How much of my time does a live event take?

Your part is shaping the agenda, finding and inviting your speakers, and hosting. The team builds and runs the platform, production, promotion, and follow-up.

Carlos Vazquez | The Live Events Guy

Q: What if I need a course or a community, not an event?

We build those too, right after the event, because the event is what gives your course an audience to sell to and fills your community on day one instead of month twelve. It is an order of operations.

Q: There are already virtual events in my industry. Why run another one?

Existing events are proof the room works, and plenty of them are great. But those events are built around a topic. Yours is built around your perspective, with your name on the banner and respected peers sharing your stage. There is room in every industry for a gathering only you could host.

1,200+

Registrations, One Event (reported)

$200K+

Event Revenue (reported)

86%

Live Turnout, Virtual Expo (reported)

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Engines We Own And Run

Six live properties my team builds and runs with our own money. The machine under your event runs ours every day. See the rooms

START HERE

Three Questions, Three Answers

What is authority?

It is being the name everyone in your industry already knows. The one who gets referenced, quoted, and invited. The one whose event everyone else asks to speak at.

How do you get it?

The slow way: years of content, hoping the algorithm is kind. The invisible way: systems nobody sees. Or the fast way: one day, one stage, your name at the top of it, and a lineup of respected peers standing on it because you asked.

Where do I come in?

I make you the authority. I do not teach it. I do not coach it. My team builds the event that installs it, the community that keeps it, and the engine that gets you paid for it.

THE SEQUENCE

Whatever You're Missing,
The Event Builds It.

I build courses. I build communities. I build funnels, podcasts, and software. And I always start with the live event, because it is the only one that works without the others.

A course with no audience is a file on a hard drive. A community with no injection is a ghost town. A podcast with no back end is a hobby. A live event brings a community together in a single day, and feeds every other thing you will ever build.

01

The Event Installs You

A flagship conference with your name on it, bringing your peers and their communities together in one room around you.

02

The Community Keeps You

The audience the event built now lives somewhere you own, active between editions.

03

Your Offers Get Paid

Courses, coaching, services, or a calendar full of booked appointments, sold to a room that already trusts you.

Not a menu. An order of operations.

THE MACHINE

You Lead The Event. We Run The Machine.

The event platform and production. The website. The ticket funnel, the replay funnel, the sponsorship funnel. Every email campaign. The speaker portal where your speakers manage themselves, with done-for-them promotion kits so their invites take ten minutes. Every session recorded, edited, and hosted. The expo. The contest. The follow-up that turns your new list into booked calls on your calendar.

Your part is the part only you can do: shape the agenda with me, find and invite your speakers, and host the event. My team handles the build and the production around it.

This is not theory. See the machine running →

PROOF

Rooms I Have Actually Run.

The flagship

25 speakers across five themed tracks. Live breakout rooms, speed networking, a full expo. Every speaker managed their own bio, slides, and promo kit in the portal, and my team built and ran every other piece: the site, the funnels, the emails, the production, the follow-up.

See the conference

Speed Networkers

Our own structured networking events and the community behind them, running on the same machine. Live rooms, matched conversations, and a follow-up engine that turns introductions into deals.

See Speed Networkers

Receipts from the rooms we’ve run

Different events, same machine. Reported numbers, not all from one room.

1,200+registrations, one event (reported)

$200K+revenue, that same event (reported)

86%live turnout, virtual expo (reported)

$75Kticket and replay revenue, that expo (reported)

Upcoming conferences

Five conferences, five industries, one machine behind all of them.

Oct 28, 2026 Pack The Place Conference For venue owners who want full rooms on purpose: programming, promotion, partnerships, and the next 90 days planned live. Nov 4, 2026 Therapist Growth Summit The one-day business-growth summit for therapists who want more than a full caseload. Nov 18, 2026 Social That Sells Conference A full day on turning content, visibility, and trust into paying clients. Miami-Dade Business Networking Conference Practical talks, guided connections, and local opportunity for Miami-Dade business leaders, live online. Jan 30 + 31, 2027 Homeowners Conference South Florida edition: 50 experts across ten tracks teaching everything nobody tells you about the biggest purchase of your life. The platform VirtualConference.app The operating workspace behind our events: from idea to research-backed plan, launch checklist, agenda, and a conference that gets measured.

Also in the shop: Referral Motion, our app for building a give-first referral rhythm you can run and measure. Private beta open.

In the operator seat

Their name on the front, our engines in the back. Six properties we own and run with our own money, plus the brands that bring my team in to run the machine behind their growth. See the full portfolio

Merchant acquisition, partner onboarding and local business funnels for the payments brand.

Fan capture, event activation and monetization for the DJ and entertainment brand.

Growth systems for a prop-trading media brand built around education, free tools and trader stories.

Trading education funnels, events, paid acquisition and offer development.

Twenty-three years of campaigns before the stage.

THE MACHINE, VOUCHED FOR

They Hired The Machine Before It Had A Stage

Campaigns, funnels, and revenue systems my team built for them. The same machine that now runs under every event.

Jodie

John

Rebecca

THE DEAL

I Only Get Paid If Your Event Works.

This is a partnership, not a retainer. My team shares in what the event earns, and your own programs, services, and backend sales stay yours. We win when your event works, and not before.

