Over the past five years, many of the world’s top internet business leaders have gathered together for one weekend to network, learn about new strategies, and to build trustworthiness and branding. They gather to attend the annual Mega Partnering conference, and the 2012 edition of the conference; MegaPartnering Wealth Summit proved to be yet another successful chapter in the impressive history of this event.

A Gathering Place For Industry Titans To Facilitate Mega Partnering
The Mega Partnering V conference has emerged as the world’s number one wealth networking conference; and the attendance list only proves the star power of this event. From united states government leaders to celebrities; industry tycoons to chief executive and even small business owners and academic leaders; they all make appearances at this event. The business elite come together to find new ways of growing their business. From learning about branding yourself from Gene Simmons, to hearing lessons learned from having Donald Trump as your father, there is never a shortage of unique business lessons and perspectives given at this event.

The 2012 Wealth Summit conference brought in attendees from all over the globe to Dallas, Texas from May 3-6 for four days of speeches, presentations and networking opportunities. This unique event brought in everyone from business leaders, marketing and branding and marketing experts and property investors together under one roof. The convention also welcomed several of the top innovators and influential business icons from around the world to speak to the more than 800 participants in the conference.

How do you get access to this exclusive event?  MegaPartnering is Invite Only!
The MegaPartnering V event, in conjunction with every preceding MegaPartnering conference function, had varying levels of admittance. Admittance levels for the conference are:

Founders Level (All Access Pass)
Chairman Level
VIP + Pictures Level
VIP Level
General Admission

Once guests arrive to the early May event, the VIP attendees were given an insider’s tour of the Dallas Cowboys Stadium to kick off the big event. Guests were not only allowed to see inside the structural marvel which is the Dallas Cowboys Stadium, but to view inside mind of business legend Jerry Jones. The experience was just one of many inspirational talks from the leaders that attended the event; and was just a hint at what was to come for conference guests.

Learning From The Best At Mega Partnering V
The heart of the event isn’t just in netwroking, but the speeches given from top entrepreneurs around the world. Attendees are allowed to see inside and pick the brains of some of the most successful figures operating a business while at the conference. The sold out Mega Partnering V conference hosted a variety of speakers that allowed participants to do just this. The event gave the stage to Celebrity Apprentice winer and Poison front-man Bret Michaels, who spoke of his journey with creating a lasting career in music but in overcoming obstacles, and his journey in winning Celebrity Apprentice.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, also took center stage to speak of a mega partnering of his own; and talk of how he and Steve Jobs came together to form Apple and to give applicable real world advice to small business owners looking to produce a brand for themselves. The stage was also given to real estate mogul Eric Trump; one of the most successful investors and figures in business today who spoke of learning lessons from your father and on using those lessons to build your business. These speakers were also joined by High Point University President Nido Qubein, Todd Davis of LifeLock, and Gold Medalist Steven Bradbury, who all spoke to attendees about strategies and their own method of finding success in business. These influential figures spoke to conference participants on their own individual paths to success and what they have found to work and to not work in today’s market.

The event also featured a motivational speech from entrepreneur and business wealth coach, JT Foxx. The mentor wasn’t only a powerful speaker at the event, but is also the founder of Mega Partnering. He began the power conference after seeing a special on the World Economic Forum. Confident he could create a one-of-a-kind event focused on investors, small business owners and entrepreneurs, Foxx came up with Mega Partnering V. The event quickly became the number one wealth networking event in the world, and Mega Partnering V was the fifth year in the row that the event sold out. Foxx not only touched upon the success and growth of Mega Partnering but on key topics that he uses to mentor business owners daily.

Reaping The Benefits of Mega Partnering V
The goal of MegaPartnering is, and has always been, to promote networking and learning opportunities for successful business figures. The Mega Partnering events have become so successful because they never been about selling products or tapes or books. The Mega Partnering experience will continue to forge its way into the future in this way, as an event that provides the best place for entrepreneurial leaders to meet and grow their businesses to the next level. The Mega Partnering V event was an invitation only function, and just as with the preceding Mega Partnering conferences, it fostered an environment for students to:

Meet top performers in your industry
Find new Business Partners and Grow your Business
Brand themselves and their business
Introduce your business to new people
Find new partners for joint venturing
Learn cutting edge marketing strategies
Find new business opportunities

While the conference’s focus was on providing resources and opportunities for the world’s top business leaders, Mega Partnering V proved that attendees were there for more then just groing their businesses. Attendees came together to prove that the elite of the business world know the importance of giving back. In just under an hour, conference attendees of the event raised more than $650,000 for the Eric Trump Foundation; a non-profit that donates funds to the St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospitals. Money raised by the charity auction that was kicked off by a private acoustic concert by Bret Michaels. This brief hour in the four day mega-conference showed that Mega Partnering V is more than just a formal business conference, but a business community that fosters real world relationships among the world’s most successful leaders.

