The Virtual Summit Podcast: Recent Episodes
Dr. Mark T Wade
An Entrepreneurs PROVEN FORMULA To Quickly Grow Your List, Launch Your Platform, and Make More Money (Even If You Are Just Getting Started). Virtual Summits Are An Engine To Conversation, Collaboration, and Empowerment and we believe every Business Should Host At Least One Summit.
Dr. Mark T Wade founder of the Virtual Summits Software and creator of the One-Day Summit Formula takes virtual summit hosts on a journey to create a successful Virtual Summit. Join us each week with strategy sessions and guest interviews of some of the top Summit Hosts, Speakers, Coaches, and Marketers as you create a Successful Virtual Summit. Podcast.VirtualSummits.com
EP297 How A Summit Will Grow Your BRAND!
Tiffany Neuman takes us through her two successful virtual summits showing the secret sauce to growing your brand through summits. Plus get specific insider tips on how to make your summit stand out and align with your brand from an expert brand strategist.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/297
EP296 Immediate Next steps once your interview finishes.
Your interview might be done, but you aren’t. We need to go through the post interview wrap up process.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/296
EP295 Why Your Anchor Speaker Matters & How it Can Build Your Summit
Nick Unsworth takes us through his journey of building the Life On Fire Summit, which catapulted his business into the million dollar sphere and put his personal brand at the highest level possible. His summit content still ranks #1 across most social media platforms. How these same principles allowed him to mastermind with Tony Robbins in his Fiji Resort & build a school for underprivileged children. All that and more on today’s episode.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/295
EP294 The Post Interview Chat. How to wrap it up.
You finished your summit interview, now what? Let’s talk about the post interview chat.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/294
EP293 Transformational speaking coach gives us insights to our summit speakers
Erin Loman Jeck is one of the top sought after transformation speaking coaches helping speakers get their messages out to the world. She takes us through her insights on how to up your game as a summit speaker and why hosts should be looking to partner even after the summit.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/293
EP292 The Summit Interview Flow
Let’s walk through our summit interview flow so you can interview like a pro.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/292
EP291 5 Steps to winning the speaker recruitment process.
Marissa Stone walks us through her 5 step process to vetting her speakers and turning them into long term collaborative partnerships. Plus how aligning a mission with your summit can ensure a positive outcome while making an impact in the world.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/291
EP290 The Pre-Interview Chat
There is an art to getting your interview started & it starts with the pre-interview chat.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/290
EP289 How An AI Summit Generated $2 for every $1 Spent
Frank La Vigne talks us through his very first summit experience and how running a Premium One-Day Summit generated a total win, and why they are already planning their next 3 summits.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/289
EP288 Pro Interview Tips Part 2
Let’s dive into even more tips to ensure you look like a summit pro on your interview.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/288
EP287 How A Poker Summit Got a 90% Opt In Rate!
Dan Russell from Vivid Labs talks about their top marketing strategies, copy writing go-to’s, and research criteria for helping a client absolutely dominate their Virtual Summit in a brand new niche! See how Dan’s team helped get a 90% opt in rate using these strategies.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/287
EP286 Pro Interview Tips Part 1
Here are some of the top tips to make sure you interview like a pro.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/286
EP285 From A One-Day Summit To A Multi-Million Dollar Company!
Dr. Krista Burns has built an entire online business around summits. In this episode she talks through the different ways she uses One-Day Summits to quickly generate new audiences, as well as generating $30,000 in less than a week from a One-Day Summit. Learn her strategies for determining when to host a One-Day Summit versus a Multi-Day Summit.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/285
EP284 How to prepare your speaker for the interview
Don’t leave it to chance. Make sure your speaker is set up for success BEFORE your summit interview.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/284
EP283 How To ELEVATE Your Speaker Experience To Maximize Your Results
Mark Stern walks us through his process of elevating the status of his summit speakers to maximize summit engagement. See how this one incredible idea helped him & his summit clients make their Virtual Summits a massive success.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/283
EP282 How To Research For Your Summit Interviews
When it comes to preparing for your summit interviews, doing the research is critical.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/282
EP281 New Social Summit Model Has Been Invented!
Thinkific Founder Greg Smith talks dives into the details of a new social summit model that his team created & how doing that has provided a new micro community that is thriving. Plus learn how pairing your summit with a course can create the ultimate monetization strategy!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/281
EP280 Want Me To Build Out Your Summit for you?
Want Me To Build Out Your Summit for you? Well let’s get started then!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/280
EP279 How Paying His Speakers Allowed Angus To Become A Celebrity Influencer
Despite being isolated down under in Australia Angus Pyke was able to use this collaborative marketing strategy to quickly propel himself to a globally recognized influencer. We discuss a strategy to increase speaker promotions along with how to use a virtual summit to grow your local market & brands.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/279
EP278 Increase your revenue by $60,000 a year as a summit consultant
The easiest way to grow your income is not by trying to invent something new. It's by finding a market that is overflowing and by positioning yourself as a resource to those who need help. Let’s show you how you can do that.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/278
EP277 Summit Multiplier Method
Navid Moazzez pulls back the curtains to the Virtual Summit Mastery program how he uses Virtual Summits to produce an entire year of content that converts and monetizes in an Evergreen Strategy. Plus hear some of his go to tips to monetize a summit.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/277
EP276 Summit Speaker Success Steps
Here are 9 key steps to ensure summit speaker success.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/276
EP275 The Mother Of Virtual Summits
Milana is the creator of the Virtual Summit concept hosting the worlds first ever Tele-Summit in 2005. She talks with us about how summits have evolved, the good & the bad of what is happening with summits and her 5 step process to hosting a successful virtual summit.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/275
EP274 Preparing For your summit interview
Happy New Years! Let’s make this the best year yet. Be sure to reach out to us and let us know how we can help you grow your list and launch your summit.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/274
EP273 How Getting Fancy Doesn’t Increase Success
Jon goes through the specific strategy to implement & what to let go of in his 80/20 perspective of Virtual Summits.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/273
EP272 Access our Top Mentors to help you scale your business
What if you could get access to some of the top business coaches & consultants and have them help you grow your business? Now You Can!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/272
EP271 How To Evergreen Your Virtual Summit
After 5 successful Virtual Summits, the next evolution was the process of Evergreening them. Find out how James uses this process to propel him on to international stages as a Professional Keynote Speaker, all from starting a Virtual Summit!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/271
EP270 How To Use the New Summit Marketplace to get more attendees!
If you’ve not heard about the brand new Summit Marketplace inside of Virtual Summits Software you are leaving attendees on the table!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/270
EP269 Summits Are Dead!
Summit Coach & authority builder Michael Neeley goes deep into the reality of why Virtual Summits are still the dominant force in building your authority and your business as he takes on the most common Virtual Summit Myths.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/269
EP268 Virtual Summit Prep Checklist
Getting a little nervous that maybe you’ll forget something when creating your summit? Let’s go through our agency summit checklist.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/268
EP267 Sneak Peak At A New Summit Strategy
We look at a high engagement strategy to get your audience PUMPED up for your summit!
For full shownotes go to: https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/026
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/267
EP266 Summit Speaker Agreements. What you need to know
Should you use a Summit Speaker Agreement on your summit? Let’s find out.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/266
EP265 No Money? No Experience? No Problem With A Virtual Summit
Elissa talks about how to overcome the obstacles of knowledge, money, & time & how she went from unknown to influencer in one week through her virtual summit. Also learn how to use your summit to build life long relationships.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/265
EP264 What to do if something goes wrong on your summit.
Oh no! Something is wrong and your summit is live. What do you do now?
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/264
EP264 What to do if something goes wrong on your summit.
Oh no! Something is wrong and your summit is live. What do you do now?
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/264
EP263 Phases Of A Summit - How To Prevent A Summit Disaster
Jamie Slutzky, one of the top Summit Consultants in the world takes us through her insights as she helps set up successful virtual summits using strategies such as Gamification & a specific framework to reach the exact goal you have set for your summit.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/263
EP262 How to predict the exact revenue of your summit BEFORE it starts
Instead of gambling on the outcome of the revenue of your summit, why not predict it, then adjust it to get exactly what you want from your summit?
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/262
EP261 3 Proven Strategies To Successfully Name Your Virtual Summit
Don’t over think this part. When it comes to naming your summit pick one of these 3 naming strategies, and you’ll crush your summit.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/261
EP260 Rocket Fuel For Monetizing Your Summit After It Ends
Ciprian Soleriu is a Romanian based entrepreneur that teaches small businesses to sell more, faster, using smart buyer persuasion tactics and technology that automates their systems.
He created the biggest persuasion marketing blog in Romania (Conversion Academy) with over 20k subscribers and made over $200k selling online courses during the last year alone while also getting featured in Romania’s largest media outlets: Ziarul Financiar, Adevarul, Look TV, DIGI24 (series of interviews).
He is the creator of Launch With Partners virtual summit and was a guest speaker in other summits like the Webinar Mastery Summit, List Building School, etc.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/260
EP259 Choosing Your Summit Topic, Theme, Title, Subtitle & Avatar
Want to destroy your summit registration conversions? Just do this one thing.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/259
EP258 The Key Roles For Your Summit Dream Team
Let’s discuss the most important roles you could bring on to help you in your summit. Don’t go it alone when you can get help like this.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/258
EP257 How A Masterclass Became A 50,000+ Email Super Summit
Dr. Ryan Wohlfert, DC, CCSP, the co-founder of Total Health Spine and Nutrition is a highly specialized healthcare practitioner who has helped thousands of patients achieve their health goals at his multiple chiropractic, nutrition, and wellness clinics. He’s the co-creator and host of the Superhuman Brain Masterclass, bringing the world's top neuroscientists, brain researchers, doctors, and biohackers together to uncover proven solutions to upgrade the brain to high performance for life. He also founded UpgradedParents.com to help parents heal and upgrade their brain for maximum energy, performance, and longevity.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/257
EP256 My Summit isn’t ready in time what do I do?
No way you are going to be ready for your summit launch date? Don’t do what you are thinking about doing. Stop! Do this instead.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/256
EP255 Summits Suck. Here are the most sucky parts of a virtual summit
Your summit is not going to do what you want it to do and I’m going to tell you why in this episode.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/255
EP254 How To Increase Your Completion Rates Of Your Summits To Increase Sales
Dr. Carrie Rose is an Educator, Entrepreneur, & Keynote Speaker, notably one of Huffington Posts Must Follow Women Entrepreneurs in 2017.
She holds an Ed.D in Educational Leadership from the University of Central Florida, wrote her doctoral dissertation on Professional Development, and is best known for her innovative teaching strategies & methodology, her current research is in course completion rates & connecting online course development with The Science of Learning.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/254
EP253 Full Summit Breakdown of every component you need in a virtual summit
It’s time to dive into the details. In this episode we are going to cover every piece you need when creating a virtual summit.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/253
EP252 The Key Summit Phases To Map Out Your Summit Strategy
Don’t just jump into a summit blind. You need to know the phases and timelines when mapping out your summit.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/252
EP251 How To Run A Million Dollar Virtual Summit
Bobby shows the inside of a flopped summit & how that has allowed them to evolve and run over 100 + successful summits generating 900 Million Leads & multiple 7 Figure Summits.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/251
EP 250 The Top 6 Summit Myths
If you have thin skin turn back now because I’m peeling back some common summit myths and we are going to break these old belief patterns today on the Virtual Summit Podcast
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/250
EP249 How to recover after a failed summit
Are you sitting in a summit slum, contemplating relocating to a third world country where your speakers will never find you? Before you get too harsh on yourself find out how you can turn a bombed summit into a golden goose in this episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/249
EP248 The No Cost Traffic Solution To Your Summit
Sam talks from an ads agency perspective how you can generate leads at NO cost from a Virtual Summit.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/248
EP247 Top Strategy For Ensuring A Successful Summit
If you miss out on these simple but powerful basics for your summit you are going to be wasting your time!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/247
EP246 The 6 Different Styles Of Virtual Summits
WAIT! Don’t just jump into a Multi-Day Summit without at least knowing all the options of summits you can host.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/246
EP245 Ignite Your Summit With John Lee Dumas
As one of the top podcasters in the World John Lee Dumas of EOFire.com has spoken on hundreds of summits & has interviewed thousands of speakers. He drops a major value bomb on recruiting & interviewing influencers for your next summit.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/245
EP244 What is a Virtual Summit (and how does it differ from a Live Stream Conference)
If you host a Live Stream Conference with the goals of a Virtual Summit you’ll regret the outcome. Let’s see how to do it right.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/244
EP243 Why You Haven’t Hosted A Summit & How To Finally Get Started!
Less than 14% of the Population are Entrepreneurs. And less than 1% of those Entrepreneurs Will Ever host a summit. You should want to be in the 1%. Let’s get you there.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/243
EP242 How Chandler Bolt Doubled His Yearly Income With One Summit
Chandler talks about the specific strategy he used to get impossible to reach speakers to speak and promote his summit generating 3 times his yearly income in one month!
Quotes:
1) “One of my best employees first heard about us from our Virtual Summit”
2) "Fail Fast and Fail Forward, if you’re thinking about doing a summit just do it!"
3) "0 – 10 Million Dollar Business Started From A Virtual Summit"
4) "Double Our Income For The Year In One Month From A Summit"
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/242
EP241 No One-Size “Summit In A Box” Strategy Will Give You A Successful Summit
Stop looking for the cookie cutter “summit in a box” solution. You need to be different or face the same results as everyone else.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/241
EP240 Determine Your Summit Goals – Set Your Expectations & Outcomes
Stop making this mistake & start building successful summits.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/240
EP239 New Show Announced
Hook: I totally let you down. And I let myself down. But I’m back and ready to rock. I’ll explain everything in this episode.
Welcome:
- Say Something Exciting
What is Happening: We are completely revamping, rebranding, and restructuring our Show. And I am SO excited.
What To Expect: Short. Binge Worthy Tactical & Implementable Strategies for your summits.
3 Episodes a week. Two 10-Minute Tactical Sessions of yours truly picking a summit problem, challenge or strategy and bringing that information to you in a concise and easy to consume format. Plus each week we will dip back into our Summit Vault and pull out one of the top episodes from the past 3 years.
No more long, boring, drawn out interviews. I get it. I’m as burnt out as you are on them. They were great for a while. But after 230 interviews they started to sound all the same.
The Story:
I’ll fill you in on the story. Earlier this year I was sitting with my team and I told them the truth. I said, “I really don’t want to keep doing the podcast anymore.” It feels like I’m forcing myself to do something I really don’t want to do, and that is not in alignment with my values or work ethic.
So we pondered, hard about canceling the show. It had been a great run, and had brought us a lot of great benefits over the past 3.5 years of hosting it.
After thinking on it for a few weeks, I came to the realization, it’s not the Podcast I don’t love, it’s the format. I realized I was tired of doing interviews about the same topic, and trying to come up with a different story each time. The people were great of course, it was just there really isn’t a need for more interviews on summits.
When we started we were the ONLY podcast on this topic. Since then we’ve had a lot of imitators, and copy cats come up and run similar shows, take our content, and even our terminology and use it as their own.
So I decided if we are going to keep going forward we are going to do something different. Something that I ENJOY. Something fun.
The next step was I reached out to my great friend, John Lee Dumas, the host of Entrepreneurs On Fire. I had him come out here to my house and we had one of our famous “pool sessions” where we talk life, business, philosophy, and everything in between.
I told him my situation, and said, “what do you think”.
He took a few moments to think about it, and he said, “I think you are right”. People don’t need more interviews, and that’s probably not what they want from you.”
He said, “if it were me, here is exactly what I would do”. And he laid out the exact strategy that we are now implementing for you.
I mean when JLD gives you advice on Podcasting, you listen. He didn’t become one of the top podcast hosts, and shows on the planet for nothing.
Details:
With that said, I am excited to announce to you our new Podcast Show, “Virtual Summit Strategies” will be going live starting the first week in October.
3 Shows a Week. 2 Solo Implementation sessions & 1 Epic Vault Session. And every episode will have an EPIC Resource that you can access.
The Goal of the Show is to give you the tips, tools, strategies and resources you need to host a bingeworthy, successful Virtual Summit.
No cookie cutter, out of the box, boring, bombed summits. I’m going to be opinionated, and loud about those opinions, but as the worlds leading summit thought leader with more than 50 direct summits under my belt and hundreds of summits consulted on, and thousands of students coached, I know what works and what doesn't.
And that’s exactly what I’m going to give you.
