I just spent the last four days and five nights in the city that never sleeps.  Las Vegas is on heck of a town with the most beautiful and most amazing scenery of a city that I’ve seen in a while.  The funny thing is that when you stop to look closely around, you can see a different scene.

People begging for money and trash in every corner.  I wondered how a city so beautiful can be this trashy at the same time.  It’s proof that whatever you want to find in any place on earth you can find if you just stop to look around and pay attention.  The same is true with people.  You can either think that the so called “Gurus” are non approachable or you can decide that you will make the effort to stop and take the time to see what is inside of these people.

This brings me to Omar Martin.  I went out to Las Vegas to meet up with my mentor Alex Jeffreys and attend Mike Filsaimes Butterfly Marketing Workshop.  Alex gave us 25 to 30 students some great information and some great training.  He has kept giving as his mentoring program has been finished for awhile now.  I met up with him and some of the action takers he has produced (meaning us students.)

Paula Brett, (hi sweetie) introduced me and some others to Omar Martin, one of Mike Filsaime’s business partners.  As a internet selling newbie myself, I felt like I was in the presence of royalty or something  much like when I saw Alex and Mike but it was a lot different because I decided to start talking with Omar Martin.

The guy was personable and polite.  He was funny and outgoing.  I could see the passion in this guys eyes when he talked of his wife and their desire to have a baby, and of his story from nothing to something.  You see, all of this took place in the social scenes of Las Vegas.  We were not at a convention or seminar.  This all took place at the bar.

Now Alex had taught us that business happens at the bar but I was not sure exactly what that meant until it actually happened.  Not only did I receive what I consider a piece of gold by Omar giving me an advanced copy of Internet Selling For Newbies but he gave me a friend.  I spent the entire night with with this guy and several other of us students of Alex’s.

I picked his brain every chance I could and in every instance he gave the most candid and honest answers I’ve ever heard from someone who has made it online.  Needless to say, by nights end ( or should I say morning ) I had received more information in a social night with Omar than I did with my own mentor  Alex Jeffreys and Mike Filsaime.

In his generosity I found a copy of Internet Selling For Newbies which he gave to a select few of us.  I wasn’t able to immediately go through the material until I came home.  After all, I was in Las Vegas.  I was impressed with the classroom style of teaching during the videos and the easy to follow assignments.  This indeed is a course that even most of us who have been online for a while now could use.

I really wish I could have recorded the conversations about internet marketing that Omar had with us because after speaking with him, I had so many ideas and a clearer focus as to what I need to do to succeed online.  Some of you come to this blog as my peers to discuss business and to have fun with each other but for those of you who feel that you really are a newbie as I do should get a copy of Internet Selling For Newbies as soon as it’s available June 16th.

Omar is proof that you can go from nothing to something in only 18 months.  The number one thing I saw in him that distinguishes him from the others is that he is persistent and pushed forward even when he failed.  He did not blame anyone or anything for his failures but himself.  I think most of us quit at that place where the scale is just about to tip in our favor only to turn around because of frustration and fear.

It would have been easy to be one of those people who say, “Yeah, you only succeeded because you work with Mike Filsaime.”  But the truth is that Omar succeeded because he never gave up and he went to those who knew more than he did to get the answers he needed.  He also took his adversity and make them strengths.  He is one guy I would love to emulate.

Those of you who are willing to do something about your future will see the results without a doubt.  You must be willing to be sociable and step out of your comfort zones.  I did and it paid off big time.  Thanks Omar for the copy of Internet Selling For Newbies and for the fun time we had in Las Vegas.  You truly are one to watch.  Until next time…