The Five Year Anniversary of Roger Bryan’s Blog – RCBryan.com

So this is a little odd. I’m not quite sure what it is about today that made me check, but I came to realize that it is five years ago almost to the week that I started my first blog, which set me down a path over the last five years that I could’ve never imagined or plan for. When I first started my blog, it was really just a place to post pictures about recipes that I cooked, books that I read, people that I met, and ideas that I had. It ended up becoming so much more. My exploits as a young entrepreneur led my blog to become the number one website for business consulting on the Internet for many years.

As I sit here today thinking about what’s happened in the last five years, both good and bad decisions that I’ve made, the risks that I’ve taken, the opportunities that I’ve had and the success that I’ve been blessed with, I think about all of the things I did wrong and all of the times I got lucky and it’s somewhat astonishing.

Today I was working with my team on the next version of my website, which is a personal branding template that was designed by my new business partner. The goal of the website is to build your personal brand to show the relationships that you have, the experience that you have, and the credibility and the accomplishments that you have. And during the design process, so many members of my team are so astonished by some of the elements of the site; and I guess to them it’s unbelievable to be working with someone that’s met the people that I’ve met and done the things that I’ve done; and I almost feel like I had started to take it for granted. The section on my website where you list who you are (and I don’t really think of it as my core essence), but when I write there that I’m a serial entrepreneur, Internet marketer, business development coach and author and speaker, I have to pause for a minute and look at those words and really think about them.

Writing down the serial entrepreneur part is something that I don’t think I would have ever dreamed of being. Just five years ago, I wasn’t. I was struggling with my first startup; I was learning to work with partners, in many ways unsuccessfully by picking the wrong ones. But I was willing to commit 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year to building a business, establishing relationships and growing both internally and externally of myself. Also, learning the tricks of the trade, learning how to network, market, advertise, how to generate sales, how to manage clients and most importantly, how to manage staff. I don’t know if I ever knew what this simple website, this simple blog, would become, and now sitting here five years later, I want to take this quick moment to look back so I can acknowledge everything that went into getting here today and be grateful and continue on my path forward.

I call myself an Internet marketer, I am friends with, and hang out with, some of the most successful Internet marketers in the world. And to be honest, that basically happened by accident. From one event, to one drink, to one meeting, to one opportunity, to five years later, I really think about it and I’m kind of baffled by how all of this happened. Internet marketing to me really is science. It’s almost an art form. I’ve been able to do some amazing things on the Internet, build businesses, create jobs, and earn more money than I ever thought possible, and even today, publish books and create a following of people that actually want to listen to what I’m saying. Having the esteem and respect of so many people that I idolized for so many years, and being able to do the amazing things I’ve done with raising money for nonprofits and helping those that need help most, and most importantly, building up my business that most people would only dream about has been incredibly rewarding.

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Becoming A Business Coach

It wasn’t until just a few months ago that I became a coach, which for me at the age of 34, quite baffles me. I don’t really look at my accomplishments as being all that great, as I had just challenged myself to be so much more. But working with people on their businesses and with their ideas, I get the greatest sense of fulfillment more than anything that I’ve ever done. To watch a student publish a book and get it to number one on Amazon. To help another student triple his business in six months. To help people finally take those dreams and organize them in a manner that would actually become attainable. I just really can’t explain how much that means to me. And again, as I’m sitting here today, in just 10 day will be the five-year anniversary of when I launched my blog. To see what it has become, I basically just don’t understand.

Becoming an author and publishing a book that people actually read and thanked me for, I would’ve never had the nerve to do that five years ago. I’ve always thought of myself as smart, but never really in the league of those that you see in books and magazines and on news stations. That just was never going to be me. And now to speak on stages in front of hundreds of people or even have the opportunity to speak in front of thousands, both in person and online, and again, have people thank me, congratulate me, and to tell me that what I said actually can help them, and how that happened in five short years.

