So far it has been a great session. It's definately time for lunch though. I was super impressed with the way they had lunch organized. It sounds stupid, but it's the little things like this that can seperate a good conference from a great one.
First the lunch was Pizza, everybody likes Pizza! It came from Pizza Hut not some no name mickey mouse local shop they went with the good stuff. I can make an arguement the Domino's is better, but that is not important. It's better to spend a dollar or two more a pie for something that people like more, or even if they don't like it's familiar and they don't dislike it.
It was extremely organized in that they had signs next to the pizza. They had four kinds veggie, cheese, pepperoni, and something else. I stopped looking after the Pepperoni.
In line it was interesting because Jeff Turner was off to the side talking to somebody in line. The person talking to him was extremely grateful that they put the event on. Jeff was comparing the people who traveled to a bunch of traveling cirus freaks. I told him to please not insult the circus freaks. He thought it was pretty funny.
The challenge in a place like this event is to find a good spot to eat. We had a great venue, but it wasn't designed for a couple hundred people sitting down for lunch. I found Jeremy Cont, the office manager for Your Castle Real Estate. In a crowd full of real estate agents it can get a little salesy and full of hot air. It was interesting to get a different persons perspective on the whole event. He was there giving away free to all participant Your Castle's newest real estate book "Thrive". The only bad part of the book is I wasn't asked to be one of the authors. I told Jeremy what was going to happen at the next sales meeting when they ask me about social media.
I saw another fellow agent Jonathan Ghaly, that I am working on a potential video project with. I only wonder if it will be good or it will be great. I haven't seen him in about a week and went to go catch up. We were later joined by Elizableth Martinez and had a great conversation about the Sloan's lake area of Denver.
I went to go sneak more pizza. Social protocol limited me to two slices on the first run through. I ran into Tom LaRocque who I initially met on Bigger Pockets. It's always great to see real life networking from people who you originally met online. Tom is a part timewriter for the Denver Post on Real Estate. I also ran into Emelyn Morris-Sayre, we are working on a huge project examing the effect of light rail on residential property values in the Denver metro area.
It was disappointing that I thought there were several great sessions after lunch. The 12 o'clock sessions were the hardest to figure out which would be the best. Brad from Active Rain was presenting, Jeff Turner had a session, and there was a program on linked in. I spend a lot of time on AR and was looking at choosing one of the other sessions. Emelyn was looking at the board with me and we had a hard time choosing between Jeff Turner and Linked In. I told her to pick which one she wanted to go to and I'd hit the other and we could trade notes. She choose Jeff and I was kicking myself and got the other session. Turned out I didn't regret it and it was one of the best sessions.
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