Off to Cambridge for a Day of Being Pitched

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Tomorrow sees me getting out of the house for a day, rather than being locked to my laptop, building links for the millionth day in a row!

Anyone else going to the Cambridge Business Academy? Russell Brunson is over and speaking and I’ve always liked his content, so I’m hoping to have a good day out.

I have no delusions about it though. We’ll see how many pitches ensue during the day and I’ll bring you a full report tomorrow night after I get back home.

As I commented above, I’ve been linking for all I’m worth to my Halloween site –  there I’ve said it. I’m trying one of these very focussed sites that will bring me nothing for the rest of the year, but is already ramping up in traffic nicely. I sold my first costume a couple of days ago, but conversion is pretty poor so far. Not sure if I should be changing the page layout slightly.

3 reasons to go to internet marketing conferences…not.

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I could probably have come up with 7 things that are bad about IM conferences but since I am a glutton for sales pitches, I’m back off to Earl’s Court for more of the Speedcashseminar that I mentioned in my last post.

So, let’s get down to it. 3 things that fill us with joy at these events!

  • Waiting at the end of each session for anything up to 30 minutes for the pitch to finish
  • Sitting in fluorescent lighting all day when it’s sunny outside (and that’s rare for London!)
  • Knowing there is no real food anywhere nearby even when the short lunch break arrives

On the flip side, maybe I should balance those out with some reasons to be cheerful. How about:

  • Talking to some great people and finding the glimmerings of a cool joint venture
  • The speakers that really work for the audience. Steven Essa, hats off to you sir!
  • Realising that life can never be as hard as it seems to have been to every IM speaker 🙂

What do you love about internet marketing conferences? Add a comment and let me know. This could run and run!