I think the highlight for me at the end of last year must have been winning the Carbon Copy PRO Master Marketing Award.

This is the scenario.

Imagine over 1000 people in a packed hall in the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas, and after a long content filled marketing session with prizes being won and money being thrown around they finally announce the awards for the top producers in the business.

Aaron Parkinson gets up on stage and says, “And next, we would like to award this years Master Marketing Award to….. Aaron Chen! Come up and get your award Aaron.”

People start clapping and cheering. And then a long pause. Everyone looks around.

Aaron Parkinson repeats, “Aaron Chen, come up and get your award.”

Again a long pause.

“I could have sworn I saw him at dinner last night…”

Where the heck is Aaron?

Wasn’t he sitting right there a second ago?

Everyone is staring at my team mate Chris who I had been sitting next to the entire day. And the poor guy is looking at everyone staring at him while shrugging his shoulders implying he has no idea where I am.

So anyway, the long story short, …