AdWords Workshop Pics

As promised, it is time to share some of my pics from the AdWords workshop this weekend. Of course I blanked out and forgot to ask someone to take pics of me while I presented. If anyone has some pics of me, I would love to have a copy of one.

Here are some pics and I look oh so lovely...


Simon Leung (The Awesome Mentor) and Me

Leo de Leon

John Guanzon

Craig Sunney

Rod Beckwith (Mr. JV!)

This past weekend was an amazing experience meeting everyone and hope to have many more.

AdWords Workshop Rocked!!!

This weekend I attended Simon Leung's AdWords workshop in San Jose, Cali and it ROCKED! Simon Rocked and all the guest speakers were awesome!

Matt, Kevin, Rod, Johnnie, Huey Lee, Mark Widawer, Leo, Coach Deb, John Guanzon, Tracy Repchuk, Alejandro, The Twins; everyone rocked!

I presented about "How Optimized Copy Can Help Your Website," and I felt it went alright. Of course when I was finished, all the things I had planned to speak about during the presentation came back to me but for my first time presenting at a workshop, I did a decent job.

For the one's who know me from the classroom, you know I gave out candy for correct answers. I wasn't allowed to throw it around to the participants, so I did a tamer alternatively and passed the bag around the room. I never leave home without candy!

I met some amazing Internet Marketers and they were real life people! Who knew??? John was awesome and spent a lot of time with me running through the basics of Internet Marketing and even let me watch how he develops a landing page. He shared with me ideas of how to get started and I can't wait to begin this week on my first project to see if I can get it up and running.

On a personal note, I brought dresses to wear for the weekend and ended up being extremely cold the entire time. I guess not being in cooler weather for a few years did thin my blood because I never thought 50-60 degrees would literally make me shiver and it did. I only brought a few things to wear and kept layering them each day. I felt like I looked like a bag lady! So unprofessional but it is a lesson I learned for future travels.

The entire weekend and experience was amazing and I would like to thank Si for accepting me as an apprentice AND letting me present at his AdWords workshop. Si, you are a wonderful Mentor and a great person.

P.S. Pictures will be posted soon

AdWords Workshop This Weekend!

I received an email this morning from the AdWords workshop head, Simon, asking if I could do an hour long presentation about SEO, Copywriting and AdWords and how they all relate to each other. Of course I was honored and said, "YES!!!"

I've been a busy bee putting together a PPT presentation which I will be running through the next two days to make it perfect or close to perfect. Then he said if it goes well, they are recording it and then we can develop it into a product!

Will keep everyone informed of how it goes and of any new developments. SOOO Excited!!!

My First AdWords Workshop

Since I was accepted into Simon Leung's apprentice program, I have been waiting to be assigned a project to work on. I received an email Sunday night about starting to do some copywriting for one of his newest ideas and then yesterday, received an IM from Simon inviting me to his AdWords workshop.

After a whole minute of thought, I was on the phone booking my flight and hotel room to San Jose, Cali. I have been studying on my own about AdSense and AdWords but it is different attending a 3-day workshop from one of the Google Masters!

The workshop is November 9 - 11 and I will be flying up on November 8 and returning Sunday evening. Now all I have to do is get that song out of my head, "lalalallala on my way to San Jose dahdahdaaaa."

(I don't even know the words but the tune has not left my brain yet.)

Accepted Apprentice

I applied as an apprentice to learn from Simon Leung, a powerful Internet Marketer and I was accepted. Now I get to learn from the Google guru himself about Google, SEO and this thing the virtual world calls Internet Marketing.

Though I do basic Internet Marketing, more from the copywriting end like writing and distributing Press Releases and articles, keyword research, using embedded links in the copy and promoting through the various outlets online like MySpace and Craigslist; I am very excited to start my apprenticeship and learn how to truly boost my business as well as my client's businesses.

Thanks Simon for the acceptance into your program and can't wait to begin!