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Last week I was in New York for Adtech and right now I’m in my hotel room in Las Vegas (Treasure Island) after the second day of Pubcon. I haven’t been able to enjoy New York or Las Vegas as one might usually do because i’ve been “under the weather” since the start of Adtech and still haven’t been able to shake whatever bug I have. Nonetheless, the conferences are suceeding like always in giving me so many new ideas that my head spins and I don’t know where to begin. One of the companies who seems to be getting a lot of pub at both these conferences is pay per post (Pay Per Post). I think the idea behind it is spectacular and will definitely be “buying some links” from these guys in the near future. I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s session titled Forums and Communties / Building and Optimization. Ryan McCoy and I began a NBA Basketball forum (NBA Basketball Forum) several years ago and have kept it going as a hobby site while doing our real internet marketing jobs on the side. The site has now grown to over 10,000 registered members and approx. 40,000 page views per day. However, even with the nice organic traffic and loyal return users we have had a very difficult time monetizing the site relative to it’s strong traffic. We are anxiously making plans to turn the site completely web 2.0 with all sorts of great new tools to keep it fresh and up to date and see if we can finally justify all the time we’ve put into it.