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I’ll be attending my sixth MarketingSherpa Email Summit in January. This will be their sixth annual summit.

Yes that means I have been to every single one, and it is indeed that good…errrrr I mean great!

Here are some highlights:

* New Location – Caesar’s Palace Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas vs Past Location of Miami. I do love Miami and will miss hanging with my bud, Brian McElroy, but Vegas is driving distance from Los Angeles and is home to Craftsteak, my favorite place to eat of all time.
* Peer-to-Peer Learning – There will be no vendor sales pitches from the stage, just successful marketers sharing proven results. I love this fact.
* Latest Trends – Learn the latest in social media, mobile and application marketing. I always

This past Monday night was the 2009 MarketingSherpa Email Summit (#emailsummit) gala at Bongos Cuban Cafe, but Brian McElroy persuaded me to go to Hooters instead. This was our last night to work on my copy for Better Email Deliverability Guaranteed, so we needed someplace open late and quick.

Watch the video below with some musings about the email summit and comedy alike.

Subscribe to my blog for an upcoming interview with Lyris, the email service provider Brian switched to from a low end autoresponder service.

ttys,
big jason
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I have attended all three MarketingSherpa Email Summits, the world’s biggest and baddest email marketing conference bar none. Will I be attending their fourth summit this March in Miami? Do bunnies like to mount? With no pitching products allowed from speakers and a $400 discount, I would be a big idiot not to attend.

Here I am in Chicago 2006 with Stefan Tornquist, head of research at MarketingSherpa.

This is Scott Cundill from Majestic Interactive in South Africa at the Summit in Miami 2007.

This is Jenni Edwards of Compendium BlogWare at the Summit in Miami 2008.

The Email Summit is going to cover some killer email marketing topics like the following:

* Using artificial intelligence to optimize