Links & RSS feed will all stay the same. You can still find us at Podcast.VirtualSummits.com and you can still reach us at Podcast@VirtualSummits.com
My Promise To You:
Now here’s my promise to you. I’m going to stay consistent. I’m going to bring you valuable, implementable information and strategies for Virtual Summits. I’m not going to hold back. I’m not going to miss episodes, or release dates and I’m going to give you ALL my energy when doing it.
It’s going to be quality, fun, and beneficial information from this moment forward. It’s also going to be honest, true and to the point. I’m not going to sugar coat it, and I’m not going to give you the “out of the box” same as everyone else style of summit.
I’m going to help you build an empire, and get your voice out to the world by using a Virtual Summit.
I still very much believe each and every one of you has a message that matters. And there is nothing more powerful to get that out quickly than a Virtual Summit.
My Ask:
With that being said, I’m going to ask you for something as well.
I’m going to ask you to please
- Bear with me at the beginning and be patient as I find my new voice and flow.
- Provide Feedback. I need to know what you want to learn & hear. Please email us at Podcast@VirtualSummits.com and let us know what you want to hear.
- Share the show. You are apart of my team, and I need your help. I want to help people and I need your help to make that happen. Please share this show with at least one other person who is considering hosting a summit.
- Lastly, Leave a Positive 5-Star Written Review. Imagine this is your show, how much does this matter? It matters immensely. I read EVERY review and I reach out to each person who takes the time to support me by leaving a review. So please do that. Right now. Pause the episode and do it. It truly means a lot to me. And I’ll know, because I read them.
So that’s it. That’s what to expect. Starting from Episode 240 there will be 2 implementation episodes that will be 10 minutes or less, and an epic vault episode.
Get ready, reach out, tell me your thoughts and let’s rock this thing.
Resource:
For today’s episode I have a pretty amazing resource. It’s actually our Summitology training program. One of our main summit training courses for those who are considering whether or not to run a summit. It will help you work through the benefits, amount of time needed, what type of summit you want to run and how to get started.
In honor of the new Rebrand of our Virtual Summit Strategies Podcast Show, I’ve decided to give this thousand dollar course away for free, for a limited time.
You can access it right now at “FreeSummitCourse.com” Jump over and grab it now while it’s still available for free.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/239
EP239 New Show Announced
Hook: I totally let you down. And I let myself down. But I’m back and ready to rock. I’ll explain everything in this episode.
Welcome:
- Say Something Exciting
What is Happening: We are completely revamping, rebranding, and restructuring our Show. And I am SO excited.
What To Expect: Short. Binge Worthy Tactical & Implementable Strategies for your summits.
3 Episodes a week. Two 10-Minute Tactical Sessions of yours truly picking a summit problem, challenge or strategy and bringing that information to you in a concise and easy to consume format. Plus each week we will dip back into our Summit Vault and pull out one of the top episodes from the past 3 years.
No more long, boring, drawn out interviews. I get it. I’m as burnt out as you are on them. They were great for a while. But after 230 interviews they started to sound all the same.
The Story:
I’ll fill you in on the story. Earlier this year I was sitting with my team and I told them the truth. I said, “I really don’t want to keep doing the podcast anymore.” It feels like I’m forcing myself to do something I really don’t want to do, and that is not in alignment with my values or work ethic.
So we pondered, hard about canceling the show. It had been a great run, and had brought us a lot of great benefits over the past 3.5 years of hosting it.
After thinking on it for a few weeks, I came to the realization, it’s not the Podcast I don’t love, it’s the format. I realized I was tired of doing interviews about the same topic, and trying to come up with a different story each time. The people were great of course, it was just there really isn’t a need for more interviews on summits.
When we started we were the ONLY podcast on this topic. Since then we’ve had a lot of imitators, and copy cats come up and run similar shows, take our content, and even our terminology and use it as their own.
So I decided if we are going to keep going forward we are going to do something different. Something that I ENJOY. Something fun.
The next step was I reached out to my great friend, John Lee Dumas, the host of Entrepreneurs On Fire. I had him come out here to my house and we had one of our famous “pool sessions” where we talk life, business, philosophy, and everything in between.
I told him my situation, and said, “what do you think”.
He took a few moments to think about it, and he said, “I think you are right”. People don’t need more interviews, and that’s probably not what they want from you.”
He said, “if it were me, here is exactly what I would do”. And he laid out the exact strategy that we are now implementing for you.
I mean when JLD gives you advice on Podcasting, you listen. He didn’t become one of the top podcast hosts, and shows on the planet for nothing.
Details:
With that said, I am excited to announce to you our new Podcast Show, “Virtual Summit Strategies” will be going live starting the first week in October.
3 Shows a Week. 2 Solo Implementation sessions & 1 Epic Vault Session. And every episode will have an EPIC Resource that you can access.
The Goal of the Show is to give you the tips, tools, strategies and resources you need to host a bingeworthy, successful Virtual Summit.
No cookie cutter, out of the box, boring, bombed summits. I’m going to be opinionated, and loud about those opinions, but as the worlds leading summit thought leader with more than 50 direct summits under my belt and hundreds of summits consulted on, and thousands of students coached, I know what works and what doesn't.
And that’s exactly what I’m going to give you.
Links & RSS feed will all stay the same. You can still find us at Podcast.VirtualSummits.com and you can still reach us at Podcast@VirtualSummits.com
My Promise To You:
Now here’s my promise to you. I’m going to stay consistent. I’m going to bring you valuable, implementable information and strategies for Virtual Summits. I’m not going to hold back. I’m not going to miss episodes, or release dates and I’m going to give you ALL my energy when doing it.
It’s going to be quality, fun, and beneficial information from this moment forward. It’s also going to be honest, true and to the point. I’m not going to sugar coat it, and I’m not going to give you the “out of the box” same as everyone else style of summit.
I’m going to help you build an empire, and get your voice out to the world by using a Virtual Summit.
I still very much believe each and every one of you has a message that matters. And there is nothing more powerful to get that out quickly than a Virtual Summit.
My Ask:
With that being said, I’m going to ask you for something as well.
I’m going to ask you to please
- Bear with me at the beginning and be patient as I find my new voice and flow.
- Provide Feedback. I need to know what you want to learn & hear. Please email us at Podcast@VirtualSummits.com and let us know what you want to hear.
- Share the show. You are apart of my team, and I need your help. I want to help people and I need your help to make that happen. Please share this show with at least one other person who is considering hosting a summit.
- Lastly, Leave a Positive 5-Star Written Review. Imagine this is your show, how much does this matter? It matters immensely. I read EVERY review and I reach out to each person who takes the time to support me by leaving a review. So please do that. Right now. Pause the episode and do it. It truly means a lot to me. And I’ll know, because I read them.
So that’s it. That’s what to expect. Starting from Episode 240 there will be 2 implementation episodes that will be 10 minutes or less, and an epic vault episode.
Get ready, reach out, tell me your thoughts and let’s rock this thing.
Resource:
For today’s episode I have a pretty amazing resource. It’s actually our Summitology training program. One of our main summit training courses for those who are considering whether or not to run a summit. It will help you work through the benefits, amount of time needed, what type of summit you want to run and how to get started.
In honor of the new Rebrand of our Virtual Summit Strategies Podcast Show, I’ve decided to give this thousand dollar course away for free, for a limited time.
You can access it right now at “FreeSummitCourse.com” Jump over and grab it now while it’s still available for free.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/239
EP238 Thank You. I’m Sorry. Big Changes Coming. Here’s what to know
In this episode Dr. Mark T Wade reveals the big changes coming soon the Virtual Summit Podcast show. After months of discussions with his team, podcast legend John Lee Dumas, and our community, we’ve decided to make some big changes. Dr. Mark explains what was going on, why these changes are coming and what you can expect for the next few months. Thank you for your support and get ready for some pretty amazing things to come soon.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/238
EP237 Special 3 Year Anniversary Panel for the Virtual Summit Podcast
Join me and my guests summit hosts experts as we discuss insights from hosting virtual summits.
As a special 3 Year Anniversary of the Virtual Summit Podcast with over 100,000 downloads, 237 individual Episode, & 140 5-Star Reviews.
We are so grateful for the support over the years and appreciate all of you who have downloaded and listened to the Virtual Summit Podcast.
You can check out all of the amazing episodes here:
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/
Now let’s tune into this special Panel of Virtual Summit hosts as we celebrate the 3 Year Anniversary of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
And we are just getting started! Stay tuned for big things ahead.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/237
EP236 Understand The Power of Aligning With A Mission On Your Summit!
Dr. Nona Djavid shares with us incredible insights on how she was able to align her summits with missions, causes, and organizations to catapult her impact on her summits. Tune in to how she was able to make her second summit 50% simpler than the first and how her next summit will be even easier with this strategy. Plus listen to her powerful strategy to get speakers to not only agree to promote but go all out when promoting her summit. All this and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/236
EP235 Half A Million Dollars In Revenue Generated From A Health Summit
Dr. Isaac Jones has done everything from 100,000 lead summits to Six Figure summits and now has helped health professionals generate millions using these strategies he shares with us today. Tune in to the summit strategies he shares to ensure your next virtual summit is a major success! All that and more on today’s episode of The Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/235
EP234 How A Local Based Summit Directly Generated New Clients Into The Business
Dr. Kevin Christie has hosted 10 summits of various formats and goals. Today he walks us through how he used a Virtual Health Summit directly to his community to generate new patients, and established incredible new referral partners for his practice. If you are looking for a cutting edge way to grow a local brick and mortar business this episode will give you what you need. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/234
EP233 Using A One-Day Summit For A Local Chiropractic Practice
Dr. Holly Tucker talks about how as a chiropractor she was able to host a One-Day Virtual Summit to her local community and the successes that came from it. From speaker recruitment, to technical build outs, Dr. Holly walks us through how she was able to build her expertise, opportunities and revenue by focusing on serving her community at the highest level. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/233
EP232 Power house Co-Hosting Summit Duo Creates Epic Energy in their summit.
Co-Hosts Sherri Starr & Jessi Cox share the insider look at exactly how they created success and awesome vibes in their Live Streaming Summit. They talk about the must know information when recruiting and prepping speakers for a live event. Plus the special activities they created for their VIPs to ensure an environment so amazing that even the speakers wanted to play full out! All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/232
EP231 Creative Ideas That Makes Your Summit Irresistible & Fun
Dr. Stevii Mills walks us through the evolution of her summits having hosted more than 25 virtual summits since 2010. Her focus on user experience while ensuring that each summit is unique and wildly fun has kept her brand and business growing year after year. Learn how she focuses on bringing new ideas into her summits to ensure they get the most engagement from her attendees and speakers. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/231
EP230 How To Excel At Creating Summits In The Corporate Industry.
Demishia Samuels walks us through her top strategies on creating incredible summits in the corporate space. After 4 years of hosting summits she shares how to get Fortune 500 Companies on a summit, what components are most important for your audience, and how to structure your summit for success. Plus whether you should run a free summit or a premium summit. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/230
EP 229 Niching Down An Annual Summit Can Build An Engaged Tribe
Michele Heyward shares with us how running her summit for the past 4 years has helped her create amazing positioning and establish herself as a thought leader in her industry. Through niching down into a focused demographic inside of her niche has also established incredible relationships and engagement with her community. Plus a very unique way at running summits that limit the overwhelm caused from many different types of summits. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/229
EP 228 Bringing On Celebrity Speakers For A Live Streaming Summit
Brianna Ruelas talks us through her insights and wisdom from hosting the Reality Singing Show Summit Experience and how she was able to provide an incredible line up of speakers. Plus what worked well during a fully live streaming summit and the challenges that come along. Plus viral tactics to improve your summits discoverability. All this and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/228
EP Getting Official Continuing Education Credits For Your Summit.
Quisha Umemba delivers one of the most insightful episodes to date sharing strategies in getting official CE credits for your virtual summit, how to incorporate project management tools, using summit briefs for speakers and sponsors and how to incorporate loom videos to increase efficiency on summit creation. This is an absolute must listen to episode on the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/227
EP226 Insights To A More Profitable, Less Time Required Virtual Summit
Chloe Thomas talks us through her experiences having hosted several virtual summits and how she has finally cracked the code to more profits, and less time required to produce her summits. Learn top strategies to reducing video editing while producing high level sessions, and how to master sponsorships to increase revenue on your summit. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/226
EP225 A perspective of Live Streamed Versus Pre-Recorded Summits.
Megan Johnson Zucaro talks us through her experience of hosting a live streamed summit versus a traditional pre-recorded summit. Hear about what the time commitments are, the different levels of risk, and the different perspectives from a monetization standpoint. Megan shares with us so many amazing insights, and tips that can be used on your first or next virtual summit. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/225
EP224 How To Brand Your Virtual Summit For Maximum Success!
Mike Kim, author of ‘You Are The Brand’ walks us through how your summit is a direct reflection of your personal brand, and how you can use that to increase the success of your summit. Plus several direct perspectives to implement both on your summit and your marketing to get high level speakers to promote your summit. These principles Mike shares with us will turn up the velocity of success both in your summit and in your business. All that and more on today’s episode of The Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/224
EP223 How A 100% Charitable Summit Made An Impact In The World
Saurabh Narang decided to make a difference in his home country India by raising funds to donate to a charity. He did this through a Virtual Summit. In this episode he shares with us how he set up the summit, built a team to support him, selected the charity, and the legal aspects to know around doing a charitable giving summit. If you want to add a donation to a charity on your next summit then this episode is for you! All that and more on this episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/223
EP222 A Mother-Son Duo Co-Host A Successful Summit.
Lainie Liberti discusses the insights from co-creating a successful summit with her son. She talks about how they were able to use the summit as a library of information for their audience ongoing and how using a wildcard day of personal stories created inspiration and impact in their summit. Plus a big lesson learned. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/222
EP221 Tech Happens But are you prepared for it?
Stacy Braiuca walks us through some of the most common questions, and challenges around technology when creating a virtual summit. Learn how to prepare for success and avoid the common pitfalls when building out a summit. Plus the components that will take the most time to create. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/221
EP220 A 3 Speaker Live One-Day Summit
Karena Calhoun walks us through her lessons learned hosting her Live Streamed One-Day Summit. Listen to how she selected her speakers, set up her fail safes, and used this summit to set the path for future summits. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/220
Special EP01 Changing Summit Trends & Evolution Of The One-Day Summit
Dr. Mark T. Wade releases this special episode talking about the currenttrends and changes he is seeing in the Virtual Summit space. Get inside look to thisknowledge he shared with his Summit Accelerator Coaching Clients on what the mostsuccessful business owners are starting to do, and how they are now trending toincorporate on going One-Day Summits into their new business models.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/SP01
EP219 How A P.S. Can change the game of your summit
Jessica Campbell highlights some of her top summit strategies she has used to create an inspiring summit series. From how she got a 19% sales conversion, to how she crafted the perfect no brainer for her speakers to promote. She also shares how she has ensured her summit stands out from all the others in her industry while also building her facebook group. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/219
EP218 When NOT Niching Down Becomes The Best Summit Strategy.
Carmen Reed – Gilkison & Deirdre Harter share their summit success strategies starting with why they decided NOT to niche down their summit and how that became a major success. They also share with us the powerful strategy of collaboration and networking during and after your summit. Plus how using a summit debrief allowed them to easily convert their speakers into ambassadors for their programs and how you can do that too. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/218
EP217 Help! My Speakers Are Not Promoting. What Do I Do?
In today’s episode Dr. Mark takes us inside one of his Summit Accelerator coaching calls where they dive into the topic of what to do when your speakers are not promoting. Plus the power behind momentum and how to use it. And why a Summit Debrief is such an important tool to use even though no one really wants to do it. Listen in to this special episode on the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/217
EP216 A live stream Summit that changed lives and how you can too.
Raimonda Jan shares with us her amazing insights and strategies from hosting in person events, Live Stream Summits & traditional Multi Day Virtual Summits. Hear how she structured her live stream sessions, the support that was needed and how she was able to boost her most recent summit success by being interviewed by legendary Les Brown. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/216
EP215 Adding In Person Components To Your Virtual Summit
Shade Adu shares her wisdom from running virtual summits that ranged from one day to 10 days. In this episode we talk about how to create a diverse summit and getting voices from across the world. Plus how adding in uncommon commonalities and add that extra special piece to your summit. And finally how adding in person components to complement your virtual summit can be the thing that sets you apart. All that and more in this episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/215
EP214 An Integrators Insights Into Hosting A Virtual Summit.
Jeff Sands steps into the spotlight to share how he was able to generate a mega summit not once not twice, but eight times. Hear the lessons he’s learned while taking his summits and his business to the next level, without having to step in front of the camera. He shares his top strategies to incentive speakers to promote and how to ensure a profitable summit. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/214
EP213 Celebrity Psychic Shares Her Insights From Her Virtual Summits.
