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I didn't want to be. Fast forward to today and the same exact thing is true for me being a marketer. I am one, always have been and always will be. This means that I accept this as it is, I am a marketer and a sales person. Over the past few days, I've helped a few people come up with new ideas for their businesses. Ideas that could and should revitalize their business. I do this all the time, but I always felt that other people were just lazy and didn't want to think about the ideas.

It was effortless for me to come up with these ideas to help them out. It is what I always do and have been doing. I guess it isn't easy to recognize that some of our talents or gifts are valuable to others. When I say "I am a marketer" I mean that from a DNA point of view. That is in my bones, I am always thinking about stuff that turns out to be marketing. I am not saying I am a good marketer, but I just know I am a marketer.

During Affiliate Summit West #ASW13 someone I admire and recognize as a leader mentioned to me that I should be a full-time marketer instead. Funny they should say that because I've been working on this since the summer. I've been realigning my vision and goals with my interests and natural gifts.

In fact a few years back when I was visiting with a good friend from my church days back in Highschool, he said jokingly as I approached: "Oh no, here comes Oscar what are you going to sell us today" -- and everyone chuckled. I replay that moment in my head all the time, that was one of those tiny pivotal points in one's life where something just clicks.

So I am a marketer. And with that, I officially announce that in line with my new rebranding of my site, I am a marketer and will be doing a lot of that to help my make money and build wealth section.

Remember, know thyself! -- Learn what and who you are. Understand why and what it means. Move forward full throttle, unrestricted.

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So yesterday was awesome. This is by far the most fun and activity packed conference I've been. I didn't really know where to go because there were so many things going on. After registration we headed out to the Meet Market and toured the floor. Lots of cool companies that are starting out and also some established players.

#ASW13 is a pretty cool conference and you must attend if you get an opportunity. It is the only conference I've been to where you find beer and wine in the exhibit floors. It is party all the time here.

Part of hanging out with John and friends included going to the Vegas Speedway to Exotics Racing. That's where you get to play with high performance cars like Ferraris, Lamborghinis,  Audi, Mercedes Benz and others. Unfortunately not everyone got to ride, I didn't drive, but I will definitely be back to try one of these beasts out. By the time we made it out there, my phone was pretty much dead and I only got a few pictures, but I should get some pictures from other people to show you soon.

After racing came the best part of last night. First we headed out to Bouchon at The Venetian and had an awesome dinner with the guys from Avangate. I have pictures of that over in Google +.

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Not only is this my first time at Affiliate Summit West, but I get to hang out with John Chow and meet his baller friends too. Tomorrow we're heading to the Las Vegas Speedway to race in Ferraris and stuff like that. An event put on by All Phase hosting and DK from the thinktank party I went over the summer. This should be fun.

If you are going to be at ASW, perhaps you can still get in to this cool event. I applied to race too but doubt I'll get in - More info on how to attend the racing event is right here http://www.johnchow.com/come-race-me-at-las-vegas-motor-speedway/.

I'm looking forward to meeting some of the big names in the affiliate industry. I've met tons of people last year during the summer. These people pretty much inspired me to shift my business model around a bit and over the past few months that's exactly what I've been doing.

In fact, my business partner and I are working on our very own product which will launch in the next month or two. So meeting people like Shoemoney and talk more to DK and other big names in the industry. I feel extremely lucky to be able to be here and hang out with them so I'll try to do this event justice and blog about it while I'm here and then give you a recap.

I'll be tweeting and checking in to a lot too if you want to follow me on Twitter or Foursquare. I'm also going to try to live blog, but not sure if that's going to work well. we'll see!

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