Focus4 Seminar The event

Written on July 19, 2006 by William

 If you read my last post you realize my trip was not the greatest in the world, but we made it there and finally got some sleep.

  I woke up and headed over to the Mariot where the event was taking place and nervously entered to see what was awaiting me. Luckily when I made my way to the registration table Mr. Robert Puddy was there. I had never met him before but from interacting with him in NMF ( http://netmarketingforum.com ) I felt like I allready knew him.

 He warmly greeted me and introduced me to some of the other members from the forum that were there. This was great I had found my comfort zone and I felt like I was no longer out of place. I interact with these people everyday in the online world and it was nice to actually meet in person for the first time.

 After some chit chat the conference room opened and everyone started to enter. I was very excited to hear what all of the presenters had to say (and show). i was very impressed by the first speaker, Keith Wellman. This was the first time he did a presentation, in fact just a year earlier he was where I was and sitting at his first conference. What a year he had and his presentation outlined exactly how he did it.

  The day went by and the other presenters continued to impress me with their knowledge. I could hardly keep up, while taking notes ideas were popping up in my head like crazy. I am looking forward to recieving the DVDs from this event so I can sort out some of my notes.

The day of presentations ended and I went back to the hotel I was staying at. Huge Mistake! Again I repeat from my earlier post when you attend a seminar, stay at the seminar hotel.  I went back to the hotel room and spent some time with my wife and went to sleep.

 Meanwhile everyone else in attendance at the conference spent the evening having dinner and networking at the bar. I would have went back but it had taken me almost two hours to get the hotel I was staying at, which was only ten minutes away. I have learned that the streets in Seatlle are a little confusing.

  The second day of the seminar was equally impressive. The presentations were great but what was even better were the hot seats. This is where all of the presenters would take a look at one of the attendees sites. They went through every aspect of the site and pointed out what was great, what was not so great and what they would do if it were their site.

  The information I got from theses sessions was priceless and I can only imagine the impact it had on those whos sites were reviewed. This is where people like Mike Filsaime were giving away little tid bits of advice that could be used on any site to increase its worth in seconds.

 That evening I stuck around for a while after the presentation. I did not attepmt to make the trip back to the hotel I had allready missed out on one night. Several of us went out to diner where I learned even more. This is when I realized that this was the most important part of these seminars.

 Don’t get me wrong the presentations were great the information given out during them was pricless but gettinng the chance to sit down with some of the great minds in the industry, have a meal and a couple of drinks and realy get to know them some. Well that is the best part of it all. After dinner we all went back to the hotel for some more networking and I realized it was getting late so I went back to the hotel we were staying in.

 After ariving at the hotel my wife informed me that we had to leave early due to an unforeseen situation back at home so we got some sleep and headed home first thing in the morning. The ride back seemed to go much faster but that could have been becuase I slept for about six hours while tracy was driving or just becuase I had so many ideas flying around in my head that I wasn’t even paying attention to the drive.

 I missed out on a lot of opportunities while I was there by not “being” there. But I still walked away with a greater appreciation of net marketing, some great ideas and a check list of things to do before the next seminar.

 

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