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2016 Fastlane Summit (Official Ticket Sales, Speakers, Etc.)

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MJ DeMarco

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2016 Fastlane Summit, February Friday 19th thru Sunday the 21st.
Talking Stick Resort and Casino, Scottsdale Arizona

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Featuring 20+ Speakers/Entrepreneurs from the Fastlane Forum
Keynote: MJ DeMarco

Friday February 19th (8AM - 5PM)
Saturday February 20th (8AM - 5PM)
Sunday February 21st (8AM - 12PM)


Topics Include:

  • Small business startup, growth, branding
  • Real Estate, digital nomading
  • Marketing, PPC Advertising
  • Communication skills, public speaking, persuasion
  • Financial investment for Fastlaners
  • Mind hacking
  • Technology and productivity hacks
  • Much more (see agenda below)

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Tickets Sale Date: Tuesday November 24th at 10AM Arizona Time
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Ticket price: $399 PER PERSON (Must be 18 years old)
  • Price DOES NOT include airfare or hotel.
  • Price DOES INCLUDE 20+ speakers, plus 2 panel discussions
  • Price DOES INCLUDE continental breakfast all 3 days, plus lunch Friday and Saturday.
  • Tentative: Price MAY INCLUDE dinner both Friday and/or Saturday with a social event at Top Golf or some other location -- these additional activities are pending budgetary consideration with respect to # of tickets sold, rooms sold, event/catering costs, etc. Please keep in mind, this event has been a no-profit-venture since its inception.
  • TICKETS ARE VERY LIMITED AND USUALLY SELL OUT WITHIN ONE DAY -- TOTAL TICKET ALLOCATION IS CURRENTLY AT 78 !!
Ticket link: http://www.viperionpublishing.com/meetups/2016-fastlane-summit

*********** SOLD OUT *************


To acquire a ticket after the SELL-OUT, please watch this thread for new releases and possible ticket swaps. Ticket swaps will be posted here:

https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/co...ummit-room-shares-ticket-exchanges-etc.64138/

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Hotel Rooms, Talking Stick Resort (Limited)
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Friday Networking Event and Buffet (Included)
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7pm - 11pm at Top Golf, Scottsdale

For tickets to this event (if you are not attending the main event), please visit HERE. Tickets to this is $40.

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Speaker / Topic Agenda:
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Confirmed speakers and their topics (not necessarily this order and subject to change based on speaker and/or circumstances.)


@throttleforward
How I Took an INE From the Forum into an Investment Backed Startup (And Can't Keep Inventory in Stock) in Less than a Year.
  • Why I zagged when everyone zigged
  • How I formed a business hypothesis, price points
  • Getting started: Minimum viable branding, minimum viable operations, minimum viable product

@Red
The Ultimate Guide to Getting Shit Done When Other People Are Standing In The Way.
Got a big deal going down but someone else is not doing their job? Dealing with lazy outsiders or others throwing wrenches in the mix? Let Red show you how to break through the external barriers and take control over your deals.
  • How to move forward, get things done when someone else is holding up the line.
  • The art of letting other people have YOUR way
  • Multiple case studies.
@Arrabista
The Communication Secrets of Group Influence: How to Persuade Large Groups to Your POV
  • How do you persuade an audience to your point of view? What is more important when you are in front of an audience, your material, or you? Allow a professional communication coach unhack the tricks of the trade in a live, interactive demonstration. Convince the crowd to your madness!

@Boom
Multimillionaire and author of the “Savvy Landlord”, Steven tells his unique rags-to-riches story in the field of rental real estate.
  • How he sold a business to get started (and how TMF figured in the plan)
  • How he leverages apps to run his business (50 rental units with less than 10 hours week)
  • Negotiation, hiring contractors, using VAs effectively
  • Borrowing money from community banks
  • Much more!

@Chadi
Technology Productivity Hacks for Entrepreneurs
  • How to grow your LinkedIN network overnight
  • How to find almost anyone's business email or phone
  • How to turn your GMAIL account into a central depot for all your email
  • How to survey any market or industry instantly, and for just a few pennies.
  • Much more!


@LightHouse
How to rapidly develop, launch, and skyrocket a new product line in under 6 months via value adds, emotional marketing, and outgunning the competition
  • Buying a product line for less than its inventory worth and making back the purchase price in 4 weeks.
  • The process of market and need evaluation.
  • Fixing problems with what is existing and then launching
  • Marketing it better than every other company (proven by the market leader having to play catch up amidst a slew of copy cats)
  • Going from $0 to over $10k sold in 4 months total selling time.
  • Marketing automation and how to correctly apply it to any product you sell (digital/physical)
  • How to get started without being overwhelmed.
  • Where to source ugly-as-f*ck ties and wear them proudly.


@Kung Fu Steve
Turning Actions into Results
  • Identifying the patterns and beliefs that are holding you back from reaching your financial goals.
  • What to do about it
  • How to wear Miami Vice'ish suits and get away with it.

