As my Cathay Pacific flight landed in SFO after my 18 hour journey from Singapore to San Francisco, I turned on my Blackberry to hundreds of new messages accrued from over the past several weeks while I was in Asia.

Quite a number of them were sent recently by my buddy, Stu McLaren, who was pretty persistent in contacting me through emails, instant messaging, both the public and private streams on Twitter and even leaving me a comment on my blog

Poor Stu McLaren must’ve been freakin out, cuz he actually had me scheduled to kick off his annual Marketing Predictions Call, which is a virtual event Stu McLaren puts together every year to raise money for a charity called World Teacher Aid, an organization founded by his wife, Amy McLaren.

Marketing Predictions Homepage (Photo Alongside Ryan Lee, Stephen Pierce, Stu McLaren, Tracy Childers, Brad Fallon & Andy Jenkins)

The reason I’ve agreed to volunteer my time with Stu McLaren is not just because Stu and Amy McLaren are my friends, and not just the mere fact that I’ll be training and giving online entrepreneurs 2009 insights that will help them learn more about Internet Marketing…

Even more importantly, I am taking this as an opportunity (especially in the spirits of the Holiday Season) to give back by helping out a worthy cause…

You see, Amy McLaren’s World Teacher Aid is a non-profit organization that focuses on bringing education to children by building schools and establishing feeding programs all around the world, as well as funding full-time salaries and supporting children in less fortunate countries like Uganda, Ghana, El Salvador and Kenya.

Every year, Stu McLaren holds an online fundraising event for his wife’s cause by interviewing the top Internet Marketers in the world, and this year promises to be the biggest one yet with four times as many volunteered marketing experts than last year!

I’m very honored to be a part of Stu McLaren’s Marketing Predictions Call this year, and will be sharing my Google predictions during my scheduled interview TONIGHT…

And over the next several weeks, expect a ton more amazing and pitch-free information and marketing insights for the upcoming year from literally some of the most talented and top notch Internet Marketing experts in the world!

Take A Quick Peek At This Superstar Lineup

(All presenting LIVE December 15th-18th, 2008 & January 5th-7th, 2009)

	John Reese www.MarketingSecrets.com			Armand Morin www.ArmandMorin.com
	Russell Brunson www.DotComSecrets.com			Rick Raddatz www.Xiosoft.com
	Stephen Pierce www.MakeRealMoneyOnTheInternet.com			Jim Edwards www.IGottaTellYou.com
	Yanik Silver www.SureFireMarketing.com			Jeff Johnson www.UndergroundConfessions.com
	Joel Comm www.JoelComm.com			Matt Bacak www.PowerfulPromoter.com
	Ray Edwards www.RayEdwards.com			Alice Seba www.InternetMarketingSweetie.com
	Mike Filsaime www.MikeFilsaime.com			Alex Mandossian www.TeleseminarSecrets.com
	David Frey www.MarketingBestPractices.com			Jeff Walker www.ProductLaunchFormula.com
	Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero www.RedHotCopy.com			Perry Belcher www.PerryBelcher.com
	Ryan Lee www.RyanLee.com			Mike Koenigs www.MikeKoenigs.com
	Gary Ambrose www.GaryAmbrose.com			Ryan Deiss www.ProfitDiary.com
	Andy Jenkins www.Stompernet.com			Mari Smith www.MariSmith.com
	Jason Potash www.ArticleAnnouncer.com			Brad Fallon www.BradFallon.com
	Kirt Christensen www.AdwordsScience.com			Jeff Schwerdt www.QuickVideoMarketing.com
	Simon Leung www.SimonLeung.com			Eric Rockefeller www.EricRockefeller.com
	Jeff Herring www.TheArticleGuy.com			Tim Kerber www.MembershipSiteOwner.com
	Jason Moffatt www.JasonMoffatt.com			Jeanette Cates www.JeanetteCates.com
	Heather Seitz www.HeatherSeitz.com			Christina Hills www.ShoppingCartQueen.com
	Anik Singal www.AffiliateClassroom.com			Robert Plank www.RobertPlank.com
	John Barker www.AdWordsBlackBook.com			Tracy Childers www.TracyChilders.com
	Craig Perrine www.MaverickMarketer.com			Eric Graham www.ConversionDoctor.com
	Joel Christopher www.MasterListBuilder.com			Cathy Perkins www.TheWordpressWizard.com

Hello from the Silverado Resort at Larry Benet’s Speakers and Authors Networking Group (SANG) in Napa Valley, CA!

I drove up here to Napa Valley today with Eric Farewell, not knowing what to expect at Larry Benet’s Authors and Speakers Networking Group (SANG), and really not even deciding whether or not to come until earlier this afternoon.

But once we arrived at Authors and Speakers Networking Group, we were completely floored by the caliber of business individuals and entrepreneurs present all in one room…

We’re talking about best selling authors, multi-millionaires and even billionaires, including Jack Canfield (from the Chicken Soup of the Soul series), Bill Bartmann, Ron LeGrand, Alex Mandossian, Stephen Pierce, Joel Comm, Russell Brunson, John Carlton, Armando Montelongo, Veronica Montelongo, Brendon Burchard, Mike Koenigs, Kevin Nations, Matt Morris and dozens more.

Umm… yeah, this event was NO joke, dude!

This truly was a solid networking event, and I can honestly say that I have never seen a more brilliant relationship building event model than the one I have witnessed at the Authors and Speakers Networking Group.

In addition to the speed networking sessions, everyone continued to network non-stop through dinner, and even after the event was over, hanging out at the hotel bar into the wee hours of the night.

Because I have yet to replace my broken camera and Eric Farewell also forgot his camera equipment at my house, we were unfortunately unable to capture too many moments of the Authors and Speakers Networking Group on film.

However, for your viewing pleasure, Eric Farewell has gone ahead and done a couple extra 12 second videos for you at the Silverado Resort in Napa Valley (ya he’s not as good with these 12 second videos as I am haha)…