QA 56 – How to Find Small Live Events that will Take Your Business to the Next Level

In today's Q&A, we are helping Jessica figure out how to find events that will help her as an entrepreneur and her business. Let us know where we should host our live event next! Do you have a question you want answered on our podcast? We would love to help you! Click here to ask your question! Resources Mentioned in this Episode Our last live event we held NMX Social Media Marketing World Podcast Movement Let's dive into this week's question! JOCELYN: Hey y'all. You're listening to Q and A with S and J. SHANE: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us each week as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside-down by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let's get started. JOCELYN: Hey guys, welcome to today's Q and A mini podcast. Today's question is from Jessica. And just a reminder if you would like to include your full name and your domain name we will be glad to read it on the air. If you would rather remain your first name that's totally cool too. SHANE: We also link in our show notes to anyone who writes in. So it's a great way a link from our website back to yours so you can maybe drive some traffic, so we really highly recommend if you want your staff shared to put it in the notes because if we don't have it we can't share it and we love to share all that stuff for you guys and I hope you get some links out there. JOCELYN: Alright, her question is how do you find out about the small live events that you mentioned on your podcast? SHANE: Alright, that's a great question because Jocelyn and I have talked often about how we vastly prefer small intimate live events. Maybe you can say less than 50 people then we go to the big huge events like NMX or our social media marketing where our podcast movement. We don't mind those. We think there is value in those. We don't really like to go to those to see the speakers as much because a lot of that stuff that they talk about in the big, big events is very superficial, top beginner—not like beginner's stuff but it's just like they don't really give away anything in their talks. It's more for networking and meeting people and seeing friends but the small events where you're sitting at a table with people, masterminding with people where you get to go up to the expert who is hosting the event and actually talk to them and ask them question about their online business that's what really going to take you to the next level. The main way that we find out about those probably is we really keep up with the internet marketing industry. We keep an eye out. We search for live events online. We don't really listen to a lot of podcast regularly. We might catch one or two a week. We randomly sample different people's podcast while we are at the gym or something like that. But we keep an ear to the ground, ear to the railroad so to speak to hear about little live events when we catch one or we see 10 to 20 people and it's about a skill that we like, what kind of research, who is hosting it and we'll go and jump on that event. So you kind of got to keep up on what's going on in the internet marketing world. You don't want to be listening to 20 podcast and taking up all your time because you're not going to take any action but when you do hear about a good small live event, maybe 20 to 50 people. Those are great ones to jump onto and also you have got to actively seek them out. Go to Google and search for, if you want to learn how to record YouTube videos better, go type in learn YouTube videos live or something like that and see if you can find an expert that is actually hosting one of those events. JOCELYN: Yeah a lot of ways that we find out about live events, we follow people on Twitter. We get a lot of Facebook and Twitter ads that are targeted to people who like internet marketing related things which we do.