The System Seminar, Cleveland, June, 2003

The Sys­tem Sem­i­nar by Ken McCarthy was a great net­work­ing oppor­tu­nity, and while there I met some great peo­ple, includ­ing some of the speakers.

The best part? I finally met my men­tor, a million-​​dollar copy­writer of whom I’ve been a stu­dent for so many years and from whom I’ve pur­chased so many prod­ucts: Dan Kennedy.

Here are some pic­tures. Click the pic­tures below to enlarge.

The mas­ter him­self, Dan Kennedy. My men­tor. My inspi­ra­tion. The per­son I owe much of my suc­cess to. And the high­light of the con­fer­ence. I’ve met Dan a few times before, but briefly, since tons of peo­ple keep swarm­ing around him at such con­fer­ences. (His teach­ings have made so many peo­ple rich, it’s no wonder.)

The ven­er­a­ble Paul Myers. A friend. A great copy­writer. A drink­ing buddy (of the caf­feinated per­sua­sion). And a really smart guy. I kid you not when I say some of the best stuff on the Inter­net comes from Talk Biz News at  Talk​Biz​.com. If you’re not sub­scribed, get on it NOW . (Which rock have you been hid­ing under?)

Stephen Pierce, trail­blaz­ing mar­keter and author of Under Oath: The Whole Truth About Inter­net Mar­ket­ing at the​-whole​-truth​.com is one of the smartest mar­keters I’ve ever met. His speech was inspi­ra­tional. He even appeared as if he was a preacher on fire! But it was also a real­ity check… If he ever speaks again, I’m there!

The beau­ti­ful Alexan­dria Brown, also known as the Ezine Queen at EzineQueen​.com, is one of the most beau­ti­ful peo­ple I’ve ever met. Not just in terms of appear­ances, too. She’s a bright and has an awe­some per­son­al­ity. A really nice per­son. You must sub­scribe to her newslet­ter, Straight Shooter Mar­ket­ing.

Tameka Sow­der and Wes Pritt. Long time clients and real dear friends. After email­ing back and forth to each other for years, it was neat to finally put “face to font,” if you will. They launched Affil​i​ateMas​tery​.com years back (licensed to large firm since then), and I wrote the copy for it. Now they own sev­eral other sites… And they’re still crank­ing them out!

This is my brother, Alex Samp­son. A long time sub­scriber and asso­ciate, and an all-​​round, really nice guy. Alex is the owner of Ultra Mar­ket­ing, Inc. at ultra​-mar​ket​ing​.com. He’s also a really smart guy, too… I mean, he keeps spit­ting out new ideas! (Hint: watch for a JV soon…)

I’ve also had the plea­sure of meet­ing tons of really bright peo­ple: Jonathan Mizel, Yanik Sil­ver, Armand Morin, Jimmy D. Brown, Jon Keel, Mar­tin Wales, John Reese, Alex Man­doss­ian, Chip Tarver, Rick Rad­datz, Marc Harty, Tom Antion, Bryan Ellis, Lawrence Katz­man and too many other to men­tion, here.

We’ll see you again in San Fran­cisco for #4!

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