So what did I use to really blog about when it comes to business? My blog and my website have been re-designed so many times over the past five years. I’ve tried to find the perfect niche that focuses all of the efforts that I’ve had in my life into one cohesive message, which really is not easy. The site has been remade to fit me as I was at that time. It was probably re-designed once every year. And now to be coming up on the five-year anniversary with a brand-new design again, geared towards celebrating the life that I never thought that I would have, I don’t know if it’s humbling, motivating or for self-reflection of where I am today, but it is baffling to say the least.

I think when I started the blog I was just settling into a new life in Washington DC, my business was just starting to pick up, I was having my first experience with staff and real sales, and I knew that there was a story to tell about this. So I wanted to take part in the Internet. I guess that’s the only way to explain it. So I started the blog, and I just started writing about random things. I would talk about conversations that I had with staff. I would talk about discussions I had with my partners. I would talk about business ideas that I had. I would talk about my current business, the biggest stress of the day or the biggest success of the quarter. I would advertise my clients, my products and my services. I would even, on occasion, put up pictures of dishes that I cooked.

As I really started to get into Internet marketing in the year 2008, weblog-took on a new dimension that probably wasn’t the best for it, where I would start publishing tons and tons of articles about various topics from car donations to auto auctions to voting to cooking to business consulting and then I would just optimize the heck out of him. I was just starting to learn the secrets of SEO or search engine optimization and I wanted to test the theories on my website. At this time, I was working with a lot of nonprofits such as Goodwill, Red Cross, and the Salvation Army, and I had ideas about things that I could do with Internet marketing, but I of course couldn’t test them on client websites, so I decided to test them on myself. Surprising to me, just as it was to anybody else, they really worked.

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Blogging for Money

As my blog grew and my subscription-based passed 1000 and 5000 and 10,000 subscribers, I began to see that the world actually wanted to hear what I had to say. So then I switched gears and I started talking about real fundamentals of marketing and business as in-depth as I possibly could trying to help people to start and grow businesses.

One of the most popular series of posts that I ever made was on how to start a dropship business. At the time, my father and stepmom had gotten into some of the Internet stuff. And I didn’t know how deep they were getting into it. When I say deep, I don’t mean successfully. They had been suckered into an expensive drop shipping program that had absolutely no chance of success, and it really frustrated me. So I started to write blogs about the experience that they were having, with insight that I had on how to start successful online businesses, how to market and optimize them to drive traffic and convert it, and in doing so, I ended up starting another company. More so to prove models than to actually build a business, the company flourished, and I ended up giving it to my dad and stepmom to take over, which in part is one of the reasons, I guess, why anyone becomes an entrepreneur. That is, to have relevance in the world and to help others to achieve goals that they might not be able to achieve completely on their own.

I never really thought of my blog as a place to brand myself, but more so to just tell a story: the story of my life as an entrepreneur and as a person. I started to build out sections on the blog to talk about my personal experiences growing up. I saw the very popular page my family tree. And yet today as I look at the new draft of the website and I see the pictures of all of the people that I’ve met, the videos that I’ve been able to take with some of the most successful people, I can’t help but think what’s next.

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How to Build a Personal Brand

With this new website launches it’s going to be a template called celebrity branding activity geared towards the relationships that we all build in our own worlds and the people that we meet that help to build our personal brand. The concept is to sell people not on our ideas or our efforts, but actually on us. So many great people build personal brands such as Donald Trump with the Trump organization that focus on letting the world know their standard of quality and their passion for excellence. Now as an entrepreneur, and I guess I can even say seasoned entrepreneur at the ripe age of 34, after now selling three companies I now see the importance of having a personal brand.

A personal brand is something that lives beyond the company that you start. Very few entrepreneurs will start one company and then spend the rest of their life working in or on just that company. Many will start and fail. Some will start and sell. Others will start ideas that never really become that true passion that they want to have but will transform into greater opportunities in the future. The one thing that stays constant through all that change is your personal brand: how you present yourself how, people remember you, and why they will choose to do business with you.

So as we’re designing this site and implementing the different elements of it, we’re constantly thinking about where our brand is today and how we want to portray it so that we can get to where we want to go in the future. I’ve recently been challenged over the next five years with my current partner to start a $100 million company. Five years ago I was just starting to approach making my first million dollars. I actually paused as I type that, thinking about the fact that I can say when I was trying to make my first million dollars. How many people get to say that? Even more so, how many people say that they’re going to and actually do put in the time effort blood sweat and tears to make it happen?

