Hello from the Swiss Grand Hotel on Bondi Beach at the AdWords Mastery in Sydney, Australia!
AdWords Mastery at Swiss Grand Hotel
AdWords Mastery is my second event in with Nikhil Parekh, my Sydney based partner with whom I am building the Internet AUStars brand across Australia.
This time, I’ve brought along my business partners Andy Huang and David DiNucci to help run this spectacular event we are putting on for almost 200 attendees.
Over the course of the weekend, we covered Google AdWords fundamentals, optimization strategies and landing page formulas designed to overcome the dreaded “Google Slap,” which refers to penalties advertisers get as a result of creating campaigns that are not Google friendly.
For our VIP students, we also organized an evening networking party to socialize and get the chance to know everyone better, which is much easier to do in a social setting compared to the seminar room.
And for the record, I just want to say that I simply LOVE doing events “down under” … Check out this Australian welcome!
Thanks Sydney! I look forward to being back this August for the next Internet AUStars live event!
AdWords Mastery Attendees
AdWords Mastery Preparation with David DiNucci, Andy Huang and Nikhil Parekh at Gloria Jeans Coffee in Cronulla
Hello from the 18th floor of the Guyang Mansion in Nanjing, China, where, along with Andy Huang, my business partner for AIMVenture Corporation, we are continuing to build out our various outsourcing teams, including AdWords Assistants, among other traffic generation services.
Simon Leung And Andy Huang With The AIMVenture China Team
In addition to providing Internet Marketing services, the Nanjing office is also our headquarters for several other businesses, which consists of e-commerce websites and product manufacturing, supplying, trading and exporting.
However, the primary objective for this trip is to grow the Internet Marketing side of our business by hiring more traffic assistants and providing more training to the team, particularly on the Pay-Per-Click (PPC), search engine optimization (SEO) and Web 2.0 social media side of things.
Andy Huang and I have been in the Nanjing office this past week doing just that, and the team has been doing extremely well in terms of growth and improvement to their skills.
Needless to say, it’s been a hectic week, but somehow, we found the time to record a quick video to give you a brief tour of our Nanjing office
I’ve been traveling pretty aggressively for the past two years, and I can pretty much count the number of weekends I actually spent at home in 2008 with one hand.
And after spending my first weekend at home in several months, well, I’m leaving again…
This time, I’m going with Andy Huang (my apprentice turned business partner) back to Nanjing, China, to continue building our growing AdWords outsourcing team.
We have some pretty aggressive goals for the next couple of weeks, including getting the team skilled to the point where they can manage six to seven figure corporate accounts.
But before I leave and officially launch this service to the corporations out in Asia, I wanted to give *you* (as my loyal blog readers and subscribers) priority notice and access to our rigorously trained team.
(Hey, you know I’m always lookin out for you, right
In fact, our team of talented college graduates were trained with the exact same system used to train Google employees who manage now multi-million dollar accounts!
Needless to say, you’ll be in very good hands knowing that you can outsource your AdWords marketing to the very best!
We’re only taking on a limited number of beta clients at our introductory price before we launch this to thousands of prospects in Asia next week and raise the price.
If you’re interested in hiring one of our AdWords Assistants, request one ASAP along with a free consultation so you don’t miss out
Oh, and we’ll even talk to you on the phone first to make sure our services are right for you.
How much more can you do with your business if you can outsource the nitty gritty repetitive work of AdWords management?
Hello from the Moscone Center at the Ad Tech Digital Marketing Event in downtown San Francisco!
Today was day one of Ad Tech’s three day event in San Francisco, where over 300 of the world’s most innovative technology, marketing and advertising companies made their products and services available to the public, many for the first time by promoting themselves in exhibits as well as scheduled presentations.
I attended Ad Tech San Francisco not only because I wanted to check out the latest technology on the market, but it was also close to my home in Santa Clara, so this was a convenient trip for me compared to events I’m used to.
And of course, I couldn’t attend an Ad Tech without stopping byt he Google booth
It was a lot of fun visiting the Google booth, especially because I used to be one of the staff members representing the Google booths at Ad Techs, as well as other trade shows, across the United States and Canada.
I actually had a good time seeing some of my old co-workers, as well as meeting and talking with several Googlers who started after I had left the company and never had the pleasure of meeting until today.
It’s pretty exciting to know how far the Optimization Team and Agency Team (both of which I helped build from the ground up a few years ago) have come in the past 20 months or so since I left Google.
And as always, the Google booth has some of the best free giveaways you will find around, so if you haven’t had the chance to stop by the Google booth yet, be sure to do so at Ad Tech or any other tradeshow you might be attending next…
… And be sure to tell the Googler you talk to that “Simon Says Hi!”
