Hey guys, I’m back from AM 2.0 in Dallas and I’m still getting caught up on customer support issues.
I talked to Ryan Deiss the first day (I saw him speak in Dallas last year but I never got a chance to say hi). He said, “How business?” I said great, that I just had my first $30K month in February and that I quit my day job of three years (first and only job out of college) to attend the event.
Later that night, Armand Morin was talking to a group of people so on my way out to dinner, I fist-bumped him (my standard greeting) and he said: “Robert, double your prices. You’ll double your income instantly.” Basically, if you wanted to buy all of Armand’s products it would cost you $15K. To buy all my stuff (not including webinars), probably about $1K. He gave the same advice to the rest of the group the following morning.
You got it, Armand. The first product I’m doing that with is Action PopUp. The price was $27 for the last several months, it’s now $37 and it will be $47 before the end of this month once I wrap-up my new popup training course that’ll go along with it.
1. This weekend was one of the best events I’ve ever attended. Armand mentioned Action PopUp onstage and Ray Edwards mentioned WordPress Letter to a bunch of people. I didn’t get to meet Michel Fortin… maybe next time!
2. My goal was to have 10 webinars scheduled by the end, I left with 5. I’m still happy.
3. March 2009 was my SECOND consecutive $30K month (actually it was slightly over $32,000). February’s goal was $30K, March goal was $31K, so now my goal for April is $32K.
4. I launched Enhanced Sales Letters and WordPress Letter just before leaving. The night I left for the airport, I cleaned out my PayPal account and came back to an $11,000 balance. Not bad for my first week of full-time self-employment.
5. I joined AM 2.0 Gold, the $500/month program that gets you into these seminars. My goal is to upgrade to AM 2.0 Platinum within 10 days. All you need to do is prove you made $100K last year (done — in fact I’ve made about $80K just in 2009), and complete a 100-point checklist that all “professional” web sites satisfy. I knocked out 58 of those 100 points in about 20 minutes this morning.
6. Armand showed a super-secret AdWords technique that my business partner is already implementing. At the bar, DJ Dave Bernstein shared six networking strategies that made the whole trip worthwhile. The following night I used just ONE of those techniques to pay $46 for $120 of alcohol. Good stuff.
Bottom line: Go to seminars, know what you want out of a seminar before you go, actually make mistakes and use the stuff you learn, and most importantly… hang out at the bar every night even if you don’t drink. You’ll make some connections and have a heck of a lot more fun sitting at the computer in your hotel room.
What networking events are you attending this year?