Adrien Blackwell shares the fear that she overcame when creating her first virtual summit, and the support her “guides” gave her to make it happen. We’ll discuss how she was able to get her favorite actress as a guest on her summit and her creative “summit specials” she has released. A fun and interesting chat with another incredible summit host. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/213
EP212 How to host an Opening & Closing Party for your summit.
Bree Noble has hosted 3 successful virtual summits for musicians. The most recent was an example of amazing creativity. Listen in to how Bree not only developed her successful brand from hosting her summits, but also how she has stayed at the top in her niche. Plus get insights into opening and closing parties for your summit. All that and more on this episode of the virtual summit podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/212
EP211 How A Summit’s Digital Swag Bag made a massive impact on its attendees.
Check out how Liz Stapleton has upped the summit game on her Virtual Summits through a very creative strategy incorporated through a Digital Swag Bag. Focusing on her audience and what they want she shows us how she has more than doubled her summit revenue year after year. Get these amazing success insights and more on today’s episode of the virtual summit podcast
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/211
EP210 How To Implement Learning Into Your Summit Presentations
Dr. Victoria Boyd used her incredible knowledge and skillset as an educator to create specialized summit guidelines for her speaker’s presentations to ensure that her audience got the insights and value they would from sitting in a university classroom. Take a peak at how she lays those systems out and creates successful Virtual Summits. All that and more on the Virtual Summit Podcast
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/210
EP209 A Harp Summit That Shaped The Way Creativity Is Imagined.
Diana Rowan is a pioneer in her industry shaping the way musical inspiration and creativity is shared through her Harp Summit Series. In today’s episode she shares with us some of the strategies she used to build community, fill her membership, and overcome fears that could have halted her inspiration. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/209
EP208 7 Time Summit Hosts Reveals The Secrets To A Successful Summit
Dr. Brian Mowll shows us inside his summit strategy that has allowed him to create more than 7 successful virtual summits. See what has changed over the past years, and what to do to keep your summit consistent while adding new and exciting components. Understand the power of authority and branding that comes from hosting an annual virtual summit. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/208
EP207 Black Speaker Network Live Summit Unveiled
Brian J Olds walks us through his live streamed summit and the top strategies that made the biggest difference. Plus see how he turned his final day into a community event that left his audience over the moon. If you’re looking for insights into upping your summit game then this episode is for you!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/207
EP206 The Tech Combo That Created The Perfect Engagement
Eugen Popa talks us through his live streaming summit and how he used a variety of platforms to increase the engagement of his summit. He shares with us lessons learned, what he’s going to do differently on his next summit and a special strategy to getting reviews and testimonies from your summit. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/206
EP205 Shining A New Approach To A Niche Industry With A Virtual Summit
Sophia Clark takes us through her journey from unknown to authority in a niche where most would think a summit not possible. Her approach to bringing a wide range of experts from different perspectives helped create a binge worthy style summit. And her incentive strategy including a brilliant offer to get her speakers to contribute. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/205
EP204 Adding Mentoring Sessions & Experiences into your virtual summit.
When Brittany Cole was faced with canceling her in person event she decided to overcome the challenge and take it virtual. In this episode she talks through several strategies she implemented to incorporate an in person experience through a virtual summit. Learn about her mentoring sessions, live tours, and online workbooks in this episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/204
EP203 Here is everything you need to know about Virtual Summits & Virtual Events
If you are ready to take your summit to the next level, or want to start implementing other virtual events then you definitely want to be here!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/203
EP202 A Secret Speaker VS Speaker Strategy To Skyrocket Your Summit!
Amber Vilhauer opens up the vault of awesomeness showing her summit secrets that increased speaker engagement & promotion while generating a massive success for her charity summit. Listen in to some key insights that you can immediately implement into your first or next summit. All that and more on today’s episode.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/202
EP201 What’s The Difference Between A Summit & A Course/Webinar/Podcast/etc?
Is a summit essentially just a course or a webinar? What’s the difference? You’ll find out all about it in today’s episode
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/201
EP200 Peak into how our Viral Summits Concierge Team Creates Summits.
The heart and soul of the Viral Summits Concierge comes on with me to talk about all the items from good to challenging that go into running a Virtual Summit agency. Listen into our Summit Strategist Karl, our Speaker Concierge Jackie, and our Customer Happiness Expert Shannon talk about the different things a summit host needs to know. All that and more on todays episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/200
EP199 How To Prep Your Speakers For their Super Summary & Promo Clip
The recording doesn't stop when the interview ends. You still have your Super Summary & Promo Clips. Don’t overlook or neglect these items or it may leave your speakers thinking they shouldn’t promote. Knock them out of the park with these simple strategies.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/199
EP198 How To Use Your Virtual Summit To Build Partnerships
Natalie Luneva talks through her expert strategy using virtual summits to create an abundance of successful partnerships and collaborations from her summit. Hear about the lessons learned from her first summits and how those helped her create her most successful summit to date. All that and more on the Virtual Summit Podcast
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/198
EP197 How To Create An Epic Summit Playbook
Give your audience the WOW they want with the structure they need. Give them A Summit Playbook. It’s time we talk about how to build out your playbook.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/197
EP196 How HelloAudio Can Maximize Audio Streams For Your Virtual Summit!
Lindsay Padilla from HelloAudio talks about the power of audio, and how using a variety of different strategies focused all around audio streams can be a major benefit to your summit. From increased revenue to more engagement to an additional product source. Find out how you can maximize your results with this strategy. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/196
EP195 Are Summits Doomed Or Going to Boom 2021?
Summits Are Going To Boom In 2021, but yours might not if you don’t head these warnings, and make these changes that we will discuss today.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/195
EP194 How To Get Continuing Education Credits On A Summit
Blair Thielemier has created something magical for her audience through the addition of approved and accredited Continuing Education credits for attending her summit. Tune into how she was able to do this and how it positively impacted her tribe. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/194
EP193 The Gift Of Summits: Our Top 21 Episodes You NEED To Hear!
Merry Christmas & Happy holidays! Let’s give the gift of summits and check out our TOP 21 MUST Listen to episodes from the Virtual Summit Podcast!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/193
EP192 How An Application Funnel Created A Six Figure Summit
Jon Schumacher takes us deep into his annual virtual summit and how this new strategy created mega monetization. See what worked, what didn’t, and how Jon continues to uplevel his summit strategy each year. All this and more on this episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/192
EP191 The 7 Different Types Of Virtual Summits & Which One You Should Host
Not all summits are created equal and not everyone should run a multi day summit. Luckily there are 7 different types of summits that allow you to choose the summit best aligned to meet your goals on your time line and budget. Let’s talk shop!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/191
EP190 How A Paid Ads Strategy Saved Her Summit!
Dr. Destini Copp talks about her success and challenges of her summit launching the week before COVID shut downs, and how she was able to over come that through a Paid Marketing strategy she used to bring in more attendees and how she was able to use the summit to pay for it all! All that and more on today’s episode.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/190
EP189 Part 3 Summit Talks Debrief: Lessons Learned
In the Final part of the Summit Talks Debrief series we look at what lessons were learned from this Mega 6-Figure Summit. While hosting the Largest Most Impactful Virtual Summit ever, we learned a few things in the process. Let’s talk about what worked, what didn’t and what we would do differently.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/189
EP188 How to Productivity Hack Your Summit!
Demir Bentley the king of life hacking and a summit expert shares his top summit productivity hacks along with some summit wisdom on how to really think big on your next summit. Plus what Demir thinks is an absolute no go when it comes to summit speakers. All that and more on today’s episode.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/188
EP187 Part 2 Summit Talks Debrief: Let’s look at the PROFIT!
This is the second part of the 3 part summit talks debrief series. In this part we take a look at how the summit performed, what worked for engagement and how we generated over 6 Figures in revenue from this summit. Plus what specific items we tested and which ones worked, and which ones bombed.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/187
EP186 The Legal Aspects Of A Summit You Need To Know!
Jackie Kotei has hosted every type of summit imaginable from a 28 day summit to a one-day summit. Now she shares the legal aspects of hosting a summit that summit hosts need to know before getting started. All that and more on today’s episode.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/186
EP185 Look inside The most successful virtual summit in history!
Check out our 3 part Summit Talks debrief as we take you behind the scenes of the largest most impactful virtual summit ever created for summit hosts. See how we generated 6 figures off our summit and how we also completely bombed in certain areas of the summit. In this first part of the Summit Talks Debrief we talk about the Overview, Strategy & Prep that went into the summit talks summit.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/185
EP184 How He Created The BEST Virtual Summit In Law Enforcement!
Adam Kinakin dives in and lets us know his trade secrets to generating a profitable virtual summit in a niche that doesn’t normally attend virtual summits. Plus his top strategy for getting sponsors and why most people are doing it incorrectly. All that and more on today’s episode of the virtual summit podcast
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/184
EP183 I’m back baby & Summit Fest Live Call For Speakers
It’s been a few weeks since my individual episode has aired and I’ve missed you!! Don’t worry, I’m back. I’ll be breaking down our mega summit “Summit Talks” over the next couple episodes, and then diving into on going amazing summit strategies.
But first today I wanted to give a call out for speakers to join us at our Summit Fest Live in person conference next year. Think “Traffic & Conversions” of Virtual Events and that’s what we are building.
So if you are a virtual summit or virtual event expert then come share your insights and wisdom with us there.
Stay tuned as we get primed for some amazing more summit strategies.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/183
EP176 Create A Summit One Pager For Your Speakers
Want to stand out above the other summit hosts reaching out to your speakers? Then you should include a Summit One-Pager
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/176
EP174 Why You Shouldn’t Call Your Summit A Virtual Summit
Stop calling your summit a summit and start focusing on the problem. Here are three reasons you should consider not calling it a summit:
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/174
EP173 How to transition out of your job using a virtual summit
Jerry Winans takes us through his experience of leaving his 9-5 job into his very own business in a completely different niche. If you are interested in pivoting from your current situation then come learn how you can do that with a summit. All that and more on today’s episode.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/173
EP172 Why you should run a paid virtual summit.
Summits have to be free right? What other option is there? Let’s talk about when and why to do a premium summit!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/172
EP171 Paid Vs Free Why One Summit Changed Their Model moments before their summit.
Danny Den Hartog talks us through his unique and inspiring virtual summit. Learn how and why Danny decided to pivot the entire summit model just 11 days before the summit went live and how that allowed him to achieve success. Plus learn how you can host a summit even if you don’t intend to be the person performing the interviews. All that and more on today’s episode.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/171
EP170 Check Out My Speaker On Boarding process
Want to have speakers asking you to speak on your summit and having sponsors reaching out to you to pay you money? Well then you need a stellar on boarding process. Let’s take a look!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/170
EP169 How A Paid Summit Got A 90% Show Up Rate!
Professional Flute performer Noniko Xu decided to help her industry in their time of need creating the Virtual Musician Summit. With a 90% show up rate and 60% upsell conversions Noniko has cracked the code. Plus adding a special live streaming aspect to pre-recorded videos turned out to be exactly what her audience wanted. Check that out and more on today’s episode.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/169
EP168 Interview Fatigue. It’s Real! Here’s How To Prepare For It.
Interviews, all you do is sit around and talk. That’s not hard work. That’s what you think until you hit the Interview Fatigue point. Here’s what to know and how to prepare for it.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/168
EP167 How To Make Your Summit VIDEOS Look AMAZING
Adrian Salisbury walks us through how to make your summit video’s look out of this world with 3 simple steps. No longer have boring, bland, bad video. Look like a pro when you incorporate these tactics to make your summit videos pop and stand out. You’ll quickly become the example of how it is suppose to look.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/167
EP166 The 7 Day Virtual Summit Challenge
Stop guessing & procrastinating and let’s get your summit done. I’m going to walk you through what you need to know in 7 days and you’ll be ready to rock. Let’s check it out.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/166
EP165 How an Animal Communicator Doubled Her Annual Income With A Virtual Summit.
Dr. Cara Gubbins wanted to connect with others in her industry, so she decided to host a virtual summit. Fast forward 4 summits later and she has become the celebrity in her field and increased her impact, reach and income. Find out more about how she has influenced an entire industry.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/165
EP164 The DIRTY Part of Summit Speaker Interviews
I’m going to take you on a journey with me, as I create one of the most historic virtual summits ever built called Summit Talks. And show you what is working and what is not in real time. Let’s get started
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/164
EP163 How To Create Engagement With A Summit Launch Party
Summit Producer Nicole Ware walks us through her specific strategy to kick off your virtual summit in a way you’ve never seen before. Immediate engagement, social proof and increased organic referrals. Check that out in today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/163
EP162 Calling all summit hosts to speak on summit talks
Want to speak on the largest & most impactful virtual summit for summit hosts. Then you’re gonna want to hear about Summit Talks. Let’s jump in to it.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/162
EP161 Insights from a Heart Centered Micro Summit
Sheri Moise walks us through her approach to creating a micro summit and how she was able to stay in alignment with her brand, message and still generate success through a summit. Get insights into this summit and more on today’s episode of the virtual summit podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/161
EP160 Summit Revenue Calculator Revealed
Want to generate 5,000 leads and make $10,000 on your virtual summit? Great but have you actually looked at how to do it? Probably not and that is one of the top reasons you won’t achieve your goals. Until now! Let’s take a look at the summit revenue calculator.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/160
EP159 How An In Person Event Went Virtual And Did Better Than Ever!
Bari Baumgarder talks about how after years of creating some of the most successful in person conferences, they have quickly pivoted to creating some live virtual conferences that have seen even more success than in person. Get insights into their touch & tech approach and how they were able to generate multiple 6 figures through their unique live virtual conference approach.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/159
EP158 How To REALLY Monetize A Summit With These Strategies
Yes the summit is a relationship building strategy but what if you really want to squeeze as many pennies out of it as possible? What do you do then? Well you use these specific strategies that I’m going to show you to increase your summit revenue anywhere from 25% to 4 times the original revenue amount. Get ready for some moolah!!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/158
EP157 Co-Hosts Of The Toilet Seat Summit Reveal ALL!!
Potentially one of the most fun & comedic Virtual Summits to date, Rachael & Lanie walk us through their Toilet Seat Summit where they talk about challenges & benefits to having a co-host and how using parody can be both a powerful tool and a curse. We cover a lot of amazing aspects that you can implement in your next summit on today’s episode of the virtual summit podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/157
EP156 Creating A Docu Summit
Tired of boring old interview based summits? Want to spice yours up and create a binge worthy summit? Then you need to add some new themes into your summit. Today we are going to talk about creating a Docu Summit
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/156
EP155 The number one NON Technical component You must prepare for on your Virtual Summit.
We take a look at a unique summit that overcame the far too common challenge of speakers not promoting. Find out how Kole dug down deep and used a pure hustle strategy to absolutely crush what would have otherwise been a bombed summit. Plus learn the number one non technical component that you MUST be planning for when creating a Virtual Summit. All that and more on today’s episode.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/155
EP154 Advanced Interview Tips For Handling Challenging Speakers
Some time speakers can be a real pain in the rear. But instead of just throwing in the towel and giving up, let’s talk about some expert tips for handling difficult speakers. This could be the difference between an impactful interview or a BORING one. Let’s get started.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/154
EP153 When to take control back of your summit from a summit team!
Monica Bijoux walks us through her success and challenges during her Virtual Summit. Specifically how to handle a speaker who is not living up to their original agreements, and why being in charge of your summit may be the best thing for your brand. All that and more on today’s episode.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/153
EP152 How To Prep Your Speaker For Their Interview
The outcome of your interview depends on YOU the summit host, not the speaker. Don’t leave your success up for chance. Own it using these strategies I’ll cover today to prep your speaker!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/152
EP151 How to find your perfect audience through Virtual Summits.
Christina Wessendorf found her perfect audience through the process of creating 3 different summits. Through challenges, and struggles she was able to overcome and create summits that made a difference in her audiences lives while allowing her to get her message out to more people. Plus the one critical mistake that she warns all summit hosts to be cautious about. All that and more on today’s episode.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/151
EP150 Special Episode: Here is exactly what you can accomplish
More than a hundred thousand leads generated and over a million dollars accumulated by our summit tribe. Today is all about how awesome you are! And I’m excited to celebrate you!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/150
EP149 How To Go From A New Business To CRUSHING it in 6 months
If you are just getting started you can either go the traditional route of building a business, which is super slow and usually costly and full of stress. Or you can use this simple plan and be crushing it in less than 6 months. Let’s check it out.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/149
EP148 Why practice makes perfect as a summit speaker.
