Attending Live Events

OLD RESPONSE: Here’s an old response to a commenter who was fighting money issues, but wanted to attend one of my events.

This is from years ago, but I think it still applies:

Funding a trip to an event can be hard, but people seem to work it out when they really want to and the smart ones figure out a way to make events immediately profitable.

You can create products at an event, take copious notes and sell your analysis, and find a sponsor who you can represent to fund your trip.

You can share expenses, and pack peanut butter.

I had an attendee who slept on the hotel lawn — NO I don’t recommend that.

The point is, you get to decide what’s important in your life.

Take some time to figure out what you really want to do and you’ll find out you already know a thousand ways to get to the end of that goal.

If the trip gets too tough, then maybe it’s not really what you want.

You mention self-sabotage and by definition, that’s your choice.

You get to choose how to live your life, what risks you take, and where you want to go.

The truth is you impact thousands just by existing.

Think of how many more you can impact if you choose to leverage all the art, science, and technology we have today to positively impact millions.

I believe you can do it.

If you choose to.

All the best,

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Ken McArthur

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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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