@Eskil
Who Says You Can’t? Create a Product-based Business that Runs Fastlane on All Cylinders!
-- Going from zero to something. Establishing name recognition of your product.
-- The pitfalls to avoid when working with parts suppliers. “You shipped me what?”
-- Balancing cash flow, or “we need more units” VERSUS “we need more money”
-- Value creation, and how to grow with the flow - consistently
-- Getting the attention of “the big boys” (will BIG retail care about you?)
-- Exploiting trade shows, and how I landed some seriously valuable connections in 2 days​
@kamanuci
Finding and Hiring Virtual Assistants For Your Biz So You Can Focus on the BIG Stuff
--- The best places to find GOOD VA’s
-- What tasks you should outsource to VAs?
-- Effective process for hiring VA?
-- Q & A​
@splok
Public Speaking for Entrepreneurs (For Everyone!)
  • By far the greatest asset for the entrepreneur who wants to grow their brand: Speaking effectively in front of a group. This presentation will give you the tools to ramp up your speaking persona, fight fear, communicate effectively, and build confidence. An absolute MUST not just for entrepreneurs, but for anyone who needs to conquer public speaking fears.


@AllenCrawley
Branding Strategies and How to Harness Consumer Perception
  • What branding IS, and IS NOT
  • Why you must build a brand AND a story behind the brand.
  • How to use social media to launch, gain traction and compete with the big brands.
  • The huge roles that great photography, product reputation and customer service that SUCS play in building your brand from scratch.
  • Case studies on how small businesses use social to build multi-million dollar brands.
  • The thinking behind the why and how of developing my own brands along with lessons learned.
  • The “next steps” checklist on what to do right away for developing your own brand.
  • Takeaways: Handout; the best listing tools, websites and resources.


@Iwokeup
Evergreen Selling In the Age of the Tech Explosion. It's Not All Unicorns and Fairy Dust!
  • Why an MD Is Venturing into an evergreen space
  • Evergreen is evergreen for a reason
  • Conquering the challenge: How to be more than a "me too" Company (Is a USP enough?!)
  • How to "love your customers" and your "Why"
  • Getting out of your comfort zone
  • More!


@GIlman (ONE TOPIC)
Grow Your Business With Outsourced Labor: How to Hire/Manage Workers, The Good/Bad of Using Foreign Labor.
To build a scale-able business, you really must have other people working for you. If you don’t all you are doing is selling your trade/craft without a boss. For those that want to build a company, not simply create a job for themselves, then the art of skill of hiring and managing other peoples efforts is critical. The more GOOD people we can effectively manage, the faster we can create value in the marketplace.
  • The method I use to find great people to work for me, with the intent of keeping them on for the long haul.
  • Using upwork.com to find prospective hires.
  • The importance of an evaluation period with a small well defined project.
  • Using agile/scrum methodologies to manage projects. The importance of having a string of small projects, with well defined milestones, and specific requirements and deadlines.
  • The importance of continuously monitoring work progress, we create expectations based on what we measure and track.
  • Thinking long term, the importance of relationship building, and why I have spend time to travel to visit my main freelancer(s) in person.
------------ OR --------------
Building a SAAS product, finding an idea, gotchas, and what I wish I had known before I started.
  • What creates value, and what creates an opportunity?
  • Markets with poor existing solutions, something is broken, or not being done well.
  • The relevance of competition
  • Why incremental improvement is a hard sell, resistance to change, risks vs limited benefits, etc. What the perfect idea would look like, i.e. what criteria would it fulfill.


@Likwid24
Post-Shark Tank: What I learned after being on Shark Tank and Inking The A Big Deal
Hear resident Fastlane rockstar Sal discuss the details of being on Shark Tank and the sales aftermath that followed.
  • Growing in retail, getting into Home Depot, Menards, and all the big-boxes
  • Product development, growing pains
  • Shark Tank Q&A
@Envision
HOUSE HACKING: A Unique Insight Into Real Estate Investing (Live for FREAKING Free!)
This is one of the best ways for first time investors to get their feet wet with landlording and owning property. At the young age of 20, Roc bought a duplex, rehabbed it, and now rents it out. The "house hacking" session includes:
  • How you no longer pay rent or mortgage
  • How you have other people pay off a building that belongs to you – mortgage pay down/equity build up
  • How you free up funds to use on your start-up/next investment/anything you want
  • How at a young age you can start building your wealth with the use of other people’s money
  • How to find the right property and your numbers work
  • Close on the deal
  • Handling tenants/roommates and income
  • Expected repairs, issues, problems and how to NOT be affected by it


@Travis Phipps
Creative PPC Marketing Using YouTube, AdWords, and Facebook Advertising
  • Expert PPC manager and teacher.
  • How I effectively manage $750K/mo in advertising for maximum conversion
  • Facebook targeting / conversion tricks
  • Possible bonus: Growth strategies to take a biz from $0 to $1 Million in less than a year.

