It was 7:30 at night after a long, all-day series of mind-blowing presentations at a big internet marketing conference. I sat in the audience, surrounded by 500 amazing entrepreneurs writing notes as quickly as I could in my notebook.
Jeff Walker, creator of a multi-million dollar business that teaches people how to launch products and businesses, and his brother Jon Walker, who manages Jeff?s joint venture partners, were on stage teaching about a topic that had us all on the edge of our seats, despite the exhaustion from a 12-hour day of focusing.
Jeff was drawing a diagram on a flipchart, explaining a powerful method for getting the attention of the big ?A? level joint venture partners in your market.
My head was down as I took notes when I heard him say through the loud speakers ?Where?s Forest??
My head snapped up to look at him as he searched the crowd for me. I raised my hand and shouted ?Over here.?
All 500 people in the room turned their eyes to me. My heart began to pound in my chest. One of my mentors and heroes had just called me out from the stage.
He said, ?Do you remember how my whole demeanor changed last night when you introduced yourself and told me what you?d done for me during my last product launch??
I said ?Of course,? and he went on to tell the story of how I had done what he was teaching on stage and how it had worked in getting his attention.
The story he told went like this:
The previous day, Jeff was telling us that the connections you make with other people at live conferences are extremely valuable. These kind of connections have been worth millions of dollars for him in his own business.
He said that out of the top 20 joint venture partners on his leaderboard for his last launch, he had had dinner with all but one of them.
I had made it on that top 20 leader board and since I?ve never had dinner with Jeff, I knew that I was that one person.
At the VIP dinner that night, I had a chance to get a photo with Jeff. When it was my turn, I walked up to him, shook his hand and said ?I?m Forest Linden?the one guy on your JV leader board that you haven?t had dinner with yet.?
Even though I wasn?t trying to get his attention, that?s what seemed to happen, and as soon as he made the connection his face lit up in a huge smile. ?Ohhhh?you?re the guy!? he said.
It was a great moment of connection to share with Jeff, who has literally changed my life over the last year.
Throughout the conference, I had already been getting a lot of attention from folks who sought me out to get advice on tech challenges for their businesses. But after Jeff turned the spotlight on me, the stream of awesome entrepreneurs coming up to me became a bit of a river.
It was absolutely stunning how many amazing people I got to meet.
I met a horse veterinarian, a stage and video performance coach, natural healers, yoga teachers, life coaches, realtors, marketing coaches, a stock trader, relationship coaches, and another one of my online heroes, Sonia Simone (who, along with Brian Clark and Tony Clark run Copyblogger and Teaching Sells. That?s where I first learned about creating online training programs and how to do online marketing. Without a doubt, they are the reason I?m doing Tech Husband all these years later.)
With every new person I met, my heart blew open further and further. The things they?re doing with their lives and businesses are absolutely remarkable.
When it came to talking technology, out of the 60 or so people I met and talked with this weekend, many of them asked me one of these two types of questions: 1) Which software should I use to do X (where ?X? is something like build a website, do email marketing, or sell access to an online program,) and 2) How do all these different apps work together together to make a system that will allow me to make money online?
I never get tired of answering those kinds of questions, nor do I run out of passion for helping people get the technology piece in place for their businesses. I love this stuff!
Software questions are usually the last key people need to unlock the door that leads to them making their financial and life dreams a reality.
Once they get the tech in place it?s not long before they can start making huge impacts in people?s lives with their knowledge and support. That?s my favorite part about web technology: it makes it possible for people like you and me to make big, positive impacts in people?s lives.
Often though, people tell me they?re having a hard time trying to find the best combination of web software that will allow them to get to the point where they can make money quickly and start making those positive impacts.
For example, at Jeff Walker?s conference this past weekend, I had the honor of meeting an amazing, young magician named Marco Frezza. I have a strong intuition that he?s about to do some big things in the world.
About a year ago, Marco created a series of 52 magic trick videos on Youtube for children around the world. Those videos have received over 6 million views. That?s a massive amount of views.
Each week he released a new trick and at the end of each video, one card was revealed as part of that week?s trick.
At the end of the series, he offered a prize for anyone that could name, in order, the cards that were revealed in each of the 52 videos. The top three winners would win a live magic show, and Marco would ?teleport? himself to their town to perform it.
One of the winners of the contest was a 12 year old boy who lives on a small island in Estonia, which is a small country near Finland. Marco actually flew himself there, paying for the entire journey himself, to do a magic show in the boy?s village. Unbelievable, but very true.
Nothing had ever happened like this in that village. There hadn?t even been a magician in the area since 1927. The kids there had never seen a magic show!
Marco?s teleportation and magic shows brought a wave of joy and wonder into the lives of all the children there. They will remember those shows for the rest of their lives: the time when the magician in the black pin stripe suit teleported himself all the way from America to do magic!
I was deeply moved by Marco?s story and where he?s headed with his career. The kind of impact he?s making in people?s lives is pure magic.
Over dinner with a couple of friends, Marco and I chatted at length about the best software route for him to go with his business, given what he?d like to achieve and what?s been happening with his rise in popularity.
One of the products he wants to sell is a 10 video series for kids on how to do some amazing magic tricks for their friends.
I recommended that he focus on keeping things as simple as possible in the beginning: Create the videos and put them all into one .zip file, which he can sell to his customers. They download the zip file, unzip it, and watch the videos on their computer.
The simplest way to do that is to create an account at ejunkie.com, which is one of the fastest, easiest ways to start selling downloadable, digital products on your website.
Next, Marco would upload the .zip file of the videos to the ejunkie servers and integrate a free Paypal Website Payments Standard account with his Ejunkie account.
Then, he would set a few things in the configuration of Ejunkie and copy a tiny bit of code in Ejunkie. Paste that code on a page or blog post of his website and boom, he can start selling a downloadable product. It could be a pdf file, an mp3 audio recording, or in this case, a collection of videos.
People go through the payment process in a little window that appears on top of your site and when they?re done, they get a download link for the .zip file that has the digital products in it.
In Marco?s case, kids would download the zip file and unzip it on their computer. They can then watch each of them right there, and start to go through a transformation in their lives as they become a magician, spreading wonder and joy to all their friends.
That?s what the power of technology can do when it?s combined with your desire to help people with your knowledge and gifts!
If you?re interested in learning more about how you can use the magic of web technology to make great money while you make positive impacts in people?s lives, in about a week from now,?I?m going to publish a new free video training that?s packed with awesomeness.
If you?ve ever felt frustrated from trying to understand all the tech stuff needed for an online business, this free training is going to give you some tech super powers that will bust the frustration up, Hulk-style.
Marco showed me a pretty cool teleportation trick too, so I?ll pretty much be right in the room with you during the training series :)
See you then!
Source: http://techhusband.com/jeff-walker-calls-me-out-magic-of-technology/
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