Well, we did it, my friends. The marketing forecast live was a success, but it didn't come

without a few hiccups. In fact, there was some big hiccups. I'll tell you about what happened

and behind the scenes in this episode. Marketing your business is for you, the business owner,

who has a product, a service, or a message that you

believe in. My name is Stu McLaren, and each week we'll take a behind the scenes look into

the real world marketing tactics and strategies for getting what you have in front of a lot more

people. Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let's get started. Welcome back, my friend, to the Marketing Your Business

podcast. Listen, in this episode, I want to give you an update to something that we actually

talked about just a little while ago. And in fact, last week, we did our first ever marketing

forecast live. Well, I say it was the first ever.

It was the first one in about 10 years. I used to do these before. And for some reason, I just went on a

hiatus, but we have brought it back. We brought it back in spectacular fashion.

Listen, last week we did the marketing forecast live.

And you can kind of see everything that we did by going to marketing forecast live.com.

But that's not the point of this episode.

The point of this episode is to give you a little behind the scenes of what happened because it was a spectacular evening and there were a lot of cool things

and some not so cool things that all kind of played themselves out. But first and foremost,

here's the thing. The marketing forecast live, the concept was pretty simple. We had a couple

people on our team who were in the midst of the hurricane disaster in Florida. And this kind of hit the team

pretty hard because both of them were in the thick of the hurricane. So we were like watching

helplessly, like their updates of like power being cut off and them having to evacuate and their

homes being destroyed. Like one of our team members had our home completely destroyed,

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