@biophase
To Be Announced (ECommerce, Amazon selling)


@DaveC
Buying Web-based Businesses On the Cheap: Why It Might Be Better than Building from Scratch!
-- Why buying is a great strategy for those looking to get started.
-- Why buying is a great strategy to add/grow your existing brand.
-- Why buying is a great strategy to diviersy your portfolio and grow your cash flow.​
@Vigilante
Overnight Brand - Using Licensing To Short Circuit Brand Development
-- How I took a brand from $0 to $100,000,000 in 4 years
-- How I did a license deal with Dale Earnhardt JR and NASCAR to create the first ever Dale JR voiceover GPS
-- How I secured license deals with Daewoo, Samsung, Nakamichi, Larry the Cable Guy, and more.
-- And more


@Sean Marshall
How to Create a "Lifestyle" Business with Sean Marshall, founder of FamilyRocketship.
Two years after starting his business, Sean and his family took off to live on the island of Cozumel,
Mexico. After living there for 2 1⁄2 years, he headed to Europe for half a year. His story has been published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Reboot Your Life
  • From zero, getting to $5K/mo in just 90 days with low or zero startup capital
  • Hiring and leading a virtual team
  • Working a vision, online marketing (social media, web design, SEO, etc)
  • How to create a an online marketing agency and running a business while living abroad

@GlobalWealth
Investing in Foreign Real Estate for Huge Tax Advantages as well as Rental Cash Flow
  • How to invest foreign properties in multiple locations (possibly different countries) and using them as your home as well as short term rentals when not there.
  • How to effectively consider a foreign residency for huge tax advantages
  • BONUS (Time Permitting): Productivity tools I use while traveling to over 20+ countries per year!

@S.O
How to Create "Market Experiences" to Create Explosive Growth (And Why Most Entreprenuers Are Underleveraging their Marketing by 80% or More)
-- How to go from six-figures (or high five-figures) to seven figures quickly (18 months top)
-- A method we implement that allows you to reach at least 80% more of your perfect customers allowing you to be super relevant.


@MJ DeMarco (Keynote, Topic Subject to Change)
How to Legally Print Money the Fastlane Way: How to Take An Identical Profit Position to that of the Worlds' Most Profitable Companies; Insurance (Buffet) Casinos (Adelson) and Finance (Carl Icahn)
  • Can The Financial Markets Really be "Fastlane?"
  • How To Turn Your Computer into Digital Printing Press.

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Two or Three Panel Discussions
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unconfirmed, time/panelist permitting.

(1) Product Development Panel:
How to Get Your Idea Out of Your Head and Into Reality, And Hopefully, On Store Shelves
Prospective panelists: @Eskil @benhebert @AllenCrawley @Catalyst

(2) Selling on the Amazon Channel Panel:
Prospective panelists: @JasonR @Vigilante @biophase @AllenCrawley @benhebert @Eskil

(3) Paid Traffic

Prospective panelists: @JasonR @biophase @AllenCrawley @Travis Phipps @S.O


Any questions about this event, please feel free to comment.
It's going to be a blast, not to mention the evenings that follow!

~ MJ and Danielle
 
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2016 Fastlane Summit, February Friday 19th thru Sunday the 21st.
Talking Stick Resort and Casino, Scottsdale Arizona

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View attachment 11078

Featuring 20+ Speakers/Entrepreneurs from the Fastlane Forum
Keynote: MJ DeMarco

Friday February 19th (8AM - 5PM)
Saturday February 20th (8AM - 5PM)
Sunday February 21st (8AM - 12PM)


Topics Include:

  • Small business startup, growth, branding
  • Real Estate, digital nomading
  • Marketing, PPC Advertising
  • Communication skills, public speaking, persuasion
  • Financial investment for Fastlaners
  • Mind hacking
  • Technology and productivity hacks
  • Much more (see agenda below)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tickets Sale Date: Tuesday November 24th at 10AM
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ticket price: $399 PER PERSON (Must be 18 years old)
  • Price DOES NOT include airfare or hotel.
  • Price DOES INCLUDE 20+ speakers, plus 2 panel discussions
  • Price DOES INCLUDE continental breakfast all 3 days, plus lunch Friday and Saturday.
  • Tentative: Price MAY INCLUDE dinner both Friday and/or Saturday with a social event at Top Golf or some other location -- these additional activities are pending budgetary consideration with respect to # of tickets sold, event/catering costs, etc. Please keep in mind, this event has been a no-profit-venture since its inception.
  • TICKETS ARE VERY LIMITED AND USUALLY SELL OUT WITHIN ONE DAY -- TOTAL TICKET ALLOCATION IS CURRENTLY AT 78 !!
Ticket link: http://www.viperionpublishing.com/meetups/2016-fastlane-summit


-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hotel Rooms, Talking Stick Resort (Limited)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Speaker / Topic Agenda:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Confirmed speakers and their topics (not necessarily this order and subject to change based on speaker and/or circumstances


@throttleforward
How I Took an INE From the Forum into an Investment Backed Startup (And Can't Keep Inventory in Stock) in Less than a Year.
  • Why I zagged when everyone zigged
  • How I formed a business hypothesis, price points
  • Getting started: Minimum viable branding, minimum viable operations, minimum viable product

