I just got sent this piccy from my conference video expert buddy Alex Roberts. It’s most of the mastermind crew from the weekend of “The Art of Blogging for Business” seminar.

L-R: Lloyd Irvin (super internet marketer, ex-martial arts world champ turned trainer of UFC fighter Brandon Vera), Me (exhausted after 8 hours straight talking with a well earned G&T in me mitts), Greg Davis (super affiliate rockstar and founder of CPA network Elite Clicks Media), Ben Moskel (affiliate marketing genius, ex-lawyer from Rochester, NY), Mike Mindel (Founder of the original keyword research tool, Wordtracker), Ken McCarthy (founder of The System, godfather of internet marketing, all-round scholar and the one who’s idea it was to do the seminar), Ben Hunt (genius web designer, founder of Scratch Media, author of Save The Pixel, king of metaphors and analogies, lover of facial furniture). Click to enlarge…

The Artof Blogging Mastermind Crew

It’s simply not that often that this amount of internet marketing talent is in the same room at the same time, so I shall savour this picture. Thank you to all of you in the picture, and a bigger thank you to everyone who came to the seminar. It was fantastic!

Great news! Ken McCarthy is coming back to Blighty to do another System Intensive following last years’ mega-successful event.

The System 2009 London UK Intensive is a fantastic event to go to if you have any interest at all in Internet Marketing.

Ken has been a teacher of mine for over 4 years. I’m a massive fan, and a lot of my internet marketing success was down to visiting his System Seminars in Chicago. It was there that I met the likes of Perry Marshall, Dave Bullock, Dave Taylor, Howie Jacobson, Glenn Livingstone, David Rothwell, and a bunch of other people that are all right up there in the field.

Last year’s intensive was one I went to as a visitor, but Ken got me up to introduce him without warning me beforehand. I was hungover and a bit nervous, but I did the job okay. Later in the day he got me to join in with a live workshop ripping into websites of people in the audience. It was amazing (and my favourite sport) especially as I was sharing the stage with some other highly distinguished people like the legendary Drayton Bird (who I now quote in all my talks), the conversion rate squirrels Karl Blanks and Ben Jesson, wordtracker founder Mike Mindel and Ben Hunt, the web design genius.

If you’ve not heard of Ken, he’s the guy who first realised that the internet is a direct response medium when he held the first Internet Marketing seminar way back in 1994 in San Fransisco. Check it out:

I don’t know how much longer he’s going to be running events like this. I suggest you get yourself booked onto the System UK Intensive as soon as you can – I might even be there to meet you!