rock stars with the donations for the poker tournament.

Over the past 48 hours I was sent over $46,000 worth of prizes for the Affiliate Summit West / Purpose Inc. poker tournament.

No kidding, $46k. LOL

I know I owe you a lot of photos, and a lot of video, from thinktank, and Pubcon. I have literally about 1000 unpublished photos, and some funny as video of me fighting Robert Drysdale (6X world Jiu Jitsu Champion), and making a girl disapear, cut in half, levitate a table etc.

I blew up the server, and overloaded it with big files. We are currently figuring out the best hosting company to use. We are currently looking at IP House, who Shoemoney uses, and loves, and will make a decision this week.

Then I expect a week or so to get it all grooved in, and then expect massive numbers of photos of your favorite events showing up.

Danny D’Michelle and Neil Greer have kicked in some seed money for me to get my Purpose Inc. thing on in Vegas during ASW10, but I will need some more cash sponsors if you guys want me to pull something truly amazing off. Otherwise Danny, Neil and myself will just sip Louis XII at Lavo watching the world go by!

I am still getting the ASW thing down like I get Pubcon, but last year was off the hook.

Full disclosure? Everyone is giving me (or at least the poker tournament for the National Breast Cancer Foundation) everything!

So stay tuned for stunning photos, with hot chicks, vegas, sports, surf, and video of me making a jack ass out of myself. I also have an idea I am working on where I will need many of your help, so stay tuned for that too!

If you want to be a voulunteer and help out with the poker tournament, I am going to need people to hand stuff out, keep things organized etc. You will need to help for about 4 hours or so, and the only pay you will get is me yelling at you to do better work. Just e-mail me if you want to help.

And for god sakes play, the prizes are unbelievable. You may win something you can’t use, and can ebay it to someone who can.

A little Vegas? Bring it on!

So many people have been doing so many nice things for me lately that it seems all I have time to blog about are thankyou’s!

If you read this and contact me immediately, you may still be able to get in on the donations.

I sent out an e-mail yesterday to my core group and a bunch of people kicked in bigtime.

Here is the deal, Missy Ward was talking to Shoemoney about a fund raiser for the National Breast Cancer Foundation during Affiliate Summit West. Jeremy told Missy about my legendary poker tournaments.

Missy contacted me and I have been her assistant on this the last month getting it set up. I think she is just using me as eye candy!

None of this is technically official, but I am o.k. talking about it now to try to squeeze a few more prizes out of you! LOL

We just found out that if we want to have prizes, we basically need to give the list of prizes to the RIO, like tonight! but I bet I can sneak a few more in if we are fast!

ALL of the money in the buy in is going to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, except for the cut the Rio is taking to run the tourney. By the way the awesome guy we have been working with, Jack Eifel, who runs the poker room at the Rio, also runs the World Series of Poker! A seriously cool contact!

It is my job to drum up some bad ass prizes for the winners, to make the pot sweet.

The following is the list of prizes people kicked in with zero notice!

By the way, I am also taking sponsors for my usual fun stuff in Vegas! Contact me if you want in. I am working on something that will as usual be legendary! We already got a handful of those in support of fun for all of us who have stepped up (Thank you Danny and Neil!)

Here is the list of prizes we have so far for the poker tournament. If you want to be on this list, e-mail me immediately!!! at dk (at) purposeinc.com

I want a clear description for each of these. If I have not explained it, please fire me an explanation, and a link to the best page!

SEO Moz – PRO Annual membership $799

Shop7.com gave us $100 gift certificate!

Another $100 gift certificate for handmade gifts!

Loxly gallery kicks in a $200 gift certificate for posters of lovely art.

A $200 gift certificate for butterfly art!

Neil Patel is kicking in a Crazy Egg subscription for stunning visual analytics.

Neil is also kicking in an account for Kissmetrics analytics which will be released soon and we are all excited to see!

Dan Martell’s social media company , flow town, which takes your e-mail list, and lets you find out all kind of demographic information about them, as well as where they play in the social media space. Dan is kicking in $1300 worth of their service.

