I am sitting in my hotel room over in Scottsdale, Arizona at the moment. I am here attending a Launch Masters Retreat at Harris Fellman’s pad. We’re talking internet marketing, chowing on food, working the open bar he has set up, riding around in a Hummer stretch limo and basically hanging out.

Yesterday was the first day here and one thing jumped out at me. There is SO much value in surrounding yourself with success-minded people.

Everybody here is working on a new product that they are going to sell on the Internet. We are all students of Jeff Walker’s Product Launch Formula and some of the guys here have had great success with product launches in the past. While I am a successful blogger and do make a living doing so, I’m a relative newbie to the business of marketing - at least properly. Any pro blogger out there who is reading this - being able to apply this type of information in conjunction with a blog is just KILLER. The model of getting paid by putting ads on a popular blog - it works, but it will only get you so far. Using your blog to market your own products is where it is at.

The number of ideas I am getting per minute here so far is stellar and it is because I am talking with a group of people who are all doing the same thing (minus the pro blogger gig, of course). This is the main reason I made the flight out here. I wanted to mastermind with some like-minded people and that is something I don’t have a chance to do super often.

Anyway, I know this is a bit of a rambling, but I wanted to share a thought. I’m working on less sleep than I usually get so I apologize if this post seems disconnected.