SF National Spotlight
Friday, August 08, 2008
I am looking forward to meeting thousands of IBOs over the next few days while working the National Spotlight here in San Francisco. Yesterday I had to get up at 3:30 a.m. Eastern so I could make the 5 a.m. flight out of GR to get here, so I didn't really cruise around much yesterday.
I did see my college friend Jeff, whose career is taking off in new directions again. He hosted a conference yesterday about starting your own business, called Start. Of course, his conference was more about starting tech-oriented businesses and getting Venture Capital. Or not, and how you can succeed anyway. I now wish I had gone to his conference so I could have taken notes and blogged about it. Oh well. I went to the "after party" of the conference, which was held in the old "firehouse" in Fort Mason right on the San Francisco Bay. Very cool. Then, afterwards, a smaller group went to dinner at a restaurant that was the officer's club at the Presidio. Also way cool. As were all the people at the table, of course.
In addition to Jeff, who writes, speaks, starts companies and led a major project for Google but is now on his own to start "the next thing," there was a screenwriter, a guy who has founded a couple very well-known social media tools, a lady who's been with Flickr since before its founding, and more. So talented and creative. I hope it rubs off on me! Of course, I am always excited to talk about what I do too and explain how our business works when given the opportunity. They're always interested, because when you think about it, the way social media and the Quixtar/Amway Global business work are not too different. Well, other than the fact that we sell products and pay markups and bonuses. I guess I'm saying that the way people enter our business through existing IBOs is like social media ... spreading virally through people who use and like a particular application. In this case, our business!
Gotta go. Hope to see some of you later today, and more of you tomorrow here in beautiful San Francisco.