November 26, 2020
by DR. MARK T. WADE
#185: Look Inside The Most Successful Virtual Summit In History!
Description
Check out our 3 part Summit Talks debrief as we take you behind the scenes of the largest most impactful virtual summit ever created for summit hosts. See how we generated 6 figures off our summit and how we also completely bombed in certain areas of the summit. In this first part of the Summit Talks Debrief we talk about the Overview, Strategy & Prep that went into the Summit Talks summit.
About Dr. Mark T. Wade
Dr. Mark T Wade went from brick & mortar to multi-million dollar online business using a strategy called the One-Day Summit. Having created 6, 7 & Multi 7-figure businesses in the Brick & Mortar, Online (Education) Business, & Software As A Service space (Virtual Summits Software), Dr. Mark now helps entrepreneurs scale their online businesses with proven strategies such as the One-Day Summit Formula.
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3 Part Summit Talks Debrief
1) Overview, Strategy & Prep
2) Performance, Engagement, Revenue & Sales
3) Take A Ways & Lessons Learned
Part One - Overview, Strategy, And Prep
My Goal For The Summit
➡️ Go into our high-end product, which was our mastermind, into our secondary product, which is our Summit Genesis workshop
Purpose Of The Summit
✔️ I wanted people to understand how virtual summits work
✔️ I wanted them to have the tools, the resources, the strategies behind it
✔️ Bring together all of these different summit hosts from every different type of vertical, industry, profession, level of experience and just walk through their experiences with summits and let everybody hear directly from the word amount of these summit hosts
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What it was like for them?
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What they struggled with?
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What were the benefits of the summit?
Summit Talks Timeline
👉 Came up with the idea in mid-June
👉 Started strategy a week after
👉 Outreach - 2 to 3 weeks
👉 Speaker interviews - 5 weeks - July to beginning of September
👉 Post production and build out - Beginning of September to mid-September
👉 Speaker priming - Mid-September through end of September
👉 Speaker kickoff event - End of September
👉 10 days of promotion
👉 Summit dates - September 28th to October 7th
👉 Post-summit offer - October 10th to 15th
4 Avatars Of The Summit
➡️ Carrie the creator
➡️ Steve the side hustler
➡️ Allie Audience
➡️ Eric Events
Different Tiers Of Speakers
✔️ Standard - No promotion necessary
✔️ Featured - One or two emails promotion
✔️ Prestige - Few emails promoting
✔️ Partner - Full promotion
2 Powerful Questions In My Speaker Application Form
👉 Would you be interested in being a sponsor?
👉 Do you know anyone else who would be a good, a good fit for this summit?
Points Of Interest
➡️ Understanding batch recording is super important
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Do the interviews back to back
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Make sure you set your time on your interviews
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Stop at the appropriate time
➡️ Perfect intro is so important
➡️ Pre-interviewed chat
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Make sure you have a list, a checklist of notes and things you're going to do so that you don't forget
➡️ Think about your body and your voice
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Take care of yourself.
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Hydrate
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Stay away from alcohol, caffeine
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Get enough sleep
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Get yourself time to rest and recover
➡️ If the speakers are late, make the session shorter
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Do not jeopardize going late into another speakers interview because one speaker showed up late, that is on them
➡️ Follow up with your speakers
MY REQUEST
I’m going to give away all the best insights and knowledge but just need YOUR help!
- First - subscribe & leave a 5 star review on this podcast
- Second - share this podcast with anyone you know who has done, or wants to do a summit
That’s all I ask...
HOW TO GET IN TOUCH
👉 I am always looking for feedback
👉 If you have questions send them to me. (I’ll start doing a special Q&A monthly episode)
👉 If you want to be a guest reach out and let me know
👉 If you know someone I should interview please put me in touch with them.
Email me at: Podcast@VirtualSummits.com
Join the Summitology Masterclass: https://www.virtualsummits.software/summitology-masterclass-signup
Resources you can get in the show notes at https://www.virtualsummits.software/resources-v2
✔️ One Day Summit Guide
✔️ Virtual Summits Framework
✔️ Plug & Play
✔️ Free Trial Virtual Summit Software
I want to end this episode by saying,
"I believe in YOU & YOU can do this."
Summits are by far one of the most powerful ways to quickly grow your list, launch your platform & make more money! (Even if you are just getting started).
Don’t get caught up in Analysis paralysis, because the world needs to hear your message & there are people who are waiting for you to help them.
So just get started. Imperfect action is always better than doing nothing!
Thank you and see you on the next episode!
Dr. Mark T Wade went from brick & mortar to multi-million dollar online business using a strategy called the "One-Day Summit".
Having created 6, 7 & Multi 7-figure businesses in the Brick & Mortar, Online (Education) Business, & Software As A Service space (Virtual Summits Software), Dr. Mark now helps entrepreneurs scale their online businesses with proven strategies such as the One-Day Summit Formula.
LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
🔗 Virtual Summits Software Free Trial
🔗 One-Day Summit Starter Guide
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