Posts Tagged ‘inman connect’

Well, going against every single little voice in my head, I’m posting the video to anyone that wants to see it. I still havent watched the whole thing. I can’t make it past the first minute. I’m a little embarrassed to post it, but hey, that’s how I roll. For everyone’s entertainment:

Well, I’m not gonna lie, I bombed. I was terrible, awful even. If I had to rate myself on a scale of 1 to 10, I might give myself a 3. The only reason I’ll give myself such a high number is because I didn’t pass out. That’s about it. I got in front of 1,000 people and took a beating. I’m no public speaker by any means, but DAMN, I would have loved to at least did a little better.

The main purpose of going to Inman Connect was to do a “National” launch of HomeScene. It would be a way to show Realtors from across the country what I’ve come up with, how it’s useful, and the potential of it all. Originally, there were five of us, and we each were supposed to have 5 minutes of time to demo our product. I was supposed to present last (thank goodness, right?). Two minutes before all five of us go on stage, everything changes. We get cut from 5 minutes to 3 minutes. After we sit on stage, the presentation order gets flipped. Now, I go FIRST, with no warning. I’m already freaking out, now, I gotta open? Crap.

I couldn’t even hold the mouse on the computer still. I couldn’t think. I left my outline of things to say with my wife. It wouldn’t have mattered, though. Why? Two reasons; One, there was Internet trouble at the hotel during the morning. It hit RIGHT when I needed it. The most important part of the presentation was the home details page….and it crapped out on me. Two, I got cut from 3 minutes to about 2 and a half minutes. Which, after watching the video back (as much as I could stand anyway…my wife recorded me, but I don’t know if I have the heart to put my embarassment on display for all you guys or not ), I can see why. I was just awful. Plain and simple. I bet they won’t be inviting me back anytime soon!!! The other four people? It was like second nature to them. They were awesome. They got their point across, although they didn’t have enough time, and came out smelling like a rose.

So, let’s recap where we are. I went to San Francisco. I could have kept my mouth shut the entire 150 seconds and not have been any worse. I left this morning and got back this afternoon. If you’d like to follow the full Twitter updates from while I was in San Fran, check out @level10. Oh well.