What a weekend!  We just wrapped up the first ever christian internet marketing conference, the Illuminate Conference, and I gotta say it was such a blast.

The feedback has been tremendous from the speakers and guests, and folks are already ready for next year’s Illuminate Conference.

I got to finally meet some folks that I haven’t met yet, and reconnect with some of my closest friends online.  One person said they, “felt like it was summer camp…and didn’t want it to end.” I felt the exact same way.

When you meet the right people and surround yourself with people that wanna invest into you, keep you accountable, and have your best interest in mind, it becomes easier for your business to start flourishing and your life is just that much better.

Next year’s Illuminate Conference will be in San Francisco again (voted by the guests & speakers) and we’re looking at sometime in July.  Probably the 2nd or 3rd week in July.

I will be posting pictures and videos up very soon so be on the look out for that.

Make sure you’re at the next conference.

Be Blessed!

Alejandro Reyes

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Last Tuesday on my Live Internet Show “SuccessfoolTV,” I interviewed my mentor & passion expert Gary Zelesky on the 10 Commandments of Passion. The response was great so I wanted to post this video on my blog & will continue to post my shows on this blog.

Here’s the 10 Commandements:

1. Wealth: If your Passion is not part of what you do you will never be rich!

2: Career/Business: You must build a career/life around Passion to live without regret.

3: Attitude: Your Passion for life will affect your position in life.

4: Significance: If you do not define your Passion someone else will!

5: Responsibility: Do what you must while you focus on your Passion.

6: Balance: Core values are the difference between Passion and Obsession.

7: Time: Manage your Passion not simply your time.

8: Resiliency: Passion never dies it only gets buried through negativity.

9: Goals: Your goals without passion are fantasy!

10: Enthusiasm: Passion is the fuel of the soul that moves your goals forward to completion.

Enjoy!

Hey what’s going on folks!

I miss ALL of you!  I’ve been extremely busy working on something that’s going to BLOW YOUR MIND!  No joke.  Be on the look out for an IMPORTANT announcement from me next week.

Here’s a video that my friend Simon Leung & I did at LAX airport a couple months ago about Social Media Marketing.

It’s a 22 Minute video that Simon entitled: “Social Media Marketing Secrets.”  Look forward to your feedback.

Enjoy folks!

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Hey there folks, just wanted to wish all of you a very Happy 4th of July!  Today is Sarah & mines 3rd anniversary so it should be a fun weekend as we’re spending today with my family then going to the San Francisco Bay Area tomorrow.

Have a GREAT day with your family & friends and definitely be safe.

God Bless!

Alejandro Reyes

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Today I decided I’m going to take a Random Day Off.

Gonna hang with my new baby and have a nice dinner with my wife.

Look for the Gary Vaynerchuk Post tomorrow entintled “You Gotta Find Your Hoopla Factor.”

Looking forward to connecting with ya soon!

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LIVE SHOW TONIGHT - At 8pm pst I will be going LIVE tonight on http://SuccessfoolTV.com sharing the play by play experience we just encountered. Invite your friends & watch!

Hey there family and friends! It’s Thursday morning and I’m sitting here in the hospital watching my beautiful wife our beautiful daugther Sadie Loren Reyes sleep (my Mother-in-law Stella and Sister in-law Ashley are sleeping as well).

If you didn’t already hear, Sadie Loren Reyes was born yesterday at 6:24pm. This birth experience and the events leading up to it has definitely changed my life forever.

First off, I gotta say this and if you never read this blog again because of it, carry on…

Alright, here we go: You have got to be out of your mind not to believe there’s a God.

Having been through this experience, it has completely opened my mind up to WHO God is and WHY he loves us so much! Now this is not going to be some post about me telling you what’s right or wrong, or some guy in a mohawk preaching to you and if it feels that way…lighten up, relax your neck a little bit, and get over it.

So here’s how our daughter came into the world.

April 22nd, 2008

2:30pm - Dr. Rosellini informs us that Sarah is 3 centimeters dilated. Sarah calls her Mom to get on the next flight to make sure she’s here just in case anything happens.

11:00pm Sarah and I pick up my Mother in-law Stella from the airport.

April 23rd, 2008

2:00am - My wife Sarah wakes up as she’s starting to feel some contractions. She waits a little bit to wake up Stella and the contractions continued.

3:00am - Sarah wakes me up as I’m in the other room with my best friend Cj who was staying the night. You folks have to understand that up until this point, I still don’t feel like I’m going to be a Dad and that’s this is all real.

We started getting ready to go to the hospital as the contractions kept coming every 4 - 5 minutes.

