Internet Events, Facebook Advertising, Internet Marketing and SEO

Going to internet business events is nothing like it was even two years ago. With events like the TwistUp that took place last night, which was a writhing party of L.A. tech Prom excess, the thinktank, and Shoemoney’s Elite Retreats, the Azoogle event at the Playboy Mansion, you can fill your whole networking business calender with nothing but elite, private, over the top, well fed, open bar’d events filled with the best of the best.

Other than the Elite Retreat, stuff like this did not even exist two years ago.

I have been working the plans for the thinktank over and over, revising the schedule, checking the tides, arranging the delivery. Putting it all together is like writing an orchestra that will be performed for and by your closest friends. As Shoemoney or anyone running a super high end get together like this will tell you, it makes very little or no money in the end, but is truly a labor of love.

The fun thing for me is that I am not a fancy guy in the traditional respects. I don’t own a tie, or a sportcoat, let alone a suit. I grew up in a town on the outskirts of L.A. that was known as the auto wrecking capital of the world, where stabbings and shootings in my junior high school, along with heavy drugs and pregnancy, were bursting out way ahead of the rest of the country and the world.

Escaping the harshness of my area where I grew up brought me to repeated trips to the ocean, my sanctuary, and my first love.

On the flip side most of my adult life has been spent working along side of millionaires, and have even had the pleasure of getting to be friends with at least 4 billionaires that I know of.

The juxtaposition of these factors is where the thinktank comes from. It takes place next to one of the finest hotels on the California coast, in the only setting I have been able to find where you can have the most amazing food catered to the event, as well as allowing alcohol, (the sin of choice of my attendees).

As you probably saw on Shoemoney’s blog, Robert Drysdale, who fights jiu jitsu out of Las Vegas, will be training the crew in Brazillian Jiu Jitsu at the thinktank, the week before Robert, the 6 times world Brazillian Jiu Jitsu champion, will be having one of the most important matches of his life in Spain against Roger Gracie. If you ask those in the know, you will hear either one of their names as the greatest Jiu Jitsu fighter alive.

We are going to have a BBQ on Saturday night like nothing you have ever seen. The band playing turned down Willie Nelson to tour with him. Karl, the head of the band and lead singer, decided he liked his life too much in San Diego delivering water (no I’m not kidding) to go on tour. He also has turned down 7 figure deals to play in Vegas. Karl is going to have a stand in for the event, a close friend of his, who played guitar for one of the most famous country western stars to have ever walked the planet. We can’t tell you the name of the country western star because it would screw up all kinds of royalty agreements and record deals, but we can tell you it is going to be as good as it gets.

Those who have been lucky enough to have been invited (luck actually has nothing to do with it, as it is good, good, people, who are smart and have proven themselves online), are either going to have the time of their lives, or me and the staff are going to give up in exhaustion trying!

This event means a ton to me and the folks coming to this event mean even more.

The first official set of invites are about to go out.

So far, close friends, insiders, and those smart enough to dig for an invite before they were mailed have snuck in under the velvet rope.

Before we totally sell out, if you are reading this, and are a really good nice person, have proven yourself online with some nice big victories, and you would like an invite, ping me before the last slice of thinktank has been gobbled up!

I do whitehat SEO through and through. I am a huge Matt Cutts fan (cuttlet) and have made a ton of money off of the graciousness of Google for sending me lots of very high quality traffic.

From the beginning Matt has said, develop good content, don’t even worry about the SEO too much, and google will reward you.

Lately I have had my eye on the term facebook advertising in google, and my site has been doing O.K. at it.

I totally cracked up today when I looked and saw that Shoemoney had taken the spot right after facebook themselves for a ton of matches.

If you read my blog I am sure you are aware of shoe and the fact that he really truly writes for the readers and not for the search engines.

I think the next two pics below tell the story.

Hope you laugh as hard as I did

the greatest seo of all

By the way, Google says there were 282 million matches on this one

Just scored the tickets. Unbelievably good tickets in fact. We will be 10 rows up over the floor, within a rocks throw of the octagon. Shawn Tompkins who a lot of my readers know personally will be there in the corner for Mark “the hammer” Coleman. Robert Drysdale, who is the 6x Brazillian Jiu Jitsu world champion will likely show up in someones corner, watch for him!

Shawn allready invited me and the wife to come by the Couture gym to watch the pros train and hang out. It will give me a chance to renew my connections, make new ones, and plan fun stuff for the future for you guys!

We will be staying at the Wynn, and get to have a little quality pool time.

Of course we will hit the wife’s favorite restaraunt, Red 8 for Dim Sum.

I will also be talking to some different casinos as to where we should have our charity poker tournament this year. Feel free to offer any early input on the subject.

The whole trip sounds like heaven.

I’ll try to get some fun pics and post them next week.

This should be quite a fight!