This is one of my favorites, Aaron Chronister, The Mad Hat, creator of the bacon explosion, is kicking in 2 full bacon explosions, packed in a cooler with dry ice and mailed to you. Personally my handfull of bacon explosion, on the way out to go surfing was my highlight moment of thinktank as I chomped!

Mr Web Guru, Robert Wright, a brilliant SEO, is donating 1 hour of SEO consulting services which is normally $600.

One of my absolute favorite guys in our industry, Jeremy Hermanns is giving an Executive Membership to his SEO intelligence, which he charges $469. I have used this and it really picks your site apart SEO wise, and gives great insight!

Neil Greer of Impact Engine is throwing in THREE annual subscriptions to his Impact Engine Platform. His charge for this is normally $3600 each per year! The Impact Engine banner advertising platform combines a simple, yet powerful display ad builder and ad analytics tool, a suite of self service display ad retailing capabilities and an ad syndication network for creative professionals. Together, these deliver a massive catalyst to the online display advertising marketplace. We call it, Display Advertising Optimized.

Also, for those who understand and need it, Impact Engine is kicking in 5,000,000 3rd Party Rich Media ad impression run for any rich media display ad campaign (the advertiser has to already have bought the ad impressions and he will serve the display media).

Danny DeMichele  at Evisibillity is willing to give us $1000 of their SEO, consulting, or social media work! Danny is a real genius, and a damn fine surfer!

Liz over at Giganews is throwing down a 1 year Diamond Service Subscription for their Usenet Newsgroup services!

Andrew Pincock of Lotus Jump SEO software is giving a 1 year Pro account subscription worth $588, to one of the winners!

Brian La France, a Purpose Inc fan and supporter from way, way back in the early days, is going to roll up his sleeves and get in their one on one with you and doing 2 hours of SEO consulting. This would normally be $1,000. Brian is a guy who I would trust with a million dollars in cash, just a smart, fine, hard working SEO.

Ariel Ozick is willing to spend 2 hours with one of the winners doing e-commerce link building consulting.

Another one of my long time supporters, who literally puts their money where our mouths are, Chipotle, is giving us 100 certificates, each one of them good for a burrito which can feed a small family!

The guys at Custom Poker Tables have also stepped up again with a very cool poker table for the winner! More to come about this later!

Gyuatae Park, is giving out 5 one-month subscriptions to my Internet marketing case study program, Winners Circle.

Matt McGowan who runs the popular Search Engine Strategies conference just agreed to two passes for any SES event in 2010, which are worth over $1,000 each!

Plus there are a few more HUGE prizes we will add on in a bit!

Again thanks to Danny D’Michelle and Neil Greer who both have kicked in to get the Purpose Inc moving party moving!

I am going to work on some fun ideas that will need some more funding. I promise if you want to kick on these events, they will be legendary

Also thanks to Missy for throwing a kick ass event ASW, and also for letting me into her lovely world (even though I know I am just being asked to be around because I am eye candy!)

If you want to be on the above list ping me immediately with what you want to donate for the poker tournament, or if you want to kick in some cash for the dk events at ASW, let me know what you want to do! (dk (@) purposeinc.com

I have been so busy living, that I have barely had a chance to write.

Vegas was 4 hours of sleep a night, playing poker with Andy Liu till 5 a.m. at the Wynn, interview by Shoemoney, catching up with Carrot Top in the restroom, making a girl disappear on stage, Randy Couture finally winning again!, fighting Robert Drysdale on stage at Pubcon, my staff just killing it again (GO JENNY! GO FAJAR! GO ROSEANNA (EVEN THOUGH YOU STAYED HOME)), GO SEASIDE CHIROPRACTIC, GO PURPOSEINC!, going up on stage to speak on internal linking with Todd Mailicoat, Aaron Wahl, and Dixon Jones, and having Aaron Wahl not show up! (Actually worked out cool, because I had to step up with Aaron gone and Aaron is still my SEO hero!), watching the drama unfold on Shoe’s blog, my server getting full just as I was about to publish like 100 photos, hanging at X/S with Seattle’s tech entrepreneur’s, and Andy Liu’s way cool friends, with their posse of super hot friends, playing poker with my wife in the poker room while Will Farrell was playing a few tables over, a girl storming out of the poker room yelling at Neil about showing them $200, and of course Neil showing how to give a lap dance! and it went on, and on, and on…

Felt like one of those Vegas movies, except this time it was for real.

