My voice is still strained and raspy from last night’s non-stop networking event sponsored by the Bay Area Affiliate Managers Coalition. The dinner to celebrate the sixth year anniversary of the group was a smashing success. And I’m not just saying that because Revenue was one of the sponsors along with PartnerCentric and Affiliate Summit.

The event was jam packed with great affiliate managers from around the Bay Area and some special attendees from far-flung exotic locations such as New Jersey (Brook Schaaf of Schaaf Consulting and the co-founder of Affiliate Dinner) and Chicago (Brian Littleton, president and CEO of affiliate network ShareASale).

Also in attendance was the newly relocated Beth Kirsch, who left LowerMyBills.com in Santa Monica to join Silicon Valley-based Riya as its director of marketing, and Brian Caldwell, formerly with Commission Junction, who is also about to join Riya.

It was a who’s who of affiliate marketing: Sean Crotty from Art.com, Lily Shen and Ali Croft from eBay, Candice Nobles from SnapFish, Chelsey Langan of HomeGain, Todd Taylor and Chris Petz of TaxBrain, and Randy Almond of Wal-Mart just to name a few.

I also had the pleasure of in introducing our soon-to-be new publisher to our former publisher, Chris Smith, who joined LinkShare in June. Both are amazing individuals that I feel honored to work along side. Our new publisher, Linda Holbrook, doesn’t start until the end of October, but eager beaver that she is; she couldn’t pass up an opportunity to meet so many great affiliate managers at one time.

I’ll be telling you more about Linda soon. Stay tuned. Plus, if you are planning on attending Ad:Tech in New York in November, Linda will also be at the show along with me and some other Revenue folks.

And of course, I want to again thank our gracious hosts Phillip Kidwell of eHealth.com and Michael Brucker of WebEx for all their hard work in pulling off this very fun gathering. I hope there will be more to come.

Let me know if you’ve been to any good industry events or New Jersey BBQs lately. lisap@revenuetoday.com