@Red
The Ultimate Guide to Getting Shit Done When Other People Are Standing In The Way.
Got a big deal going down but someone else is not doing their job? Dealing with lazy outsiders or others throwing wrenches in the mix? Let Red show you how to break through the external barriers and take control over your deals.
  • How to move forward, get things done when someone else is holding up the line.
  • The art of letting other people have YOUR way
  • Multiple case studies.
@Arrabista
The Communication Secrets of Group Influence: How to Persuade Large Groups to Your POV
  • How do you persuade an audience to your point of view? What is more important when you are in front of an audience, your material, or you? Allow a professional communication coach unhack the tricks of the trade in a live, interactive demonstration. Convince the crowd

@Boom
Multimillionaire and author of the “Savvy Landlord”, Steven tells his unique rags-to-riches story in the field of rental real estate.
  • How he sold a business to get started (and how TMF figured in the plan)
  • How he leverages apps to run his business (50 rental units with less than 10 hours week)
  • Negotiation, hiring contractors, using VAs effectively
  • Borrowing money from community banks
  • More

@Chadi
Technology Productivity Hacks for Entrepreneurs
  • How to grow your LinkedIN network overnight
  • How to find almost anyone's business email or phone
  • How to turn your GMAIL account into a central depot for all your email
  • How to survey any market or industry instantly, and for just a few pennies.
  • Much more!


@LightHouse
How to rapidly develop, launch, and skyrocket a new product line in under 6 months via value add's, emotional marketing, and outgunning the competition
  • Buying a product line for less than its inventory worth and making back the purchase price in 4 weeks
  • The process of market and need evaluation
  • Fixing problems with what is existing and then launching
  • Marketing it better than every other company (proven by the market leader having to play catch up amidst a slew of copy cats)
  • Going from $0 to over $10k sold in 4 months total selling time.
  • Marketing automation and how to correctly apply it to any product you sell (digital/physical)
  • How to get started witout being overwhelmed.


@Kung Fu Steve
Turning Actions into Results
  • Identifying the patterns and beliefs that are holding you back from reaching your financial goals.
  • What to do about it


@Eskil
Who Says You Can’t? Create a Product-based Business that Runs Fastlane on All Cylinders!
-- Going from zero to something. Establishing name recognition of your product.
-- The pitfalls to avoid when working with parts suppliers. “You shipped me what?”
-- Balancing cash flow, or “we need more units” VERSUS “we need more money”
-- Value creation, and how to grow with the flow - consistently
-- Getting the attention of “the big boys” (will BIG retail care about you?)
-- Exploiting trade shows, and how I landed some seriously valuable connections in 2 days​
@kamanuci
Finding and Hiring Virtual Assistants For Your Biz So You Can Focus on the BIG Stuff
--- The best places to find GOOD VA’s
-- What tasks you should outsource to VAs?
-- Effective process for hiring VA?
-- Q & A​
@splok
Public Speaking for Entrepreneurs (For Everyone!)
  • By far the greatest asset for the entrepreneur who wants to grow their brand: Speaking effectively in front of a group. This presentation will give you the tools to ramp up your speaking persona, fight fear, communicate effectively, and build confidence. An absolute MUST not just for entrepreneurs, but for anyone who needs to conquer public speaking fears.

@AllenCrawley
Branding Strategies and How to Harness Consumer Perception
  • What branding IS, and IS NOT
  • Why you must build a brand AND a story behind the brand.
  • How to use social media to launch, gain traction and compete with the big brands.
  • The huge roles that great photography, product reputation and customer service that SUCS play in building your brand from scratch.
  • Case studies on how small businesses use social to build multi-million dollar brands.
  • The thinking behind the why and how of developing my own brands along with lessons learned.
  • The “next steps” checklist on what to do right away for developing your own brand.
  • Takeaways: Handout; the best listing tools, websites and resources.


@Iwokeup
Evergreen Selling In the Age of the Tech Explosion. It's Not All Unicorns and Fairy Dust!
  • Why an MD Is Venturing into an evergreen space
  • Evergreen is evergreen for a reason
  • Conquering the challenge: How to be more than a "me too" Company (Is a USP enough?!)
  • How to "love your customers" and your "Why"
  • Getting out of your comfort zone
  • More!


@GIlman (ONE TOPIC)
Grow Your Business With Outsourced Labor: How to Hire/Manage Workers, The Good/Bad of Using Foreign Labor.
To build a scale-able business, you really must have other people working for you. If you don’t all you are doing is selling your trade/craft without a boss. For those that want to build a company, not simply create a job for themselves, then the art of skill of hiring and managing other peoples efforts is critical. The more GOOD people we can effectively manage, the faster we can create value in the marketplace.
  • The method I use to find great people to work for me, with the intent of keeping them on for the long haul.
  • Using upwork.com to find prospective hires.
  • The importance of an evaluation period with a small well defined project.
  • Using agile/scrum methodologies to manage projects. The importance of having a string of small projects, with well defined milestones, and specific requirements and deadlines.
  • The importance of continuously monitoring work progress, we create expectations based on what we measure and track.
  • Thinking long term, the importance of relationship building, and why I have spend time to travel to visit my main freelancer(s) in person.
------------ OR --------------
Building a SAAS product, finding an idea, gotchas, and what I wish I had known before I started.
  • What creates value, and what creates an opportunity?
  • Markets with poor existing solutions, something is broken, or not being done well.
  • The relevance of competition
  • Why incremental improvement is a hard sell, resistance to change, risks vs limited benefits, etc. What the perfect idea would look like, i.e. what criteria would it fulfill.