OG Lady Boss Krista Goodrich talks us through her strategies as a summit speaker to getting on more summits, and how to ensure your talks are engaging for your audience. Check out her episode on the Virtual Summit Podcast.
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EP147 Selecting Your Summit Topic, Name & title.
One of the most challenging aspects for a Summit Host is narrowing down their summit idea into a powerful summit name & title. Most don’t even know the difference. Yet this one single aspect could be the cause of success or the demise of your summit. So let’s get super clear on it right now.
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EP146 Behind the scenes of a Hybrid Summit & Virtual Live Stream Workshop With Tucker Max
Tucker Max talks us through his recent Live Streaming Workshop-Summit hybrid. Things that worked well, things that didn’t and how you can implement this specialized virtual event into your brand or business. Note this is an explicit episode as Tucker plays full out all the time! Get ready to level up!
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EP145 Newbie Consultation – How to use a breaking news theme to create momentum in your community.
Join us for this one on one consultation with Dr. Holly Tucker as we dig into her summit idea & craft the perfect strategy for her to create massive impact in her tribe. We talk about using a “Breaking News” strategy combined with a press release to her local traditional media outlets to get even more attention into her summit while increasing her authority in her community. That and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast
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EP144 Challenges faced in building out her virtual summit.
Join Amy Schadt on today’s episode to talk about the challenges and struggles she faced in building out her Virtual Summit. Understand it’s not all glory and roses for summit hosts, but you can get a head start with this information. All that and more on today’s episode.
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EP143 Celebrating Our One Year Anniversary: The top most downloaded episodes on the Virtual Summit Podcast!
I cannot believe it. It’s our one-year anniversary of this podcast release, and I’ve got something special planned for you. So get excited and get ready we are going to have some fun looking back at this one!!
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EP142 How To Overcome That Pre-Summit Nervousness & Absolutely CRUSH Your Summit.
Tim takes us through his strategy on getting all access passes even BEFORE the attendees opt in for the summit. Plus how he perfectly aligned his summit with the post summit offer and what he recommends you do from a design perspective on your next Virtual Summit. All that and more on this episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
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EP141 How to maximize your monetization of a virtual summit
Would you prefer $30,000 dollars or $160,000 dollars? Yeah a no brainer right? Well then let’s talk about how to truly monetize your virtual summit. Hold on to your ear lobes because this is going to get wild!
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EP140 How to become a Category King With A Virtual Summit
Martin Boeddeker gets vulnerable and transparent on what didn’t work and how his summit cost him his entire facebook account. These are two mistakes you can’t afford to make, and now thanks to Martin you don’t have to. Check out this must listen to episode on the Virtual Summit Podcast
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EP139 Launch a Successful Summit in ONLY 3 DAYS!!!
What if you could get your summit done in 3 days and have it be EPICALLY successful? You can and I’m going to show you how!
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EP138 Creating Success out of Chaos with Specific Summit Systems.
Director Of Operations Theresa Baretta walks us through the summit calculator and how she creates success out of chaos with automation and systems. Learn how you can improve the efficiency of your summit while minimizing the efforts and energies needed! All that and more in today’s episode!
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EP137 Free Access To Virtual Summits Software – Hope 2020
In a time like this we must step up and help each other. I’m here for you, my tribe, my friends, my community and I want to do my part to help us all get to a better place. That is why I’m going to give away our software for free to all new accounts right now. Let’s talk about it.
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EP136 How A Mission Based Virtual Summit Elevated An Industry!
Tune to how Stephanie Slocum rocked out her first summit by going into a niche within a nice and incorporating an inspiring mission that helped her bring on some of the biggest names in her industry to speak on her summit. All that and more on today’s episode.
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EP135 How to add engagement through Virtual Experiences Into Your Summit.
We are doing a special session today with Luke Wade the community creator on how to add virtual experiences into your virtual summit, workshop or mastermind. Having created engagement strategies and experiences both in person and virtual luke walks us through the specific tactics to create an incredibly engaged virtual event.
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EP134 Social Media Strategy To Increase Engagement Of Your Sessions.
Social media marketing expert and regular summit speaker Andrea Jones talks to us about a specific engagement strategy she puts into her presentations even when they are pre-recorded. Plus find out how to increase your summit exposure through social media. All that and more in todays episode.
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EP133 Explore The Different Types Of Virtual Events & Their Uses!
When it comes to Virtual all events are not created equal. Do you know the differences between a virtual workshop, mastermind, multi day summit, or summit series? Do you know what the goal and specific aspects of each are? If not you need to, and that’s exactly what we discuss in today’s episode.
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EP132 Summit Speaker Swipe Copy Made Simple!
Today we are bringing you a copy writing expert who has spoke on several dozen virtual summits giving Courtney Chaal a crystal clear perspective on how to improve your Summit SWIPE copy for speakers. We talk about creation, subject lines, alignment and how to make it simple for yourself and the speaker. This is a must listen to episode on the Virtual Summit Podcast.
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EP131 Why Established Brands Should Run A Summit Specifically These Two Reasons!
Yes there are countless benefits to running a summit, but why should a successful brand want to run a summit. Well there are two extremely powerful reasons why you should be running summits. That’s what we are going to cover today, so let’s get started.
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EP130 How to craft authentic powerful summit email copy on your next summit.
Auguste Crenshaw brings the goods on todays episode sharing her insights and wisdom after hosting 5 successful Virtual Summits. Find out whether your summit should be annual or not, fee or free, and how to increase the engagement of your speakers while increasing your authenticity. This is a must listen to episode on the Virtual Summit Podcast.
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EP129 Here Are The MOST IMPORTANT reasons to host a summit
There is a reason why most summit hosts grow their business dramatically after a summit, and it’s not because of the leads and revenue. There is SO much more to a summit and that’s what we are going to dig into today. I can’t wait. Let’s get started.
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EP128 Using a content storm to create the perfect promotion strategy for your virtual summit
After 250 Virtual Summits Jennie Wright knows how to craft a summit that crushes it. Tune into her episode as she takes us inside her proprietary processes to building out hundreds of successful summits and how she uses a content storm strategy to create unlimited promotional buzz around her summits. All that and more on the Virtual Summit Podcast.
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EP127 What number of leads should I expect on my summit?
It’s breaking my heart to see so many summits perform like this and then just give up. Maybe it’s an incorrect expectation or maybe it’s poor planning. Either way don’t quit because you are so close. Let’s talk about what is realistic and how to get you in the top 20% of summits!
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EP126 Professional Stylist and Summit Sponsors Helps Prep You For Success.
Professional Stylist and image coach talks about her experiences as a summit sponsor. Find out why you should be considering sponsors for your summit, and how to ensure you are meeting their needs. Plus a few on video stylists tips to ensure you look on point during your virtual summit. All that and more on today’s episode.
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EP125 15 Specific Session Styles You Should Be Using In Your Summit
Why is every summit just stuffed full with information Q&A style interviews? It’s so boring. There are 15 different session styles you could be implementing and it will make your summit stand out above all others. Let’s take a look at those right now!
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EP124 From TeleSummit To Virtual Summit here’s the pro’s & the cons.
Cheryl Moses being an early adopter hopped into the summit space with her first telesummit creating great brand awareness and relationships with her speakers. Hear the lessons learned as she transitioned from tele summits to virtual summits and all the insights in between. That and more on today’s episode.
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EP123 Fireside Chat With Summit King & Dr. Mark T Wade
Fireside chat with Navid
Tune into the Fireside chat between Summit King, and Dr. Mark T Wade. A live recording from Summit FEST Live where Dr. Mark & Navid take a look back at how summits have evolved, and where they are going. All that and more on todays episode.
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EP122 The Largest ROI from your summit is this one thing & here’s how to get it!
Ivy Slater talks us through the most powerful, intangible ROI from a Virtual Summit and how summit hosts can build out specific processes to ensure they capitalize on it before, during, & after their summit. You don’t want to miss this episode today on the Virtual Summit Podcast!
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EP121 Want Us To Create Your Summit For You?
What if you could wake up a few months from now with a huge community of qualified and engaged fans, your brand has a big boost in awareness, several key strategic partners lined up and a nice jump in your revenues? What if you could get the results without having to do all the work. Everything is about to change for the better so get ready to rock.
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EP120 How A Live Streaming Summit Created a one of a kind experience.
Raymond Sidney-Smith walks us through the specific process he used to host one of the most successful live streaming virtual summits. See how he used a co-hosting team to help with speaker sessions, and his back up protocols for any errors that could pop up. Plus why the speakers and attendees loved the live engagement and interaction.
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EP119 Live Consultation Focused On Monetizing a summit!
Summit Newbie Dorian Maras comes on the podcast to get a consultation with Dr. Mark. Just weeks from his summit launch date we jump into how to promote the summit and most importantly how to monetize the summit after it ends. Check out this live consultation!
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EP118 How To Implement Contests & Give A Ways into Your Summit.
Scott Carson went from losing tens of thousands of dollars from a live event to hosting one of the most profitable Virtual Summits in one of the most niche industries. Learn why he only runs paid summits, and says free has no value. Plus find out how he creates the most engaged audience using contests and give a ways. All that and more on today’s episode.
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EP117 A Story About The Most Epic Summit Week That Has Ever happened.
This episode is gonna be a little different, maybe even a little peculiar. Some of you may love it, some of you may not, but let’s give it a try. I’m going to tell you a little story about a time in a land not so far away. So get comfortable, sit back, close your eyes, and let’s get started.
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EP116 The difference between a Fair & a Circus and what that means for your revenues!
Francis Wade takes us deep into how focusing on transformation over education can create incredible success on your next summit. Specifically focusing on engagement & building community even before your summit starts. Hear about his game room strategy to build your next successful summit. All that and more on today’s episode.
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EP115 Virtual Summit Sales Strategies & Campaigns Made Simple
It’s time to talk summit profits and for you to learn the 3 specific sales sequences to generate major moolah on your next virtual summit. Get ready to see some dollar signs and to get a major profit boost starting now!
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EP114 Kick your webinar to the curb and run a Virtual Summit!
We dive in to the truth behind what’s happening with webinars and how summits are just getting started, with Tammey Grable Woodford. Plus what you need to know as a summit host when you get started on your summit. All that and more on today’s episode.
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EP113 Summit Leaderboard Contests To Engage Your Speakers & Affiliates.
If you want your speakers to promote your summit then you need to know how to engage them. Today I’m going to share with you the most powerful strategy to not only get speakers to promote, but to get them to send out more emails than you even asked them to. This one is going to be a fun one!
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EP112 5 Publicity strategies you should include in your summit promotion.
As a summit speaker who specializes in PR & Media KJ Blattenbauer takes us deep into 5 strategies to get more promotion & publicity for your summit in ways that you are not currently using. This is a must listen episode to take your summit to the next level!
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EP111 The most important summit strategy ever released.
Get ready to watch everything change. Summits are evolving and you are going to be the first get inside information on how to implement it in your business. Today we talk One-Day Summit Series, the most powerful summit strategy ever invented. Get ready because you’re in for a good one.
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EP110 How to create transformation through a Virtual Summit
Summit Coach Krista Miller talks about her strategies for creating transformation in peoples lives, regardless of the size of your list. And how even the smaller audiences can create some of the biggest results. Plus see how she sets up the perfect engagement strategy to keep her audience coming back for more. All that and more on today’s episode.
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EP109 LIVE COACHING: How To Transform Your Summit To A Summit
We jump into Summit Newbie, Shawn Davis’s, idea for a One-Day Summit and help him clarify how he can make a bigger impact and get his important message out to the world. See how we transform that idea from one single summit to an ongoing world changing &impact making summit series. All that and more on the Virtual Summit Podcast
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EP107 Why One-Day Summits Are The Future Of Summits.
Summit Coordinator Sasha talks us through her strategies of using One-Day Summits & micro summits to boost your business, especially if you are brand new in online biz world. Plus hear why she believes the One-Day Summit is the future of summits, and why you don’t want to miss out! All that and more on the Virtual Summit Podcast.
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EP108 From Bombed Summit To $2.4 Million Dollars With Jay Fiset
Jay Fiset founder of JVology talks about how his summit put him in a hospital, but how the relationships from that summit went on to create a 2.4 million dollar year! See why relationships are the new return on investment strategy and how that can create you a successful 6 or 7 figure business. All that and more on today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast
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EP106 Here’s How You Get To Speak On More Summits In 2020!
Happy new years, now let’s get to work. This is going to be the most impactful & historic year ever for Virtual Summits, and I want to give you the exact game plan on how you can make 2020 your best year ever! Let’s get started
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EP105 How to use Pinterest to drive summit traffic
Summit Speaker Rachel Ngom walks us through the ideal process of taking a speaker from out reach to interview. She then goes through a special Pinterest strategy to increase traffic to your summit. All that and more on todays episode.
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EP104 How To Build Your Brand With Your Summit
Brand Strategist Doug Holt has helped summit hosts build brands that scale. He talks us through his initial strategy of analyzing your brand, then walks us through specific strategies to use Summits to build on that credibility and reputation. Find out how to build a brand from your summit in this episode along with the one thing summit hosts are universally doing incorrectly.
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EP103 How to easily turn your summit into a course!
Here is a quick & simple strategy to turn your summit into a course, increase your product suite and start making some additional revenue. Oh and merry Christmas!
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EP102 Building Empires With Virtual Summits & how you can do it too
Summer Bock has built an empire starting back to her first summit. Now having hosted 3 successful Virtual Summits she shows us how she creates exceptional user experience, lifts up speakers, and provides summits as a resource not as a list grab. She also talks about a current trend that is tarnishing the summit space. Find out how you can build your empire with summits just like Summer in this episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast
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EP101 7 Summits and counting & how to maximize your results from speaking on summits.
Serial Summit Speaker Meg Casebolt reveals her secrets to getting the most out of speaking on summits and how she has created specific systems that let her speak on 7 summits in the past year. Plus as an SEO specialist she tells us a legendary strategy to increase your visibility of your summit. All that and more on this episode.
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EP100 Are Summits Doomed Or Going To Boom in 2020. My Predictions for the year to come.
We Did it! 100 episodes celebrated today. Plus a special no hold barr looked into Are summits doomed or going to boom in 2020. Get a look back at 2019 and my predictions on what are going to happen in the year to come. Hold on tight because this is going to feel like you are on a rocket ship!
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EP099 Know which role you should choose as the summit host.
Did you know there are actually 4 different roles to choose from when hosting a summit? Many summit hosts make the mistake of not getting clear on these roles before starting their summit. I’m going to help you get crystal clear on that on todays episode.
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EP098 Why Your Speakers Bail On Your Summit & How It is actually your fault!
Jodi Graham talks us through her positive experiences speaking on virtual summits, and one summit that made her say, thanks but no thanks. This is a NEED to know information that unfortunately many summit hosts are still doing incorrectly. Find out how you can ensure your relationship with your speakers becomes a lasting partnership.
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EP097 How A Hippie Is Turning The Summit World Upside Down!
Self Proclaimed Hippie, Tad Hargrave doesn’t hold back in this episode as he gets raw, real, and vulnerable about the way some summit hosts are ruining summits. Also why you should assume every speaker you reach out to is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. All that and more on todays episode.
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EP096 Introducing Summit Scripts™ – Free Summit Copy resource.
No more sub par summit email copy. No more $5,000 expense on a copywriter. We brought you the most successful summit hosts walking you through their summit email copy at summitscripts.com. I’ll explain all that and more in this episode.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/096
EP095 Improve Your Summit Productivity Management Or ELSE!
Dr. Frank Buck talks us through his experiences as a summit speaker and a participant on a recently live streaming summit. He showcases the importance of productivity & time management and how you can keep your summit running successfully.
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EP094 How to analyze your success as a Summit Speaker
Trena Little walks us through her process of collecting, analyzing and determining the success of the summits she speaks on. She talks through the process of how she builds this out, plus several specific key points to creating a great summit video.
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EP093 LIVE CONSULT: How To NOT feel bad about asking your speakers to promote.
Join me for this live consultation with Summit Newbie Jim Ross as he prepares for his upcoming Virtual Summit. We cover how to get past feeling bad about asking speakers to promote, how to market your summit, and the ideal number of times to email your current audience to get them to opt in to your summit. Plus special shout out to the InterviewLikeAPRO.com training program.
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EP092 How To Use your students as speakers and build your success.
Rynette talks us through her strategy of putting together a one-day summit in less than 10 days and how empowering her students to be speakers on her summit created a raving fan of followers. Also incorporating multiple live streaming aspects inside of a Facebook group created improved engagement. All that and more on todays episode.
