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The Team at Epoch would like to say a BIG CONGRATUALTIONS to Aly Drummond who has accepted a new position at AVN to oversee all marketing of the AVN brand as it relates to the online community.
You go girl!
Congratualtions Aly and nice move AVN!
Mr. Roberts knows a winner when he sees one.
You can read the AVN announcement here.
Let the accolades begin.
Good Stuff Aly, Congrats...Love ya Girl!!
Way to go Dah-Ling! Much success and happiness!
ALY ! Congrats on the new gig :high:
Congrats Ally!
congrats, my friend. i wish you the best, as always.
You are going to have a blast! Good move AVN!
Congrats Aly :thumbsup:
Regards,
Lee
You're the queen of the spin Aly! That's awesome news!
HUGE THANKS to you all!
Rand... you rock.
Now that I've infiltrated this fine establishment, it's my intention to make sure that all products, AVN/ Internext/ GayVN and so on, accurately reflect what YOU want! So hit me up and tell me your issues, gripes, concerns, suggestions and praise! I WANT to hear from you about all of this.... aly@avn.com
THANKS AGAIN!
:biker:
Aly..
Im going to change your old username to this new one for you ;)
Password will be the same as it is now :)
Regards,
Lee
Okay well as you asked ;)Quote:
Originally posted by Aly_AN
So hit me up and tell me your issues, gripes, concerns, suggestions and praise!
This being the first Internext Expo we are sponsoring as a company i have to say so far, im pretty pissed about how long it takes to get stuff done. That leaving out the fact that we had to spend an addition $3000 for a booth we had absolutely no intention of using just to be able to hold the Gay Webmaster Bash events.
But anyway i digress..
Takign the booth issue out of the equation, even something that should be as simple as booking a room to hold our events in was more difficult than performing brain surgery, with both hands being tied behind your back.
Having to speak to the catering department at the hotel to have them fax us over a form to fill in, which we have to fax to AVN, which AVN thn has to fax to the hotel then the hotel has to contact us.. bear in mind, this is even before we have been told how much anything is going to cost.
Now at least the hotel and AVN have spoken to each other to confirm we are sponsoring Internext, you would think it should be plain sailing right? if only i were so lucky.
We then have to wait 2+ weeks for someone at the Mandalay bay to even call us about what our funtions entail.. bear in mind, we have already sent them the info once by fax. Next it comes to sorting out the rooms for the 6 events..
I spoke to the woman in the Mandaly Bay catering department, told her what we are planning on doing [again] and it comes to finding out about room space, she tells me that it would take an hour or so to get the room allocations which im not to fussed about, i know there is a lot to plan amongst all of the other events happening in Vegas.
Anyway, a day later i get an email from the Mandalay Bay saying that we cant have any rooms because we arent sponsors of Internext.. [perhaps she missed the 3 faxes and the 2 phone calls from both myself and AVN telling them that we are?] anyway we clear the fact we are event sponsors up and get to booking the rooms but, wait for it, here is the kicker..
She needs to 'release' the rooms to us via Rose Tours [who we havent booked anything through and probably never will] so that another 4 days waiting for Rose Tours to get their shit together.
In the meantime, im waiting on catering menus so we can get the meal events ordered as well as the food for the after hours suites.
Anyway, we finally get the menu stuff sorted out for the 3 meals and all that is left is the 3 after hour suites, no big deal except that we still havent been given full costs for the after hour suites and all we had up until this afternoon for the cost of the 3 sponsored meals was th amount of our deposit that has to be paid by next Tuesday.
All in all, i can honestly say, right now im not to happy about how our first sponsorship of Internext went and i seriously doubt that we will be sponsoring Vegas in 2006.. its just to time consuming and nobody has their shit together.
Anyway as i said at the start of this post, you did ask and you know im usually quite mellow ;)
Regards,
Lee
Wow! What a blast from the past. I open up my e-mail and find a picture of this woman staring back at me. I know this woman, I think. I start tracing back through my memories ... sure enough, it's Aly Drummond. I used to know Aly over a decade ago when she lived in Toronto, in fact, she lived on the same street as I do now and she and her then-partner used to come into the video store where I worked. And her then-partner and I both wrote for the same newspaper.
