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Always Write a Report About What You Learned

I'm back from my trip from Affiliate Incubator 2008 Dallas.

I learned a lot, and here's my tip for attending seminars: Take whatever notes you write down and turn it into a PDF report, that you NEVER show anyone else.

Not only does it train you to keep pumping out 5 to 10 page reports, the information becomes a part of you because you retyped it and revised it.

If I had a clone who wasn't able to attend the seminar, I could just hand this document over to him and he would have all the info without having to attend.

I'm a pretty rare note-taker.  If you're a smart enough businessperson you know that 99% of what's being said doesn't apply to your business, but I still wrote about 10 pages of notes.

I took the best of Perry Belcher's AdWords tips, Ryan Deiss' continuity management, Mr. X's time management secrets, Frank Sousa's traffic tips, Russell Brunson's "moving the free line" and article marketing stuff, and Anik Singal's affiliate marketing techniques... plus some stuff I learned from chatting at meals and made it into an 8 page report.

To be honest, I walked out of all the other presentations to avoid information overload.  There's only so much information you can absorb over a weekend, and with seminars I always avoid the newbie oriented stuff.

Now I've torn most of the pages out of my physical notebook and I have stuff to do for the next 30 days to keep me busy.

To be honest, looking back over my report, I'm going to ignore about half of the tips on there because I know I just won' t have time for them.

Knowing what NOT to change on is even more important than knowing what to change in your business.

Anyway, my friend Jason Fladlien wrote up a quick report of his own about the 8 mistakes he saw being made at these seminars.

Some of these are truly classic, like the SEO guy and the "60 Second Rule."  If you can't make a decision about something, give yourself exactly 60 seconds to decide.... even if it's the wrong choice.

P.S. No, I didn't get to meet Russell, but I did meet Stu McLaren, Joel Christopher, Big Jason Henderson, Blake Milton, Bobby Walker, and more.  It was great to see Eric Louviere again, and Marc Harty talking about mini-days.

P.P.S. I'm also on an article writing frenzy, setting aside one hour per day to write 7 articles... before I come off this seminar high.

Today's Question: What's your best post-seminar productivity tip?  How do you get back on track, and maintain that seminar high?

I need my ten comments... if I don't get them, I'm never attending another seminar ever again.