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EP091 Let’s Talk Summit Copy Writing Strategies
Jose Aviles (our director of Viral Summits) & I talk about our go to when it comes to writing summit email copy, our frameworks, and our thoughts on long versus short form copy writing. There’s one thing we agree on without doubt and it’s the importance of messaging. Find out how you can create great messaging and email sequence on this episode of the virtual summit podcast.
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EP090 How To Create Your Summit Home Video
Oh no big deal just the difference between complete and total victory success and utterly demoralizing failure. That’s what hinders on you knowing this information about how to create your Summit Home Video. So get ready because you are in for a treat!
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EP089 The Brutal truth on how you should treat your speakers
Evy Heimann doesn’t hold back when it comes to her experience and what speakers are saying behind your back. She unleashes the real & raw truth on what happens if you make a few of these fatal mistakes. Tune into this episode to learn how to increase your relationships with your speakers.
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EP088 How To Get Sponsors For Your Summit!
Ho Yin has sponsored more than 8 summits and talks through how you can get someone to want to sponsor your summit. Plus two specific tactics that will have businesses reaching out to ask YOU if they can be a sponsor. Also what you should offer and what you should expect. All that and more in todays episode.
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EP087 FIRST EVER 100% Customizable Summit Page Builder™
If this was any more magical you would have to start calling me Wizard Mark instead of Doctor Mark. Now hold on to your broomsticks and magic wands because I’m about to blow your socks off with what we have just released for you!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/087
EP086 How 6 Summits Are Still Bringing In Success With An Evergreen Strategy.
Marc Guberti walks us through the amazing process he used to evergreen all 6 of his Virtual Summits and how he continues to add new speakers on a monthly basis. No more one & done summits after you listen to this episode on the Virtual Summit Podcast.
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EP085 How Understanding The Audience Helped Meet Edgar On Their Virtual Summit
Tom Tate takes us inside the Solo Biz Summit hosted by MeetEdgar to show us how a SAAS company used the power of Virtual Summits to engage with their audience. We discuss several outside of the box strategies that Tom used to ensure his summit was a highly engaged success. All that and more on todays episode.
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EP084 Hey You! LIST GRABBER!! Stop Exploiting Your Speakers
There’s no way to sugar coat this. If you are doing these list grabber slimy tactics you are a part of the problem. However, we are going to help ensure you never make these mistakes again as we talk about how to STOP exploiting your speakers and still rock out an epic virtual summit. Buckle in because this one is gonna get bumpy!
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EP083 Why You Want Trolls On Your Virtual Summit
Ben Settle talks us through a unique process of using controversy and trolls to benefit your summit and increase your sales. How to handle trolls, when to respond and how to make it work in your benefit. Plus we talk about how hosting a Virtual Summit is one of the most powerful things you can do to protect your business due to the incredible fact of you actually own your own platform. All that and more in todays episode.
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EP082 How A Virtual Summit Made $1,000,000 in just 13 days!
The queen of Summits, Bailey Richert walks us through the inner workings of a million dollar virtual summit. As a co host of the 30 Days Summit through Click Funnels, Bailey was a fundamental part in it’s success. She walks us through how the idea happened, and what it took to make it a success. All that and more on todays episode.
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EP081 Live Consultation: How do I build relationships with my speakers
We hop on a live summit consultation call with Andrew Wells to discuss specific success strategies for his upcoming One-Day Summit. Specifically how to get speakers to say yes to your summit, and then how to create a beneficial relationship with your speakers after the summit ends. Want to have a live one on one consultation with Dr. Mark? Are you a first time summit newbie? If so then reach out and let us know that you are interested!
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EP080 How Interactive Quizzes & specific Tracts created an engaged summit audience.
Co founder of Virtual Summit Search Jenn Zellers walks us through an incredible interactive strategy to increase engagement & satisfaction with her summit audience. She unpacks how this worked to build a stronger relationship with the audience and what she did to make that happen. Plus monetization & promotional strategies that helped her create a successful virtual summit.
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EP079 Not One, But TWO Successful summits in one year using these summit strategies.
Eden Fried tells us how she hosted two successful virtual summits within 6 months of each other, and the keys to not only creating immediate revenue but also how she got her speakers to want to promote. She walks us through her successful summit offer and the behind the scenes summit strategies you need to know.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/079
EP078 See You At Summit Fest Live
What do beads, benieghs, and virtual summits all have in common. You can get them all in New Orleans in February. If you are ready to find your tribe where you belong, up your knowledge on how to grow your community & have a blast doing it, then you need to be at Summit Fest Live.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/078
EP077 Find out the perfect background & set up for your summit interview.
Dave Chesson talks about how speaking on a summit is more than just what you say. Find out how he creates a professional set up both from an equipment standpoint but also from the items that are placed inside of the background. See how this can build instant connection with your audience from the start.
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EP076 How to craft your affiliate management process for your Virtual Summit
Paddy McGill the head of partner marketing at Thinkific has been the brains behind several very successful summits. He has also coordinated and orchestrated the affiliate process for these summits and other very successful campaigns. He walks us through the aspects of creating a successful affiliate process when it comes to your next virtual summit.
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EP075 The Ever-Summit Protocol has revolutionized virtual summits.
What if you could click one button and turn your old summit into a lead generating, powerhouse that runs year round? Now you can and we are going to talk about that & the strategies on how to do it on todays episode.
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EP074 How Speaking On Summits Can Generate 7 Figures & More!
Pete Vargas known as the stage whisperer has booked over 25,000 stages from summits all the way to the white house and has generated a high 7 figure business from speaking. He talks us through his strategies to generate income from a summit talk even if you can’t sell or pitch. Plus how to ensure that your signature talk makes an impact to your audience on your summit session.
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EP073 5 Step paid media strategy from a successful Virtual Summit Consultant.
Mitch Asser has hosted more summits than most people on this planet. In his episode we dive deep into what he describes as a crucial aspect to summit success. Plus his 5 step paid media strategy that gets results every time.
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EP072 Post Summit Profits Strategy
Why are you settling for $15,000 summits when you could turn them into 6 figures with this four-step process? Never again will your summit be barren & dry. Get ready to rake in the cash with our post summit profits strategy! Let’s bring it in- Cha Ching Cha Ching!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/072
EP071 How to grow your business from speaking on a summit.
Majeed Mogharreban founder of Expert Speaker Institute walks us through his strategies for having an impactful story when you speak on a summit. And how virtual stages such as summits are the most under utilized and most powerful way to grow your business. Plus a ninja trick to immediately get more business from speaking on a summit.
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EP070 Why You Shouldn’t Run A Virtual Summit!
Sandra Van Der Lee talks to us about the dirty, unspoken negative aspects to hosting a Virtual Summit. Full transparency, she doesn’t hold back, or sugar coat it. Hear exactly why you shouldn’t host a summit. PLUS bonus info on what to think about with GDPR & Summits!
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EP069
Listen to Dr. Mark help Brad work through his summit idea, avatar and messaging to come up with an incredible One-Day Summit Series concept. Bring your pen and paper so you can follow along using your own summit concept and map out your Summit Story Arc together with Dr. Mark T Wade.
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EP068 How Aweber Went Beyond The Podcast With A One-Day Summit!
Brandon Olson talks about how one of the top email management companies thought outside the box when they hosted a One-Day Summit for podcasters. Look at the success the company created and why they are now doubling down on the One-Day Summit.
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EP067 How The Airbnb Mastery Summit Generated $50,000 In Sponsorships.
Eric Moeller talks us through his process of providing sponsorships with integrity, and how that has allowed them to regularly generate sponsorships upwards of $15,000 & $25,000. Plus his process of reaching out to TV Celebrities to speak on his summits.
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EP066 The Perfect Summit Session Structure – Summit Storyboard
How you can produce a Netflix quality summit using the Summit Storyboard template and Summit Speaker Cards. Never ever try to host a summit without first mapping it out with the summit storyboard.
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EP065 Why You Should Let Your Speakers Sell Something.
Chris Cameron, the head speaker & trainer at ClickFunnels tells us how he has made almost 7 Figures from speaking on stages and summits. Plus how summit hosts can greatly increase their impact & income by allowing select summit speakers to monetize their talks. This is an episode not to miss.
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EP064 How The Super Hero Summit Gamified Their Success.
Marisa Murgatroyd shows how her Experience Formula created a successful summit through gameification. She gives us specific examples on how you can gameify your summit to increase your success by creating peak emotional experiences. This is an episode you must listen to.
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EP063 Title How To Make Your Summit NOT SUCK!
When we create an experience for our audience they go from a passive audience to an engaged participant. We can very strategically create an Edu-Tainment Netflix style summit when we incorporate the Summit Action Arc into our summits. Finally no more boring summits. That’s what we are talking about on today’s episode.
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EP062 How A Summit Will Grow Your BRAND!
Tiffany Neuman takes us through her two successful virtual summits showing the secret sauce to growing your brand through summits. Plus get specific insider tips on how to make your summit stand out and align with your brand from an expert brand strategist.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/062
EP061 Summit Speakers You need to take care of your back end!
Health & wellness guru & summit speaker Carol Lourie takes us through her experience having spoken on a variety of health summits, and how you can get the most out of speaking on a Virtual Summit. Prepare like a pro on your next summit speaker opportunity.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/061
EP060 Dr. Mark Get’s high about his consultation with the Cannabis Edible Summit.
Check out this live consultation call as Dr. Mark helps Leah D’Ambrosio create ultimate success for her upcoming Cannabis Edible summit. We talk about how to target the summit, what to sell as an upsell, and also the perfect speaker solution to creating an impactful summit. See how Leah is able to up level her summit in 30 minutes on this call with Dr. Mark
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/060
EP059 Why Your Anchor Speaker Matters & How it Can Build Your Summit
Nick Unsworth takes us through his journey of building the Life On Fire Summit, which catapulted his business into the million dollar sphere and put his personal brand at the highest level possible. His summit content still ranks #1 across most social media platforms. How these same principles allowed him to mastermind with Tony Robbins in his Fiji Resort & build a school for underprivileged children. All that and more on today’s episode.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/059
EP058 Transformational speaking coach gives us insights to our summit speakers
Erin Loman Jeck is one of the top sought after transformation speaking coaches helping speakers get their messages out to the world. She takes us through her insights on how to up your game as a summit speaker and why hosts should be looking to partner even after the summit.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/058
EP057 Title: How To Create A Binge Worthy Summit
We are drawing the line here. No more crappy summits. With the information in this episode you will know exactly how to create a binge worthy summit. Never neglect this most important aspect of your summit ever again. Let’s get started.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/057
EP056 5 Steps to winning the speaker recruitment process.
Marissa Stone walks us through her 5 step process to vetting her speakers and turning them into long term collaborative partnerships. Plus how aligning a mission with your summit can ensure a positive outcome while making an impact in the world.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/056
EP055 How An AI Summit Generated $2 for every $1 Spent
Frank La Vigne talks us through his very first summit experience and how running a Premium One-Day Summit generated a total win, and why they are already planning their next 3 summits.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/055
EP054 Complete Guide To Getting Summit Sponsors
Thinking about summit sponsors got you stuck in analysis paralysis? Fear not because after this episode you are going to be the sponsor expert. From how to find them, what to charge them, and what to offer them. Get ready because your summit just got a whole lot more awesome.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/054
EP053 How A Poker Summit Got a 90% Opt In Rate!
Dan Russell from Vivid Labs talks about their top marketing strategies, copy writing go-to’s, and research criteria for helping a client absolutely dominate their Virtual Summit in a brand new niche! See how Dan’s team helped get a 90% opt in rate using these strategies.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/053
EP052 From A One-Day Summit To A Multi-Million Dollar Company!
Dr. Krista Burns has built an entire online business around summits. In this episode she talks through the different ways she uses One-Day Summits to quickly generate new audiences, as well as generating $30,000 in less than a week from a One-Day Summit. Learn her strategies for determining when to host a One-Day Summit versus a Multi-Day Summit.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/052
EP051 Interview With Impact – How to NOT Suck When Your Interview!!
70% of the success of your interview depends on YOU not your speaker. How to prepare to host your summit like a pro, make your speaker look like a champion & run a top notch summit. All that and more in todays episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/051
EP050 How To ELEVATE Your Speaker Experience To Maximize Your Results
Mark Stern walks us through his process of elevating the status of his summit speakers to maximize summit engagement. See how this one incredible idea helped him & his summit clients make their Virtual Summits a massive success.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/050
EP049 From Broke To 8 Figures With Virtual Summits.
Find out how Shanda Sumpter built an 8 figure a year empire with Virtual Summits & her most powerful summit insights she teaches to successful entrepreneurs who are growing their business. Why collaborative projects and online shows (summits) are the number one way to a successful business.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/049
EP048 7 Summit Myths That You Believe
If you have thin skin turn back now because I’m peeling back some common summit myths and we are going to break these old belief patterns today on the Virtual Summit Podcast
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/048
EP047 New Social Summit Model Has Been Invented!
Thinkific Founder Greg Smith talks dives into the details of a new social summit model that his team created & how doing that has provided a new micro community that is thriving. Plus learn how pairing your summit with a course can create the ultimate monetization strategy!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/047
EP046 How Paying His Speakers Allowed Angus To Become A Celebrity Influencer
Despite being isolated down under in Australia Angus Pyke was able to use this collaborative marketing strategy to quickly propel himself to a globally recognized influencer. We discuss a strategy to increase speaker promotions along with how to use a virtual summit to grow your local market & brands.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/046
EP045 The Virtual Summit Components YOU MUST KNOW & How Each One Builds On The other
If you miss one of these components you are most likely looking at a bombed summit, and not just knowing them is what matters, having them in the specific order is what truly matters. We’ll cover these 8 components and more in today’s episode on the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/045
EP044 Summit Multiplier Method
Navid Moazzez pulls back the curtains to the Virtual Summit Mastery program how he uses Virtual Summits to produce an entire year of content that converts and monetizes in an Evergreen Strategy. Plus hear some of his go to tips to monetize a summit.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/044
EP043 The Mother Of Virtual Summits
Milana is the creator of the Virtual Summit concept hosting the worlds first ever Tele-Summit in 2005. She talks with us about how summits have evolved, the good & the bad of what is happening with summits and her 5 step process to hosting a successful virtual summit.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/043
EP042 Bonus Day & Encore Weekends Be sure to use one of these!
Bonus Day & Encore Weekend. Are you using them? You should be as it will increase your conversions by around 10%! We’ll discuss that and more in todays episode.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/042
EP041 Sponsor Funded Summit Strategy
Eric Z Yang talks us through his strategy that has allowed him to take every summit he has run and start it off immediately as a profit before it has even launched. Giving insights into how to make it a win for the sponsor, specific package and recruitment strategies and a specific way to immediately generate big name sponsors that will pay you for a spot on your summit.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/041
EP040 How A Sex Summit Launched An Empire
World Renowned “Sexpert” Susan Bratton talks about how she uses summits to enter into new markets of business & quickly get the business up & profitable afterwards. Plus her strategy for generating new affiliates even in an unknown industry or niche.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/040
EP039 Summitology Foundations Training
Listen as I walk a group of entrepreneurs through the fundamentals of getting started with a virtual summit.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/039
EP038 Why YOU are most likely the reason a speaker says NO!
Dr. Tim gets down & dirty as he explains why you are most likely the reason the speakers are telling you NO to your summit & how you can quickly fix this problem!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/038
EP037 5 Time Summit Specialists Shares Her Summit Secrets
Dr. Judy lays out her go to summit strategy & why the One-Day Summit is a tactical game changer!
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/037
EP036 How To Create A High Converting Summit Offer
You know the difference between a highly profitable virtual summit and a summit that barely scrapes by? You will after today because we are going to cover how you can create a highly converting Summit Offer in today’s episode on the Virtual Summit Podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/036
035 Your Presentation Visuals are 65% of what your audience will remember from your Virtual Summit
Howard takes us through a futuristic look at a Second Life approach to virtual summits, & how a Telepresence robot feels from an attendees perspective. Plus the important of visuals & imagery when crafting your summit presentations.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/035
EP034 Summit For Charity – How one woman is giving back to those who need it most.
Dr. Shiroko talks about lessons learned as she quickly released the Disaster Recovery Summit to give back to those who need it most. See how you can leave a legacy and give back to the world with a Virtual Summit.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/034
EP033 Here is The Summit Success Model To Plan Your Successful Summit.
