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Another CyberNet goes down in history and this conference was one for the record books. Pool parties, Newbie bootcamps, Webmasters Against Child Pornography, and all night pool playing at the Sex.com booth are just a few of my fondest memories.BUSINESS THREADS

Another CyberNet goes down in history and this conference was one for the record books. Pool parties, Newbie bootcamps, Webmasters Against Child Pornography, and all night pool playing at the Sex.com booth are just a few of my fondest memories. I am sure this issue of the YNOT News will include updates and inside information on the CyberNet Expo held last week in Miami Beach, Florida. So this YNOT Wire will be dedicated to just a few of my personal recollections of the event.

Otto and I arrived early evening on Friday after a relatively quick plane flight. As you know I hate flying with a passion, but I was introduced to a little life-saver called Xanax this time. As soon as I sat down, I was out. Next thing you know, I’m at Miami Dade International Airport. We grabbed a limo back to the hotel feeling refreshed and ready to roll.

Dinner was on our minds as we tracked down our good friend Oz and headed down to South Beach for dinner. If you have never experienced South Beach, I highly recommend it. Beautiful people everywhere and a definite Latin excitement in the air. The sidewalks were packed with people, the street was laden with slow moving cruising vessels, and all the bars and restaurants were jumping with a fever. We settled down at a sidewalk table at the Boardwalk restaurant.

During a fantastic dinner, famous people were pulling up next to our table and getting their car handled by the valet. Anthony Mason, Lily Tomlin, and others were all stepping into the night. After dinner, Monte Cristo #2s were in order as we headed out to the party du jour.

The first party of the night was held at the Velvet Swing. It was a celebration in honor of Busty Belinda’s first year on the Internet. Belinda and her husband, Drew, were very gracious hosts. Everybody was in a great mood and there were models everywhere. Some were getting body painted, some were getting drunk, and some were getting laid. It was a swinger’s club after all. This was the first stop to catch up with old friends and acquaintances. I ran into Miss Chianti, Monet, BlondieBoobs, and quite a few more. Most of the webmasters were showing up here too, it was great seeing RawAlex and VegasLee for the first time since Las Vegas. Monet put me in the mood with a quadruple Crown Royal up. Then some lucky fellow started to get his birthday blow job by about eight beautiful models on the dance floor. Time to head back to the hotel for some fresh air and a pool party.

Once back at the hotel pool, I could tell things were going to get a bit crazy. We had already been kicked out of the hotel bar (Steve Sweet and I were doing bad, bad things). Then we went to the HerTurn.org hospitality suite for fun, and got kicked out of there too. Seems as though if you ever want to have a late night hospitality suite with a bunch of great looking women and proven orgasm crème, then don’t room right next door to the owner of the hotel.

Without even flinching though, Dan David, from HerTurn.org, grabbed all the booze, yelled “Pool Party” and it was on! The pool party turned into a rager with some excellent skinny dipping and bare expressions of obvious intoxication. Oh well, you only live once.

Saturday rolled around and we were up surprisingly early. Ready to seize the day! Registration was in order as we headed down to the conferences. The usual bustle was going on as vendors eagerly prepared their booths. Some of the models walking around looked amazingly refreshed as they prepared to hand out tons of flyers and brochures. Smiles were on everyone’s faces as the early anticipation of upcoming business deals were being mulled over in groggy heads. I love the first day of the shows because people are still somewhat alive and haven’t caught the convention crud yet.

I walked around all day, meeting people, checking out the booths, hanging with good friends, and generally spreading the YNOT name. Otto had his legal seminar at 3:00 and mine followed at 4:00. The traffic seminar I sat on was a very informative one, more so for the input that TrafficDude, Rainey, and Paul Nash gave out free of charge. I felt that most of the webmasters there were listening for tips on surfer traffic, not the webmaster traffic I was representing. I did have a couple great questions directed towards me though.

One Webmaster was adamant about looking at stats we guarantee in our Webmaster ads, or in any portal’s ads. I felt a bit as though he was trying to find out some dark secret about YNOTmasters. But I simply, and honestly told him the truth. YNOTmasters is one of the only Webmaster portals that show their daily Webmaster uniques right on the front page. We don’t just say something ridiculous like, “Over 3000 uniques per day” (which is bullshit), we give you the exact amount. We use a third party stats program, and we guarantee our stats. If you advertise with us, you also get the very same access to your campaign that we do to check your stats. And when we say you will get “X” amount of Webmaster impressions, we guarantee it! That seemed to put a smile on his face as Colin Roundtree, the moderator ended our seminar.

Saturday evening held two different hospitality suites. The first one was sponsored by the people at Insite Investments. They had it going on in a big room with complimentary beverages and DoKK spinning the tunes. This party quickly filled up as the evening progressed. Samantha was an incredible host and kept everyone moving along. I had a great conversation with Lee Noga and Taz from On the Ropes… good people.

After about an hour at the Insite Hospitality Suite, I headed over to the HerTurn.org party. Dan David had this party going on! There were samples of the HerTurn crème (this stuff works folks, take it from me!!) and t-shirts being handed out. Tom Sweet and I had a few shots of tequila and Monet kept rubbing her tight little butt up against me. I was having a blast. There was also to be a live HerTurn sex demonstration to start, but the hotel quickly made it move to a private suite. HerTurn.org was announcing its new affiliate program and people were definitely paying attention. The samples were being snagged up and smiles were popping up all over the place. As the party moved upstairs to the private suite, I headed out with the SEG group to the HardcoreMoney party at Solid Gold.

Have you ever met Steve Sweet? One of my best friends in this business, but just hanging with him makes me hungry. I don’t know why, might be all that metabolism moving through his massive body. As we headed to the party in the limo, with Tom, Steve’s beautiful girlfriend Jaime, and the crew from Dreamzotic, we had to stop for sushi. It was late at night, and just finding a sushi bar that was open that late would be a miracle. But there it was, and all you can eat place, about ½ hour ride from Miami. We had the limo driver stop and we promised to bring him back some sushi.

One word of advice to anyone… Never eat at an all you can eat drive through sushi bar. Yep, this sushi was horrible. It was so bad it was funny. We just kept ordering items to see how bad it could be. The Saki was the only thing that made it all bearable as we found ourselves laughing from the predicament we were in. We paid the tab and left, telling the limo driver we did him a favor by not bringing him anything.

We then headed to the strip club Solid Gold for the party. It was still relatively early for a late night party so it wasn’t that crowded yet. There were insane beautiful women all over the place. The bar was complimentary from HardcoreMoney.com. I found myself hanging in the VIP section with the YNOT crew and the SEG crew. Never too far from me were the guys from ConsumptionJunction looking to do more shots of tequila. This party kicked ass! DirtyJ and Ryan did one helluva job with it. Everyone was having a great time and nobody was being ignored by the lovely ladies. Just be careful though, none of those lap dances were free.

After a couple of hours Tom Sweet and I decided to head back to the hotel and see what the HerTurn.org people were cooking up for yet another late night pool party. Stay tuned, more next week, and more in my updates of YNOTBob.com (with pictures)!

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