Articles by Vidette Vanderweide
No Excuses Summit, Las Vegas – Day 1
In case you have been living under a rock and are an internet marketer, one of the most influential weekends in Internet Marketing occurred this past weekend in Las Vegas. The event was organized and hosted by master internet marketers, Raymond Fong and Ferny Ceballos. The summit featured internet marketing geniuses like Jeff Learner, Justin Christianson, Brian Fanale, Norbert Orlewicz, Mike Dillard, Katie Freiling, Jonathan Budd, Mark Hoverson, Adam Holland, Todd Falcone, (big sigh…out of breath…). The cutest internet marketer of them all, Jimmy Davis was the emcee for the weekend. The No Excuses Summit was nothing short of amazing due to the fact that Ray and Ferny were able to get all of these names in the same room on the same weekend.
Jimmy Davis started the weekend off as emcee and then went right into his presentation. This young success story is nothing short of adorable and delivered all of his ‘awesomeness’ bring my first ‘a-ha’ moment of the weekend! What amazed me most was how mature and knowledgeable this kid was for only being 28 years old. I don’t mean ‘factual’ kind of knowledge, but in terms of wisdom. He was so far ahead of most adults twice his age!
Obvious enough, we worked through our ‘Whys.’ Why were we there to gain more knowledge, why were we all looking to build massive network marketing organizations through Internet Marketing. Our whys have to be strong enough to keep us motivated, inspired, and willing to do the work. From there, we moved on to identifying our strengths and weaknesses. It’s only in recognizing these things that we can move forward with excuses.
After moving on from that, we went through the Six Key Areas of a Top Producer. Jimmy went into detail on each of these areas and gave us a visual of where we needed to be in the following areas:
1. Mentor 2. Positioning 3. Building a Team 4. Multiple streams of income 5. Marketing 6. Systemize
Jimmy continued to go into detail in these areas and explain the deeper meanings of each area. He explained how to position our strengths and weaknesses in these areas in order to move our businesses more rapidly. The visual of my business was pivotal to me as it defined exactly the areas that had been holding me back.
Jimmy brought the presentation to a powerful close by tying this information together. He helped us take this visual, build our weaknesses to a more balanced level as our strengths in order to leap forward quickly in our business.
This was the moment when I realized how smart this kid was. He had just showed me a powerful aspect of my business that had been holding me back. It was the very information that I needed in order to maximize my results from the weekend. A pretty powerful moment from someone who I thought was too young to teach me anything. Lesson #2!
For the extended version of this article, please visit Vidette Vanderweide’s blog post titled, ‘No Excuses Summit.’ Vidette is a MLM professional and teaches network marketers elite marketing strategies to build their businesses online. She has also produced a video in support of this article, which is also entitled, the ‘No Excuses Summit.’