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

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Before you buy a pass to Pubcon to hear the same old company pitches you have already heard a million times from the same speakers check out DK’s line up of events (AKA 2nd annual Pubcon hijack).

These events is actually where all of the “experts” will be at. AND in these settings you can actually “talk” to them instead of listening to their company stump pitch. Just check out all the people on DK’s attendees page and you tell me who are you trying to network with? Who are you trying to learn from?

These mini events are the key.

The events range from MMA trainging from Robert Drysdale and also former UFC Heavy Weight Champion Randy “The Natural” Couture’s top staff at xtreme couture to a total blow out birthday party celebration for Chris “emphasis” Hedgecock! The biggest event being the Thursday night poker tournament (which I got 2nd in 2 years ago) With many other things in between. This event has been the networking/social event for the last 2 years of all of pubcon… hundreds of people attend even those who do not play come for the free booze!

Last year DK reached capacity very quickly so if you are interested get over to his page and sign up for the activities now!

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