Classic Costa Rica Intensive
Classic Costa Rica Intensive is Dave Wood's original training recorded at a live retreat, ten lessons on the marketing and team fundamentals that don't change no matter where you build from. It covers the power of metaphors and stories over straight pitches,…
Recorded live at the retreat that became company legend
“Ten Sessions From a Beach House in Costa Rica, Where the Marketing Finally Made Sense”
The Classic Costa Rica Intensive is the original small-room training: metaphors over pitches, testing offers before scaling them, and the culture work that keeps a team from leaking people.
Dear friend,
Some trainings are built in a studio. This one was not. A few years into the company's run, a small, tight-knit group of marketers met in the mountains near the beaches of Costa Rica — the original event sold about ten seats at $2,997 plus airfare, and every session was filmed in high definition and edited down to the best of what was taught.
A few years earlier I had been living in a van. By the time these sessions were recorded I was living in Costa Rica, and the company we built was in the middle of its run to a $64 million year. I say that not as a promise about your results — nobody honest can make one — but so you know when and where you are standing when you press play.
Why people still talk about this one
Because it is the why course. Everything else we sold taught mechanics. The Intensive taught judgment:
- The power of metaphors — why stories stick when facts do not, and how to build one that carries your offer for you.
- How to get people to buy — why the same pitch lands with one person and dies with the next, and what to change (hint: it is not the pitch).
- Creating money out of thin air — the offer-testing discipline: prove it small, then scale it, never the reverse.
- Keeping it all together — the attrition session: why recruiting without culture is filling a bucket with a hole in it.
- Your story is all that matters — the session that convinced a generation of marketers that the testimonial beats the pitch, every time.
Plus the working sessions: team events run before your list is “big enough,” the leadership ceiling that pure selling can never break, and the magazine-ad strategy behind Chuck Marshall’s lead flow — old media, evergreen thinking.
$99, restored exactly as it happened
Attending the original intensive cost $2,997 plus a flight to Costa Rica. The recorded product then sold for $500 — and the original sales page called that “a steal,” and its buyers agreed on the record. Restored from the archive, the full session set is $99 with a 30-day money-back guarantee: watch all of it, and if it was not worth it, one email returns every dollar. The people in that room took the risk. You do not have to.
One more thing, because it matters: this is a 2010s recording. A few references are dated; the thinking is not. Metaphor, testing, culture, story — that material has no expiration date, which is exactly why we restored it instead of letting it rot in an archive.
In Prosperity,
David Wood
P.S. Session one — What Does and Doesn’t Work: why jumping from deal to deal never fixes anything — is free to preview. It is also, not coincidentally, the lesson most people need first.
P.P.S. If you were in that room — write me. I mean it. Those sessions belong to the people who were there as much as they belong to me.
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From the people who were there
MEMBERS · 2011–2017“Just one thing that was said, in one of the modules, seriously saved me around $2,000 per month that I was making with a stupid marketing mistake. At first I thought this was going to be a $500 product that talked about nothing. Now that I have been through it, I would have happily paid 3 or 4x as much.”
“The Costa Rica Intensive was a real breakthrough for me. When I was reviewing lesson 8 I understood why this is so powerful: the power of building a culture with vision and becoming part of something bigger.”
“I went from working 20+ hours a week in my online business, to working only around 10 hours a week. Brought my entire online business to the next level of efficiency. Working less and making more is a beautiful thing.”
“I have been marketing on the internet a little over 12 years. Literally the first video and my jaw was sitting in my lap. The training I have gotten from the products has taught me more than all the combined money I spent on internet education.”
“I specifically remember a portion of David's training in the Costa Rica Intensive where he talked about testing your product. This got me to thinking about my small commercial iris garden. Last year I sold plants on eBay, most of them auction style. This year, using what I learned, I decided to take really good pictures of my flowers so they looked very appealing, and instead of selling them auction style I sell them as Buy It Now, with a set price. The results are amazing! I have dug fewer plants, which is a better use of my time, and I am months ahead of my competition.”
David Troyer
Original member u00b7 2013 Real member testimonials from the Empower Network era (2011–2017). Individual experiences only — results are not typical and no income is promised or implied. Income Disclaimer.
Curriculum
The first lesson is open as a preview. The rest opens the moment you buy the course, and stays open for good.
P.S. The first lesson is open right now, no email, no card. Go through it, then decide. If you buy and it was not worth it, one email inside thirty days gets every dollar back. The risk is entirely ours.