Last week Lewis Howes and I held one of the best webinars we have done to date. We put in many hours planning the flow of the training, gathering facts, designing new slides (over 100 in total). When all was said and done, with promoting & creating this webinar we had well over 40 hours of work put in. Not including all of the hard work our staff put in to help make it a reality.

We ended up having around 1600 register and over 900 show up live for the training. On the webinar we shared a lot of  tips, tactics, theory, and advice. It was almost overwhelming for a lot of folks. We had one person comment that his fingers were bleeding after typing over 6 pages of notes. The instant results were incredible.

We had over 100 people respond via chat on the webinar that they were getting some pretty impressive instant results. Watching the feedback roll in was exciting. It motivated us to see the audience’s results & feedback come in live. As the webinar progressed we were fueled by the positive comments that were pouring in.

At the end of the training we offered people the opportunity to learn more on the topic and buy one of our training products. Many did, and lots more thanked us for the content we gave and asked some good questions. We finished with a round of  Q&A and called it a wrap. We spent a few minutes responding to feedback and made sure our new customers were taken care of and then went for Sushi!

In the days that followed, we got hundreds of positive comments via email, Facebook, LinkedIn, & Twitter. It was exciting reading through the messages, mostly of attendees saying thanks for the training and even a few that had generated monetary gains as a result of what they learned.

Then I got to this one. It wasn’t really negative, per se, but it really affected me.

His email was short and to the point.

“Someday Sean I would really like to attend a webinar by you
or anyone else for that matter that didn’t end in a sales pitch.“

Normally I would dismiss this but I thought about it for 5 minutes and decided to respond. Here is my response:

This post originally appeared on the MyTwitterexperiment.com, where I used to blog regularly about Twitter & Social Media and stuff in general. I have not written there in a while, it’s basically become an archive of my tweets. Maybe one day I’ll bring that blog back, but for now my focus is here and 6 million other places.

Here is my office, this is where a lot of Twixplode was written.  This is the  place I come when I feel like getting out of the house and changing environments. It is a Co-working space in Columbus called the Sandbox.

Have you heard of Co-working? Co-working in simple terms is a shared office space. This office is full of Entrepreneurs, who are doing their thing. Mostly internet business minded people work here, its great to be in an environment like this. It has a very nice community feel to it.
Check out the video of my office space – it’s what I consider somewhat of a dream office.


Everyone here is on Twitter, into social media, in fact several of the businesses that operate from here revolve around social media. Its a fun time, I feel blessed to be surrounded by like minded individuals. Its inspiring.

If you’re in Columbus and want to learn more about the sandbox – here is there site – http://www.sandboxcolumbus.com/

If you’re not In Columbus here – is a great resource to find a space-  more info on co-working. I highly recommend this type of office for Entrepreneurs.

Update – I am no longer working from the sandbox. In January I left for Argentina for 3 months and my partner Lewis Howes was traveling a lot as well. The next few months are full of travel as well, so it will be a while before I work from an office again, and at that point I will probably lease a space as my company has sort of outgrown a co-working space.

I cant recommend this type of space enough if you are running a small business or a one man show. I made so many great connections with up and coming & established movers & shakers that will be valuable in the years ahead.