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Sleeping on a Cloud
I arrived in Las Vegas on a Thursday afternoon. It was November 5th, 2009 and for the first time in several years I had decided to fly in from Los Angeles instead of making the four and a half hour drive from my home in Santa Clarita. I wasn’t nervous, at least not overly so until I’m riding in the limo sent by the car service from McCarran International Airport to the hotel.
The purpose of this trip is to connect with about fifteen people I have been working closely with online, and another forty with whom I have been in a Mastermind with over the past year and a half. But five of us have an even greater purpose for being in Las Vegas at the M Hotel that weekend; we are finalists in the “Better Your Best” contest that will be held on the stage in the great ballroom.
The event is “Big Seminar,” begun by marketing legend Armand Morin. His events are known by marketers from around the world and have been around since before I came online three years earlier. I had attended Big Seminar twice before, both times in Atlanta. This was going to be a very different experience in this new hotel. The M Resort and Casino had just opened eight months earlier. It was actually in Henderson, Nevada, about ten miles south of the Strip in the heart of Las Vegas and had cost just over one billion dollars to build over the past few years.
