In July 2008, I had the opportunity to share my skills and knowledge with small businesses and internet marketers in Austin, Texas for the SEM for SMB event, hosted by SparkSight. Both Reza Sarmadi boarded a plan and flew from LA, not knowing what to expect, but of course we had no expectations, rather extreme optimism coupled with a strong manifestation for success.

My speech was title “Online Marketing Reporting and Analytics“. After this first speech I gave I felt my speech could of been better polished and refined. I asked the universe to grant me one more opportunity after this speech to try it again and give me one more shot even though my speech was booked for day 1 only.

I manifested that thought for about 4 hours. Sure enough, after I let it go I got a text from Chris Justice, the promoter of the event. The text went something like this. “Your speech was awesome, everyone loved it and it is in high demand. Can you do it again tomorrow”. I looked at ReZ with the biggest smile and said, the universe listens.

That night I spent hours practicing the speech, determined to do my part of the manifestation and “do what I said I would do”, which was prepare, practice and refine it. That next day, I gave the speech with the utmost confidence and I was praised my the many people who attend the speech that what my speech gave some great ideas and insight to reporting and analytics that really helped people better understand how to make the most out of stats.

The truth of the matter is and lesson learned is: never give up what you want and when you want something. You know what you need to do to achieve it. So you better do what you know you need to do, otherwise you will fall short of your manifest.

It took a while to get it online, but without further wait, here is the seminar.  If you would like to download the slides to the event, click this link.