Shock waves swept through the Direct Response Marketing community in Australia recently…
…when the “Wizard Of Words”, copywriter Pete Godfrey announced that he was leaving Crocodile Marketing…
…the company he had set up with David McMahon only around 18 months ago.
According to Pete, he decided to move on because…
“Frankly, I’m an entrepreneur. That being the case, I don’t make the best partner (Just ask Dave). So I’m going back solo, on my own, and taking back my newsletter and taking it to a whole new level.”
Got to say, I’m a little surprised. The Crocodile Marketing events I’ve attended were well supported and the company definitely seemed to be providing a needed service to small business owners and entrepreneurs.
Anyway, all that means that the Inner Sanctum conference this coming weekend (March 20 and 21) on the Gold Coast, will be the last one.
There’s a great line up of speakers. In addition to Pete and Dave, there’s Ari Galper (of “Chatwise” fame), Jenny Armato covering social media and motivational livewire Pat Mesiti.
I’ll be there, ‘natch and looking forward to catching up with people I haven’t seen for a while.
Said it before, one of the biggest benefits of events like these is the opportunity to hang out with like minded people and network. As a copywriter, most of my new clients are people I’ve met on weekends like this.
If you’re a Crocodile Marketing member, hope to see you there. If you’re not, the event has been opened up to non members for the ludicrously small sum of $47.
All the details are here…
Crocodile Marketing Inner Sanctum Conference 20-21 March 2010
I’m going to be trying a little experiment and will be blogging furiously from the event (and probably Tweeting as well…we’ll see). I’m aiming to include as much audio and video with interviews and the like if I can.
So, watch this space!