Hello and Happy New Year from Hunter’s Lakefront, a cabin rental from Tahoe Luxury Properties in North Lake Tahoe!
For the past few days, I have been spending the last remaining days of 2007 here in Tahoe with a couple of my best Google buddies and our friends, hanging out at the cabin, doing some snowboarding, playing in the snow, driving around town and dining at some of the finest restuarants in the area.
And tonight (in just a few hours, in fact), we will be ringing in the New Year 2008 together at the Hard Rock Cafe in South Lake Tahoe.
Here’s a snapshot of my buddy, David DiNucci, and I on New Year’s Eve:
Here’s another one of us during one of our group dinners:
Here’s yet another one of us in front of our cabin right before heading out to the slopes.
Here is one more of us on New Year’s night:
As we say goodbye to 2007, I’ve had some time to reflect on some of my goals that I had set for my first full year in business (see my 2007 resolutions here), as well as what I have achieved over the past 12 months.
Yes, 2007 has definitely exceeded my expectations on so many different levels – Never had I imagined an opportunity where I can work at home if I wanted to, or travel to places I have never been before as part of my business.
So it is a little bitter sweet as I make my final blog post of the year, but it only means that I have many more exciting new posts to look forward to in the year to come.
And my resolution for 2008?
Well, I plan to make this year my best year yet (I know, not much to compare it to… I’ve only been in business for one year haha)!
But to make 2008 even better, I plan to start up a couple new businesses in China and Singapore, become a best selling author, build an even bigger team, create more information products, get involved more in Web 2.0 technology, focus more on niche marketing, organize more workshops, create more joint ventures, expand my branding Internationally and partner up with the right people to do new things that I never dreamed of doing before.
Exciting indeed, and if you want to embark on this venture with me, and perhaps set out to accomplish some of your own business goals, I welcome you to join me by commenting on this post or contacting me privately here.
And of course, I am always looking for more sharp and like-minded individuals to join my team and get involved in real Internet Marketing projects with me.
In the meantime, I’ve put together a quick video from the slopes of Squaw Valley here in Tahoe that you can view below.
Enjoy the video, and I wish you a successful, joyous and prosperous 2008 … HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Hello from Room 308 at the Holiday Inn Peachtree Corners in Norcross, Georgia!
I’m blogging right now because well, frankly, I’m bored…
Still trying to recover from an intense weekend of networking at Big Seminar, I am taking a short break from working in my hotel room to blog for a few minutes.
I am actually spending the week in this area because I will be speaking at Ken McArthur’s “Get Your Product Done” workshop this coming weekend in Atlanta, and it didn’t make sense for me to fly out twice from California within a matter of days.
Hence, I will be here all week to hopefully get some work done.
Today in particular is also a pretty special day because 5 years ago today, I stepped foot into the GooglePlex for the first time for my first day on the job.
Little did I know, it would take me down a wonderful journey of culture, knowledge and experience that I won’t soon forget.
More importantly, it has led me to where I am now … and will no doubt continue to be instrumental to where I am heading towards.
When I arrived home from Orlando on Monday night, Sam Heyer’s flight came in at just about the same time.
If you’ve never heard of Sam Heyer, he is the marketing genius behind some of the most successful high profile launches in recent history totaling in multi-million dollars of revenue, including Ewen Chia’s Super Affiliate Cloning Program and Nitro Marketing’s Extreme Marketing Makeover.
Sam is now my business partner for several of my private niches, and he has come to town from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to meet up with investors and to talk about our own launches.
While he was in town, I thought it would be pretty cool to show him around Google.
Despite having three consecutive days of meetings, we still managed to visit the GooglePlex twice.
On Wednesday, my buddy Kenji Arai, who is in the Google Videos department and normally works out of YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, happened to be working at the GooglePlex, which is based in Mountain View.
After Sam and I wrapped up our lunch meeting in Palo Alto, we stopped by the GooglePlex to meet up with Kenji.
Kenji showed us around the campus and introduced us to the new developments.
Sam was touring around the GooglePlex in awe, and literally looked like a little kid at a candy shop, especially when he found out that all the food on site are free!
Then earlier this afternoon, my good friend Kristina Cutura hosted us for lunch on campus.
We had a really good time catching up and enjoyed great conversation over some fine Google dining.
What I did notice in my visits is that a lot has changed during these past few months, including exponential growth to the team, as well as the departments moving buildings as a result of the expansion.
I hadn’t been back to the GooglePlex in several months, and it was great to be back, enjoy the great food and see old friends again.