If the first edition needs more runway, we keep building with you. I walk through the exact terms on a call, once we both know your event is a fit.

And while we are partners, I will not build a competing flagship event for your niche in your market.

See What My Event Could Make

One flagship event per niche, per market.

This Works If

You are a real expert with real relationships
You can name at least 10 credible people in your industry who would take your call
You have something to sell the audience we build, or you want me to build that too
You want to be the face, not the operator

This Is Not For You If

You have no industry relationships
You want to learn funnels instead of owning a stage
You need it to work without promoting your own event
You want to stay invisible. This only works with your name on the banner

FAQ

The Questions That Decide It

My list is small. Who fills the room?

Your whole lineup does, together. When ten speakers each invite twenty people from their community, that is 200 registrations before you send a single email. Twenty-five is 500. Everyone who shares the stage grows the room, and everyone benefits from it.

How much of my time does this take?

Your part is shaping the agenda, finding and inviting your speakers, and hosting. My team builds and runs the platform, production, promotion, and follow-up.

What if the first event does not hit its numbers?

Then we keep building with you. First editions are where the room gets proven, and the partnership is designed to carry you into the next one. We cover the specifics on a call.

I need a course or a community, not an event.

We build those too. Right after the event, because the event is what gives your course an audience to sell to and fills your community on day one instead of month twelve. Order of operations.

I don't want any of that. I just want more clients on my calendar.

Then the event feeds your calendar instead. We build the outreach and email campaigns that turn the audience your event created into booked appointments with you. Same machine, different destination: some partners leave with a community, some leave with a calendar full of buyers.

There are already virtual events in my industry.

Probably, and plenty of them are great. That is proof the room works. But those events are built around a topic. Yours is built around your perspective, with your name on the banner and respected peers sharing your stage. There is room in every industry for a gathering only you could host.

FREE TOOL

What Could One Event
Actually Produce?

Pick a scenario and the math runs itself. Then step through the numbers and watch the result move. This is the arithmetic most organizers never run before they book a room.

Gross revenue, one event

$0

0Registrants

0Vendors

$0Per registrant

0 New contacts on your list

0 Conversations in the room

Ticket sales$0

Vendor booths$0

Clients you close from the room$0

Replay sales$0

Free, and yours to keep. Run it yourself if you want. Most people who see it ask us to run it with them.

The goal

What would you want to achieve with your event?

This shapes the plan you get: community growth, course sales, or booked calls.

What you sell

What do you sell in your business today?

The event feeds whatever this is. The plan routes the room straight to your offer.

What attendees buy

Ticket price

Virtual pricing. And the price sets the show-up rate for you, from the industry standard: 80 to 90 percent attend when they paid, 40 to 50 when the ticket is free. The math applies it automatically.

Replay or video package price

Counted at half of your registrants buying it after the event. Keep it under the ticket price or you are teaching people not to show up live.

The room

How many speakers

One speaker, one talk.

Registrants each speaker brings

Every speaker promotes to their own list. This is the number that makes a conference work.

Registrations from your own promotion

Out of 100 who land on the page, how many register

This is what tells you how much traffic you have to send.

Out of 100 who register, how many show up

Registering is not attending. Paid in-person runs high, free virtual runs low.

Booths

Booths sell from the room itself: about 1 in 20 registrants runs a business that takes a booth, and some upgrade. The standard attach rates price it for you.

Out of 100 companies you pitch, how many buy a booth

This tells you how big the vendor list has to be before you start asking.

Registrants each vendor brings

The room is your pipeline

A slice of every room becomes clients. Set what one is worth and watch what the event is really for.

Out of 100 in the room, how many could actually buy from you

Not everybody in the room is your buyer. This is the honest slice that is.

Out of 100 of those, how many become clients

They paid to be there, they sat through your talk, and they already know what you do. This is the warmest audience you will ever pitch.

What one new client is worth to you

First year value, not the first invoice. Set it to zero if you would rather not count it at all.

Speed networking, free with the ticket

Connections per person, per day

Three minute rotations, and it is never a separate charge. You cannot cap how many people somebody meets, but you control who they get matched with, and that is the whole game: put buyers in front of sellers on purpose and the room turns into deals instead of small talk. Thirty to ninety a day is realistic.

The attendee funnel

0Visitors to the registration page

0Registrants

0Attendees in the room

0Replay buyers

Your own pipeline

0People in the room

0Who could buy from you

0New clients

This counts zero sponsorship dollars and zero ticket sales for next year's event. Those are real lines and they are not in this number, which is why it is conservative on purpose.

Founder

Carlos A. Vazquez

US Marine Combat Veteran // The Live Events Guy // Since 2003

Twenty-three years building the machine. Now it has a stage.

I started in radio in 2003, building the funnels and campaigns behind the shows, including one that turned a prank call to Fidel Castro into a 250,000-subscriber list. I am a US Marine Corps combat veteran and a former Marine recruiter, which is where I learned that conversations, not content, move people to action.

For two decades I built revenue engines behind other people's brands: funnels, CRMs, automations, the plumbing that turns attention into money. Then I started putting that machine underneath live events, and watched one day on a stage do what a year of content could not: make someone THE name in their room.

That is what I do now. The framework is called G.E.A.R. The method is called the Conference Revenue Engine. And the result has one name: authority. Yours.