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07.07 20080

How to Live the Lifestyle – Without Breaking the Bank!

By: Lee Collins Categories:Hybrid Marketing

About two years ago I met Nico at a seminar in Orlando, Florida. There was an INSTANT connection, and we have been planning an extra-special event for YOU since that first meeting. But the timing wasn't right... We were working on our back-end system, refining our hybrid marketing SYSTEM, working with our private coaching clients, managing our own "fast start" workshop here in Michigan... The timing wasn't right for either of us, UNTIL NOW! Here's an excerpt from the email Nico sent me a couple of days ago that kicked e in the ass and kicked this off... ============ Hey Lee and Robin:) So check it out.. i am tired of sterilized seminars, while everyone TALKS about the Lifestyle... but you never leave the room! I am tired of paying a seminar fee and having to pay for all sorts of essentials extras and do all the work to set it up. Essentials like... hotel, food, airport transfers, and essentially... paying all this extra to get pitched products! I mean most speakers are great, dynamic, and the content is usually pretty awesome. But 8 hours a day in a conference room hearing ...... BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE.... (gag me!) I love events, but for the NETWORKING! All the really good stuff goes on in the hallways, at the bar, one on one! Remember HOW WE MET? Yea man... we took a taxi to have a burger and beer! And BAM, an immediate alliance was formed:) So Lee...we have been talkin' about this since 2006! Well let's just do it now! I am glad we didn't do it before! Because NOW it is the age of Social Marketing and Relationship Building! I want to share the Lifestyle Experience, my lifestyle here in Costa Rica! People need this experience. Stuff is going down... energy crisis, sustainability, people are losing their homes... we need to redefine online marketers... to an onLIFE marketing family. We need people with spirit, energy, and millionaire mindsets to start brainstorming solutions together, for long term wealth and community! It needs to start now, with the first REAL SOCIAL MASTERMIND ADVENTURE! So let's just TWEET it up! We don't need no stinkin sales pages! I want to personally email and talk to everyone that wants to come! We focus on 1 on 1 personalized attention only! The group needs to be small and personal, no more than 50. You and Robin are already doing great things with your community building, and your back-end wealth sharing systems. So let's take take it to the next level! If people are READY to live their dreams and 'walk the walk', then this is the place to start... BTW I do not know when I am actually going to reveal the real Social Secret Kicker to the Event... but I want to be surrounded by super cool liked-minded success warriors when it goes down! and I PROMISE EVERYONE who comes will leave with a FRESH Lattitude Adjustment! I live in a magical place..and I really just want to share it with everyone I intend to be aligned with online and onlife. It's not about making money off this, so like we agreed in 2006 we're partnering for a greater purpose! OK? So you in or in! ============ HELL YES WE'RE IN!! I want you to understand what we're talking about here... - We're talking a luxury, all-inclusive event, at an exotic location! - We're talking a no-pitch event, NOBODY will be selling from stage! - We're talking a special price that ANYONE can afford! - We're talking life-changing experiences, and lifetime bonds that will be created! We'll have private sessions where we'll reveal our latest Hybrid Marketing breakthroughs! We'll announce the details later today via Twitter, including some BIG NAME friends who will be joining us for this special Social Media Interactive Lifestyle Event Follow us on Twitter to get ALL the details later today... Or follow your other favorite marketer... Everybody will be talking about this event. => www.twitter.com/leecollins => www.twitter.com/robincollins Rock on, Lee & Robin Collins PS: We'll reveal all the details later today on Twitter! This WILL NOT be promoted by email, just by social media - especially Twitter!

Click Here to Join us in Costa Rica for TweetFest '08!

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19.06 20086

To Be You, Or Not To Be You – That is the Rhetorical Question

By: Lee Collins Categories:Hybrid Marketing

So, I feel like I need to throw something out there to you, Loyal Reader.... We just returned from Simon Leung's kickass Adword's workshop in sunny San Jose, CA where we got to talk about Hybrid Marketing to an incredible crowd. Good times...

Side note: Love all the traveling - seeing parts of this fabulous country that all should enjoy. You really do get what you ask for and Bring More Of It On!

Anyway - back on topic... When we get back from these awesome travels, we thankfully have piles of mail to sort through. (In direct mail, it is BAD to not be getting stuff in the mailbox J) In these piles of mail we can find requests for more information, orders (happy dance) or general correspondences. The "general correspondence" pile is the most interesting of all. We get everything from testimonials, to letters of well wishing, to tales of woe about disease and misfortune, to the rantings of deranged fellow Americans. It never ceases to amaze me, the things that people will take the time to write out (many times in long hand); thoughts, opinions or them talking to or about themselves. Often times in very, um, shall we saw colorful fashion? It's one of these "general correspondences" that I would like to take a few minutes of your valuable time to address. I found this letter in the pile. It quickly stood out. Nice, crisp white envelope. Incredibly even and centered penned addresses. Upon opening the envelope, I found a very nice two paged typed letter on high stock paper. First glance indicated that this letter was sent by a very intelligent person and let me say, that I was not let down. To my delight, what I found was a very eloquently written letter addressing how the gentleperson thought our recent hybrid marketing workshop in Flint MI was very well done, giving everything to the attendees that they could expect (and much, much more). This gentleperson found that the caliber of our event had far surpassed many others that he had attended, even seminars hosted by "the masters" (whatever that means). In paraphrasing his words, not only did we deliver on all of our promises of HUGE content at our Hybrid Marketing workshop, we brought in a wide variety of guest speakers that nicely rounded out the content AND the attendees were not "pitched to the entire time" (as promised). Heck, this writer even had a FUN time during and after the event AND made some very exciting new contacts while attending our workshop. All that glowing testimony aside, the letter's real intent was surprisingly to address this gentleperson's opinion that many of the speakers (including ourselves) were doing a gross disservice to ourselves by not dressing and acting (in his opinion) in a manner that was equal to our vast knowledge and expertise. Now, I ask you, Loyal Reader... If this gentleperson's expectations for the event were well surpassed, why did he give a ratt's ass what we were wearing? Not that this matters at all, but this wasn't exactly the first time that this gentleperson had met us...we have been working together for quite some time and should have come to understand what to expect from our "persona". With all the gratitude and respect I can muster, I do appreciate this gentleperson's opinion - but COME ON!
  • Great content
  • Awesome speakers
  • New Contacts
  • AND TONS of FUN?
Whatever.... All I can say is that we are who we are. Lee and his flip flop wearing rocker gear and me in my sassy arm candy ensemble, typically singing into the microphone during breaks. Hey, it works for us. This is who we are on and off the stage. Dressing like rock stars makes us feel like we are accurately representing who we are and that only makes our content better and presented in a vastly more comfortable and enjoyable fashion. I only hope that this gentleperson will take all of the great knowledge that he acquired at our awesome 2 day workshop and makes the most out of all his future endeavors. Heck, maybe he'll even buy a pair of flip flops. :-)

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13.06 20080

JUN 13-15 > Simon Leung Adwords Workshop – San Jose, CA

By: Lee Collins Categories:Where is Lee Collins?

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