Big Seminar 5 Photos

My friend Armand Morin’s Big Sem­i­nar V was a blast!

As usual.

It was the biggest Big Sem­i­nar ever. The pic­ture on the left is the humon­gous stage and light­show. A mas­sive 36′ stage and a 16′ cat­walk. Pretty freakin’ amaz­ing, if you ask me. And with close to 400 peo­ple in atten­dance, it was indeed the biggest one ever. (Next time promises to be even big­ger, accord­ing to Armand.)

I was not only a speaker, but I also learned a ton, too. Best of all, I’ve had the chance to meet up with friends, men­tors, asso­ciates and even peo­ple I’ve worked with for so long but never had a chance to meet!

It was pure fun.

(These pic­tures were taken by, and reprinted here with the kind per­mis­sion of, Ralph Zuran­ski — the cre­ator of the In Search Of Heroes copy­writ­ing pro­gram for kids. Thanks, Ralph.)

Here are some of those pictures…

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The above pic­tures are not only my clients but also awe­some friends, fanat­i­cal testers and absolutely bril­liant mar­keters, John Reese of Traf­fic Secrets and Frank Kern of Under­achiever Mas­tery. These two guys alone have been my great­est influ­ences in my copy­writ­ing and mar­ket­ing career in the last 2 years, and they have both taught me oh-​​so-​​much.

 
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Of course, I was one of the speak­ers at the sem­i­nar. Appar­ently, many peo­ple liked my pre­sen­ta­tion. Fin­gers crossed. My entire talk focused not on copy­writ­ing but on a sin­gle strat­egy that can boost any copy­writ­ing to the next level: TESTING. I even showed tons of test results with a script Marc Quar­les (a pro­gram­ming genius with, of all things, a mar­ket­ing mind­set!) cre­ated for me.

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Aside from being a speaker, meet­ing some of my best friends in this busi­ness is one of the major rea­sons why I love going to sem­i­nars. The first one is Craig “Spanky” Per­rine of List Profit Secrets for which I wrote the copy.

And the next is Craig and another mas­ter copy­writer, David Garfinkel. Next is Carl Gal­letti, Shawn Casey and Mike Fil­saime. (By the way, I will also be speak­ing at Carl’s con­fer­ence in June.)

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Meet­ing friends and espe­cially post-​​seminar par­ties are always one of my favorite things to do at sem­i­nars like these… the beer is a nice incen­tive, too.

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Atten­dees are not just atten­dees. They’re also friends, clients, stu­dents and sup­pli­ers, too! The first one is Joe Bar­ton, the cre­ator of many alter­na­tive health info­prod­ucts and a star stu­dent of my mem­ber­ship web­site, The Copy Doc­tor. Next is Katie Brandt of Deliv​er​Free​dom​.com.

And last (but miles away from being the least!) are the two most hardest-​​working women I’ve ever met. Jeryl and Sylvie are the peo­ple who do all my admin­is­tra­tive grunt­work (and a fine job, too), at Worka​holic​s4Hire​.com. (If you need help run­ning the tedious stuff with your busi­ness so you can free up your time doing what you do best, I highly rec­om­mend them! quite sim­ply, they “Git-​​R-​​Done!”)

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