Speaker Schedule for BizCamp at the Taylor Institute

Here’s the final Schedule for BizCamp Speakers.

We’re very excited by the great group of presenters speaking August 19-20 — next week (yikes!  it came up quick didn’t it?)

Thanks to support from Sanctuary Media Group, registration is now only $25.Right now we have 50+ attendees joining us, we hope you can find something that appeals to your interest here and join us as well.

We’re working to get the full program out this weekend so you can see detail about each presentation.

We’re working to get the full program out this weekend so you can see detail about each presentation.

THURSDAY:

Who	Company	Session Starts	ROOM	Topic
Sean Fremon	Cole Industries	9:00 AM	564	Growing Your Company Rapidly– David vs. Goliath (when you are David)
Ivana Taylor	DIY Marketers	10:00 AM	564	The Best Power DIY Marketing Tips for Entrepreneurs:  Do These and Attract More Customers, More Fun and More Profits
Michael Feuer	Max-Ventures / Max-Wellness	11:00 AM	564	Keynote Address from the Founder of OfficeMax & Max-Wellness
Jason Jividen	Sanctuary Media Group	12:30 PM	564	Web Marketing for Small Business: A Step by Step Guide
Mike Sheehan	Michael Sheehan	1:30 PM	564	Linking Your Way To Business Dominance
James Orwig	AXA Advisors	1:30 PM	561	Finance: Small Business Protection Strategies
Rob Felber	Felber & Felber Marketing	2:45 PM	561	How to Get the Media to Pay Attention and What to Do Once They Do
Roger Emerson	Emerson & Thompson	4:00 PM	561	Intellectual Property Primer
Brian Schuller	WolrdVentures	4:00 PM	564	How to choose the right home based business

FRIDAY:

Who	Company	Session Starts	ROOM	Topic
Jim Kukral	Award Winning Author & Blogger	9:00 AM	564	How to use attention-getting online marketing to generate sales
Ron McDaniel	Buzzoodle	10:00 AM	564	Attracting Targeted Leads with Blogs
Anita Campbell	Small Business Trends	11:00 AM	564	How I Went to 44,000 followers on Twitter
Diane Helbig	Seize the Day Coaching	12:30 PM	564	Clarity of Course: Leadership That Gets Result
Bill Kirk	Single Number Communications	1:30 PM	561	Why traditional phone lines/fax machines may not be the best fit for the Soloprenuer/Home based business
Carol Smith	Midwest Research, LLC	1:30 PM	564	Users, Usability and the User Experience
Ron Finklestein	Akris Inc.	2:45 PM	564	Six Questions Your Prospects Want Answered BEFORE They Buy From You
Matt Minarik	Hi-Q Group	2:45 PM	561	How to Generate Leads by IBM’s number one lead generator”
Sergio Carano	Sergio A. Carano, Esq	4:00 PM	564	The Legal Issues Confronting Your Business: From Formation To Your First Hire and Fire

Anita Campbell To Speak at BizCamp at the Taylor Institute

Anita Campbell joins BizCamp for the 2nd year in a row. Join her again August 19-20 as we host BizCamp at the Taylor Institute.

Her presentation last year was standing room only.

Widely considered a “small business expert,” Anita Campbell serves as CEO of Anita CampbellAssociates Ltd, a woman-owned consulting firm helping companies and organizations reach the small business market. As Publisher of several online media properties and syndicated content, Anita reaches over 1,000,000 small business owners and entrepreneurs annually.  She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Trends, an award-winning online publication.

A respected speaker and emerging trends resource, Ms. Campbell’s expertise has been noted or her opinion quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, Inc Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, CIO Magazine, Entrepreneur Radio, BusinessTVChannel.com, Cleveland Plain Dealer, San Francisco Chronicle, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Akron Beacon Journal, Boston Globe, CRM Buyer, and countless trade publications, websites, podcasts and more.

Her popular website, Small Business Trends , is regularly noted as a rich informational resource. In 2005 and again in 2008 the site won the Forbes “Best of the Web” distinction for small business blogs. The site also has been highlighted or profiled in the Wall Street Journal (2007), on MSNBC’s “Your Business” show as Website of the Week, twice in the New York Times (2005 and 2008), and was a CODIE 2007 Finalist.

SEO is Not Magic. A Do-It-Yourselfer’s Guide to “Findability”. Video Presentation from Office Space Coworking’s BizCamp 2009.

SEO – Search Engine Optimization is a tricky subject. So many people claim to be experts and there’s a LOT much information out there. So it’s hard to know what’s what.

We were fortunate enough to have Jason Jividen, New Media Strategist at Sanctuary Media Group, break down the nuts and bolts of the SEO for attendees of last year’s BizCamp.

Watch his full presentation: ‘SEO is Not Magic.  A Do-It-Yourselfer’s Guide to “Findability”.  This presentation is full of tons of great information.  Watch it in your browser here or download it to your computer or iPod for later viewing.

About Jason Jividen:

Jason Jividen is New Media Strategist at Sanctuary Media Group. Jason’s spent his entire career sifting through new tech, old tech, and a decade-and-a-half’s worth of virtual gadgets and gizmos, to find, define, and present those that deliver value to my business clients.  Sometimes that’s selling, sometimes it’s teaching, and sometimes it’s just listening and learning.  Jason distills all the options available and converts them into practical, useful tools that are able to consistently drive results.

Jason is also a member of Office Space Coworking.

Special thanks to Sound Video Productions for recording & editing all the BizCamp presentations.

18 Interview Success Tips

In advance of her June 11 session, Resume Reality: Is Your Resume Keeping You From the Job You Want?, Heidi Brown offers these 18 tips to a successful interview.

To learn more or register for the this special event — check out: http://resumereality.eventbright.com

1. Know what you’re going to wear before the day of the interview. Try it on, be sure it’s clean, buttons replaced, ironed, shoes are shined. All this shows you care about your image. And alleviates last minute problems the day of the interview.

2. Show up at an appropriate time, only about 5 to 10 minutes early. Too early looks weird and as if you can’t manage your time. And obviously too late looks like you can’t get somewhere on time. You may want to drive to the location the day before to be sure you know where it is, where to park, any construction or detours that may slow you down, etc. This alleviates stress and frustration the day of your interview.

3. Know the name of the person you’re actually interviewing with.

4. Be nice to the receptionist. Sometimes employers will go out and ask how you treated the receptionist. (We actually did this at my company!)

5. Turn off your cell phone. The employer doesn’t want you to have interruptions during the interview.

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BizCamp is Firming Up!

Taking a break from the day-to-day and being exposed to the ideas and experiences of your peers stimulates the mind, rejuvinates the entrepreneurial spirit, and puts a fire in your ability to you get back to work with renewed vigor.

Loungealistic! Good eatin.’ Lots of conversation. Great vibes.

For a couple dozen business professionals that dug their cars out of the prevailing snowdrifts from the Akron “Storm of the Century” to attend “Live Jazz, Wine and Casual Networking” last Thursday night at Coworking Office Space, it was nova networking.

After the third jam set at the end of the evening, we asked Eriq Troi, featured trio member of Elemental Hard Groove (EHG), what he called his sound. After some careful consideration, he said, “You choose: Innovative, cosmic, urban rock ‘n soul, jazz fusion.” The guy running the live webcam off his laptop shouted, “How about remote “Santana-esque?” And the woman calling up our website on her Blackberry to see just how Eriq Troi really spelled his name, shouted, “It’s sahh-weet.” Not so sure about their take.

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