Coming To REBlogWorld? How I Lost $64,000.

Filed under: Conference Info, reblogworld Posted on August 7th, 2009

Looking back on REBlogWorld last year, one thing will always burn in my mind:

The fact that I lost $64,000.

Wait, that might have come out slightly wrong. Maybe it would be more accurate to say it like this:

The fact that I could have made $64,000 if I would just have listened to one of the famous people I met in the hallway.

Everyone Is Good At Something

When I was young, someone told me that “no matter who you meet in life, everyone is better than you are in at least one thing” and I didn’t really understand it until much later in life. Think about it — everyone you meet — every single person — is better than you are at something.

So I have made it a game that when I meet people in life, I try to find out what the person is better than me at. Some people it takes about 2 seconds to find out 10 things they are way better at than I am, others it might take a few minutes — but it really isn’t hard.

And it was at REBlogWorld last year that I met someone who was better than me at picking NFL football games. In fact, in my opinion, I may have met the best person in the world at picking NFL football games and I have a $64,000 hole in my pocket to prove it.

While we were standing in the hallway, I was whining about how my Fantasy football league was being lame or something and he asked me “do you ever bet on the games?” I replied something like “well the buy in to my fantasy football league was 10 bucks” and he laughed. He said – ok, well just let me know if you ever need any tips.

So I told him I would try him out. His job was to pick just one game — one game each week — that if I were to bet on, that would be the one.

So the week after REBlogWorld – he gave me the game to bet on.

And if I would have bet $250, I would have ended up winning and doubling my money.

Week 2, he gave me another game to bet on (through Twitter even!).

And if I would have taken my winnings of $500 and laid it down, that $500 would have been $1,000.

Week 3?

You guessed it — I would have been up to $2,000.

And so on.

FOR NINE STRAIGHT WEEKS.

When I did the math, I would have ended up with a chilly sixty-four-grand had I simply listened to the famous person in the hallway.

Tired of paying for “professional advice” from the talking heads about which teams you should bet on?

Just stop this guy in the hallway.