@Likwid24
Post-Shark Tank: What I learned after being on Shark Tank and Inking The A Big Deal
Hear resident Fastlane rockstar Sal discuss the details of being on Shark Tank and the sales aftermath that followed.
  • Growing in retail, getting into Home Depot, Menards, and all the big-boxes
  • Product development, growing pains
  • Shark Tank Q&A
@Envision
HOUSE HACKING: A Unique Insight Into Real Estate Investing (Live for FREAKING Free!)
This is one of the best ways for first time investors to get their feet wet with landlording and owning property. At the young age of 20, Roc bought a duplex, rehabbed it, and now rents it out. The "house hacking" session includes:
  • How you no longer pay rent or mortgage
  • How you have other people pay off a building that belongs to you – mortgage pay down/equity build up
  • How you free up funds to use on your start-up/next investment/anything you want
  • How at a young age you can start building your wealth with the use of other people’s money
  • How to find the right property and your numbers work
  • Close on the deal
  • Handling tenants/roommates and income
  • Expected repairs, issues, problems and how to NOT be affected by it


@Travis Phipps
Creative PPC Marketing Using YouTube, AdWords, and Facebook Advertising
  • Expert PPC manager and teacher.
  • How I effectively manage $750K/mo in advertising for maximum conversion
  • Facebook targeting / conversion tricks
  • Possible bonus: Growth strategies to take a biz from $0 to $1 Million in less than a year.


@biophase
To Be Announced (ECommerce, Amazon selling)



@DaveC
Buying Web-based Businesses On the Cheap: Why It Might Be Better than Building from Scratch!
-- Why buying is a great strategy for those looking to get started.
-- Why buying is a great strategy to add/grow your existing brand.
-- Why buying is a great strategy to diviersy your portfolio and grow your cash flow.​
@Vigilante
Overnight Brand - Using Licensing To Short Circuit Brand Development
-- How I took a brand from $0 to $100,000,000 in 4 years
-- How I did a license deal with Dale Earnhardt JR and NASCAR to create the first ever Dale JR voiceover GPS
-- How I secured license deals with Daewoo, Samsung, Nakamichi, Larry the Cable Guy, and more.
-- And more



@Sean Marshall
How to Create a "Lifestyle" Business with Sean Marshall, founder of FamilyRocketship.
Two years after starting his business, Sean and his family took off to live on the island of Cozumel,
Mexico. After living there for 2 1⁄2 years, he headed to Europe for half a year. His story has been published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Reboot Your Life
  • From zero, getting to $5K/mo in just 90 days with low or zero startup capital
  • Hiring and leading a virtual team
  • Working a vision, online marketing (social media, web design, SEO, etc)
  • How to create a an online marketing agency and running a business while living abroad


@GlobalWealth
Investing in Foreign Real Estate for Huge Tax Advantages as well as Rental Cash Flow
  • How to invest foreign properties in multiple locations (possibly different countries) and using them as your home as well as short term rentals when not there.
  • How to effectively consider a foreign residency for huge tax advantages
  • BONUS (Time Permitting): Productivity tools I use while traveling to over 20+ countries per year!


@S.O
How to Create "Market Experiences" to Create Explosive Growth (And Why Most Entreprenuers Are Underleveraging their Marketing by 80% or More)
-- How to go from six-figures (or high five-figures) to seven figures quickly (18 months top)
-- A method we implement that allows you to reach at least 80% more of your perfect customers allowing you to be super relevant.



@MJ DeMarco (Keynote, Topic Subject to Change)
How to Legally Print Money the Fastlane Way: How to Take An Identical Profit Position to that of the Worlds' Most Profitable Companies; Insurance (Buffet) Casinos (Adelson) and Finance (Carl Icahn)
  • Can The Financial Markets Really be "Fastlane?"
  • How To Turn Your Computer into Digital Printing Press.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Three Panel Discussions
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unconfirmed, time/panelist permitting

(1) Product Development Panel:
How to Get Your Idea Out of Your Head and Into Reality, And Hopefully, On Store Shelves
Prospective panelists: @Eskil @benhebert @AllenCrawley @Catalyst

(2) Selling on the Amazon Channel Panel:
Prospective panelists: @JasonR @Vigilante @biophase @AllenCrawley @benhebert

(3) Paid Traffic

Prospective panelists: @JasonR @biophase @AllenCrawley @Travis Phipps @S.O


Any questions about this event, please feel free to comment.
It's going to be a blast, not to mention the evenings that follow!