I’m a firm believer that any person with a true desire to achieve success at any level is more than capable of doing it. They need to be willing to work harder, longer and smarter than everyone else if they’re going to achieve that goal. And I now see the power of coaching. Without my coaches in the past year, I would never have transformed not just my business but myself into the person that is creating this new personal brand today. And I guess my biggest reflection as I start down this new journey of the next five years is to really look back on the last year.

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The Last Year: How to Grow a Business

Coming to the end of 2012, I reflect back on the end of 2011 and the year that was 2012, which is the year with probably the most dramatic changes that my life has ever seen. At the end of the year 2011 while having a very successful business and making more money than I ever thought possible, I learned that you have to choose your partners wisely. And that unfortunately was something that I had not done. I trusted the wrong people and found myself in a situation that I had no idea how to get out of. After creating a company that was my passion and my dream, I had surrounded myself with people whose greed and lack of morality superseded the good work that we were trying to do.

I created a job for myself and although I had built a very well-structured and well-running machine, I created jealousy with partners twice my age, who had to work 10 times harder because they didn’t understand basic principles of business. And in their jealousy, they decided instead of trying to learn and grow, that they would attack and destroy. I’m not a person to name names or pass blame, but I am one to self-reflect on the fact that picking the wrong partners can lead to a very miserable life.

Right around this time is when I had the luck, and yes at this point I will say luck, of meeting a couple influential people who would help me over the next few months transform my life and get away from the poisonous relationships that were holding me back and keeping me working in a world where I would put in 100% of the work, but only make a fraction of the money. These “coaches” are truly the people that helped me unlock my real potential and build true wealth through individual businesses.

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The Business Coaching That Made It Possible

The first of these coaches is Mike Collier. Through all the stress of separating from my bad partnership Mike was always there to guide me, not just professionally and from a business environment, but also through the trying times that weighed on me personally. There’s nothing worse than watching a business that you founded from your own idea, in your own blood and sweat and tears, be destroyed by the greed of others. Mike taught me not to dwell, but constantly push forward and to be looking for the next opportunity or the next idea that would allow me to accomplish more than I ever accomplished before. He had an intuitive way of calling me on my worst day when I did not even think to pick up the phone to call him. I could have not transformed myself from my previous position to the one that I am in today without him.

The next person is JT Foxx. He opened my eyes and introduced me to the world of business at a level that I never thought that I would reach in my lifetime. He taught me about personal branding, which is really the basis for this entire post that I’m making today. And the fact that I realized as we were developing today that I was about to hit my five year anniversary of launching this website. His basis for personal branding and growing yourself beyond the everyday business owner and creating an identity that transcends just the business that you start is really the key to success for those that reach it at the highest level.

I guess today could’ve been like any other day as I was working on this new web template we’re putting together and all of the pictures, videos and testimonials that we need to get the site live. But I just happened to look and realized that it was five years ago this week that I published this website for the first time. It was a free WordPress theme with no graphics, no images, and not even a custom theme, and I started writing about my experiences. Now it’s five years later and hundreds of thousands of website visitors later, so I thought that it would be a good time to reflect on what got me here today. It was a simple blog with simple blog posts with ideas that people would listen to. So if you’re reading this and you’re looking for guidance on how to start your next company, I have a few words of advice or wisdom for you.

Go at it with all the passion in the world and never let obstacles slow you down. If someone gets in your way, run through them. If somebody tries to pull you down, laugh at them and pull yourself away. Seek advice from those who have done it before. Know that not everyone will understand nor support what you’re trying to do; do it anyway. Find a coach, listen to them, work with them, and then work with yourself. Read every book that you can, listen to every CD that you can from speakers that have been there and done that. Attend every event that you can, looking for that one piece of knowledge that will change your life. And most importantly, trust in yourself and never stop trying.

So I will call this my five year anniversary blog post. And to be honest, I haven’t done many blog posts in the past year. And it’s kind of that self-reflection point today where I realized that it was blogging that helped me to start numerous multimillion dollar companies and most importantly to sell them and continue to move forward working on bigger and better deals. I’m Roger from RCBryan.com and this is my five year anniversary blog post.

