As some of you know ShoeMoney Media has a remote office and host our servers out of Minneapolis so we were happy to help sponsor and put this event together. And by we of course I mean David Dellanave (partner in ShoeMoney) did all the work. David will be in attendance as well as tons of other Twin Cities tweeters.

The headline sponsor is Sponsored Tweets who will be covering the bar tab! That’s right open bar tweeters!

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Other sponsors include:

Should be an incredible networking event in the midwest! Go here and signup now!

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The other day I did a interview with Aaron Wall.

In one of the questions Aaron asked about how I grew my business. I gave a pretty lengthy answer but threw in this tip also:

I also surrounded myself with successful people. If you look around your circle of friends and you are the most successful… its time to change your friends.

To which a lot of his commentators seem to take issue with… some interesting responses like:

Tom888
Yes, Jeremy is successful. But when I read this:

“I also surrounded myself with successful people. If you look around your circle of friends and you are the most successful… its time to change your friends.”

I also thought he must be a very sad man… Unless I missed his definition of a friend.

SEO Rabit
Have you ever had a friend Jeremy ?

Because it seems like you didn’t.

Excellent interview nonetheless.

WebMarketingArt
I think instead of saying “its time to change your friends”, Jeremy should have said “its time to make more (richer) friends”.

I feel as if my answer was a bit misunderstood. When I said ” If you look around your circle of friends and you are the most successful… its time to change your friends.” I was not referring to how much money someone has. That is just silly.

I know a lot of rich people who are not successful…. and I know a lot of successful people who are not rich.

My mom is a retired school teacher who know works as a red cross volunteer all over the world.

My father is a retired factory worker who started his own fishing website a couple years ago and in the last year started having some really big fishing events.

My best friend from high school – best man in my wedding – and still very good friend is a security expert for a very large national chain.

ALL of them I consider VERY SUCCESSFUL people.

I have had friends that are lazy and going no where in life. They don’t stay my friends very long.

The one commonality you will find with all my friends is they all work hard and love life. And for that I believe they are successful.

So let me rephrase a bit from my original quote.

If you look around to all of your closest friends and realize you are the smartest, hardest working person among the group then its time to get some new friends.

My grandfather used to say… “show me your friends and I will show you your future”. I have a feeling I will be quoting him a lot to my daughters =P.

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Surrounding Yourself with Successful People

Last week at Audience Conference I did something I have never done before. No powerpoint, no panel, just me on a broadway stage giving a talk at an event headline sponsored by Ford Motor Company in front of hundreds of people.

The attendees were also a lot of my peers or people in high places. People like executives from Ford, ABC News, Warner Brothers Records, Jason Calacanis (former AOL Exec, Mahalo founder) and many other heavy hitters.

It was by far the most intimidating audience I have ever spoken to.

Right before I went on Loren Feldman looked at me and said, "you nervous?".

"Shittin bricks" I replied.

I had never been on a stage with tons of lights, velvet curtains on the side and behind me, and microphoens all over. It was pretty neat.

I gave a talk about how I built an audience at shoemoney.com. How I blog in the space of making money online – but so do hundreds of thousands of other people. Why is it that I built one of the largest audiences in the niche and others have failed to get an audience. Even people much more “successful” than myself.

I believe it all comes down to 3 key things. I will be posting the video from my talk as soon as Loren gets it to me (feel free to prod him on twitter @1938media)

This post isn’t about my talk though… it’s about facing your fears. I was scared shitless to take the stage and give my talk but what was the worst thing that could happen? I sucked? I tripped and fell? I fainted?

I remember back when I did my first appearance on SEO Rockstars radio show. I remember the first time I flew in an airplane. I remember when I gave my first keynote speech. I remember giving my talk at the Elite Retreat on conversion and seeing Seth Godin in the audience! All pretty scary experiences.

Are you doing things that scare you shitless? Or are you happy to live in your comfort zone?

Failure is something I can deal with. Regret is not.

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Are You Scared Shitless?

Just one major problem. AT&T.

Last week at Ad:Tech nobody who had AT&T could use their phones. Everyone had a signal but every time you would try to call someone the call failed. Everytime you try to text someone the text failed.

This really sucked. I had interviews most of the day and a lot of people to meet up with and had no way to get ahold of them to find out where to meet….. bad bad bad. Being dead in the water like that is something I can’t accept.

Then there is the dropped call problem with AT&T. In Lincoln Nebraska its not a problem but anytime I travel I see what everyone else is talking about with the massive AT&T dropped call problem.

When Verizon released the new Motorola Droid I had plans just to test it for 30 days and see how it went… but after using it a couple hours migrating everything over I was hooked.

I made a video about the specifics:

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Blackberry Curve To Apple iPhone to Motorola Droid In A Year

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Difference Between – Free Shirt Friday – UPDATE

Here at Ad:Tech and next week at Pubcon thought I would make a brief vid:

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Can We Talk For A Minute