Sunday, August 3, 2008

Wilie Crawford

Continuing on with my Master's Seminar series that was interrupted last week, when life caught up with me ;-)

Another speaker I met and spent some time with is Willie Crawford.

I had heard the name but did not really know him. From hanging with a bunch of invited speakers, I heard he was a veteran of the marketing business to the point of legend status.

I caught up with him when he was chatting with a few other attendees. He was asking if he could get an instant transcript from two people on the phone using Naturally Speaking's Dragon dictate. I told him that unless both parties have their own configured version of dragon dictate, that would be impossible because the software has to be trained by each individual user. Glad I could provide Willie with some info.

It was sunday evening, the seminar was offically over so, about fourteen of us, including Willie, went out to Giordano's, the italian restaurant next to the hotel, for a famous Chicago style deepdish pizza.

I was sitting right across the table from him. It seems that he has an answer to just about every problem or issue concerning marketing.That is because of constant learning and putting to practice.

Besides his encyclopedic knowledge of Internet Marketing, he is also pretty well rounded in many other unrelated fields. Willie was a martial arts expert, traveled to over 40 countries. He is about 60 years old and is intent on keeping active for years to come.

For some reason, the waitress made just one check for the entire table, Willie picked it up, no problem -- Thanks Willie :-)

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