WARNING THIS IS A RANT!

Don’t come … unless

Forgive me! I woke up from a dream this morning and I’m completely fired up!

In the dream, I was giving the speech of my life. I was saying all the things that I wanted to say in perfect flow. It was pouring out of me like a fiery sermon from the most motivating speaker you’ve ever heard!

I was listening! I was compelling! I really wish you had heard that speech because you would be standing and cheering and then tearing out of the room to get something DONE!

Wow! Yes! Let’s go!

And then I woke up.

And I was STILL fired up and ready to go!

Here’s a dark secret of producing your own events.

You spend most of your day reaching out to people INDIVIDUALLY and convincing them to show up.

Why? Because that’s the only thing that really works.

People have to be dragged out of their complacency to get to a live event.

It’s excruciating to talk someone into dragging their unmoving butt, getting in a car early in the morning, and actually SHOW UP!

It’s WORK! And it’s STUPID!

Because what happens when they actually DO show up?

MAGIC!

Every time!

People rave, lives change, things become so clear, and lifetime relationships are BORN at that moment that last forever!

And they say, “Why don’t more people show up! People need to be here!”

So I go out and I practically BEG people to show up! And I remind them over and over because they forget, or procrastinate!

And it’s ANNOYING! For EVERYONE!

And I want to say, “DON’T SHOW UP unless …”

– You are fired up and ready to go!

– You want to spend time with incredible people!

– You want to learn what’s working right now!

– You want long-lasting GREAT relationships with remarkable people who are DOING things!

But I can’t!

Because I know what happens when you don’t show up!

Not NOTHING!

Terrible things!

– You stay at home alone and frustrated!
– You miss out on life-saving conversations!
– You miss opportunities that make your dreams possible!

And all you have to do is do the WORK!

All you have to do is SHOW UP and you will be just as fired up as I am today!

https://kenmcarthur.com/events/

Showing up makes it so.

All the best,

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Ken McArthur

Best-Selling Author and Producer

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About Ken McArthur

Ken McArthur is the founder of ConnectLab.live, an AI relationship-intelligence and warm-intro platform that helps founders who are raising find the funds that fit and the people who can introduce them, and helps fund managers connect with the founders they back. He was recently accepted into Harvard Business School Foundry. He also writes Raise Smarter, a daily newsletter on what's really moving in early-stage fundraising. Ken challenges us to realize we ALL have an impact, whether we want to or not, on thousands of people we touch in our day-to-day lives, and he shows that simple things make a HUGE difference. ConnectLab.live grew out of that belief. Connection is the currency of the 21st Century, and the right introduction can change a company's future. Long before ConnectLab, Ken was the popular host of live events that brought together top-level marketers, entrepreneurs, business owners, corporations and non-profit organizations to build multi-million dollar joint venture relationships. He has managed product launches ranked in the top 400 sites on the Internet and is regularly asked to speak at leading marketing events. He created AffiliateShowcase.com, a pioneering affiliate program search engine and directory. He also founded the MBS Internet Research Center, which conducted the world's largest survey ever attempted on creating and launching successful information products. Ken was the official mentor for Sterling Valentine as he took his launch from zero to over $100,000 in less than 8 days, a proof of concept documented in Info Product Blueprint. Today he puts that same skill for connecting people and launching ideas to work for founders and the investors who back them.

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