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Goals Met at the 2014 Platform Conference

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I was fortunate enough to attend the Platform conference in beautiful Colorado Springs in early November put on by Michael Hyatt and Ken Davis.  I won the ticket to this conference at the SCORRE conference in May.  This conference was hosted by the Broadmoor Resort and Hotel, I started this post sitting in my 5 star room before the Tuesday morning session, this is the nicest hotel I’ve stayed in, to be honest I didn’t want to leave my room because of the room itself.  As the sun rose on the mountains I felt spoiled.

Colorado Springs was amazing, I’ve never been to Colorado before and now I realize that I’ve never actually seen a mountain before this trip, I am an east coast guy, mountains are amazing.

Here is a photo I shot from my balcony just as I wrote this as the sun came up.

mountain sunrise from balcony

mountain sunrise from balcony

In the Broadmoor there is a hall of fame on the wall in the foyer of the hotel showing photos of famous people who’ve stayed there including the past two presidents.

I had three goals for this 2-day conference that were fully met, I think that meeting these goals can only happen at events like these, the caliber of the speakers and attendees was amazing.  Going in my 3 goals were:

  1. Meet two people who I can share my platform with and help to launch products with down the road.
  2. Join a mastermind group or feel comfortable starting one.
  3. Get 2 ideas on how to make income quickly.

All three of these goals were met by Monday as well as much more I hadn’t expected:

  • I met people like Pat Flynn and Stu McLaren two of the most helpful podcasters and entrepreneurs out there.
  • I learned how to turn casual followers  into raving fans from Pat Flynn
  • I learned how to design a stress-free and profitable business from Stu McLaren.
  • I learned how to use Facebook marketing from Amy Porterfield
  • I learned how to get out there and start my business with Casey Graham
  • I learned the 3 lies we believe that hold us back by Crystal Payne author of the moneysavingmom.com blog.
  • I learned why it so hard for us to sell our products with Ray Edwards
  • I learned why podcasting is still in its infant stage and why it is such an attractive option for my message from Cliff Ravenscraft.
  • I learned how to take all of my communications up a notch with Ken Davis 
  • I learned why its so important to build my Platform from Michael Hyatt.

I absolutely plan to attend this conference again in the future if I can afford it.

There are three platform terms that everyone with a message should understand if they want to get a message out clearly.

  1. A platform is essentially a tool we use to get our message out.  Our message can be a ministry, it can be products or services to sell, or it can be advice or tips to help or entertain people.  A platform can be a literal stage, it can be a mega horn, a media company like CNN, a Facebook group, a pulpit, a Twitter profile, an account on someone else’s blog or, the best case scenario, our own self-hosted (owned) website.
  2. Self-hosted means you own it, you pay for the domain name and the hosting, this means you own your real-estate on the web.
    • If you use Facebook or Twitter or the other social sites realize that these are someone elses Platform, you have no control over who sees your information, you have no control over the marketing that is shown to your followers, marketing that you could be benefiting from.  No control over who sees your content, your message, your data.  The data of your followers is used for marketing and possibly easy and convenient spying by creeps or by “big-brother”.  Because of this these are not good platforms for your message.  They are simply good tools to bring people to your platform, Michael Hyatt calls these embassies for our platforms.   Social media can and sometimes should be used but only to bring people back to our platforms.
  3. Your message: do you have opinions about things that you share? are you quite active on Facebook or Twitter sharing your opinion or your wisdom? if so you likely need to build your own platform.  Do you have a business or a hobby or ambitions to start one? Do you like to inspire and instruct others? Do you feel called to a certain ministry? If so you may have a some sort of platform already but probably are only reaching a fraction of the people you could be if you had an online platform.

You have a message!

Create a tool to expose your message to the world, the technology available for this is better than its ever been.

Creating a self-hosted blog site is by far the best outlet for your message and your creativity.  Whether you use it to make a living, expand a ministry, share your opinion and wisdom or just keep in touch with friends and family with privacy. Get Building Your Platform Today!

I want to help people to get their message out and be more creative. Especially messages that help and instruct people.Reach out to me if you want help with this, start by singing up for my email updates here:

What would you use an online platform for?

 

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005-Producing ‘Fruit’ … or Just Taking Up Space? [podcast]

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Excited to be headed out to the platform conference in Colorado Springs in a few days. #Platform14

I am remodeling my book manuscript to include both individual and large-scale cooperative Human Creativity. This has been a very slow ramp up process but part I of the book will essentially be the creativity course I am developing and staring to film this week.

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Why are you taking up space? produce some fruit

Fruit trees are designed to ‘create’ fruit, when they wont, we do what we can to fertilize or to stimulate fruit production but if they won’t we tear them out.

I am an avid podcast listener on my podcast app I have about 2 dozen subscriptions I listen to regularly, my podcast listening time is basically my commute to and from work, it averages about 1 hour per day. This means I have a finite amount of time to consume podcasts, typically 7 hours per week.  I realized recently that one of those slots on my podcast listener app is this podcast and it is taking up space in my listener yet not producing regular shows.  One could say not producing consistent fruit.

I read the bible a lot and in Luke 13:6-9 Jesus told a story about a fig tree refusing to produce fruit and just taking up space in the orchard.

Luke 13:6 And He began telling this parable: “A man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any. 7 “And he said to the vineyard-keeper, ‘Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?’ 8 “And he answered and said to him, ‘Let it alone, sir, for this year too, until I dig around it and put in fertilizer; 9 and if it bears fruit next year, fine; but if not, cut it down.’ “

In context this is about God reaping the fruit of the earth of mankind, being reconciled to him back into his kingdom. But the analogy is useful also I think to human creativity.

One of the ways that I create, is this podcast, (granted me podcasting is a little experimental) but it is one outlet of creativity for me and it serves as way to connect my message with the world.

Creativity can be looked at as a form of human ‘fruit’, productivity in our career or personal side-projects are also forms of human fruit that our employers or our clients “pick” and consume.

I think everyone can increase the amount of creative fruit they produce in 2015 by making the following 3 determinations resolutions.

  1. Create a cycle for your creativity: I struggle with this the most, fruit trees, at least in my area, produce fruit only at a certain times of the year. The rest of the year is a cycle of preparation for that fruitful time.
  2. Prepare Yourself to Create: Similar to a fruit tree preparation is needed to produce a lot of healthy fruit. Pruning of branches, fertilization, protection from insects, guarding against critters with fences and with trunk guards, thinning of fruit that is deformed, fruit that is too numerous, or diseased. There is a lot of preparation to make healthy and abundant fruit. We also need to prepare to produce fruit. Sometimes this involves spending money, sometimes getting up early enough for alone time, sometimes it means exposing ourselves to other creative people. Intense study, brainstorming sessions, the counsel of mentors. Prepare yourself.
  3. Have an mindset of Creative Boldness: When we create we must be willing to put ourselves out there. When a preacher or public speaker steps on stage they are making themselves vulnerable. When we press publish to our blog post or our podcast episode we are making ourselves vulnerable to judgment, making ourselves subject to criticism. To press through that fear and self-centeredness that refuses to be vulnerable and hit publish anyway takes a level of courage, a level of not fearing what the critics say or what the critics think. We care more about producing fruit, fruit that increases, fruit that improves in quality, we must have courage and a creative boldness.Recording directly into mp3 in my Roland R-05 recorder with no edits to the show so pardon please the poor audio quality.

 

I am traveling for my job and it is bumping up into travel for the Platform Conference so I am in the hotel room this week with a little extra time to produce shows and work on my book.

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