The Summit Success Model is the difference from coming out thinking “virtual Summits don’t work” and walking away with an ultra successful summit. It all comes down to planning it out and that is exactly what we are going to cover in today’s episode on the virtual summit podcast.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/033
EP032 How Getting Fancy Doesn’t Increase Success
Jon goes through the specific strategy to implement & what to let go of in his 80/20 perspective of Virtual Summits.
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/032
EP031 How To Evergreen Your Virtual Summit
After 5 successful Virtual Summits, the next evolution was the process of Evergreening them. Find out how James uses this process to propel him on to international stages as a Professional Keynote Speaker, all from starting a Virtual Summit!
For full shownotes go to: https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/031
EP030 Summit Communication Sequences Mapped Out
Ready to nail down the perfect summit email communication sequence? Don’t guess at it, just take my exact formula and implement it into your summit, plus the most important aspects to avoid when building out your campaigns. All that and more in today’s episode on the Virtual Summit Podcast.
For full shownotes go to: https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/030
EP029 The One-Page Summit Plan
Schools in session as Liam lays out a simple but powerful plan to build & promote your summit.
For full shownotes go to: https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/029
EP028 Summits Are Dead!
Summit Coach & authority builder Michael Neeley goes deep into the reality of why Virtual Summits are still the dominant force in building your authority and your business as he takes on the most common Virtual Summit Myths.
For full shownotes go to: https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/028
EP027 The Summit Ascension (multi-million dollar) Business Model
How losing a multi-million dollar business helped me discover how to use summits to build 3 new ones & help hundreds of entrepreneurs do the exact same thing!
For full shownotes go to: https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/027
EP026 Sneak Peak At A New Summit Strategy
We look at a high engagement strategy to get your audience PUMPED up for your summit!
For full shownotes go to: https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/026
EP025 The Dark Truth About Virtual Summits
A look at how Virtual Summits catapulted Dr. Eric Zielinski into a successful and the life of an influencer almost overnight.
A deep look into the not talked about negative aspects of Virtual Summits.
For full episode shownotes go to: https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/025
EP024 How I Can Help You Run A Successful Summit
Stop trying to do it yourself and finally ask for help! In today’s episode I want to help you see how we can help you with a successful virtual summit everything from free to paid, to in person to done for you options. Be sure to Stay to the end to hear an exciting new announcement that directly effects you (and has never been announced publicly before)
For full shownotes go to: https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/024
EP023 No Money? No Experience? No Problem With A Virtual Summit
Elissa talks about how to overcome the obstacles of knowledge, money, & time & how she went from unknown to influencer in one week through her virtual summit. Also learn how to use your summit to build life long relationships.
For full shownotes go to: https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/023
EP022 Phases Of A Summit - How To Prevent A Summit Disaster
Jamie Slutzky, one of the top Summit Consultants in the world takes us through her insights as she helps set up successful virtual summits using strategies such as Gamification & a specific framework to reach the exact goal you have set for your summit.
For full shownotes go to: https:/podcast.virtualsummits.com/022
EP021 Summit Speaker Recruitment Strategies
You don’t need the speakers, the speakers need YOU! Today we are breaking the mis-conception around summit speakers & I’m going to give you my top 3 speaker recruitment strategies. Let’s get started!
One of the most highly asked topics when it comes to Virtual Summits is on the subject of Speakers. Everything from how can I get speakers on my summits, to what speakers should I have and how many.
I decided to take this episode to talk specifically about speaker recruitment strategies.
For the full shownotes go to: https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/021
EP020 Disaster To Domination: How To Overcome A Bombed Summit
Lisa takes us through her experience from crushing her first summit to bombing her second. The reasons that happened? How you can avoid it? The specific steps she took immediately?
She turned it around and made it a big success for her & the speakers!
Plus a special strategy that helped her ensure success!!!
Full shownotes are at: https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/
EP019 How To Find The Hidden Gem Speakers For Your Summit
Dr. Jason Piken is a Certified Nutritional Specialist specializing in the health of the whole person.
He has been on multiple summits including The Digital Dementia Summit and The Mystery Symptoms Summit.
In this episode, Dr. Piken gives excellent insight into how summit hosts can find influencers, speakers that can help expand reach and awareness. We always try and find the number one industry experts on the topic that we're going to be hosting on our summit for a very important reason, because they're going to have probably more valuable and cutting edge information, and that's going to increase the value or quality of your summit for the attendees.
For the full shownotes go to https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/019
EP018 Why A Summit Is Your Salvation - Don't Wait!
Dr. Mark T Wade shares heartbreaking insights on how he almost lost a multi-million dollar company.
Learn how to break the cycle of the red zone and much more!
Full shownotes are at: https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/018
Episode 017 Rocket Fuel For Monetizing Your Summit After It Ends
Ciprian Soleriu is a Romanian based entrepreneur that teaches small businesses to sell more, faster, using smart buyer persuasion tactics and technology that automates their systems.
He created the biggest persuasion marketing blog in Romania (Conversion Academy) with over 20k subscribers and made over $200k selling online courses during the last year alone while also getting featured in Romania’s largest media outlets: Ziarul Financiar, Adevarul, Look TV, DIGI24 (series of interviews).
He is the creator of Launch With Partners virtual summit and was a guest speaker in other summits like the Webinar Mastery Summit, List Building School, etc.
How A Masterclass Became A 50,000+ Email Super Summit with Dr. Ryan Wohlfert
Dr. Ryan Wohlfert, DC, CCSP, the co-founder of Total Health Spine and Nutrition is a highly specialized healthcare practitioner who has helped thousands of patients achieve their health goals at his multiple chiropractic, nutrition, and wellness clinics. He’s the co-creator and host of the Superhuman Brain Masterclass, bringing the world's top neuroscientists, brain researchers, doctors, and biohackers together to uncover proven solutions to upgrade the brain to high performance for life. He also founded UpgradedParents.com to help parents heal and upgrade their brain for maximum energy, performance, and longevity.
Episode #015 How To Recover After A Bombed Summit
Are you sitting in a summit slum, contemplating relocating to a third world country where your speakers will never find you? Before you get too harsh on yourself find out how you can turn a bombed summit into a golden goose in this episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
Shownotes can be found at: https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/015
EP014: Insider Tips On How To Secure Your Dream Speaker
Nagina Abdullah is a health & food coach for ambitious women that lost 40 pounds by eating delicious foods, and wore a bikini comfortably for the first time AFTER having two kids! She helps successful women get control of their cravings, never feel deprived while they’re doing it, and get the body they dream of for life.
Ep013: How To Increase Your Completion Rates Of Your Summits To Increase Sales
Dr. Carrie Rose is an Educator, Entrepreneur, & Keynote Speaker, notably one of Huffington Posts Must Follow Women Entrepreneurs in 2017.
She holds an Ed.D in Educational Leadership from the University of Central Florida, wrote her doctoral dissertation on Professional Development, and is best known for her innovative teaching strategies & methodology, her current research is in course completion rates & connecting online course development with The Science of Learning.
Ep:012 What happens if someone has already done your summit idea, and does your avatar even matter when it comes to the theme? Plus why the problem determines the speakers who you recruit?
All this and more on today's episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
Shownotes can be seen at:
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/012
011: How To Run A Million Dollar Virtual Summit
Bobby shows the inside of a flopped summit and how that has allowed them to evolve and run over 100 + successful summits generating 900 Million Leads and multiple 7 Figure Summits.
Shownotes can be seen at:
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/011
010: The No Cost Traffic Solution To Your Summit
Sam talks from an ads agency perspective how you can generate leads at NO cost from a Virtual Summit.
Shownotes can be seen at:
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/010
009: Before You Host A Virtual Summit You MUST Listen To This
Want to run a 100,000 person summit? Then why are you prepping for a 3,000 person one? The absolute most important things you need to consider before you run a summit all here inside this episode of the virtual summit podcast.
Shownotes can be seen at:
https://podcast.virtualsummits.com/009
008: Ignite Your Summit With John Lee Dumas
About John Lee Dumas
John Lee Dumas is the host of Entrepreneurs on Fire, an award winning podcast where he interviews inspiring Entrepreneurs who are truly ON FIRE. With over 2000 episodes, 1 million + listens a month, and seven-figures of annual revenue, JLD is just getting started. Visit EOFire.com to set YOUR Entrepreneurial journey ON FIRE!
Description
As one of the top podcasters in the World John Lee Dumas of EOFire.com has spoken on hundreds of summits and has interviewed thousands of speakers. He drops a major value bomb on recruiting and interviewing influencers for your next summit.
Quotes:
"It takes 20 years to build a great reputation, but it takes 5 minutes to ruin it."
"You're looking to plant a flag on the ground,
you're building a pond for hopefully years to come."
Where to find JLD:
✔️ Entrepreneurs on Fire
✔️ Youtube Channel
✔️ Facebook
✔️ Twitter
✔️ Instagram
Ep: 007: Paid Marketing Strategy For Your Virtual Summit.
Join me as I interview Jose Aviles on Paid Marketing Strategies for your Virtual Summit.
Shownotes can be found at: podcast.virtualsummits.com/007
006: I’m going to show you How To Successfully Launch Your Online Biz In One Day… Even If You Have No Audience and No Budget To Start that and more in today’s episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
Shownotes can be seen at podcast.virtualsummits.com/006
005: Chandler talks about the specific strategy he used to get impossible to reach speakers to speak and promote his summit generating 3 times his yearly income in one month!
Quotes:
1) “One of my best employees first heard about us from our Virtual Summit”
2) "Fail Fast and Fail Forward, if you’re thinking about doing a summit just do it!"
3) "0 – 10 Million Dollar Business Started From A Virtual Summit"
4) "Double Our Income For The Year In One Month From A Summit"
Email * chandlerdbolt@gmail.com
Website * Self-publishingschool.com
Facebook * com/selfpublishingschool/
Twitter * com/self_pub_school
Linkedin * com/company/self-publishing-school
SPS YouTube * com/channel/UC3KUDrLcG1Ni8Wl63LtREYg
Chandler’s YouTube * com/channel/UCUv8ZJDL-Vl1BPCGUefDQlg
Podcast * https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/self-publishing-school-learn-how-to-write-book-grow/id1235151546?mt=2
Bio * Chandler is the host of the Self Publishing School podcast and the author of 6 bestselling books including his most recent book titled “”. He’s also the founder and CEO of Self-Publishing School, the #1 online resource for writing your first book. Self Publishing School made the INC 5000 in 2018 (#2,699) as one of the 5,000 fastest growing private companies in the US. Through his books, podcast, training videos, and Self-Publishing School, he’s helped thousands of people on their journey to writing their first book.
For more info about Chandler, check out these resources: * Business Insider Article: http://www.businessinsider.com/chandler-bolt-self-publishing-school-2015-4 * Influencive “Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30”: http://www.influencive.com/top-30-entrepreneurs-30-creating-life-terms/ * Amazon Author page: https://www.amazon.com/Chandler-Bolt/e/B00GM19IKY/ * Chandler’s “Entrepreneur House” in San Diego: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/279602 * Chandler on Good Morning Sacramento w/8 year old Emma who wrote a book through Self Publishing School: http://gooddaysacramento.cbslocal.com/video/category/spoken-word-good-day/3702511-how-to-write-a-book/ * 7 Ways Self-Publishing A Book Can Make You 6 Figures: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/300342 * Chandler on “Good Morning San Diego” talking about how to go from blank page to published author in 90 days: https://www.facebook.com/chandler.bolt1/videos/1743320102344838/
#004 How To Build Your Summit
What is the one question to ensure you don’t get screwed by a Virtual Summit consultant, plus how to remove 90% of the time needed to build out a summit with one single solution.
If you are just joining us on The Virtual Summit Podcast, I highly recommend that you go and listen to the first three episodes to get yourself acquainted with the podcast.
Remember, you can get the shownotes and resources at: podcast.virtualsummits.com/004 and podcast.virtualsummits.com/resources
This is going to be a little bit longer of an episode but could possibly be one of the most valuable episodes you could listen to. We are going to be talking specifically about the different ways you can build out your summit, what that looks like, and how to avoid a complete disaster. It’s an episode you want to listen to till the very end if you are serious about hosting a summit.
Four Ways To Build Out Your Summit:
- Pay someone else to build it
- Custom build it yourself (wordpress)
- Use a generic tool or software (ClickFunnels, Kajabi, Thinkific)
- Use the Virtual Summits Software - Makes hosting a summit easier than ever before
Physical Components Of A Summit:
1) Landing Page
2) Thank You /Upsell Page
3) Summit Home Page
4) Individual Speaker Pages
5) Bonus/Gifts
6) Sponsors/Resources
7) Sales Page
8) Thank You Page
Additional Aspects:
- FAQ Page
- Support Page/Help Desk/Contact Page
- Group Area for group conversation
What Is The Difference Between A Summit Coach And A Summit Consultant?
- Coaches typically sell online programs that give you the information to host a summit.
- Coaches typically don’t do anything with you or your summit other than give you the online trainings and sometimes answer ongoing questions.
- Coaches are going to be much less expensive as you are paying for a program & no assistance.
- You still have to build it all yourself.
- Consultants typically create most of the platform for you and are responsible for running the summit.
- Consultants don’t typically do anything outside of the summit platform creation and live summit tech support.
- Consultants are going to be much more expensive depending on the caliber of consultant.
Let's Dive Into The Four Areas Of Building Out Your Summit:
Pay Someone Else To Build It
Only really recommended if you have disposable resources, or you have done several successful summits & know your conversions & can make it profitable.
What The Process Looks Like
- Find a consultant or coach – They will do an in depth consultation.
- Understand what you want and are looking for and when you are looking to launch.
- They tell you the amount you need to pay them and then you agree
- They handle most of the heavy lifting as far as building out the site – usually with pre packaged templates they have created.
- You will still have to do all the speaker, affiliate, & sponsor recruiting, management & interviews.
- You will have to pay for all of the materials being built (usually software that they are an affiliate for)
- They will help guide you and advise you on insights into the marketing & launching
- You will have to create all the marketing materials, ads, emails, copy, and paid advertising.
- They will handle any technical aspect or issues that arise during the summit.
- Once the summit ends your arrangement is finished and they are done
- You will still have to pay the monthly fees for all of the softwares & plugins they used to build your summit. (Usually generating them ongoing revenue until you stop paying).
How Long Does It Take
- Typically a summit consultant can get most of the summit up and built within 2 – 3 months
- If they have the ability to work on it full time probably in 1 – 2 months.
- However, you will still need the extra 2 – 4 months for speaker recruitment, interviews, and marketing creation.
- In total you could most likely launch your summit within 3 months based on your speed of speaker recruitment.
How Much Does it Cost
- Most good summit consultants are going to cost between $7,000 - $10,000.
- High end consultants (or speciality niches) can be upwards of $35,000 - $50,000 & require profit sharing from the earnings of the summit.
- Consultants below $3,000 are most likely less experienced or not high quality.
What Are The Downsides
- The obvious downsides are going to be the costs. Summits typically don’t have huge profit margins from the summit. (Most profits come from post summit income – check out episode 003 for more information on this podcast.virtualsummits.com/003).
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So when you are paying out a lot of money to build your summit you are
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Decreasing your ability to take home the cash
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Increasing risk of actually losing money if your summit doesn’t do well
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Consultants will typically remove themselves from the direct relationship of the success of the summit (mainly because they can’t guarantee it’s success and don’t want to be held responsible). So they will only take responsibility for the creation of the structure, not whether the summit succeeds. Which means you are ultimately still solely responsible for the success.
- This is why I typically don’t recommend consultants for your first summit. I think they are a great opportunity after you know you can generate results. But before then you run the risk of paying a lot of money and ultimately not making it back.
- Ultimately the downside is the financial costs and the risk. If these are non issues for you, either because you have the disposable finances, or you are confident in your abilities to create success then this can be a great option for you.
What Are The Upsides
- You don’t have to do any of the work building the summit.
- Allows you to move much quicker in launching your summit
- You have someone with experience who can help guide you
- You can stay in your zone of genius and let someone else handle the technical aspect
- You have someone to turn to when something goes wrong or if you have questions.
What Should I Know (or Ask)
Before you ever agree to pay anything with a consultant here are the things you should know and ask.
1. How many summits have you run before (and provide some examples)?
- Do your research. Reach out to these summits and ask the hosts about their experience.
- This could save you from disaster in the long run
- If they have run less than 5 summits they are newer and pose more risk
- If they have run more than 10 summits they are most likely experience
- Anything over 25 is a well experienced consultant.
2. What are the average results you typically get from your summit?
- If they can’t give you an estimate or average that means they haven’t generated any decent results.
- Find out what summit they got good results with and check with that host. If they won’t tell you which summit then they are lying. RUN! Always confirm this with the summit hosts. Many times consultants will “exaggerate” their results.