Great to hear from you Aly.
About AVN. I have to say that I'm always disappointed that seminar schedules aren't posted well in advance of the show.
http://www.internext-expo.com/semina...riptions.shtml
There shouldn't be a "coming soon" a month before the conference. And it was the same for Florida. There was actually some discussion about whether MANcheck was going to go to Florida afterall and I remember having to try and track down seminar agenda to see if it was actually worthwhile. It's hard to sell your boss on a "coming soon."
I'm sorry to say that really got more info about the whole Vegas event from the Gay Webmasters Bash site.
Good luck in your new job.
Cheers
Michael
Congrats Aly! Couldn't have happened to a nicer lady. :angel:
Congratulations on the new job Aly! I'm sure you'll do great!
Thanks for the VERY GOOD feedback Michael and Lee. Apologies for not responding sooner but I had to run off to NYC for a few days.
I've addressed your issue as far as timing goes, Michael. Such a good point... I had similar concerns with getting access to seminar details and so on in the past when I was at Python and attempting to organize staff priorities for the show. This has already been improved and will be more accessible earlier in future. If any of you haven't done so already, check out the seminar schedule for this January's show at Internext. The whole format has changed... It's not the same old questions with the same old answers. Very refreshing!
Here's the basic schedule:
http://www.internext-expo.com/seminars/schedule.shtml
Here's a detailed PDF:
http://www.internext-expo.com/seminars/schedule.pdf
Lee... what a bureacratic nightmare. Thanks for letting me know about your troubles. I'm having a meeting with show management to see how to make this easier in future... it may require a petition to fire the entire management of the Mandalay Bay though... You'd think a city so devoted to events would be a little better at this than that! Hit me up personally and keep me posted. aly@avn.com
:biker:
Aly,
Thanks for the reply :)
On the topic of seminars.. same speakers / information as always i presume?
Regards,
Lee
To the contrary... Quite a departure from the norm actually! (FINALLY!) :biker:Quote:
Originally posted by Lee
Aly,
Thanks for the reply :)
On the topic of seminars.. same speakers / information as always i presume?
Regards,
Lee
Congrats Aly...
:)
you will still be also doing the ALyTV, won't you ??
~Bell
p.s. I won't get to go to Vegas Jan. 2006
but I'll catch you another time... at another show...
AVN is a great get, kiddo... Good Luck with everything...
Oh thats right.. one of the usualy companies are sponsoring anything this year.Quote:
Originally posted by Aly_AVN
To the contrary... Quite a departure from the norm actually! (FINALLY!) :biker:
When will the speaker bios be up on the site hon?
Regards,
Lee
Thanks so much, Bell... :)Quote:
Originally posted by Bell
Congrats Aly...
:)
you will still be also doing the ALyTV, won't you ??
~Bell
p.s. I won't get to go to Vegas Jan. 2006
but I'll catch you another time... at another show...
AVN is a great get, kiddo... Good Luck with everything...
AlyTV is taking a break for a few weeks because I want to rework it a little and it also doesn't fall on great days as far as the holidays go. It WILL be resuming in the new year though... I have to keep doing it as it's part of my evil plan for global domination.
:biker:
Quote:
Originally posted by Bell
Congrats Aly...
:)
you will still be also doing the ALyTV, won't you ??
~Bell
p.s. I won't get to go to Vegas Jan. 2006
but I'll catch you another time... at another show...
AVN is a great get, kiddo... Good Luck with everything...
that should have been -
"I won't get to go to Vegas - Jan. 2005
geez I nearly lost a year there... LOL
Hey Aly,
I'm very happy for you. AVN could not have hired a better person for the job. Big hugs and congrats.:kitten:
Thanks darling! :kitten:Quote:
Originally posted by Mamakity
Hey Aly,
I'm very happy for you. AVN could not have hired a better person for the job. Big hugs and congrats.:kitten:
awesome, congrats
cheers,
Luke