You're listening to the Online Marketing Made Easy Podcast episode number 12.

Welcome to the Online Marketing Made Easy Podcast. Business advice so easy,

you'll feel like you're cheating. And now your host, Amy Porterfield.

Welcome back to another edition of the Online Marketing Made Easy Podcast.

I'm Amy Porterfield and I wanted to personally thank you for listening today.

I know that there are a lot of amazing podcasts out there.

And the fact that you're listening to mine means the world to me. So again,

thank you so much for being here. And today we're going to be talking about mobile marketing.

I'm going to be interviewing Greg Hickman. Now Greg is one of the leading mobile marketing experts

and quite honestly and all around great guy. At the last blog world event in Vegas,

Greg and I had an impromptu chat in a crowded Starbucks and it lasted over an hour.

We talked shop the entire time and I instantly knew he was the real deal.

That's the one reason I love live events so much. You get the chance to dive into great

conversations with people that tend to be more personal and just richer conversations because

they're kind of in the real world. There's a difference for sure. Believe me, I live my life online

with my business. So I'm a big fan of online marketing and networking online. But there's

just something different about those real life experiences where you get to network with people

and really see their faces and those little nuances that you get to see in the real world.

So definitely if I could give you just one quick little tip here, totally off topic,

make sure you try to get to one to two live events each year.

Now if money's tight, start local. There's a lot of great local small meetups

in your community that you can go to. Kind of break out of your shell a little bit because I know

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