My Weekend In San Diego...

This weekend I attended a marketing seminar in San Diego.  I rarely go to seminars...I usually just buy the recording of the seminar after it's done.  It saves me a lot of time.

But this time I was asked to speak, and as a favor to the promoter, I did.  Plus, I thought it was time to meet a few new people.

As some might have guessed...my 2 hour presentation was on "The Power of Controversy Marketing."  Being as it was a "Buzz Marketing Seminar," it was a timely topic.

Buzz Marketing seems to be a popular topic now days.  Morgan knows a bit about Buzz Marketing.  His www.TheInterviewWithGod.com site has received millions of visitors without spending a penny on advertising.

Perhaps the most interesting presentation was given by Marlon Sanders.  If any of you know Marlon personally, you know that he is simply brilliant.  His presentation was all about "Seeding" and why it is the key to speading a word-of-mouth virus.

I think a few people didn't really "get it" because of Marlon's presentation style.  If any of you have seen Marlon speak...he gets pretty darn wacky.  Sometimes it drowns out his message. But I was fascinated with his step-by-step process for "seeding" influential people to spread your message.

For those people who really listened to his message, it was brilliant.  I will be using Marlon's "Seeding" method to launch my www.MarriageAdvice.com website.

Marlon didn't want me to show the photo at the left.  He had just eaten some raw fish and was feeling it (if you know what I mean :-)

Just kidding...it's just a photo of Marlon, hamming it up for the camera.

Here's a few more people that I met this weekend...

The guy in the photo on the right is Mike Koenigs.  Mike is a marketing and multimedia genius.  His site is http://www.mikekoenigs.com/  He's done marketing work in various forms for many major companies.

If you go to http://www.everythingyoushouldknow.com/ you can see some of this work.  He designed and built that site.

He will be launching a service pretty soon that has to do with creating online infomercials.  It's going to be quite revolutionary.  I'm very interested myself to see what it is.

On top of all his talents...he's a super nice guy and I really enjoyed hanging out with him.

Now a lot of your internet marketing guys know Mike Stewart.  I had the opportunity to hang out with Mike for quite some time. 

In fact, I'm about to invest a heavy chunk of change with Mike.  He sells a very high end video production suite, with which I was totally blown away.  It is the ULTIMATE infoproduct creation tool. 

It combines multiple video inputs, with a powerpoint video input, and any type of television or other video inputs to create a really impressive presentation.

And Mike is honest as they come.

I also met a fellow named Sean Roach. 

Sean is a unique guy.  He did more in marketing by the age of 27 than most marketing executives do in a lifetime. 

What was unique about Sean was that he could talk up a storm.  Some of it you could swear was a bunch of BS until you watched him give a presentation.  He was amazing.

This guy has "got game" for sure.

I'm glad I met him.  In fact, he just agreed to a movie and book deal based on his life when he was a teenager (so you can imagine it was interesting.)

And then there was Morgan Westerman...the promoter of the event.  Morgan is a kindred soul.  We are both of the same faith.

Morgan put on an AWESOME event. 

He fed us nearly every meal with some of the best food and then there was the local cruise on a yacht in the San Diego harbor that took us to a wonderful restaurant that sat right on the water.

All I can say is that he must of lost a bunch of money on the event because he rolled out all the bells and whistles.  Thank you Morgan!

Mary Foley was at the seminar.  She sure was a joy to meet and get to know.  She has a great message for all women.  Her site is http://www.gobodacious.com 

Take a moment and visit Mary's site.

She's got some great articles on her site and if you're a gal who's in need of some reprogramming then you should consider joining the Bodacious Women's Club.

Lastly, I met Stephen Pierce. 

What a brilliant dude.

But the most interesting thing about Stephen, as I watched him, is that he is also a quiet humble guy as well.  He knows when to turn it on and off. 

When he's on...he's a locomotive.

When he's off...he's quite and unassuming.

I had the privelege of interviewing Stephen during my presentation.  I asked him private questions about his book, "Under Oath" and some of the "behind the scenes" things that were going on when he wrote and rolled out that book.

If any of you invest in the Buzz Marketing Conference program (when it's released) I think you'll enjoy my presentation and the interview I did with Stephen.

That's all for today.

Please keep the victims of Hurricane Katrina in your prayers.  And if you can do anything to help them, please consider doing something.  Hundreds have lost their lives and thousands are left homeless!

David Frey