It's Monday evening here in Australia and I'll be flying out in the morning to head home. I was in Melbourne for the weekend to attend Ed Dale's Coming Home Seminar.
The flight is more than 24 hours each way, so I brought some of my new gadgets with me on the trip. My Macbook Pro (which was very popular here for some reason 😉 ), my new Droid, and the Aiptek ActionHD handheld video camera. I figured a week with my devices would give me a chance to become good and familiar with them.
The event was absolutely incredible, both in content and in connections. As always, Ed Dale was a fabulous (and entertaining) host.
Sessions included talks on outsourcing, content development, search engine marketing, business structure, blogging, monetization strategies, offline marketing and much more. One of my personal favorites was the Hot Seat sessions where a hand-picked panel did live site reviews on the spot...
I joined the panel for the blogging and social media session alongside Darren Rowse, Yaro Starak, James Schramko and Ed Dale. We discussed the concept behind and the need for a "Third Tribe" as well as our thoughts on the history and evolution of Social Media.
I also joined the 3 Hot Seat sessions to participate in the site reviews, which I thought was super-productive and full of brilliant insights. It was a real pleasure to work alongside some of the top brains in the industry.
Speaking of brains, Leslie Rohde also made the trip over for this event.
Leslie spoke on Saturday and in addition to his Free Traffic strategies, he talked about mindset and processes. Later that evening we had a chance to talk, and he walked me through some very simple solutions to issues I've been struggling with in my business for awhile now.
The timing couldn't have been better. I spent the better part of my 24 hour trip over working on those very issues, and mapping out potential solutions. I made excellent progress on it, but still didn't have those few missing pieces to make it all work like it should. Ironically, it took my own advice coming from someone else (Leslie) to pull it all together.
All said and done, the weekend was a huge success. That one (major) breakthrough will undoubtedly lead me into the best and biggest turning point in my life and business yet. I already have things in motion, and will be flying home with a major sense of accomplishment - and relief.
Of course, there was more to the event than work. I also got to hang out with Jen (@PPCmom) and Leigh (@HireMyMum), both Elite Members at SSWT. We all stayed in the beautiful Crown Tower & Casino in Melbourne, and had a fabulous time!
It's nice to have friends all over the world. Even better when you get to sit down and have a few meals together.
Definitely a highlight of my trip! 😀
Ed devoted an entire session at the Coming Home Seminar to video editing with iMovie. I was especially interested in this session as that's the reason I bought a Macbook Pro recently - for mobile video editing.
I have a way to go to get to Ed's expert level on iMovie. I have just finally figured out how to copy & paste on the Mac! -lol 😀 But I did find a great magazine in one of the local shops: The Ultimate Mac Guide (left). It's only available in Australia & New Zealand so that was a super lucky find before I headed home! It's chock full of very detailed tutorials. I'll give you a video walk-through of it when I get home.
Until then, keep working towards your goals and stay focused! I have lots to share when I return, and also look forward to getting back to our usual topics and Q&A sessions!
Best,
p.s. I have more pictures and video to share. I still have to download them and see what I ended up with. I'll probably add them to Facebook to make it easy.
Update: Album added to Facebook, and check out this great video with @Ed_Dale and @BrentHodgson -lol:
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Great to read about the seminar Lynn, and also following your tweets about it - I favorited several of them! I was at the Manchester Coming Home seminar last year and I too had a brilliant time and will never forget it. And I got one of my sites critiqued in a private 1 to 1 session with "Guru Bob" Robert Sommerville - wonderful!
How are you liking Australia? Would have loved to have come down from Queensland but didn't have the opportunity! From the reports I am reading on the internet, it seems like it was extremely successful.
I am so excited to hear more! Sounds and looks like you had a very productive trip. It will be nice to have you back. I would love to visit Australia one day but the trip over and back sounds crazy ha ha
Sounds like you had a great time in Australia, and I can't wait to hear more of what you've learned there. Wishing you a safe trip home.
