Monday, April 30, 2007

Day 2 at the "System" seminar

Sunday at the seminar was better because I had time to settle in and understand the procedure. The sessions were, for my needs, better than yesterday. Because of the networking I had done saturday evening and having eavesdropped on a number of conversations with the featured speakers, I was able to finalize my choice of sessions. From my pre selection before the show to those that I eventually attended, there was an 80% change I would say. I didn't expect to go to Tim Gorman's presentation, or Lloyd Irvin's or even Perry Marshall's but that's what I did.

Tim Gorman is a military man with 18 months left before he retires with all the benefits of a US army pension, whatever that is, I'm sure that it's better than the WalMart pension plan ;-).

Like all good military man, he answered every question with a “yes sir”, “yes mam”. And his slideshow was slick, precise, thorough, and with a 30 day game plan. The only thing missing were the march songs and military mnemonic devices. Tim has written over 1,200 articles with only 1-3 hours a day to spare. He writes after his 14 hour/day military duty, takes care of household/family business, then bangs out articles between 22:00 hour and 01:00 hour (that's 10PM to 1 AM for the non-militarily inclined). He now makes more money part time online than at his full time military job.

I will implement the TimG plan to the Tee. YES, SIR, YES!! :-)


Lloyd Irvin is from a different background. He's into martial arts, has trained world champion jiu jitsu athletes. He has the discipline of sports and his presentation included video clips from Rocky 2 (speed, speed, speed) and a film that I have yet to identify, some sort of football/coming of age movie about a character named “Brock”.

Lloyd was a student of “The System” in 2003, now makes in excess of $7M/year, and is now starting out on the lecture circuit. His presentation was highly dynamic and athletic. Capt. TimG was even sitting-in in the back. In fact, quite a few of the speakers sat-in on this one.

So, I will work the TimG plan within the Lloyd structure :-) Of course, since the Lloyd structure follows the structure of “The System”, that should be easy but I need to think SPEED, ACTION, NOW!!!!!!!

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Day 1 sessions at "The System" seminar


"The “system"seminar is quite an amazing place to be. I remember something that Ken McCarthy, the founder, said about the seminar and what the people think about the event. “There's more happening with all the in-between sessions networking than in the sessions themselves.”

The first day was kind of a let-down sessions wise but the stuff that I learned that evening, just talking with various people, including some of the speakers who pretty much delivered the gist of their lecture to a small group of eager listeners was “worth the price of admission” as they say.

Then there's Adrienne DaVita, from California, a regular attendee, who is so passionate about Internet marketing that she had a group of people watching her as she demonstrated the amount of money she makes with Google Adwords. She answered everybody's questions and all said that she should be giving a lecture next year.

Friday, April 27, 2007

first entry

Welcome to my adventures in the emarketing trade :-)


This blog details what I learn about ecommerce and internet marketing. I will try to show it the way it is, warts and all.

My first big immersion is the "System" seminar in Chicago. I have yet to make money in internet marketing so I will be able to find out if what they say is true, that you make your investment back many times over when attending that seminar.