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The name “Trump” has been seen on buildings, products, books, and television shows…but what meaning does it hold? Undeniably, an image comes to mind that is defined by this word: Trump. However, treating “Trump” as just a name does not do it justice…after all, what’s in a name? Well, this name has become an established brand that invokes a powerful brand image. From the Trump Tower to the expression “You’re fired!”, the Trump brand represents a business force to be reckoned with. In order to Think Like Trump, you must be working to establish a brand for your company. “Branding is a very effective business tool,” Donald Trump stated in a 2011 magazine interview, “That’s number one.” Using this number one business tip will allow you to Think Like Trump—and this powerful mindset will lead you towards success.

The Trump Winery is located in Charlottesville, Virginia and was formerly the historic Kluge Winery. Acquired by the Trumps, the winery is run by Eric Trump Wine Manufacturing LLC, headed by Donald Trump’s son Eric. The Trump Winery is one more step in the right direction for the Trump brand, as the winery exudes elegance and taste. In a 2011 magazine interview Eric Trump discusses their brand image, noting, “There’s a lifestyle association. And in an indirect way, there’s accountability. So many different brands are unaccountable and there’s no one to answer for them.  We have organization and personality and we’re accountable, and that means everything in our business.” Based on this lifestyle association and accountability, the Trump Winery is proving to be one more step in a successful line of business endeavors for the Trump family. The Think Like Trump mentality is seen in this bold move by Eric Trump to conquer the winery world, which extends far beyond the usual real estate work focused on by the Trumps.

Their newly acquired vineyard reminds many that the Trumps are known for amassing properties– but the means of transportation they have are worth noting as well. The Trump helicopter is easily one of the most recognizable private helicopters in the world. The high-profile helicopter helps to represent the high quality of the Trump brand name, as seen by its logo clearly inscribed on its fuselage. This proud display of all things Trump helps to identify the role that the copter plays in the Trump brand. The helicopter, functioning for personal use, is emblazoned with the large Trump logo—the identifier of their established brand name. Previously, the Trumps had helicopters as part of a shuttle service for clients. This VIP transportation, on the other hand, is reserved exclusively for the Trump family, and it is rare to find others invited on board. The helicopter takes the Trumps back and forth from their various properties and estates, including the Trump Winery in Virginia.

One such trip was made from New York City to Trump Winery on August 9, 2012– but this excursion was different. The usually exclusive Trump helicopter had not just Eric Trump of Eric Trump Wine Manufacturing LLC, but two other entrepreneurs on board. This historic two-hour flight to Virginia also included Roger Bryan, entrepreneur and founder of RCBryan & Associates, along with JT Foxx from Top One Coaching.  The goal for the flight from New York to the Trump Winery is to talk business and perhaps even make some deals. Beyond success in business, the three entrepreneurs also share the common bond of fundraising for the Trump Foundation, which benefits St. Jude’s. Roger Bryan was offered this opportunity based on his participation in a fundraiser in Dallas, which raised over $650,000 for the charity.

This exclusive and rare business meeting will certainly have an effect on Roger Bryan and how he continues on his entrepreneurial path. After all, what would better inspire one to Think Like Trump other than riding in his style—a private branded helicopter? Roger Bryan had a positive outlook on this situation, sharing that his goals include “further developing my relationship with the Trump Organization and Eric Trump. “ As he maintains a well-established working relationship with George Ross, Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization, this expansion makes sense. The momentous occasion should play out as beneficial to all three parties involved, as they all have a unique perspective to offer each other when dealing business.  As an internet marketer, Roger Bryan has a particularly interesting role in the meeting. Internet marketers are infamous for living in a small world, but Bryan takes a different approach. “Internet Marketing is no longer a behind the scene service.  It is a major part of the business world and its importance is evident in the Trump Organization’s desire to do business with me,” remarked Bryan before the helicopter departed for the Trump Winery.

Roger Bryan’s company, RCBryan and Associates, specializes in internet marketing and business coaching. Through both of these avenues, they aim to help their clients Think Like Trump by pursuing the right business opportunities and establishing a brand identity for their company. Inspired by the experience that founder Roger Bryan had on the Trump helicopter, RCBryan & Associates strives to help your brand take off. By calling one of their strategic advisors today, you begin your flight plan towards success. RCBryan & Associates can help you Think Like Trump—if you’re looking to get into the Trump mindset that will help you achieve your business goals, follow the link or schedule a free consultation or call us at 888-722-7926.