How To Convince A-Listers To Promote Your Product
One of the biggest advantages of building an authority blog in your niche is you start to get the attention of the big players in your industry.
This is a HUGE advantage – In fact it can be the difference between operating your business in obscurity and struggling to convince anyone to promote your product, to becoming a big player yourself when you have A-list joint venture partners promoting your work.
If you don’t have an authority blog there really is only one other surefire way to get on the radar of the guys and girls with the big email lists and the big blogs – get in their face at an event.
You see this photo?
That was taken at Rich Schefren’s Strategic Profits event last year in February. It features Rich on the left, me in the middle and Mike Filsaime on the right.
If you don’t know these two guys, it doesn’t matter, but what does matter is the size of their email lists and influence. Rich just won the StomperSMARTS affiliate competition, so he sold more of that course as an affiliate than any other and it’s safe to say his email list is way over 150,000 people now – probably over 250,000.
Mike is known for his viral marketing power and his goal to build the largest email list. I have no idea how large his list is now, but I suspect it’s over 500,000 subscribers, which is insane, and he’s constantly in the top 10 of affiliates for the Internet marketing niche.
The reason I mention these two guys is that thanks to attending an event I put my face in their sphere of attention. Since then we have met again and spoken over email and on calls. To put it simply, these two guys are now willing to promote a product of mine assuming it is quality. Just having Mike and Rich on board as affiliates is enough to launch a business and these are two of the most valuable relationships I have.
It all started after attending an event.
Rich’s Next Event In Disney World in February
If you currently operate in the Internet marketing, business or social media industries then pay attention to this. Rich and his Strategic Profits business are putting on their next event coming up in February. It’s called “New Beginnings” and it’s in Disney World!
If you want a chance to meet some of the best of the best and begin relationships with people who could become A-List partners for your next launch, this is an event worth attending. You can check out the full details at -
http://www.strategicprofits.com/live1/
There are various levels of price, but you can get a ticket for under $1,600 if you just want to attend the main event for 2 1/2 days, February 24-26 2008.
Here’s the spiel I just received via email…
Business Mastery Secrets Event Now $1 To Attend!
You may recall I wrote about an upcoming business event run by the Jay Abraham Asia Pacific group to be held in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. My original post is here: Business Mastery Secrets Seminar in Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne.
To encourage participation the organizers of the event have lowered the initial entry price to just $1. There is a catch of course – if you enjoy the event you have to pay the entry fee eventually. Here’s the explanation:
You’ve got SEVEN full days after the event to decide if it was worth your while to attend. If you don’t think it was, then just let us know and we’ll refund your $1.00. But if you loved every minute of it, then you have nothing more to do, and we’ll charge your card for the remaining amount – not the full ticket price of $496, or even $396, but $296 – that’s still a $200 saving off the full ticket price. Fair enough?
In other words, it’s try before you buy, so really if you have that weekend free you have no excuse not to attend.
Dates and Locations – Brisbane event details changed
Here are the dates for the three events. Note the Brisbane event has changed dates, which in my case is great because it means I can definitely go.
SYDNEY [Apr Sat 28 - Sun 29]
Venue: SMC Conference Centre
99 Goulburn Street
Sydney NSW 2000
MELBOURNE [May Sat 5 - Sun 6]
Venue: Melbourne Convention Centre
Corner Spencer & Flinders Streets
Melbourne VIC 3005
BRISBANE [May Sat 12 - Sun 13]
Venue: Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
South Bank
South Brisbane 4101
If you want to see who is speaking at the event, read all the details and sign up for just $1, click here:
Business Mastery Secrets Seminar in Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne
Will Swayne has resolved the affiliate issue with marketerschoice/1shoppingcart that I reported to you in this post earlier in the week. I’m not 100% happy with how they dealt with the problem, but I’m glad everything was fixed quickly in the end, so I have some of my confidence in 1shoppingcart restored.
Business Mastery Secrets
The program Will is promoting is called Business Mastery Secrets, hosted by Jay Abraham Asia Pacific and featuring a range of excellent presenters.
Here’s what the conference is about:
A 2-day Weekend Seminar That Lays Bare The 5 Keys To Outstanding Success In Business: Sales, Marketing, Cost Reduction, Tax Minimisation and Asset Protection
The Speakers:
- Dr Marc Dussault
- Richard Evans
- Ed Dale (he’s the guy I’d most like to meet and the reason I would attend this event – he’s an Aussie who has made millions with niche sites online and his Underachiever System is very well known in Internet marketing circles)
- Garry Kewish
- Peter Sun
- Dymphna Boholt
The price to attend this event is $497, but if you book as one of the first 200 people in your city it’s $197, and I’m pretty sure you can still get in at this price as I type this.
There’s a good chance I’ll head to the Brisbane event. I’m now well and truly a fan of conferences like this. It’s a lot of fun, you get to “escape” for a weekend with like minded people, network, make friends, potentially find joint venture partners and my favorite bit – chat and get to know the speakers on a personal level (I wouldn’t have direct email contact with Mark Joyner, Mike Filsaime and Rich Schefren if I didn’t attend conferences to get to know these guys).
Bear in mind this is not a pure Internet marketing seminar, it’s about business, so you will no doubt meet people running both online and offline businesses and the speakers will not all be focused on web marketing.
If you want to know what each of the speakers will be talking about and purchase your ticket you can do so here:
http://www.jayabrahamasiapacific.com.au/mastery_secrets/
If you attend the Brisbane event be sure to look out for my big mop of curly hair walking around and come up and say hello.
