Feature photo by vramak

I just returned from a short excursion to Laos with my buddies Dwight Turner (InSearchOfSanuk.com), Mark Weins (Migrationology) & Joel Bruner on Saturday (see some of my travel photos here; more about Laos soon) and I have a busy week ahead facilitating introductions, doing interviews and prepping for events, but I wanted to drop you a quick update.

Hope you’ve had a chance to see my cool interview over at Barefoot Geek. David Turnbull is a fantastic writer, a Buddhist blogger, and had some really interesting questions for me.

Thursday is #BeerCamp with the BarCamp Bangkok crowd over at Lub D Hostel, and Friday I’ll be helping Dwight out at the LUSH 2 party, Bangkok’s Twestival celebration, where we’ll be raising money for two orphanages near the Burmese border. Dwight only books the plushest places—LUSH will again be at the poolside rooftop bar at Fraser Suites on Sukhumvit Soi 11—and by making it easy to give to charity and have fun at the same time, he’s making a big impact here in Thailand. He was a natural choice to mobilize Bangkok to participate in Twestival—an international, social media-powered event to inspire giving all over the world. If you’re in BKK, I hope you’ll join us.

A shoutout for the Under 30 Rock Star Business Series

Additionally, I want to tell you about another young social media gangster who’s also got a big social change footprint. My friend Greg Rollett from RockstarLifestyleDesign.com truly lives up to the name—no bullshit. He’s been published and featured all over the place, including top blogs, several books and on FOX News (check out his recent inteview at Business Backpacker). Greg is just 26-years-old and he’s already leveraged his personal branding success to kickstart some incredible social change initiatives like the Rock for Hunger project—a campaign to benefit the homeless and raise poverty awareness in Orlando, Florida.

Starting one week from today, Greg is teaming up with Matt Wilson and Jared O’Toole—who developed Under30CEO into a destination site for Gen-Y entrepreneurs and a nationally-syndicated radio show in less than 2 years—to help twentysomethings struggling to succeed in today’s workplace:

You know this economy has been tough on Gen-Y. Many of you may be facing upwards of $20,000 in debt after graduation and a job market that pits you against CEO’s, executives and professionals with a network and resume that make your internship or blog look like a 2nd grade book report. In the last 2 years it has never been more important for you to build a brand, establish credibility and network your ass off just to land any old 9-5.

Through hard work and by positioning themselves as authorities online with social media, blogs and SEO, these three have each developed incredible brands and built successful businesses, and for a limited time they are offering to help 200 others learn how to leverage the power of the web to build their own personal brands and create similar success online with their new 4-week Under 30 Rock Star Business Series. These internet kingpins only put out top-notch quality content, and if you want to learn to have similar success online, you couldn’t ask for three better examples to follow than Greg, Matt & Jared. I highly suggest you head over to their Eventbrite page to learn more about the course. Frankly, this is exactly the kind of interactive course I would teach my clients if I weren’t a lazy loser who doesn’t have his act together, so I can’t recommend it enough!

You’ve got until Sunday, September 13th to sign up, and seats are limited to the first 200 students. The first class will broadcast live over Ustream one week from today, on Monday. For less than a hundred bucks you get all of this:

• 4 Live Interactive Training Sessions
• Week 1 – September 14th – Creating Your Voice With a Blog
• Week 2 – September 21st – Creating Your Presence with Social Media
• Week 3 – September 28th – Rock Star SEO and Internet Marketing
• Week 4 – Advanced Strategies to Blow Your Brand Up Online
• A Private Members Forum
• Unlimited access to recorded training modules after they go over them live
• 100% Money Back Guarantee
• Greg also told me that early sign-ups will also get access to an additional free 30-minute call

The guys will even open up unlimited Q&A after every session to make sure everyone gets their questions answered. I’m definitely interested to learn what they have to teach, so I’ll be there, and if you’re serious about building an online business or just plain kicking ass at your career, you need to grab a seat and take advantage of these three superstar Gen-Y’s knowledge too!

###

Disclaimer: This post does include affiliate links. Greg is a friend, and in helping the guys spread the word about their new course, I will get a percentage of any sales made through my referral links. But I want you to know I only promote services that I truly believe in here—I gave a few moments consideration to joining the legions of folks who promote CopyBlogger’s Teaching Sells program this year for instance, but when I paid for and participated in that course last year I honestly didn’t find that it provided very much value. Greg, Jared & Matt, however, are different: they will be teaching you the strategies they’ve used first-hand to get where they are, and if that’s something you genuinely think you could benefit from, I hope you’ll check out the course, and you can throw a few bucks my way if you choose to sign up through my link. If I didn’t believe in Greg’s product I wouldn’t share it with you here. I’ll see you on the Ustream broadcast next week!