More posts and pics to follow.

Each and every one of you who talked to me, or came to one of the events, or watched me speak,

I LOVE YOU!

I just had so much fun, and can not thank each and every one of you for the massive support and fun.

Linkworth just pulled out the stops, and in the last second chipped in a big roll of bills for the poker room party.

I ran into Matt and Ron from the Linkworth crew in the exhibition hall, and after 4 minutes of catching up, they asked how they could help.

Linkworth sells links.

I asked them if they wanted to chip in X number of G’s and just a casual, sure, no problem, they were in.

There was no contract, no negotiation, just some great guys wanting to help us all have a better poker tournament, and supporting Purpose Inc. with our activities. Love you guys and thank you!

In a week online where a lot is being said about trustworthiness and honesty, Ron at LinkWorth told me that he would kick in a big contribution to make our Poker Tournament better, and sure enough by the time I got home a check was waiting for the sponsorship. It was once told to me that if you want to gain someones trust it is as simple as saying you are going to do something, and then doing it. Well Ron did that

Thanks again to all the sponsors, guests, fighters, celebrities, hot chicks, smart chicks, staff, dealers, managers, Brett Tabke, magicians, and my wife! who made all of this possible.

P.S. Latoya Jackson if you see this, I am so sorry I did not offer you my condolences about Michael when I saw you, I was just being too star struck at the moment. I loved Michael and I grew up with Tito living just up the street from me. So love and kisses to Michael, and I am so sorry about what happened.

Everyone is now welcome to sign up for the poker tournament if you can get a seat.

The blog requirement is now removed for new sign ups.

Go here to sign up! Sign up for Poker Tourney – Guest – or Fight Club
Now room open for players, guests at poker tourney – free drinks from 8:00 pm to 2:00 am

fight club with Robert Drysdale 6X world champ in Brazillian Jiu Jitsu also open for more registration.

Full information here, but no longer need to blog to get in.

Follow these steps to get in before it sells out as a player or guest. Both get free drinks on Nov. 12th  from 8:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. Mirage hotel.

Here is sign up but read blog first! or you may lose your seat.

1. BE INVOLVED IN THE INTERNET BUSINESS INDUSTRY, OR A PUBCON ATTENDEE.

Requirements, 21 or older, either a Pubcon attendee or involved with Internet business stuff. If you are a total NOBODY, don’t know anyone, junior webmaster, coming to your first Pubcon, this tourney is especially for you!! (All Mirage rules and laws apply and supersede my rules ).

2. PICK A CHARITY YOU LIKE

It can be totally your own pick, any charity at all.

Here are some recommended ones if you can’t think of one.

Missy Ward (boob master) and I will be raising money for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Breast cancer sucks. My friend Chris Parham, doctorate in engineering, M.D., and getting his radiology degree and some of his buds invented a way to take mamograms (boob x-ray) with something like one onethousandth of the radiation. This new method of doing mammograms is way safer than the old way, (even though the old way is still a good idea), gets better pictures of cancer when it is smaller and starting, and will save probably thousands of lives per year. With early detection, and proper surgical techniques, breast cancer can be caught and cut off at the pass before it kills. Study up here how to do a self breast cancer exam, and hey! Guys can learn too! ?????

Two of my favorite charities are:

Criminon that gets into the worst prisons in the world, and works to help prisoners get off drugs, change their viewpoint on crime, be productive, and help others. The success stories speak for themselves.

Here is another one that really hits home with me. With the white man’s exploitation of africa, (I’m kinda white and brown at the same time and the fact that man is originally is probably from Africa anyways, I think we still should help out there till they are up to speed with the rest of the world.  Samburuland is an area with gentle, lovely people, who get hit pretty hard by droughts. Also the elephants walking the same migratory trails as the people could use a drink now and then as well. Wherever The Need, who I have checked out pretty well, are raising money for this way bitchen project. Dig some big fricken holes along the path of the river, that fill up when it rains, and provide water during the dry season. This happens naturally already, but they are just kicking it up a notch. This will help the nomadic people and large game at the same time.

