MAUI WRITERS CONFERENCE
presents

Just Announced! Special Track for Entrepeneurs and Those with Influential Ideas, Organizations, or Companies

This is a great time to get creative, put your ideas to work for you,
learn how you can market your expertise, services, products into Equity Ideas
through speaking,consulting & media and monetizing your ideas online.

For those entrepreneurs who seize the opporunity to think outside the box.

John F. Carter grew up the son of a Morgan Stanley stockbroker, and was introduced into trading the financial markets as a sophomore in high school.  He studied international finance at the University of Cambridge in England before graduating from the University of Texas at Austin.  Around these experiences he has built a home-based website publishing business, starting with tradethemarkets.com, which does over $5 million in sales annually and is growing at a 30% clip.  This business is run with just 4 employees, and utilizes an evolving list of the most updated techniques for: 1) getting to the top of google search engine rankings without paying a cent, 2) converting over 50% of the traffic that visits his websites, 3) utilizing the latest technology for sharing and creating content, and 4) learning the heard way that most of what we are taught about running a website will cause your business to go bankrupt.  John isn’t a programmer and hasn’t worked with one in 3 years—in fact its once he got rid of them that the business started to grow.  John and his team, who won Internet Marketer of the Year in March, 2008, have started posting their findings on running a high performance website at www.marketinggameplan.com.   To keep his sanity, John relies on physical activity such as biking and swimming to clear his head, as well as reading great fiction and history.  He spends time with his wife and two young children between their home in Austin, Texas and horse farm in Wimberley, Texas.

Sam Horn's books Tongue Fu!, What's Holding You Back? and POP! Create the Perfect Pitch, Title and Tagline for Anything! have been favorably reviewed in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Investors Business Daily and Washington Post.  The top-rated speaker at two International Platform Association conventions, her impressive client list includes National Governors Association, Young Presidents Organization, NASA and Boeing.  Perhaps most importantly, she is known for her brilliant ability to help clients crystallize compelling, one-of-a-kind, commercially-viable books, brands and businesses that break out.  Through her weekend Book Camps, innovative POP Process, and one-one-one consulting, she shows people how to become IDEApreneurs and is thanked in the Acknowledgements of hundreds of books from grateful authors (ranging from housewives to Fortune 500 CEO's) who say, "I couldn't have done it without you."

Are you ready for a new way of marketing yourself and your business? Are you an entrepreneur, business owner, or executive of a non-profit? If so, you should be writing a book and marketing your expertise, message, services, products and business on the page, online and to the media. “What?” you may be saying. “I’m not an author. I’m not an e-commerce expert.” Well, it worked for Conrad Hilton, Jack Welch and Richard Bramson. It’s worked for Kinkos, Southwest and Starbucks. You could try to drive visibility, positive name recognition and sales the old-fashioned way by buying ads, running commercials and sending out expensive brochures - and reaping minimal results. Or you could write a book that communicates your company’s mission in a way that customers seek you out to do business with you. You could produce e-books by this time next month that almost instantly monetize your expertise. You could learn how to take your message viral through podcasts and video clips that get on You Tube. You could learn how to earn millions through a membership website that generates passive income while you sleep. Want to know how to do all the above? This specially-arranged Track will be co-presented by Sam Horn, originator of the IDEApreneur Process, and John Carter, #1 Internet Marketer of the Year. The IDEApreneur Process is a step-by-step workshop in which Sam Horn shows you how to develop and monetize Equity Ideas through speaking, consulting, and media . . . and John Carter shows you how to monetize Equity Ideas online through a variety of profitable e-commerce activities including membership websites, subscription newsletters, information products, podcasts and webinars. Seminar includes: Session I: What Information Do I Have to Offer That is Commercially Viable and That Will Drive Interest and Sales for My Company, Service, Product or Idea? Session II: How Can I Crystallize My Expertise, Message or Mission into Written Products (Books, E-Books, Special Reports, White Papers) that Make Money? Session III: How Can I Become a Topic Expert Who Gets Paid to Speak and Consult and Who Gets Interviewed by the Media? Session IV: How Can I Create a Subscription Membership Website that Attracts Paying Clients from Around the World? Session V: How Can I Develop E-Commerce Activities (Podcasts, Video Clips that Get on You Tube) and Capitalize on Social Network Sites to Grow My International Database and Fanbase? Session VI: How Can I Be Financially Savvy and Focus on High-ROI Activities to Maximize My Effectiveness and Income as an IDEApreneur?