Hey Lynn,
I was following along with the seminar on twitter and I saw that you also maned to bag an Aussie charger from Nez into the bargain. What a guy!
Thanks for keeping us updated on the 30dchome event, you are the internet marketing troubadour of glory.
AirHammer
Lynn, it was great to have you at the conference. Your contributions during the Hot Seat sessions were always done with tact, yet full of insight and informative.
I really would like to go to an Ed Dale conference. He is the man who got me started in Internet Marketing. I would recommend the Thirty Day Challenge to anyone looking to get started making money online.
Welcome back to the US of A 🙂 Hot seats are always fun & thought-provoking, I think the advanced folks at NAMS were jealous of the beginners section 😉
You know over the past couple of years I've noticed a tremendous growth of interest in internet marketing among the Australians, they're willing to fly over here to learn from some of the top "gurus", I wonder why that is? Can you clue us in?
Anyway, it's always good to see someone that I look up to in business continue to learn and grow. Looking forward to seeing how you progress...
Lynn thanks for sharing the coming home from seminar and i listen to Leslie interview...is was awesome with alot of info for me to ponder and put to action
Thank you and welcome back enjoy your journey
Hi Lynn, I have been subscribed to your blog for a while now and listen regularly to you on the IMTW podcast (loved your comment about not opening your mouth unless you get paid - blunt and straight forward - you go girl. 🙂
Why shouldn't people be paid for quality information? I have never understood that, and have absolutely no problem with it.
Anyway loved your tweets from #30dchome and just wanted to say enjoy your MacBook Pro (iMovie is fantastic:).
Cheers
Sue
Looks like you had a wonderful time Lynn 🙂 I think it is great to be able to meet up and discuss in person and then just hang out with friends. So wish I had the opportunity to do that.
Now we have to get together an IM event here in Brazil while I still live here 🙂
Sounds like a fabulous time - fun and super productive! Gotta love that - when you're enjoying yourself making great progress! Totally cool that you got to meet Jen and Leigh and what luck to find that magazine!
@Kimmoy - Australians are always willing to travel. Internet marketing conferences is just an excuse! 🙂
Seriously though, Australians have a problem with learning from other Australians, so the perception is you need to go elsewhere to learn and to be successful. The exchange rate is also pretty good at the moment.
Well, I'd say anyone in Australia who passed this up blew it.
It was awesome even if I did spend 2 days traveling for a 3 day event.
Melbourne is a lovely city and it was nice to get a little summertime in too (we're having a snow day in TX today...).
I'm thinking of going back every February!
Hi Lynn. As a Hot Seat survivor 🙂 I just wanted to thank you personally for your contributions over the weekend.
You have a very good way of breaking things down so that anyone can understand what you're saying. I also enjoyed how everything you did was to get people to appreciate things from the (potential) customer's perspective.
Hope the flight home wasn't too long and keep up the great work.
Cheers
David
Hey Lynn,
It was great to meet you on the weekend.
Your insights in the Hot Seats were excellent.
Glad to hear you made it back safe. Now you can eat your American chocolate 🙂
Cheers,
Casey
Sounds like a great conference... I would have liked to hear Darren Rowse, big fan of his stuff... and of course yours Ed!
Darren helped me with my blogging on the shared server hosting site.
Sound like you had a great time! I would have loved to have come and learn about online marketing from the pros. I'm glad you have this blog though for those that could not have made it in person.
Gosh Lynn...all the way to Oz for a weekend, love your dedication to the industry. Looking forward to hearing more about the offline marketing methods as they are still very popular here in the UK.
Cheers
Barry Cross
Great to hear about the seminar. I always wanted to go to an Ed Dale conference, but never did because of circumstance. Hope you had fun in Melbourne !
Best
Matt Hayes
It's a right decision of bringing your gadgets especially your Macbook.I think macbook has been used mostly in Australian and actually around the world.I hope i can also attend a seminar with Mr. Ed Dale.There's a lot to learn from him when talking about being successful over the internet.