What A Shocker! I Can’t Thank You All Enough!
Posted in I won!, Me on 06/04/2009 10:56 pm by adminWow. It’s a whole two days later and I still haven’t quite realised what happened, or rather it just hasn’t sunk in yet! I cannot believe I won the award. I’m sitting here trying to write this blog post and I can’t quite put my feelings into words. I had convinced myself prior to the awards that someone else was going to win and I was so chuffed for that person as I really felt they deserved it, so to get more votes than them and the others in my category is truly astounding! *shakes head in utter disbelief*
I didn’t plan a thankyou/acceptance speach so here goes (insert Gwyneth Paltrow tear here);
I have to thank Mark and Bruce – for giving me the opportunity of a lifetime when they offered me my job and for putting up with me on a daily basis!
Chris Clarkson – for sending me to Barbados, without which I would never have stayed in this industry.
Joe Connor – for talking to me about the industry and persuading me it was full of decent people after all. See previous post on subject here.
Lee McCoy, Tom Quinn and Naomi Brown – for giving me life long ‘Team Fun’ friendships and for all the advice through the past year
Keith Bond and Martin Warn – for just being nice genuine guys and keeping me awake at 2am when struggling with html!
Karel Ellis-Gray and Red Barrington – for being my laughter providers through the day and being two of my closest mates
Darren Newmark – for just being Darren
Kirsty – for not being as scary as I thought when first meeting her, she was my idol (almost asked for her autograph) and for providing amusing spider stories.
Jason and Jude – Get a room, thanks for amusing me on twitter!
Julie H – ohh the stories! thanks for the rum! and keeping the champers cold in the bidet!
Jason and John - for being hilarious piss takers – yes, i ‘misplaced’ my car
All my clients – for just being good sports!
Jay – for being rubbish at your job so i got given it 
J Lil and the AF guys – for giving me drunken moments and letting me go back to Barbados
The Network Staff – for dealing with my frequent stupid questions
Frank and Gem – for being the nicest most loved up people i know
Matt Rand – for learning the trade with me, study buddies!
My friends and family – for bless their hearts trying to understand what I do for a living!
The Bristol lot - for letting me feel their baby bumps, sending me jokes and singing Wurzels songs with me and for playing fun fun fun when i collected my award
George – for breif yet insightful discussions on affy marketing and for being such a gentleman.
Max, Neil, Dom, Frostie, Kieron, Elaine, Dave, Dan (discount shopping – forgot your last name!) Dirk, Jesse, Neil M, James A, Zak and Graham, Clarke, Shane, Ray, Natty, Di, Ian, Mark and Julie Pearson, Mikeeeyyyy for being inspirational, role models, laughter provokers and good people. (I know I forgot people, but it’s late!)
Most of all to all of you who took the time to vote for me, I cannot thank you enough, it means so much that I was shaking on stage with tears in my eyes. I am humbled and honoured to receive an award like this. It means all the late nights, bags under my ears and moments of pulling my hair out were noticed! lol
Those of you who know me know that I am very shy really and very self critical, so I am still not convinced I should of won, but I truly thank you from the bottom of my heart, it means so much. Annnnnnnd, I get a new shiny thing for my desk and got to meet Jason Manford!!! whoop!
oh and Phil, coz he told me too
June 5th, 2009 at 12:14 am
I told you you would win! Well done, much deserved, luv u! J Lil xxx
June 5th, 2009 at 12:29 am
I’m so pleased to have been mentioned in dispatches as a positive influence on your decision to stick with affiliate marketing and I look forward to downing more than a few banks and rum and cokes with ya in Barbados to celebrate.
It’ll be weird because we’ve been there, done that and got the t-shirt (literally) except this time you’ll be the award winning affiliate manager and I’ll still be just another affiliate on yet another jolly. Owww, can I have your autograph? CONGRATULATIONS!
xJoe
June 5th, 2009 at 7:08 am
Awww what a lovley post !!! without a doubt you 100% deserved the award, and I can tell you that myself and Gem were VERY pleased to see it go to someone who deserved it so much – well done and keep up the good work
June 5th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Nice speech Gwyneth
Totally deserved massive congratulations to you again Hannah
June 5th, 2009 at 8:27 am
Well deserved Hannah and a great post! Really chuffed for you … go for the double next year
June 5th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Absolutely deserved award Hannah, I knew you’d be the winner form day one
Huge congratulations! Bring on Barbados celebrations.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Hun, I’m honoured that I got a mention in your thanks. I told you from the begining that award was so yours. Never before has anyone deserved it more than you. You’re a inspiration to old timers like myself (even though I like to think I’m young enough to still party all night). Jusr remember, I have lots of stories to keep you entertained, I’ll never run out – comes with age and lots of experience
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Love you loads. xx
June 5th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Congratulations Hannah!
You so deserved the award – you are one of the most approachable affiliate managers I know, it’s easy to talk to you on msn about the programmes you run and anything really.
Really pleased you stuck at it
June 5th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Glad I have been a source of amusement for you! Well done on the win again, like the others have already said – Knew you would win and rightly so.
Looking forward to the Barbados knees up – even if we are both skint as!
June 5th, 2009 at 11:44 am
Told you you would win
Ye of little faith in my predictive knowledge
WELL DONE!
June 5th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
OO I got a mention – woohoo!
Well done – much deserved and you are a great asset to the industry. Watch this space as you are very much a rising star!
Red x
June 5th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
WOW! I didn’t expect a response like this! I’m all embarrassed and stuff now!
Much love to you all! Without you all, my life would certainly be a little less ‘interesting’ or do i mean stressful! lol
June 5th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
You are so definitely an asset to the affiliate community – comes from joining an excellent gang;) – plus you’re a ‘right laff’ – which is much more important
June 5th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
@Elaine – even if I don’t drink much anymore? Only 4 drinks the whole afternoon/night – must be ill or something!
June 8th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Ha ha, I’m just crap at all my jobs, dude! Go you, well done.
June 9th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
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June 15th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Hannah you deserve the award and you are an asset to the company, even if I can seem picky at times…lol
It is a joy to work with you most of the time…lol. Keep up the hard work and you could win again next year.
I am pleased that you have learnt things from working for me and I hope you enjoy your work with us.
June 18th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Well done and well deserved. Will have to make a special celebration snake for this in Harbour Lights
Gul