~ MJ and Danielle
@MJ DeMarco & @Red,

10 AM. Which time zone?
 
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The rooms are sold, but they are still honoring the price, gotta call today! Its just a reservation/hold so no charge yet.
 
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Chitown

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2016 Fastlane Summit, February Friday 19th thru Sunday the 21st.
Talking Stick Resort and Casino, Scottsdale Arizona

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

View attachment 11078

Featuring 20+ Speakers/Entrepreneurs from the Fastlane Forum
Keynote: MJ DeMarco

Friday February 19th (8AM - 5PM)
Saturday February 20th (8AM - 5PM)
Sunday February 21st (8AM - 12PM)


Topics Include:

  • Small business startup, growth, branding
  • Real Estate, digital nomading
  • Marketing, PPC Advertising
  • Communication skills, public speaking, persuasion
  • Financial investment for Fastlaners
  • Mind hacking
  • Technology and productivity hacks
  • Much more (see agenda below)

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Tickets Sale Date: Tuesday November 24th at 10AM Arizona Time
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Ticket price: $399 PER PERSON (Must be 18 years old)
  • Price DOES NOT include airfare or hotel.
  • Price DOES INCLUDE 20+ speakers, plus 2 panel discussions
  • Price DOES INCLUDE continental breakfast all 3 days, plus lunch Friday and Saturday.
  • Tentative: Price MAY INCLUDE dinner both Friday and/or Saturday with a social event at Top Golf or some other location -- these additional activities are pending budgetary consideration with respect to # of tickets sold, rooms sold, event/catering costs, etc. Please keep in mind, this event has been a no-profit-venture since its inception.
  • TICKETS ARE VERY LIMITED AND USUALLY SELL OUT WITHIN ONE DAY -- TOTAL TICKET ALLOCATION IS CURRENTLY AT 78 !!
Ticket link: http://www.viperionpublishing.com/meetups/2016-fastlane-summit
(Will go live near sale date)

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Hotel Rooms, Talking Stick Resort (Limited)
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Speaker / Topic Agenda:
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Confirmed speakers and their topics (not necessarily this order and subject to change based on speaker and/or circumstances


@throttleforward
How I Took an INE From the Forum into an Investment Backed Startup (And Can't Keep Inventory in Stock) in Less than a Year.
  • Why I zagged when everyone zigged
  • How I formed a business hypothesis, price points
  • Getting started: Minimum viable branding, minimum viable operations, minimum viable product

@Red
The Ultimate Guide to Getting Shit Done When Other People Are Standing In The Way.
Got a big deal going down but someone else is not doing their job? Dealing with lazy outsiders or others throwing wrenches in the mix? Let Red show you how to break through the external barriers and take control over your deals.
  • How to move forward, get things done when someone else is holding up the line.
  • The art of letting other people have YOUR way
  • Multiple case studies.
@Arrabista
The Communication Secrets of Group Influence: How to Persuade Large Groups to Your POV
  • How do you persuade an audience to your point of view? What is more important when you are in front of an audience, your material, or you? Allow a professional communication coach unhack the tricks of the trade in a live, interactive demonstration. Convince the crowd

@Boom
Multimillionaire and author of the “Savvy Landlord”, Steven tells his unique rags-to-riches story in the field of rental real estate.
  • How he sold a business to get started (and how TMF figured in the plan)
  • How he leverages apps to run his business (50 rental units with less than 10 hours week)
  • Negotiation, hiring contractors, using VAs effectively
  • Borrowing money from community banks
  • More

@Chadi
Technology Productivity Hacks for Entrepreneurs
  • How to grow your LinkedIN network overnight
  • How to find almost anyone's business email or phone
  • How to turn your GMAIL account into a central depot for all your email
  • How to survey any market or industry instantly, and for just a few pennies.
  • Much more!


@LightHouse
How to rapidly develop, launch, and skyrocket a new product line in under 6 months via value add's, emotional marketing, and outgunning the competition
  • Buying a product line for less than its inventory worth and making back the purchase price in 4 weeks
  • The process of market and need evaluation
  • Fixing problems with what is existing and then launching
  • Marketing it better than every other company (proven by the market leader having to play catch up amidst a slew of copy cats)
  • Going from $0 to over $10k sold in 4 months total selling time.
  • Marketing automation and how to correctly apply it to any product you sell (digital/physical)
  • How to get started witout being overwhelmed.


