As some of you guys know, Pimps were out in force at the first ever Facebook Ads Summit.  I just wanted to make a quick post to thank the entire Facebook team for the hospitality they showed us while we were he on the left coast.  It was good to see everyone we had met before again, put faces with names of others we have been working with on different projects and meet the new team members.

There were two separate days of the Ads Summit.  The first day was actually at the Facebook office.  It was very interesting to see the new digs now that they are all together under one roof.  A few interesting points:  You do have to sign a NDA before you get to walk past the reception desks – there are two security guards there to make sure of it.  The in-house restaurant, Cafe X, is OTC (off the chain for some of you guys).  We ate both lunch and dinner there and both were superb.  Day 1 we realized that we were the only affiliate marketers there.  We represented for all of us though.  The agencies and in-house ad teams kept coming up and asking what we did/who we were with – I just replied “I slang dem berriez”.  The old guys typically walked away confused.

Day two we think there was at least one other affiliate team there.  They looked and acted more like us.  At Least they were in sneakers and tee shirts.  This was another very informative day that was held at Morton’s in San Fran.  We had a few break out sessions where they went over info that pertained to specific businesses.  Facebook had a few execs come in and talk about the 12-24 month plan for Facebook Ads and Facebook in general.  We ended the day by taking the Facebook Ads affiliate team to dinner, highlighted by the Manager of Online Sales Operations singing to us.

I have a ton of info to share and I will get that done once we are back home and I have enough time to digest it all.  As affiliates, you should take from this posts that we are a small part of their business.  Brands, agencies and offer owners do a bulk of their ad dollars.  At the same time they value us on an equal scale, you just have to work with them and not against them.

Also, as part of our Facebook swag they gave us, I was given a $50 Facebook Ads credit code.  I will be coming up with a way to give them away on the blog somehow.  I will figure out an interesting way to reward one of our readers with the code.    J.Cash

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