I purchased some tickets myself (cheaper than advertised from someone who had received a bunch of complimentary tickets - I did wonder how many people at this event had actually paid for their tickets...) and travelled down to Melbourne for the weekend with some friends.
My only real interest was seeing Tim Ferris talk (having recently read the 4 Hour Work Week and *loving* it) and perhaps seeing Richard Branson - and my expectations were about right. Tim Ferris was awesome and I have taken away a few key messages with me which I will be using, key ones (for me) being: -"Sell Around Your Product" - Phenomenize, Polarize and Communitize to create news worthy stories around your product, so you don't have to convince journalists to write about your product. "Lifestyle Design" is a phrase tim created which turned in to a phenomenon of its own which people talk about, for example. This bit of advice is priceless IMO. -Test assumptions - Split test Actually, better than hearing my summary of it, you can see Tim give a very similar talk with slides here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-ferriss/how-to-create-a-global-ph_b_390706.html It has some great information in it. Meanwhile, Branson was great, but it was more just like a chat - not so much a revelation of great secrets or insights which will particularly help you get your business off the ground. The rest of the seminar, which was two full days, 8am - 10pm in the main arena and two extra rooms running most of the day with additional speakers, was all varied subject matter and basically consisted of the standard 1 hour of education on the subject, followed by 10-20min of the sales pitch of their product. Subject matter varied a lot, and included (from the top of my head) - Forex trading, commodity trading, CFD trading - 'Land banking', purchasing US property - Internet Marketting - three different presenters, each with their own version/twist on the theme, but ultimately "pick a niche, build a product, Market/JV and make sales" - Plus some different subjects I stumbled in to. One was about PR and how to get in newspapers, on radio etc (her product was being coached and helped to do it etc). Another was about how to structure your business to reduce tax and limit exposure to lawsuits etc. I didn't end up hearing exactly what product they were selling, but you can probably guess. I found it interesting that just about every single one of these talks had almost exactly the same sales pitch in the end, with the long break down of all of the things you will be getting (worth at least $40,000 when listed one at a time), but the price today will be a low low $10,000 or so. Plus amazing bonus 1. Then amazing bonus 2, then bonus 3. And last but not least, because we are all here at the seminar and are so special, they will do it for the low low price of $4997 (or $4777). The predictability and repetition of this process became tiresome after actually sitting through the vast majority of the talks. This isn't to question the value of what these talkers were selling - I was very tempted to buy a few of them myself if I wasn't already working on 2-3 full time projects at once and lacking a spare $5000 - it is just a little bit hard to take it seriously when everyone is selling different products which are all ultimately "Go from normal income to wealthy income" and all using the exact same escalation and price dropping method. I guess it is what works... In the end though, the information given by the speakers in the 1 hour educational bits before their inevitable pitches, always seemed golden (I say 'seemed', because I don't really know what works in forex/ property/stocks etc). My experience in internet marketting matched up pretty well with what those guys said - if maybe a little harder and more convoluted than they make it sound - but that is only to be expected. And I still managed to get some good tips and learn a few things from what they said - so it was definitely worth it just for those few tips. In the end, if you can find a tip which you can turn in to a few thousand dollars profit - then it was absolutely worth it.... As for buying the products themselves - I think you can usually (probabloy always, but I haven't checked thoroughly) get the products at exactly the same price with the same bonuses etc at the next event the guys are talking at. I just looked out one performance which had me seriously wondering whether I should buy or not, and it looks like they have FIVE events in SYDNEY over the next month, four of which are free to attend. So the real value that I see in an event like this "Summit", is that it gives you a chance to see all of the 'make money' options out there in an intense sit down experience, and learn some things along the way. I won't be buying the first time I hear of it, but I might go home and do some more research, and decide whether it will be worth it or not, and then find the next speaking engagement of the presenter(s) - and go buy it then. TLDR; Tim Ferriss has some incredible insights on everything, and you should watch his presentation linked to above if you haven't seen him talk. The rest of the seminar had lots of information freely available which I think is worth attending for, but be prepared to tolerate repeated sales pitches in order to hear the good stuff - and if you think you want to get in on any of these deals, expect to pay $5000 to do so (but DO NOT feel pressured, because they nearly always have another seminar coming up where you could buy it then) That's my 2cents. Shane Greenup PS: I even had the fortune of running in to a fellow Silicon Beacher down there - Miss Nikki Durkin :) On Oct 20, 1:47 pm, drllau <[email protected]> wrote: > since @Kevin is kindly supporting SB by donating tickets to any > member, perhaps @Mead could post a quick summary afterwards? > > Lawrencehttp://nz.linkedin.com/in/drllau > > On Oct 20, 2:46 pm, Mead Kammouna <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Kevin > > > I hope i'm the first one, as I really appreciate your generosity. It's > > a great opportunity for me to see visit this event. > > If am the first one pls let me know. > > > Kind regards, > > Meyad > > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Kev > > > <social%[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Folks > > > > I was due to go to: > > >http://21stcenturyfinancialeducationsummit.com/ > > > tomorrow and sat (sat richard branson is talking) in Melbourne > > > > Due to some work stuff I can't now go. > > > > I would hate the tickets to go to waste, they are worth $100, $50 each > > > but happy to give them to someone who can make use of them for free. > > > > First one to email me at [email protected] gets them. > > > > Obviously you need to be able to go to this in Melbourne tomorrow, and > > > this is for 2 tickets, so you can take a colleague etc. > > > > Thanks. > > > Kevin > > > >http://twitter.com/ke_ga > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > > > Australia mailing list. 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