How I Saved $1,200 in Conference Tickets?

This is a post to share my views on being a hustler. And hopefully, good hints for you to get started

I consider myself as a generalist - knowledgeable across multiple business horizontal - from business development, marketing to finance & accounting. Yet, I’ve been eager to get my hands on the “holy grail” which is to find the one area in which I could dive in and become a real expert.

I admit. I found it. And I am moving forward.

Yet, the excitement of being able to hustle draws me away from focusing on becoming a specialist. It is neither good or bad. I will keep the journey of identifying and choosing my specialties for another blog post.

Back to how I got $ 1,200 in conference tickets for FREE.

Hustle…A LOT!

STEP ONE #

Stalk people and that’s what social media are for. I am not talking about knowing where your Facebook friends’ are eating or who is attending Russell Peter’s show in Malaysia - I am just saying that you need to google your way to results by constantly be reading about other people.

STEP TWO #

Find out what you want. I could go on and on about this….
Keep it simple. I want to attend this conference, I want to meet this person from that company. That’s it. You now know roughly what you want.

STEP THREE #

The previous two steps must have been completed.
ASK for it
Through my research and intensive stalking, I found that the organizer of a conference happened to know one business partner of mine. And I asked, hence I got.

STEP WHAT THE F…? #

Yes, STEP 3 sounds so stupid. What if you don’t have any contact in common?
HUSTLE???*
Yes. Do More With What You Have, And Can!

Every conference is people-intensive. Henceforth, the cost of hiring an event company or a people marketing company can be really really high.

Be a helper.
….
As simple as that.

Here you go. Attend a conference. Hustle your way. Expand your network. Listen to amazing people and become more amazing than them.