3. When was the last summit you helped create?
- If it’s been more than a few years that is a red flag. It means this is probably not their main expertise and are just trying to do it on the side to generate extra income.
4. Where did you learn to create summits?
- This is more in relationship with question 1. If they have minimal experience, then how do they know how to run a summit? If they have had training, then maybe it’s worth it, if not then they are just guessing and it’s your money that will be the gamble.
5. What exactly are you going to do and what are you not going to do?
- Always very important to have in writing exactly what they are responsible for doing (and not doing) to hold them accountable.
- This should be done before you pay them anything
- Afterwards they will opt out of doing more work
- Additionally this is just good to know so you are aware of what you need to be ready to do.
6. What happens if for some reason this summit bombs?
- This is a tough question that no one wants to ask, but honestly is something that needs to be asked.
- Are they holding any of the responsibility for this summit to perform well? If not, then that is a LOT of risk on your shoulders.
- They should be willing to at least provide guidelines and agreeables to what is a successful summit, an ok summit, and a “bomb” or bad summit.
- They should be able to offer you some kind of peace of mind that they have a little skin in the game.
7. Will you allow me to pay you partially upfront & the rest from the results of the summit?
- This right here is a huge tell and also relates to the question above. If they are confident in their abilities to help your summit be successful then they can at least put some amount (even a tiny amount ) 10% -50% of their payment could be taken out of the summit results or profit
- If they are completely 100% against this and don’t even at least consider it, then watch out. That means they already believe the summit isn’t going to do well. If they don’t think it’s going to do well then you really don’t want them consulting.
How To Get Started?
- Easiest way is to go to our resource area over at VirtualSummits.com and see the list of our approved consultants that we have vetted & recommend. (if you are a consultant and want us to check you out then get in touch with us.)
- Additionally you can reach out to our team and see if you qualify for our Virtual Summits Immersion Programs. We typically only work with clients we know we can get great results with and we definitely take responsibility for the success of the summit, but we have a limited number of spots we work with each quarter. You can send us a request for more information to info@virtualsummits.com
Build It Custom Yourself (wordpress)
This will be a much shorter version to get through.
- This is only for the bravest of entrepreneurs
- Ones that have either great knowledge & skill in building websites and landing pages.
- Have a lot of experience in creating items from scratch using wordpress.
- So most likely the entrepreneurs like myself that were out there creating before things like clickfunnels, kajabi & Thinkific were around.
What The Process Looks Like?
- You map out what you want your summit to look like.
- How many speakers, how many pages. What color schemes, fonts and special items
- You then begin building it using wordpress and plugins like wishlist member, deadline funnels, thrive cart, disques chat box, and every other technical tool that goes into building out a 100 page event like a summit
- Then you pray nothing breaks and you linked all your links correctly. (which you didn’t, I can already tell you that) ;)
How Long Does It Take?
- If you have never done this type of thing before, you can plan on it taking you roughly 4 months of non stop (30+ hours a week) of creation for about 2 – 3 months.
- That’s not counting the interviews which will most likely take another 1 -2 months of part time (15 – 20 hours a week) 0f time.
- If you run more than one you can reuse your original (clone it) and it will save you about 1/3 of the time. You will still have to spend a lot of time because you have to edit everything inside of the pages.
How Much Does It Cost?
- If you are someone that knows how to do this you will probably have some specific tools that you want to use, so the cost might be different
- When I built my first summit – it had 7 softwares & 26 plugins all frankenstined together
- It cost me roughly $6,700 in total
- I was able to streamline the process (after I created the first one) to about $2,500 - $4,000. Because I could reuse a lot of the same tools I had already paid for.
What Are The Downsides?
- It takes forever
- It typically doesn’t look as professional
- It still costs a decent amount for the first one.
- It will 100% for sure have tech issues.
What Are The Upsides?
- Total Control & Customization – make it exactly as you want it.
- If you plan to run more than one.
What Should I Know (or Ask)?
I would not recommend this option unless
- You are super skilled & knowledgeable in wordpress creation.
- You have no other option., which really there is always the Virtual Summits Software option which honestly you couldn’t pay me to go back to doing it the wordpress built from scratch way. (and I’ve done probably 10 summits this way before).
Use A Generic Tool Or Software (ClickFunnels, Kajabi, Thinkific)
- This is honestly the most commonly done way for people hosting summits. Either because their coach, consultant, or someone they know told them to just use one of these funnel/course building tools to try and host a summit on it.
- Most of the people that are advising people to do this are doing it because they get a paid affiliate commission if you click their link and sign up for any of these tools.
- With that being said it is much much cheaper, & easier to do it this way than paying a consultant or building it from scratch.
What The Process Looks Like?
Typically 1 of 2 ways:
- If you are being referred by someone who gets affiliate commissions, they will typically have some kind of template or generic format that you can download and use to template out your summit.
- If you are just doing it on your own then you have to figure out how to build it out yourself.
Either way it looks like this:
- You sign up for one of these tools. The most common are (Click Funnels, Thinkific, & Kajabi).
- They will have pages that can be built.
- You build a landing page, a sales page and all the speaker pages.
- You have links for all the pages.
- When your summit goes live you have to figure out how to turn on or off the links to the pages that they should not have access to yet.
- This usually requires going into every speaker page for that day of the summit and activating the link, then at the end of the day you deactivate the link.
- You do this every day for 3- 14 days twice a day for up to 80 speakers and again pray you didn’t miss something . (Trust me you did, everyone always does). When that happens you generate typically several hundred to several thousand emails from attendees complaining.
- At the end you drive all the traffic to the sales page and try to generate sales.
- Then after it’s over you have to duplicate everything (If you really are trying to be ethical) so that the original attendees can’t still access the recordings, and give the new duplicated version to those who upgraded and paid for the recordings.
- Another way is to shut it down , take all the presentations and put them on a membership platform and give all those who paid access to that membership platform.
- Or the lazy way is to shut it all down and just give those who paid a link to your dropbox with all the videos. (Don’t do this)
- Overall, this is honestly for the costs one of the best ways to run a summit, if the virtual summit software didn’t exist.
How Long Does It Take?
- Typically this will take roughly as long as it does to set it up on wordpress because you still have to go through and build everything. It’s just much more user friendly and won’t look like a 3rd grader built it. (or maybe it will I guess I’ve never seen your page building skills.
- So in general you are looking at probably 1-2 months of solid work to build out the summit at a minimum putting in 20-30 hours a week & then another 2-3 months of interviews & marketing creation.
How Much Does It Cost?
- Costs are much more reasonable here.
- You are probably looking at around $1,000 - $3,500 upfront costs & around $600 - $1,000 of recurring costs depending on what tools and additional fancy software you add into it.
- Also if you are getting this from a coaches program you should factor in the $1,000 - $2,000 you paid for their online course.
What Are The Downsides?
- Its still a small investment.
- You still have to build it all which is going to take a lot of your time.
- Things will break and not work (always happens) links not connected correctly, etc.
- It won’t look or function great because it’s built on something that isn’t really designed for summits. Meaning the functionality won’t feel perfect. It will work, but trying to do a summit on a course software, or a landing page software just doesn’t function the way a summit is truly suppose to be run.
What Are The Upsides?
- It’s much quicker than building it custom
- It’s much cheaper
- It will look better than building it yourself
- It lets you create a summit which will greatly benefit you and your business.
What Should I Know (or Ask)?
- Honestly , there is nothing super negative to this approach.
- I’ve done the same. My progression went from building them custom on wordpress, to using Thinkific or clickfunnels, to now running them on Virtual Summits Software.
- The only real thing to know is if you are going to build a summit on one of these tools then for the same or less cost you can have it built and run quicker, cheaper, and with better functionality on Virtual Summits Software.
How To Get Started
Go to the show notes at Podcast.VirtualSummits.com/004 and we will have links to all these tools like Thinkific, click funnels, etc.
Use The Virtual Summits Software
- Virtual Summit Software Makes hosting a summit easier than ever before. It is the only software designed 100% specifically for running summits which means every aspect about it is ideal for summit hosting & creation
- It has literally changed the game when it comes to summits. The power that use to be reserved for those already successful entrepreneurs with big budgets, teams, and resources has now been given to everyone of us. You don’t need a team, you don’t need any tech skill, you don’t need a big budget or resources.
- You can literally have a summit up and ready to launch in a matter of hours, not months.
***A little history on the virtual summits software. As I had mentioned I have been running summits for about 4 years now. I’ve been involved in around 25 summit creations. I use to build them by hand painfully. After a few years of wishing there was an easier way to run summits, I finally found the number one development company in the US and we set out to build the perfect solution to hosting a summit.
We started out by doing a product discovery where we interviewed 50 some summit creators asking them their pain points and solutions. We found that there was a massive pain in this area and NOT a single solution available to accurately solve it.
We then set out on the next year building what would become the number one tool for hosting a summit. It literally makes the process so easy that everyone can quickly and simply run a successful summit.
What The Process Looks Like:
- Head over to Virtual Summits.com and you can sign up for a free trial.
- Click “Host Your First Summit”
- You then type in your summit details
- Go to the landing page builder and choose a template customized from the top 100 most successful summits ever run.
- Fill out the information you want on the landing page.
- Go to the speaker section and start recruiting your speakers.
- Speakers will get the request & they fill out their information and it is auto populated through out the whole summit saving you at least 25 – 40 hours of work.
- Decide what levels you want in your summit, like free, vip, and elite.
- Attach your email software to the membership with one click of a button and you now have all the attendees being signed up to your email list automatically.
- Drag and drop those speakers into the summit scheduler and poof you are done!
- Your summit is ready to collect leads to run automatically without you having to do anything and of course collecting you the cash generated from the summit purchase.
How Long Does It Take?
- I’ve created summits in under an hour
- My partner in my other company runs a one-day summit at least once a quarter. She is probably the least techy person you will ever meet & she can have a summit up and ready in a matter of 2 hours.
- Obviously your first time in the software it might take you a few hours, but no matter how you look at it, the other alternative is 100+ hours or 2 – 5 hours. Pretty awesome.
How Much Does it Cost?
- This is the insane part. It doesn’t cost $10,000. It doesn’t cost $5,000. It doesn’t even cost $1,000. The highest offering that is available for fully unlocked, unlimited summits with the Ever-Summit Feature is the same price as any of the other software solutions we were previously talking about. Or even less if you take the standard option. It’s really a no brainer.
What Are The Downsides?
- Really there are very few downsides if any.
- If I had to really try to make something for this I would say in terms of software it is still relatively young. Which is actually kind of a positive because every week there are new and cool features being released, but at the moment of recording this episode there is not as much customization options as there could be. They are coming, but that would probably be the top downside.
What Are The Upsides?
- Essentially everything.
- It’s cheaper, easier, faster & less tech problems to host a summit.
- It is designed specifically for hosting & running summits.
- Everything about it is seem less and the way a summit should run.
What Should I Know (or Ask)?
- There is a feature called the Ever-Summit feature which is exclusive to Virtual Summits Software. With one click of a button the software will automatically rerun your summit as if it was live on going forever.
- What is so cool about this is that human nature has us subconsciously think that anything that is old is no longer good. Even though you and I know that those videos are still good, people who see that it’s over will choose not to opt in for it.
- The Ever- Summit feature allows anyone who comes to the landing page to see that the summit is set to run next week for example. They opt in and then the software automatically unlocks and locks each day & session appropriately and correctly and then when it’s over it locks it down again. If that attendee tries to go back to the landing page it shows them that the summit is ended and they need to upgrade. But for all new traffic that goes to that landing page sees that the summit starts next week!
- It allows your summit to become the beginning of your customer journey and allows you to scale your business quicker.
How To Get Started
Head over to VirtualSummits.com and you can sign up for a free trial to test it out and get started building your next summit.
***In closing here, there are no necessarily right or wrong answers to these options. My goal was to shed an in depth light into the options that are there, what is great about them, and the not so great.
It’s up to you to decide which option is the best option for you and your situation.
No matter what you are (Summit Host, Speaker, Affiliate) you have a message that needs to get out to the world. Don’t wait, choose whatever option makes the most sense to you and is the easiest to get started and just start moving forward!
My Request
- I’m going to give away all the best insights and gems, I just need YOUR HELP?
- First subscribe & leave a 5 star review on this podcast
- Second, share this podcast with anyone you know who has done, or wants to do a summit.
- That’s all I ask.
How To Get In Touch
- I am always looking for feedback.
- If you have questions send them to me. (I’ll start doing a special Q&A monthly episode)
- If you want to be a guest reach out and let me know
- If you know someone I should interview please put me in touch with them.
Email me at: podcast@virtualsummits.com
Resources You Can Get: Podcast.VirtualSummits.com/resources
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ODS Guide,
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VS Framework,
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Plug & Play,
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Free Trial Virtual Summits Software
I want to end this episode by saying,
“I believe in YOU & YOU can do this."
Summits are by far one of the most powerful ways to quickly grow your list, launch your platform & make more money! (Even if you are just getting started).
Don’t get caught up in Analysis paralysis, because the world needs to hear your message & there are people who are waiting for you to help them.
So just get started. Imperfect action is always better than doing nothing!
Thank you & see you on the next episode!
003: What Are The Different Kinds Of Virtual Summits
How to Determine Which Type Of Summit To Run
Not All Summits Are Created Equal, and how one single factor could be setting your summit up for massive failure. Plus how to decide what type of summit you should run. All that and more inside this episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast.
Did you know there are more than one type of virtual summits and each produces a much different type of result? See which type of summit you should host and what to expect in this episode of the Virtual Summit Podcast
Multi-Day Virtual Summit - The Whole Army
Overview: A major event over a period of days or weeks orchestrating a large group of influential experts to talk on a variety of solutions to an overarching topic to create massive awareness and excitement while greatly building a list.
Primary Goals/Objectives:
- Lead Generation
- Awareness of you and topic
- Networking – Lots of speakers
- Summit Cash – Large intake but most of it from the summit is paid out. (Affiliates)
- Post Summit Profit - Large List Gives
Minimum Requirements:
- 20 – 30 speakers (ideally the more the better)
- 4 – 6 months prep time
- $3,000 - $10,000 in ad spend
- Team/help – Customer Service, Dev Team (100’s of pages), Marketer, copywriter,
- Minimum 90 - 120 hours of YOUR time invested
Normal Expectations:
- Email Leads 5,000 – 35,000
- Summit Cash: $15,000 - $50,000
- Post Summit Cash: $25,000 - $150,000
Additional Uses:
- Productize – upsell, downsell, flashsell
- On going lead generation
- Setting up your high end offer
Negatives:
➖ Used up all your connections – have to wait to ask again
➖ Not Immediate Cash Generation
➖ Need support and assistance
➖ Need A Software (or someone who can do it)
➖ More of a one time – one use event.
➖ Most of the traffic is going to come from paid ads and speaker promotions (no ever-summit)
➖ Requires a large amount of time, focus and energy
Positives:
➕ Generates a massive amount of awareness, attention and authority
➕ Has the potential to generate a large amount of leads
➕ Can jump start a business into success
➕ Can be a game changer for an entrepreneur and their business.
***Get my Virtual Summit Framework in the show notes at podcast.virtualsummits.com/003
One-Day Summit - A Ninja Assassin
Overview: A quickly obtainable solution to a very specific problem that your audience is acutely searching for, provided by either a single host, or a few experts executed in a short amount of time.
Primary Goals/Objectives:
✔️ Lead Generation
✔️ Monetization – Premium Summit
✔️ Priming an additional promotion or campaign
✔️ Summit Cash – Self Liquidating Offer
✔️ Post Summit – Start Of Your Customer Journey
✔️ Relationship Building
Minimum Requirements:
- Can do it with ZERO Speakers
- 5-16 speakers (ideally less can be better)
- 30 – 60 days prep time
- $1,000 - $5,000 in ad spend
- No Team Needed
- Minimum 10 - 30 hours of YOUR time invested
Normal Expectations:
- Email Leads 500 – 7,000
- Summit Cash: $5,000 - $30,000
- Post Summit Cash: $10,000 - $50,000
- Customer Journey Cash: $50,000 - $250,000
Additional Uses:
- Remains A Lead Generation Machine (Ever-Summit Protocol
- Productize – upsell, downsell, flashsell
- Setting up your customer journey – keeps the journey going.
