World Internet Summit London

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Brett McFall and Tom Hua present the World Internet Summit which rolls into London November 15 - 18 2007

If you can drop everything and get yourself there…

Speakers will include:

Armand Morin is one of the most well known Internet Marketers in the world today. Having started online in 1996, his personal online businesses alone have generated over $25,000,000 in revenue since then. This doesn’t include the millions of dollars his students have produced from his teachings.

Adam Gisberg has established several successful stores on eBay and he has personally sold over £10,000,000 on eBay in the last three years.

Ewen Chia is widely regarded as the “World’s #1 Super Affiliate and his name is synonymous with Affiliate Marketing. If there’s just ONE person who can teach you how to make a fortune online from other people’s products without a website, product or list - it’s Ewen Chia.

Tim Brocklehurst has a background in creative advertising, software development and magazine publishing, Tim hit the ground running as an Internet Marketer in late 2005. Then he quickly earned recognition for his speed in building niche lists and growing online businesses fast.

For more than a decade, Sean Roach has been helping people grow their business, and has built an entrepreneurial empire to include many different areas of expertise - including marketing on the internet, organizational turnaround, and the keys to accessing the right people for success. His endeavors are intended to aid in the development and growth of businesses and individuals at every level.

Tracy Rupchuk was once in the audience of World Internet Summit. She simply applied what she learnt … used her own initiative …and achieved success so quickly that it caught everyone by surprise.

Tracy Rupchuk is now an award-winning writer, bestselling author of “31 Days to Millionaire Marketing Miracles,” and was nominated for awards such as Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year, and Chamber of Commerce Business Woman of the Year, and has become recognized as a “Quantum Leap Specialist.”

http://www.worldinternetsummit.com

There are loads more speakers, also some interesting audio on the blog:
http://www.worldinternetsummit.com/blog/

If you go for the full 4 days you’ll get Worldwide rights to the DVD of the whole Seminar! I urge you to check it out!

http://www.worldinternetsummit.com

Leaving Microsoft to change the World

Imagine not having a book to read when you were going up as a kid? We take this stuff for granted but in 1998, John Wood, a rising executive at Microsoft, took a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas that changed his life. What started as a trekking holiday in Nepal became a spiritual journey, and then a mission: to change the world one book and one child at a time by setting up libraries in the developing world. He was soon driven to leave his career with only a loose vision of the change he wanted to bring to the world.

I’ll say no more just have a read of the site and read the book

http://www.leavingmicrosoftbook.com/index.html

Hats off to John I think..

Adsense Video

Google is expanding its lucrative Adsense platform and offering website publishers the opportunity to embed YouTube style videos on their websites and share the revenue. Just as the text ads based system, the video product, called ‘video units’ will display ads related to the content of the website, as you’d expect. The website publisher will take a share of revenue when a visitor watches a clip and any associated ads.

This signals a move towards other types of content such as audio, games and similar media that could also integrate advertising.

Visitors watching videos embedded via AdSense will see a ‘banner ad’ across the top of the video player, as well as a succession of text ads - changing at a rate of about 1 every 10 seconds - at the bottom.

The text ads will be targeted according to the content of the clip and the site which has embedded them, but will not, themselves, be videos. Users will have the option to minimize the text ads if they want.

Webmasters will be able to choose between three sizes of video player as well as customizing the colour scheme.

The service would initially only be available to US-based sites that already use AdSense, though there were plans to expand it to different territories, Google said.

Britpack UK 2007 - Good Times!

It was a privilage to finally meet up with a host of Internet Marketers at the Britpack UK Seminar in Coventry last weekend. It couldn’t have been a better way to network and I highly recommend it to anyone in Internet Marketing.

It was an honour to meet and chat with Pat Lovell and Robert Puddy, the organizers as well as Simon Hodgkinson, Jeremy Gislason, Richard Butler, Terry Telford, Scott Paton, Tim Brocklehurst, JP Schoeffel..you see why it’s worth going?…Others I missed John Delavera, Martin Avis, Tracy Repchuk….
There was a posse from my hometown of Bristol as well, the Bristol Mastermind group. I’ll definately be hooking up with Graham Cox and the rest of the group as soon as poss!

Also from the UK it was great to meet Matt Garrett, Alex Jeffreys, Tahir Shah, David Congreave, Trevor D. Greenfield, Adam Jetson, Randolf Smith, Diane Corriette and many many others who I may have missed here (my bar bill on checkout took a serious battering!)

The presentations that I saw were all excellent in content, my notebook has exploded.

looking to catching up again!

Pushing the Envelope

I haven’t posted for a while as important life events have been happening, namely getting married and having a fantastic honeymoon in Mauritius. I’ve had the time of my life over the last month and have learnt a few things. My stag consisted of jumping out of an aeroplane at 15,000 ft with my best man and another good friend! There’s nothing like a skydive to make you feel alive.

Let me tell you I’m no daredevil! I’m not great with heights and a couple of years ago you wouldn’t have caught me climbing a tree let alone the skydive thing. On honeymoon I scuba dived with my wife, although she is a lot more experienced than me and on doing the practice in shallow water with the instructor I really thought I’d have to pull out of doing it. I just couldn’t get my breathing right underwater and I felt pretty clostrophobic at times, the fear was taking over, but I kept with it, did the dive and had a fantastic experience.

I’m not telling you all this to boast at all, but I have felt that by pushing the envelope of experience it boosts confidence no end that has an infectious effect in everything you do. Once I had skydived, I had the confidence to scubadive and it didn’t seem such a big deal (I had put it off for years much to the disappointment of my to be wife). I’m not suggesting anyone jumps out of an aeroplane but doing something a bit ‘wild’ does wonders for the mindset.

I think this can easily be applied to marketing. If we don’t try different things we may never find that golden goose. Experienced marketers will tell you to stick to a proven and successful formula and they are absolutely correct on this. But it makes you wonder what other opportunities are yet to be discovered!

Let me know you thoughts on this.