Or use any charity you like for this!!!

My note on charity. I am all about the teach the guy to fish thing. My goal in any charity is to help others to help themselves. That is why when there is a company like Azoogle, We Build Pages, Train Signal, or even Shoemoney himself, I will do a ton to help them because they help so many other people. Helping the strong who give to others is a very high leverage opportunity with high ROI

3. WRITE A BLOG ABOUT THE CHARITY

Write about the charity. If you don’t have one, go set one up at wordpress or blogspot. Write whatever you like. Draw a little attention to something, that someone is doing in the world that you dig and makes the world better! John Chow has drawn attention to Africa. Jim Boykin, who sponsors the crap out of the Purpose Inc pubcon events, poker and otherwise, EVERY SINGLE YEAR! also supports lots of other charity events, here is one of his blogs on one of the charity fundraisers for Ronald Mac Donald house. Some of the heavy hitters have even gone so hard as to create their own bad ass organization to raise money for good causes on an ongoing basis, including Graywolf who consistently promotes other good charities like this fundraising party sponsored by Best of the Web. If you check Sugar Rae’s site,  you will find she promotes her charities at the bottom right of every page! Lauren Vaccarello is always involved in some way in virtually every internet marketing charity event you will come across.  In fact it was her who carried the money bag while me and Dave Snyder acted as the muscle. And then there is Marcus, who has taken helping through charity to a whole nother level, not just donating money, but rolling up  his sleeves, and his machete when needed!

4. PUT ONE OF THE POKER TOURNAMENT GRAPHICS IN THE POST

Pick any one of these, any size. If you understand capitalism, then put one with the sponsors on it. If you are a total socialist, or just like the look better, then use one without sponsors on it. Here are a whole bunch of sizes available for you!

5. EITHER PING BACK TO THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW (NOT REQUIRED) OR LEAVE A COMMENT BELOW LINKING TO YOUR POST.

Obviously I looooove links! On the other hand, links are not required. Just leave a comment below so I know that you wrote your post on a charity. If you link to this page I will allow the ping back to show up and that counts. If you register, and you are not listed below, your registration may be reversed. Once all spots are taken, there are no more. Unless you’re name is Alex and you founded one of the largest Affiliate companies that rhymes with Google and I will allow you in.

6. GO REGISTER EITHER AS A PLAYER OR A POKER PARTY GUEST AT THE TOURNAMENT

Click here to register as either a player or a guest. Players need to pay the buy in fee to get in. Guests are just that, guests. You can also pay and register for the fight club training with the 6X world champ in Brazillian Jiu Jitsu if there is space.  All the other events are open to everyone with no sign up. Once the tournament fills up, you can register for free as an alternate. We will go by the alternate list, quickly reading it off that night to fill the seats. If you are not there and waiting when your name is called, you will not be playing. If you pay and don’t show, no refunds.

7. Show up at the Mirage Poker room at 7:30 November 12th

the night of the tournament to check in. Those not checked in by 7:45 will lose their seat to an alternate on the list. This is a real poker tournament, the real deal. First place will be over $4k, plus a custom poker table by Custom Poker Tables.com, plus a bunch of free Chipotle certificates, plus other stuff. In the prize pool will also be a chocolate fountain for first out, a couple nights free room at the Mirage. If you have something of value you want to donate, hit me up! We will probably pay down to 10th place.

FULL DISCLOSURE

Only read if you are bored.

No refunds under any circumstance.

Purpose Inc. events at pubcon are sponsored by the bad ass sponsors listed above. When it all shakes out Purpose Inc. either lose money or make a profit on the whole thing depending on the year. The sponsorship money for the poker tournament, only covers poker tournament expenses, and no profit is made. The sponsorship money for the other events may or may not make a profit! LOL This year due to administrative snags the tournament is not a charity tournament. All money that goes to the buy in from the players goes to cover the pot, the Mirage’s expenses, and maybe a little left over for t-shirts but probably not.