Back from Florida, where the whether was sunny, but in Houston it was rain, rain, rain. Both ends of the trip were delayed, especially the return leg — 4 hours of thumb twiddling in the Fort Lauderdale airport. Glad to be home.

Met a lot of cool people, will post pictures soon. Still need to get someone to figure out why only the first picture in each album will display.

The biggest takeaway for me was the importance of JVs and alliances with people that you consider competitors. That’s how Agora and other big info publishers grow their businesses, by renting each others’ customer lists, even though they are competitors.

The other big lesson was the importance of establishing your backend strategy and putting it on autopilot so you can focus your efforts on the front end (getting customers and leads into your funnel). Most online marketers have this reversed, putting the frontend on autopilot and trying various backends.