It’s that time again…
Well, it's been almost 6 months now, and it's time for the next Big Seminar! If you don't have your tickets and/or hotel reservations yet, it may just be too late. However, just like last October, I'll be blogging the entire seminar to show just how much you are missing.
On a personal note, at the last seminar I met a lot of new and interesting people, made some new friends, and even built a couple of new JVs… simply by attending.
One evening, Michel Fortin laid out his "dream" testing system over a beer to Armand while I happened to be within earshot. I realized that a script I had written for my own personal testing use fit the bill exactly. Three weeks later, Armand and I launched MultiTrack Generator, the testing automation solution that Michel had been imagining. If I hadn't been at Big Seminar Los Angeles, I would have never even thought to turn that testing script into a product. Sometimes it only takes one person to give you a "light bulb moment" (thanks to Sid Hale for that term 
If you review my posts from October, you'll notice that on the last night, I had dinner with Jack Humphrey and Mark Braunstein. At the time, we didn't have any sort of JV plan - we all simply became good friends, and we followed up with one another by phone for the next few months. That friendship eventually turned into a fantastic JV deal - we started bouncing ideas off one another, and realized that all three of us were working on similar products. Instead of trying to beat each other to market, we joined forces to create Content Desk - soon to become the best place for content on the web.
I'm not pointing these out to toot my own horn… I'm using them to illustrate that attending seminars such as this provides more opportunities to build friendships and business deals than sitting behind your computer.
Even if you cannot attend this seminar, there are events happening all the time all over the world. Make a commitment to attend some sort of seminar this year, and see for yourself what it does for your business.
Seminar posts start Friday… be ready!
Respectfully,
Marc