I’m in OZ!!!

It’s now Wednesday March 11th, 2 days after I left LA I finally arrive at my hotel in the Gold Coast for the World Internet Summit – WIS – that starts tomorrow. I’ve been traveling for over 24 hours, my bags are heavy as f*ck and I am dehydrated and starving.  I literally barely know my name at this point as I am checking in.  The hotel is really nice.  It’s a highrise and is one block from the beach.

I guess I should take a second and explain what the World Internet Summit is and why I felt the need to fly around the world to attend an internet conference.  The WIS is one of the premier internet conferences in the world.  This one that I attended was the 37th one in 4 years.  It attracts the cream-of-the-crop of successful people in the internet marketing world and unlike most seminars , internet marketing or otherwise, you actually walk away with content you can use to become successful if you take action and apply what you learn.  Of course, the speakers are selling their courses, mentoring, training, etc…  this is a business after all, but you can, as I did, walk away without spending a dime and have tons of content to work with.  For those of you that may not know, I do internet marketing.  That is how I made money in my final months in the states and how I plan on making tons of money now that I am in Australia.  Internet marketing is a fairly new thing here in Australia and it is my goal to connect with and mentor/JV with marketers that are not as well known as folks are in the states.

Also, the whole point of going to conferences is to make connections and it is my very clear intention to connect with certain key speakers (some from the states) one-on-one.  As we are all the way in OZ, that would be much easier to do than if we were in the states where everyone knows who they are and will be mobbing them from day one.  Successful internet marketers are basically rockstars in the net marketing world.  It’s pretty funny is the geekiest way possible.

So, I get checked in and it is raining cats and dogs. Great, I thought I came to the Sunshine Coast. WTF?!?! I ended up getting a very $$ and not so great burger, fries and beer before heading up to take a nap for a couple of hours.  I know they say to not sleep when you have jet lag, but I had 4 days of 20 hours days coming up and I was going to sleep.  I ended up sleeping for about 5 hours till 10pm.  Woke up and unpacked & watched tv till 1:30am and then headed to bed.  G’Nite.

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