@Kung Fu Steve
Turning Actions into Results
  • Identifying the patterns and beliefs that are holding you back from reaching your financial goals.
  • What to do about it


@Eskil
Who Says You Can’t? Create a Product-based Business that Runs Fastlane on All Cylinders!
-- Going from zero to something. Establishing name recognition of your product.
-- The pitfalls to avoid when working with parts suppliers. “You shipped me what?”
-- Balancing cash flow, or “we need more units” VERSUS “we need more money”
-- Value creation, and how to grow with the flow - consistently
-- Getting the attention of “the big boys” (will BIG retail care about you?)
-- Exploiting trade shows, and how I landed some seriously valuable connections in 2 days​

@kamanuci
Finding and Hiring Virtual Assistants For Your Biz So You Can Focus on the BIG Stuff
--- The best places to find GOOD VA’s
-- What tasks you should outsource to VAs?
-- Effective process for hiring VA?
-- Q & A​

@splok
Public Speaking for Entrepreneurs (For Everyone!)
  • By far the greatest asset for the entrepreneur who wants to grow their brand: Speaking effectively in front of a group. This presentation will give you the tools to ramp up your speaking persona, fight fear, communicate effectively, and build confidence. An absolute MUST not just for entrepreneurs, but for anyone who needs to conquer public speaking fears.


@AllenCrawley
Branding Strategies and How to Harness Consumer Perception
  • What branding IS, and IS NOT
  • Why you must build a brand AND a story behind the brand.
  • How to use social media to launch, gain traction and compete with the big brands.
  • The huge roles that great photography, product reputation and customer service that SUCS play in building your brand from scratch.
  • Case studies on how small businesses use social to build multi-million dollar brands.
  • The thinking behind the why and how of developing my own brands along with lessons learned.
  • The “next steps” checklist on what to do right away for developing your own brand.
  • Takeaways: Handout; the best listing tools, websites and resources.


@Iwokeup
Evergreen Selling In the Age of the Tech Explosion. It's Not All Unicorns and Fairy Dust!
  • Why an MD Is Venturing into an evergreen space
  • Evergreen is evergreen for a reason
  • Conquering the challenge: How to be more than a "me too" Company (Is a USP enough?!)
  • How to "love your customers" and your "Why"
  • Getting out of your comfort zone
  • More!


@GIlman (ONE TOPIC)
Grow Your Business With Outsourced Labor: How to Hire/Manage Workers, The Good/Bad of Using Foreign Labor.
To build a scale-able business, you really must have other people working for you. If you don’t all you are doing is selling your trade/craft without a boss. For those that want to build a company, not simply create a job for themselves, then the art of skill of hiring and managing other peoples efforts is critical. The more GOOD people we can effectively manage, the faster we can create value in the marketplace.
  • The method I use to find great people to work for me, with the intent of keeping them on for the long haul.
  • Using upwork.com to find prospective hires.
  • The importance of an evaluation period with a small well defined project.
  • Using agile/scrum methodologies to manage projects. The importance of having a string of small projects, with well defined milestones, and specific requirements and deadlines.
  • The importance of continuously monitoring work progress, we create expectations based on what we measure and track.
  • Thinking long term, the importance of relationship building, and why I have spend time to travel to visit my main freelancer(s) in person.
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Building a SAAS product, finding an idea, gotchas, and what I wish I had known before I started.
  • What creates value, and what creates an opportunity?
  • Markets with poor existing solutions, something is broken, or not being done well.
  • The relevance of competition
  • Why incremental improvement is a hard sell, resistance to change, risks vs limited benefits, etc. What the perfect idea would look like, i.e. what criteria would it fulfill.


@Likwid24
Post-Shark Tank: What I learned after being on Shark Tank and Inking The A Big Deal
Hear resident Fastlane rockstar Sal discuss the details of being on Shark Tank and the sales aftermath that followed.
  • Growing in retail, getting into Home Depot, Menards, and all the big-boxes
  • Product development, growing pains
  • Shark Tank Q&A
@Envision
HOUSE HACKING: A Unique Insight Into Real Estate Investing (Live for FREAKING Free!)
This is one of the best ways for first time investors to get their feet wet with landlording and owning property. At the young age of 20, Roc bought a duplex, rehabbed it, and now rents it out. The "house hacking" session includes:
  • How you no longer pay rent or mortgage
  • How you have other people pay off a building that belongs to you – mortgage pay down/equity build up
  • How you free up funds to use on your start-up/next investment/anything you want
  • How at a young age you can start building your wealth with the use of other people’s money
  • How to find the right property and your numbers work
  • Close on the deal
  • Handling tenants/roommates and income
  • Expected repairs, issues, problems and how to NOT be affected by it


@Travis Phipps
Creative PPC Marketing Using YouTube, AdWords, and Facebook Advertising
  • Expert PPC manager and teacher.
  • How I effectively manage $750K/mo in advertising for maximum conversion
  • Facebook targeting / conversion tricks
  • Possible bonus: Growth strategies to take a biz from $0 to $1 Million in less than a year.