5:30am - We arrive to the hospital and they tell us that my wife is 5 centimeters so they decide to admit us. I’m thinking…”this is going to happen today…OMG!”

We call my Sister in-law Ashley who goes to college out in the Bay Area (or as some folks call it “Yay Area”) so that she can figure out a way to get out here as she doesn’t have a car.

Sarah’s contractions continue and my wife handles them like a champion.

She dilates to 6 centimeters and the contractions start to get stronger.

9:00am Dr. Yiakis tells us that the baby is probably going to be close to 9 lbs!!! Not only that but my wife’s pelvis is very narrow as well. So Sarah decides it might be a good idea to have an epidural. So Dr. Hiyashi aka Dr. Rockstar comes in and sticks this 47 foot needle in my wife’s back as I put my hands on her shoulders. I decide to take a peek at the needle in her back and I passed out to the floor….just kidding…hahaha!

Sarah was feeling really good and I was extremely proud because she was doing really well.

1:00pm - Dr. Yiakis decides we gotta give Sarah Pitossin (or as Kathy aka the Best Nurse in the World calls it “Vitamin P”) as she stopped contracting.

4:00pm - Sarah starts to push and is doing a great job. She pushes for 2 hours, but unfortunately Dr. Yiakis tells my wife that she’s not going to be able to fit through birth canal.

6:00pm - They take my wife away from me to the room where they’ll be performing a C-Section. Stella and I put on scrubs and prepare to go into the room to be with Sarah during this surgery.

There’s about 5-10 minutes of time when they prepare Sarah and I was a mess. There was ABSOLUTELY nothing I can do for my wife at this moment. I was completely helpless. This is where I go back to folks not believing there’s a “God.” You see I was completely helpless.

All I could do was pray. As soon as I started to pray, I felt calm, I knew that there was “something” that was going to take care of my wife and my baby. I had faith that God’s hand was going to be there at every moment! I just don’t know what I would do personally in situations where I feel helpless? What do you do?

So they call us into the surgery room. We go in there my baby is about to be born. My wife is laying down and all that I can do is just sit there with her, pray for her, and know that the doctors would do their jobs.

6:24pm - I hear, “here she comes” and push one of the doctors out of the way to try and see my daughter. Someone ends up saying “don’t touch the doctor” so I move back trying to see Sadie.

I look at my daughter and she is SOOOOO beautiful!!! I cannot believe it. I finally feel like I’m a Dad! I cut her umbilical cord (which was pretty cool) and they take her to get weighed. Backing up, you gotta understand we all were guessing how much she weighed. I guessed 8.3 and I was right. Sadie Loren Reyes weight 8 pounds and 3 ounces and was 20.25 inches long. I got a big girl!

They finished the surgery, made sure my wife and baby was okay, and I was completely relieved.

There’s more to talk about as I’m going to probably be doing a Live Broadcast TONIGHT about this and take any questions you guys might have. I really wanted to share this one thing on my heart though…

For the first time ever, I really understand WHO God is and WHY He loves us so much! When I first held Sadie in my arms, I made a promise to myself and God:

That I will always love her no matter what she does
That I will always protect her
That I will always provide for her
That I will never ever leave her
That I will always love her mother
That I would even DIE for her!

I’ve never realized how much God loved me until I held Sadie into my arms.

He will always love us - no matter how ignorant we can become
He will always protect us - even though we might live in fear
He will always provide for us - even though sometimes it might get tight
He will never leave us nor forsake us
He not only loves me but also loves and takes care of my friends and family
He literally DIED for for you and for me

This has been the most important day of my life. My wedding was completely incredible and I love my wife dearly, but this experience has changed my life and thought process forever.

I’ll share more later on, but just had to update y’all on this life changing experience.

I love you Sarah - I love you Sadie!

Here’s my princess!

If you didn’t already know, my wife and I are having a baby very soon…so soon that I think we’re having one right now.

I haven’t posted much as I’ve made sure to spend as much time as possible with my wife before we bring the baby into this world.

We’re headed to the hospital now & I’m extremely stoked!

Keep us in your prayers that everything goes fine!

Thanks so much and God bless!

If you haven’t met Anthony Blake, you must. There’s a lot of marketers out there that “try” to be someone they’re not, try and cause controversy for no apparent reason, but Tony Blake is authentic as they come. He might curse, he might make you mad, call you out, or even make a video about you, but the guy when it comes to marketing, knows what he’s talking about.

In this interview, Tony shares what he’s been using Twitter for and why you need to start paying attention to the “tech” world folks! There’s a lot of good tips in there on marketing as well.

Make sure to check Tony out at The Blake Forum and also on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/tonyblakelive

Thanks Tony!

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