I have already told you about the history, venue and leaders for our once a year event.

Today I wanted to tell you about the agenda, price and our guarantee.

I get pitched constantly from people who want to speak at the Elite Retreat. In fact, just this week I have gotten over 200 emails from people looking to speak.

So what do we look for in leaders? Well, first of all, we are not looking for speakers. People come to the Elite Retreat because they want to take their business to the next level, so here is the basic criteria I look for:

1. They must have made an enormous impact on my businesses.
2. They must enjoy sharing with others things that made them successful and actually want to sit down and work with people one on one for 2 days to help them achieve their goals.

We DO NOT EVER solicit for pitches from people to speak. I ONLY invite those who I personally have built a relationship with and I KNOW will actually want to spend 48 hours with the attendees. Its a very rare person to have the knowledge and social skills. So my job is not easy.

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In the last email, I gave you a brief overview of my event we will be having December 2nd and 3rd in San Francisco. In this email, I want to tell you about the venue.

A brief history of past venues:

As you know, once a year I hold a very exclusive, one-on-one event called the Elite Retreat.  I’m happy to announce we will be holding our seventh event this year.

When we originally started seven years ago, everyone told us we were crazy and it would never work.

But we saw a real need in the industry for an event where people could come and not just listen to a ‘stump’ speech from an expert in the field, but actually sit down with them, get to know them, and get really solid advice and direction on how to achieve your goals.

As a well-sought after speaker for large events, I can tell you it is simply impossible to actually work one-on-one with attendees and give them any sort of real value specific to their goals.  Just do the math; I’m talking to thousands of people, and I’m given 45 minutes to talk to all of them.

The Elite Retreat solves that problem by having an expert to attendee ratio that is unheard of.

The event is very exclusive, only allowing 30 attendees who have complete access over the two day event to some of the most sought-after experts in the Internet Marketing world.

From the limo pickup at the airport to the best venues in the city, this is a first class, all inclusive event.

In the past we have had experts like:

• Guy Kawasaki – Apple Advocate and Angel investor
• Gary Vaynerchuk – WineLibrary.tv and bestselling author
• Seth Godin – Marketing guru, best selling author and consultant to the stars

Just to name a few.  And this year’s speaker lineup is the best yet.

I don’t want to bombard you with too much information, but we have received so many emails and we have so many people on the waiting list.

I wanted to give you the save the date as quickly as possible.  So mark your calendars for December 2nd and 3rd in San Francisco.  I will announce the official speaker list, agenda, and venues in the next coming week, and we will open registration on September 28th.