One Sherpa

It’s a week since were up on Mount Dandenong and I’ve had some time to reflect and gauge the feedback from those who came up there with us.

Overwhelmingly the feedback was positive which has encouraged us to do an event next year. Many people commented that it was different to what they’d thought.

One close colleague who knows me as a finance person thought that his eyes would glaze over in the first hour and it would be boring for him. Twice he has come back and said it was nothing like he thought it would be and of course much much better. Already he has invited a few colleagues to next year’s Summit before we’ve even set the date!

We are in the process of getting all the footage and material ready to post to the internet so that people can get an appreciation of what the day was all about and also give those of you who came the chance to reminisce a little. We were hoping to do that within a week of the Summit but our filming people have been caught up in another conference and there will be a slight delay. Please bear with us…

As promised at the Summit, here is the video of Paddy Hirsch, the Senior Editor of Marketplace explaining the financial crisis and how it occurred. This is a great explanation of a very difficult subject:

The reason I’m showing you this video is twofold:

1. To help all of you understand the financial meltdown a little better; and
2. To get you thinking about the use of simple yet powerful videos like this one for promoting your business online.

On that second point… all of us need to market our business in new and different ways. If I had a dollar for every time I’d seen a manager write on the whiteboard to explain a concept to people then I’d have lots of dollars in my kitty. I encourage you to watch the video twice:

1. On the first time, listen to Paddy and get an appreciation of the financial crisis.
2. On the second time think about how you might be able to create and publish videos like this for your business. Ask yourself questions like:
   • What concepts would you like your clients or customers to know about your products or services?
   • How would you go about recording yourself drawing that on the whiteboard, then uploading that video to YouTube so you and other people can refer to it at any time?

Remember Alister’s first rule in the new world:

1. Start by giving me something for free.
   (If I like it, I won’t mind paying for the “meat”.)

There are a number of interesting articles which I’ve been reading around the Summit and just after it. These will be the next few posts as a service to bring you up to speed on the new economic conditions which are unfolding.

By the way, Lindsay and I are so committed to these innovative forms of online marketing that we’ve both signed up for Alister’s Internet Marketing Mastermind’s course. The best-priced memberships are selling quickly, so I encourage you to act quickly if you’re interested in this exciting course.

Lindsay Galt, Alister Cameron and I sat down together today for a quick and casual chat about our upcoming One Sherpa Summit. Lindsay, Alister and I are all sharing the platform together at the Summit, so we decided to take a few moments today to discuss what we’re going to be talking about on the day…

If you’re unsure whether the Summit is for you or not, we hope this short preview is helpful. Certainly, we’re particularly pleased and excited, that in light of the focus of global attention right now — squarely on the extraordinary levels of global market volatility — we should have decided to make the subject of our Summit, “Critical Skill to Rise Above Uncertain Times.”

Indeed, the timing is just right to address the urgent and important questions of how the current global economic crisis is changing the local business landscape, and what it might mean for you.

Hope you enjoy the preview, Click Here to view it.

Finally, we’re planning another preview like this one in a week’s time. We’d love to invite you to join us, and time permitting, we’ll take questions. We use a webinar system, which allows you to join us live, participate in the chat, and so forth. So, if you’ve got a few minutes next Wednesday 8th October 2008 at 1:30 pm AEST please join us in the webinar room. It’s free and you can log on from where ever you are during your lunch break (assuming you are near a computer with an internet connection of course).

To join us simply click on the following link at 1:15pm AEST Wednesday 8th October to join our Summit 2008 Sneak Peak.

Note: This link will only allow access at the specified time above, so don’t miss out!

We will be talking more about the latest developments in the global markets and what this means for your business here in Australia, plus giving some more previews into what you can expect at the Summit.

Hope to connect with you next Wednesday at 1:30pm.