Random musings: Wow!

The first day of the Relationship Marketing Grand Summit ended a little while ago and if you weren't there, you really missed our!

There were a total of 13 speakers, besides Kody Bateman...the founder of SendOutCards.

And tomorrow will be about the same. And it's not too late to signup...the replay will be available for 72 hours, so you'll have a chance to watch the whole thing over the weekend.

There's too much to go over but I'll give you a few highlights:

There was a problem with the sound for the first speaker, Bruce Marshall, but they say it should be fixed in the replay.

The second speaker was Bernadette McClelland and her topic was "Finding Your Brave" and the thing I found most memorable was something her 14 year old son said to her "Everything works out in the end. If it doesn't work out, it's not the end". Very profound words from such a young man.

Next up was the first workshop presenter of the day, Callie Teegardin. Callie's workshop was on how to get your next 100...that is, how to get more people in your funnel. There was a lot of information in her presentation. I'm going to try to get her to present this at an upcoming meeting of "A Leg Up" Lunch and Learn. She did talk about 3 steps to help you build your list:

Be unique
Give more than you take
Act on your promptings

Larry Levine talked about Selling From The Heart, the title of his book. Larry was a speaker at last year's RMGS. An interesting comment that I didn't originally pick up was "Business is personal". Kody picked up on it and said that it used to be "It's not personal, it's just business". Now it's "It's not just business, it's personal:.

Another interesting idea was from Jerome Gafford..."We're all in the transportation business. We find out where are clients are and where they want to be. Then we provide them with the vehicle to get them there".

There were a few other speakers in there and I'll talk about them next week.

The last speaker of the day was Kody's best friend for the last 45 years, Super Dave Smith. Super Dave talked about a subsidiary of SendOutCards called Sendogo. Dave is the general manager of that company. Sendogo allows people who use a standalone CRM, such as Salesforce, to be able to use SendOutCards. And Dave and Kody hinted at some of the products that will be announced in January. You may have seen my Facebook post with a picture of MacGyver that said "Super Dave MacGyver". Kody called Super Dave MacGyver, so that's where that post came from.

Like I said, it's not too late to sign up. Day 2 will start at 9:00 AM MDT, and replays for both days will be available for 72 hours.