Hello from the Internet AUStars Tour in Australia, where Nikhil Parekh and I are hosting a 10-day Internet Marketing extravaganza across three Australian cities – Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

Simon Leung and Nikhil Parekh at Internet AUStars

After organizing several of our own workshops this year covering Internet Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, Google AdWords and Agency Training, Nikhil Parekh and I decided to close off our final event of the year by inviting a handful of top notch Internet Marketing experts to present alongside with us at the premiere Internet AUstars multi-speaker event.

The goal for Internet AUStars was to provide as much value as possible to our attendees, so Nikhil Parekh and I were very selective about the experts we invited – They must be successful in what they are teaching, willing to conduct not one but two trainings, and be around the entire event even after they have presented for speaker panels, hot seats, networking sessions and make themselves available for one-on-one time with individual attendees.

It was a challenge to narrow down our list of worldwide experts, but in the end, our international Internet AUStars team included Dr. Mike Woo-Ming from San Diego, CA, Christopher Guerriero from New Jersey, David Cavanagh from Thailand, Glenn Dietzel from Ontario, Canada, as well as guest appearances from Australian locals Peter Drew, Paul Barrs, Aimee Vo and Katerina Morjanoff.

Even though the Internet AUStars 10-day tour was grueling event for the entire team, it was very much worth it just to be able to bring all these worldwide talents to the Australian audience.

Internet AUStars Expert Panel with Glenn Dietzel, Peter Drew, David Cavanagh and Paul Barrs

Internet AUStars Hot Seat with David Cavanagh, Jim Graham and Glenn Dietzel

Internet AUStars Networking Sessions with David Cavanagh, Glenn Dietzel and Dr. Mike Woo-Ming

Internet AUStars Best Speaker Award in Brisbane – Glenn Dietzel

Internet AUStars Best Speaker Award in Melbourne – David Cavanagh

Internet AUStars Best Speaker Award in Sydney – Dr. Mike Woo-Ming

Internet AUStars VIP Dinner with Aimee Vo, Jenny Weeks, Nimeet Tanna, Nikhil Parekh, Glenn Dietzel, Christopher Guerriero, Dr. Mike Woo-Ming and Simon Leung

Special thanks to the Internet AUStars team in the photos above, and we look forward to meeting you live at the next Internet AUStars Tour in 2010!

What Internet AUStars Attendees Are Saying…

Internet AUStars Moments…

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Hello from the Singapore Expo at The SMART Seminar 2009 in Singapore!

Simon Leung at The SMART Seminar

The SMART Seminar has returned to Singapore this year following a tremendously successful event I ran with Stuart Tan in Malaysia and Singapore last year.

This time, The SMART Seminar continued to bring the top experts from all around the world to the Singapore stage.

With the addition of this year’s roster of Internet rockstars, which includes Fabian Lim, Jo Han Mok, Jaz Lai, Alok Jain, Andy Huang, Peter Parks, Dr. Mike Woo-Ming, Nikhil Parekh and Ian Del Carmen…

The SMART Seminar has successfully brought some of the top experts to Singapore from the United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, Philippines and India.

As always, our top priority at The SMART Seminar is to bring as much value as possible to the attendees, which is why we have filled our agenda with content-packed presentations, expert panels with Q&A and group networking sessions, so the audience can really get to know each speaker.

Thanks again to the entire cast and crew for making The SMART Seminar a tremendous success – You are all rockstars!

The SMART Seminar Speakers – Jaz Lai, Nikhil Parekh, Jo Han Mok, Dr. Mike Woo-Ming, Andy Huang, Peter Parks, Ian Del Carmen

The SMART Seminar Expert Panel – Nikhil Parekh, Alok Jain, Ian Del Carmen, Jo Han Mok, Jaz Lai, Alexandra Cattoni, Andy Huang, Peter Parks

The SMART Seminar Networking Sessions with All Speakers and VIP Experts

The SMART Seminar VIP Dinner – Nikhil Parekh, Dr. Mike Woo-Ming, Stuart Tan, Fabian Lim, Simon Leung, Andy Huang, Peter Parks, Jaz Lai, Jo Han Mok, Ian Del Carmen

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Hello from the Governor D conference room of the Holiday Inn Airport at the 2nd AdWords Workshop in sunny San Jose, CA!

This is my second AdWords Workshop that I’ve organized on my own, and I must say that the support I’ve received from all my friends has hands-down made this better than the last, and will make this one extremely difficult to beat.

First off, the caliber of expert speakers we had at the AdWords Workshop were simply amazing – even *I* was blown away by who I was able to get to grace my stage!

I’m talking about Internet Marketing legends and rockstars like (photos taken from Blackberry Curve and sent to Twitter)…

Visit their websites – they are true Internet Marketing rockstars and have just a ton of immense value to bring to the table… I couldn’t help but take pages and pages of notes at my own event!

For the core part of the AdWords Training, we covered specific optimization strategies pertaining to landing pages, keywords, ad text and account structure, followed by hands-on and interactive sessions with not only real-life examples of my best performing campaigns, but we also worked with attendees to review their accounts and even create brand new campaigns from scratch live on stage.

The overall consensus is that the live demonstrations were the most valuable because even though the content was great, they wanted to see the strategies implemented in actual campaigns from which they can learn.

Thus, we did just that, and this has contributed to a large part of the AdWords Workshop’s success for the weekend.

And of course, none of this would have been possible in the first place if it weren’t for the help of my team…

So I’d like to publicly thank Alejandro Reyes – who put together the keynote and set the stage for the weekend, Kevin Finney – who facilitated and helped on stage during the interactive sessions and closing presentation, Andy Huang – who put together the weekend’s outline and took care of all the nitty gritty details, John Guanzon and his lovely wife Jessica – who helped organize the venue for the event, and special thanks to Amanda Swigert, who stepped up unscheduled and helped us out with everything from assistant duties to running the videos.

In this business, it’s not just the knowledge that you learn and apply, but also the relationships that you build.

I honestly had more fun at the AdWords Workshop this past weekend than any organizers should be allowed to have at their own events, and I owe it all to my friends who were able to bring this much value to our small group of awesome attendees.

Throughout the weekend, we had live streaming shows, exquisite meals, masterminds, social marketing experiences and just an overall good time with everyone at restaurants and bars (click here to view all my real-time Twitter updates from the weekend).

A quick note on the power of social marketing – on our live stream, we attracted over 50 viewers including Rich Schefren, Ed Dale, Jason Moffatt, Deborah Micek, Justin Brooke and Donna Fox…

In fact, Donna Fox made her decision to come to San Jose based on witnessing how much fun we were having, and she literally decided on Friday that she was going to come on Saturday!

And as Donna Fox and everyone else in attendance at the AdWords Workshop can attest, it was very well worth the trip…

We literally have raving testimonials from every single person who attended the AdWords Workshop, and even though I don’t know when I’m going to have a next one because I’m booked solid for the next foreseeable future (quite possibly six months or more), I definitely want to re-live the weekend sometime soon.

If you’d like to join us for the next AdWords Workshop and spend a fun and productive weekend learning and creating new relationships, keep up-to-date with any announcements we might have by joining our priority pre-notification list at www.AdWordsWorkshop.com

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