Plug and Play Frameworks:
✔️ List Builder - Free
✔️ Monetization – Premium
✔️ Membership Primer
✔️ Affiliate Promotion Success
✔️ Product Launch Priming
✔️ Physical Products Selling
✔️ Live Event Recruitment
✔️ Fill Your Mastermind
✔️ Book Launch
✔️ Brick and Mortar Business Building
Negatives:
➖ Generates less overall leads, income and awareness
➖ More difficult to get the same level of exposure and outcomes as a MDS
Positives:
➕ Ongoing options to generate MANY ODS every year. (Didn’t use all your connections)
➕ Steady ongoing growth
➕ Versatile: multiple uses to increase outcomes on a variety of campaigns
➕ Can use more long-term permanent promotion strategies (blogs, podcasts, etc)
➕ Do not need a team, or large budget or resources
➕ More tactical and effective, obtainable (less risky) wins
➕ Can quickly build a business that can scale
***Get My One-Day Summit Starter Guide in the show notes at podcast.virtualsummits.com/003
Live Streaming Summit
Overview: Taking a summit and adding in part or in total a live streaming of the interviews and presentations so that the information is being presented in real time.
- This is going to be the same concepts for Multi-Day Summits and One-Day Summits with the only real exception being that the sessions are actually being done in real time versus pre-recorded.
- Overall if done for a Multi-Day Summit due to the complexity and tech risks most fully live streaming summits generate less leads and income comparatively.
Benefits:
✔️ Adds an interactive component which greatly increases engagement and ultimately relationships
✔️ Can be done through Facebook which allows for greater options of virality as Facebook gives preference to live streaming especially longer running live streams
Negatives:
➖ Huge risk for technical (or personnel) issues and problems
➖ Very difficult to get ALL speakers to align their schedules to the exact time frames needed for a live streaming event
Hybrid Event
Overview: Running a Multi-Day or One-Day Summit while adding live streaming activities.
👉 This is the most commonly done method. The actual presentations throughout the summit with the speakers are pre-recorded. However, at some point through out the summit the host will incorporate a live streaming aspect.
👉 Typically run either as a “live webinar or zoom meeting” or as a live inside a Facebook group.
👉 This gives the major benefits of the live streaming aspect while removing most of the major technical risks.
👉 The exact components and how to build these summits will be covered in an upcoming episode.
My Request:
- I’m going to give away all the best insights and knowledge but just need YOUR help!
- First - subscribe and leave a 5 star review on this podcast
- Second - share this podcast with anyone you know who has done, or wants to do a summit
- That’s all I ask
How To Get In Touch:
✔️ I am always looking for feedback
✔️ If you have questions send them to me. (I’ll start doing a special QandA monthly episode)
✔️ If you want to be a guest reach out and let me know
✔️ If you know someone I should interview please put me in touch with them.
Email me at: podcast.virtualsummits.com
Resources you can get in the show notes at podcast.virtualsummits.com/003
✔️ One Day Summit Guide
✔️ Virtual Summits Framework
✔️ Plug and Play
✔️ Free Trial Virtual Summit Software
I want to end this episode by saying,
"I believe in YOU and YOU can do this."
Summits are by far one of the most powerful ways to quickly grow your list, launch your platform and make more money! (Even if you are just getting started).
Don’t get caught up in Analysis paralysis, because the world needs to hear your message and there are people who are waiting for you to help them.
So just get started. Imperfect action is always better than doing nothing!
Thank you and see you on the next episode!
002: Fundamentals Of A Virtual Summit
Do you remember the phones in your home that were on the wall with the rotating dial paid? Did you know those Phones are The Reason We Have Virtual Summits right now, and that a High Value, Low Risk Opportunity is always the best way to go! I’ll explain this and more in today’s episode on the Virtual Summit Podcast.
- Introduction to who is Dr. Mark T Wade
- Be sure to check out episode 1 on getting started.
What Is A Virtual Summit
Collaborative Marketing Strategy
✔️ Creates collaboration between industry experts to come together to solve a problem for the audience by sharing their insights.
✔️ It’s an Online Event- Originally called TeleSummits, then branded Virtual Summits, Online Summits, and sometimes just Summits.
✔️ Like an online conference where attendees can register and access a variety of presentations or interviews from a multitude of expert speakers over a specified period of time, all online virtually.
✔️ Think of a series of webinars, masterclasses and interviews all scheduled together providing value on a specific topic from industry experts.
✔️ This is one of the most powerful marketing strategies available for entrepreneurs to grow their list, launch a platform, make more money, grow their authority and make an impact in the world.
✔️ A great summit can attract tens of thousands of qualified and engaged leads and generate 10’s of thousands of dollars in a single event.
Overview/Examples
✔️ An entrepreneur will decide if he/she wants to make an impact in the world and grow their business quickly.
✔️ They will decide on a specific problem to target & how to solve it. Needs to be an acute problem that your audience is searching for. You need to know your audience.
✔️ They will reach out to a variety of industry & niche experts to talk on these solutions.
✔️ They will either pre-record an interview or a presentation (or occasionally done live) to be used during the virtual summit.
✔️ They will pick a date & time for the summit to start and then they will advertise the summit.
✔️ Speakers and affiliates will help promote it.
✔️ Attendees sign up typically for free, and gain access to the summit presentations when the summit starts.
✔️ The summit access is opened to allow the attendees access to that days presentations.
✔️ At the end of that day the sessions are locked & the next day sessions will be released/available.
✔️ This will continue for the length of the summit
✔️ Then the summit is closed & locked down once the scheduled end date has passed
✔️ Attendees will have the option to purchase on going access to the summit presentations for a fee.
✔️ Typically additional bonuses or incentives are added to increase the value of the offer. Some come from speakers and some from hosts.
***This is the basic overview of a summit. Most summits today take some creative spin or angle to make them slightly different and more appealing than previous summits.
History/Background
✔️ Virtual Summits stem from the original creation of TeleSeminars back in 1990. Participants would have to get the information for the Tele Seminar and call in to access the information.
✔️ Typically in the form of a TeleSeminar which would be in the format of either an interview or presentation/lecture and would be a one off presentation.
✔️ When there were more than one TeleSeminars happening over the course of multiple days, it would be referred to as a TeleSummit.
✔️ This was first termed a TeleSummit by Milana Leshinsky in 2005 who conducted the first TeleSummit called the “Coaching TeleSummit”
✔️ Today TeleSummits have evolved into virtual summits, which incorporate online live streaming video, pre-recorded video sessions, webinars, and social media to engage and interact with the audience.
***I did some research on this and there might be some others that have happened and if you know of any other information over this timeline that I have missed, please reach out to me at podcast@virtualsummits.com because I would love to know of any others that have happened.
- January 2005 – Milana Leshinsky : Coaching TeleSummit
- June 17, 2009 - Virtual Learning Summit - IIL Global Companies
- Sept 27th 2009 - Virtual Retail Summit
- March 21, 2010 - Howard Lichtman - Article "Telepresence, Virtual Conferences and the Future on On-Line Events"
- May 26 2010 – Women’s Leadership Exchange Virtual Summit
- Nov 30 2010 – Landing page success summit. Ben Jesson & Dr Karl Blank
- March 18 – 2011 – 20 Reasons Why Virtual Conferences are the future – Jaime Wilson
- 2017 – The One-Day Summit was invented by Dr. Mark Wade
What Are The Different Types
Originally Referred To As TeleSummits:
✔️ Tele- for telephone. Attendees would get an email (or find it on a website) a phone number and registration code and call in to listen to a series of teachings, all done on the phone. As it evolved they could text questions in and have live chat through text messages.
✔️ There are Hybrid summits, which included a live in person component with a virtual streaming component as well.
Today We Refer To Them As:
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Multi-Day Virtual Summits typically consist of 20 – 80 speakers over the course of 3 – 14 days with a main theme and underlying specific topics or categories in which the speakers would be organized. A minimum 90 days is usually required to put together a Multi-Day Summit with the most common & successful summits being anywhere from 6 – 12 months to prepare and create.
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One-Day Summits consist of typically 5 – 16 speakers who teach a specific solution to one single specific problem being addressed. It is typically much shorter, and easier to consume for the audience & much easier to be created for the host. Typically these can be created in 30 – 60 days. One other main difference is these can be run without ANY speakers, and just the host presenting the information, or a hybrid version with the host and a few speakers.
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Live Streaming Summit. 99% of all summits are pre-recorded and streamed over the course of a set period of time. However, there are a few summits that run live streaming. These have a high engagement rate, but run a very high risk of error or complication.
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Most summits incorporate some kind of chat to provide a live feeling to them & help to increase engagement.
What Are The Benefits?
✔️ Growing an email list, generating income, & building authority.
✔️ Leads are typically more engaged & higher quality
✔️ Self-Liquidating offer - pays for it’s self
✔️ You have a platform
✔️ Expert leverage
✔️ Networking
✔️ Builds a relationship & solves a problem
✔️ Sets up a great opportunity
What Are The Cons
❌ They require some level of thought and skill to be done well.
❌ They typically require a level of participation from the speakers and if that doesn’t happen it can yield lower results.
❌ There can be a large amount of email communication that happens during a summit with the attendees.
❌ There can be tech difficulties, like links not working or videos not playing (not an issue if you have virtual summits software).
❌ They can be difficult and overwhelming if you are doing it all by yourself without the Virtual Summits Software.
Overall
👉 Very few cons. Even if your summit bombs from a lead generation perspective you now have a platform, a product & authority.
👉 You become the “Host Of The X Summit”. You can sell it on going as a separate product or as an up sell/flash sell, etc.
👉 You can repurpose the sessions, which gives you an endless supply of content (Podcast, YouTube, blogs, etc.).
👉 You now have a relationship with many influencers that you can leverage.
Before Virtual Summits Software existed it was very time consuming and costly.
Most summits would require some level of initial cash deposit, which could be risky, if the summit didn’t perform, and they would be out hundreds of hours of work.
Virtual Summits Software has reduced the risk, time, and costs to almost nothing in comparison.
How Are They Different From Other Marketing Methods
✔️ High Value Low Risk
✔️ Lead magnets – low value –incorrect emails
✔️ Webinars – high risk
✔️ Funnels are not building a relationship they are processing people
✔️ Virtual Summits create a relationship with your audience and increase engagement, which increases the quality of your audience.
✔️ Offers Insight from a variety of different experts on a single topic or idea.
✔️ Provides an easy access or source for people who are interested in the topic to get access to the information all in one place.
✔️ Typically pre-recorded, but occasionally done live streaming.
✔️ There is typically no hard selling or pitching
✔️ Great way to build a relationship
Who Typically Hosts Them
- Summit Hosts range across all industries & niches. Anyone looking to make an impact in the world, generate income & increase their email list. Currently the health market and internet marketing spaces are the most saturated, while many other areas have yet to even be tapped.
- Before Virtual Summits Software most summits were reserved for influencers who either had a team to help them or large financial resources to have the summit built out. Now everyone has the opportunity to host a summit in a very short amount of time, with no team and minimal budget.
Common Mistakes
❌ Not giving yourself enough time
❌ Not getting your speakers engaged and supporting
❌ Not getting your topic and theme narrowed down enough
❌ Having to try to build out a summit on your own and not having any assistance
❌ Not being creative enough to stand out and generate interest around your summit
Why Are Summit Hosts So Important
👉 Summit hosts are changing the world for the better. They are the forward thinkers, the action takers, and the ones to stand up against adversity and fight for what they know is important. They take on a seemingly insurmountable task and orchestrate a profound path ensuring that the world continues to change for the better.
👉 YOU, the summit host are so important. YOU provide those who are suffering with solutions from those with the answers in a way that allows them to obtain results and end their suffering.
👉 You are the ones who are making a difference in the world. You are creating IMPACT.
You are a Summit Hero and I thank you for what you are doing!
My Request
- I’m going to give away all the best insights but I need YOUR help.
- First, subscribe & leave a 5 star review on this podcast
- Second, share this podcast with anyone you know who has done, or wants to do a summit.
- That’s all I ask.
How to get in touch
✔️ I am always looking for feedback
✔️ If you have questions send them to me. (I’ll start doing a special Q&A monthly episode)
✔️ If you want to be a guest reach out and let me know
✔️ If you know someone I should interview please put me in touch with them.
Email me at: podcast@virtualsummits.com
Podcast Episodes and Show Notes can be found at podcast.virtualsummits.com
This Podcast Episode 002 can be found at: podcast.virtualsummits.com/002
Resources For You
Take advantage of the following resources by going to: podcast.virtualsummits.com/resources
✔️ ODS Guide
✔️ VS Framework
✔️ Plug & Play
✔️ Free Trial Virtual Summits Software
I want to end this episode by saying,
“I believe in YOU & YOU can do this".
Summits are by far one of the most powerful ways to quickly grow your list, launch your platform & make more money! (Even if you are just getting started).
Don’t get caught up in Analysis paralysis, because the world needs to hear your message & there are people who are waiting for you to help them.
So just get started. Imperfect action is always better than doing nothing!
Thank you & see you on the next episode!
001: Your Virtual Summit Journey Starts Here
If you are ready to grow your list, launch your program, make more money, and make an impact in the world then this podcast is for you!
Introduction to who is Dr. Mark T Wade
What I’ve accomplished
The purpose of this podcast
✔️ Is to help enlighten those interested in hosting a summit on how to successfully create a virtual summits from those who have already done.
Overview:
✔️ Interviewing Summit Hosts, Speakers, Sponsors, Attendees on their experiences, feedback, failures and successes with weekly teaching sessions from your summit expert Dr. Mark T Wade, Founder of Virtual Summits Software and Creator of the One-Day Summit Formula.
What To Expect From this podcast
✔️ A weekly a strategy session from me
✔️ Weekly Interviews from summit creators and participants
✔️ Why Interview with these Speakers - To learn from their mistakes and grow from their successes
✔️ Show notes will be at Podcast.VirtualSummits.com/whichever episode you are on ex. today's notes at podcast.virtualsummits.com/001
✔️ Resources for your summit are available at: podcast.virtualsummits.com/resources
#000: Hello and welcome To The Virtual Summit Podcast
My Goal For You
✔️ YOU, the Summit Host to get insights, gems & success strategies
✔️ Learn from the experts in the summit world - summit hosts, summit speakers, coaches, consultants, marketers, etc.
✔️ How to avoid the failures that most of us who run summits experience and hopefully gain those rewards
Every Business Should have a summit
✔️ Whether you’re a brick and mortar business, you’re an info business, your (online courses) a course creator, you’re a content creator - every business should have a summit.
✔️ A summit is one of the best ways to establish authority, kind of create yourself as a niche influencer or expert.
✔️ It’s also a really great way to have a platform and generate ongoing leads.
Who is Dr. Mark T Wade
✔️ I’m a health care professional by trade of postural neurology.
✔️ I started off with a brick and mortar practice and wanted to help more people.
✔️ I had one of the most successful posture correction clinics in the country and I didn’t want to create more clinics and more staff and more overhead but I still wanted to have a larger reach and help more people. So, I started an online business.
✔️ I too found going into the online business world difficult and not easy.
✔️ After hearing my good friend (Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income) talk about a virtual summit on a podcast, I thought, you know this sounds amazing; like this is what I’m looking to do, what I would like to do. And I’m trying to be a little bit of everything else and nothing else is working -- So, let’s give it a go!
✔️ I ended up creating a summit.
✔️ I created the Virtual Summit Software
✔️ For the past two to three years, I’ve been fully in the Virtual Summit world - both creating and hosting our summits.
Why I care:
I love them for many reasons including:
✔️ Getting a business going
✔️ Generating leads
✔️ Gaining influence and authority
✔️ Make money
✔️ The most important reason; the thing that matters the most to me is that I see summits as more than just a tool for leads and profit and authority.
✔️ I see summits more than just a lead and profit generator. I see them as helping people who are suffering get the solution to their problems from the top minds in the world.
✔️ Summits help people impact their lives and solve a problem, build relationships.
What Is Virtual Summits Software
✔️ It makes hosting a summit easier than ever before.
✔️ It’s the only software designed one hundred percent specifically for hosting summits. It doesn’t matter what types of summit, whether you want a one-day summit a multi-day summit or any other kind of summit it’s exactly what you’re looking for.
✔️ It is the tool, it’s the machinery that drives that engine.
✔️ Virtual Summit Software is the tool that drives that engine.
Get in touch with me! – podcast@virtualsummits.com
✔️ With that, I’m always here throughout this podcast. Please feel free to reach out to me. I’m here for feedback, looking for feedback.
✔️ If you’re interested being interviewed on as a guest on our show, reach out to me.
✔️ If you know somebody I should interview or somebody I should be in touch with, please let me know.
You can contact me through our email – podcast@virtualsummits.com
Happy to hop on an interview, Facebook live, a webinar, or even speak live!
Get the shownotes at: podcast@virtualsummits.com/000