@biophase
To Be Announced (ECommerce, Amazon selling)



@DaveC
Buying Web-based Businesses On the Cheap: Why It Might Be Better than Building from Scratch!
-- Why buying is a great strategy for those looking to get started.
-- Why buying is a great strategy to add/grow your existing brand.
-- Why buying is a great strategy to diviersy your portfolio and grow your cash flow.​

@Vigilante
Overnight Brand - Using Licensing To Short Circuit Brand Development
-- How I took a brand from $0 to $100,000,000 in 4 years
-- How I did a license deal with Dale Earnhardt JR and NASCAR to create the first ever Dale JR voiceover GPS
-- How I secured license deals with Daewoo, Samsung, Nakamichi, Larry the Cable Guy, and more.
-- And more



@Sean Marshall
How to Create a "Lifestyle" Business with Sean Marshall, founder of FamilyRocketship.
Two years after starting his business, Sean and his family took off to live on the island of Cozumel,
Mexico. After living there for 2 1⁄2 years, he headed to Europe for half a year. His story has been published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Reboot Your Life
  • From zero, getting to $5K/mo in just 90 days with low or zero startup capital
  • Hiring and leading a virtual team
  • Working a vision, online marketing (social media, web design, SEO, etc)
  • How to create a an online marketing agency and running a business while living abroad


@GlobalWealth
Investing in Foreign Real Estate for Huge Tax Advantages as well as Rental Cash Flow
  • How to invest foreign properties in multiple locations (possibly different countries) and using them as your home as well as short term rentals when not there.
  • How to effectively consider a foreign residency for huge tax advantages
  • BONUS (Time Permitting): Productivity tools I use while traveling to over 20+ countries per year!


@S.O
How to Create "Market Experiences" to Create Explosive Growth (And Why Most Entreprenuers Are Underleveraging their Marketing by 80% or More)
-- How to go from six-figures (or high five-figures) to seven figures quickly (18 months top)
-- A method we implement that allows you to reach at least 80% more of your perfect customers allowing you to be super relevant.



@MJ DeMarco (Keynote, Topic Subject to Change)
How to Legally Print Money the Fastlane Way: How to Take An Identical Profit Position to that of the Worlds' Most Profitable Companies; Insurance (Buffet) Casinos (Adelson) and Finance (Carl Icahn)
  • Can The Financial Markets Really be "Fastlane?"
  • How To Turn Your Computer into Digital Printing Press.

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Three Panel Discussions
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Unconfirmed, time/panelist permitting

(1) Product Development Panel:
How to Get Your Idea Out of Your Head and Into Reality, And Hopefully, On Store Shelves
Prospective panelists: @Eskil @benhebert @AllenCrawley @Catalyst

(2) Selling on the Amazon Channel Panel:
Prospective panelists: @JasonR @Vigilante @biophase @AllenCrawley @benhebert

(3) Paid Traffic

Prospective panelists: @JasonR @biophase @AllenCrawley @Travis Phipps @S.O


Any questions about this event, please feel free to comment.
It's going to be a blast, not to mention the evenings that follow!

~ MJ and Danielle
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I thought Meetup 2015 was tight! 2016 just threw down the F*ckin' gauntlet!!!!
 

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Kickass. Room booked, flights later today. Can't wait to get there, and here's hoping I'm the dumbest guy there! [HASHTAG]#maximumROI[/HASHTAG]
 

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I've given a lot of speeches in my life. Most of them were out of an obligation to an employer, a trade association, or to advance my professional career.

This one is different. This one is because I want to deliver on a promise to give you something you can use the rest of your life. This one is… Because I can.

I'm not a great speaker, but I plan to deliver you a great message none the less.

See you all in February.
 

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Although this venture out west is going to be a SERIOUS dent in my bank account, I literally couldn't be more excited to hear you guys speak, meet everyone I've spoken to on the forum and more than anything else, take myself to the next level. I'm PUMPED! Is it Feb already?! Again @Vigilante when I said I was coming, I MEANT IT!
 
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Honored to be selected to speak. Just don't make me follow @Arrabista - nothing I say or do will come close to his presentation :)

For anyone on the fence about the expense of going - the meetup last year absolutly changed my life. Beyond the gold nuggets of information, I made friendships that I'm confident will last a lifetime.
 

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Lives will be changed. Minds will be blown.

Hey MJ / Danielle - if you're ok with it, I'm happy to volunteer this year again making everyone's name badges. Just let me know :)
 
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Lives will be changed. Minds will be blown.

Hey MJ / Danielle - if you're ok with it, I'm happy to volunteer this year again making everyone's name badges. Just let me know :)
As long as mine has a ferret.
 

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Honored to have been selected. It was a life changing event for The Wife and I last year. Gained perspectives, respect, and a new venture. Plus a couple of really rad friends. :)

This year we're planning on bringing our son (18). I fully expect his understanding of "how the world works," and his path forward in that world will be changed forever.

EDIT: and HOLY CANOLI! That lineup looks AMAZING. Honestly, it looks even better than last year!

And I second @throttleforward - I do NOT want to follow @Arrabista. Who wants to look like a chump in comparison? ;)
 
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Not even for Bobby and CW?

They each had to pay extra to be admitted. And my bar tab.

Hey MJ / Danielle - if you're ok with it, I'm happy to volunteer this year again making everyone's name badges. Just let me know :)

That would be fantastic!! Thank you! :)
I wish for mine to have twinkling LED's & a unicorn on it, thank you.
 
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