Elite Retreat Raises the Bar

A conference to help take businesses to another level, and to be held December 18-19 in San Antonio, Texas, promises to be quite different from the general run of Internet marketing conferences.

For one thing, and this makes the event exceptional already, there are to be No Sales Pitches.

And if you want to attend you have to write in and convince the organisers they should accept you as a participant.

Because the Elite Retreat is aiming to be just that – a group of elite Internet experts (i.e. real gurus) will get together with people who are serious about wanting to learn and serious about their intention to take action and implement what they learn.

The event leaders include Dave Taylor, who most certainly qualifies as an expert and is a great communicator. Dave has been around the Internet long before there was a World Wide Web and his AskDaveTaylor site is renowned as a place to get answers that make sense.

Here’s how the organizers describe the kind of atmosphere they plan to create:

Imagine a relatively small room with 30+ web entrepreneurs sitting side by side in a classroom style arrangement.  You are facing the 4 leaders and listening as they brainstorm with you, answer questions, cover the hot topics.  Creative power is flowing, your break times are packed full of networking with the other attendees and the leaders, and you are soaking it all in.

This isn’t going to be just “just another webmaster conference”!  This is a high value, high powered, two-day brainstorming / masterminding event that can change your business.

The tariff? A cool $4850.

Which seemed a lot when I first saw it, but then looking at what is being offered and reflecting on the hundreds of thousands of dollars people spent on”packages” offered by “gurus” a couple of weeks ago at a conference I was at, which was largely dedicated to online marketing and actually had a $100 entry fee, it seems quite reasonable.

In short, a quality event is promised, at a quality price.

I very much doubt they will want for takers.