Overview
SOBCon08 is “Biz School for Blogging.” This year’s event tracks entrepreneur bloggers and corporate bloggers alike, with an innovative format and a stellar cast of speaker/instructors.
Purpose
The SOBCon08 program guarantees to send each attendee home with a Business Action Plan that can be immediately executed for measurable success. The “mastermind” teams in which attendees will be interacting will provide uniquely deep working relationships that are more meaningful than the business card trading found at other conference/networking events.
Attendees
Seating is limited to 250 sold seats, plus guests.
Logistics
SOBCon08 will be held at the Summit Executive Center in downtown Chicago from May 2-4, 2008
Cost
$450 for all three days ($350 for 2007 attendees)
Preferred Hotels
We’re pleased to make available a couple of “preferred” hotels that are offering special prices for SOBCon08 attendees - Club Quarters and Hotel 71.
The Hotel 71 price is $225 per night - you can reach them at 312-346-7100. It’s best to call them during normal business hours, 9AM to 6PM CST M-F, and 9AM to 5PM on Saturday. Ask for the group rate for “SOBCon08″.
The Club Quarters rate is $139. You can call them at 312-357-6400, and it’s also best to call them during the day. Say that you are booking the room in association with an event at the Summit .
If neither of these hotels suit your fancy, there are many more - check out the Summit site for just a sample of the other options.
About Liz Strauss and Successful-Blog
Liz Strauss is perhaps the most influential relational blogger on the Internet. Her blog Liz Strauss at Successful Blog is both a destination and an event for a fiercely loyal community of readers.
Liz is known as a relationship geek, a person who answers every comment, and someone who never sleeps. If you ask her about it, she’ll tell you she lives inside your computer. Some folks have started to believe that. She believes blogging is about the people and, as part of her B.A.D. Blogger program, Liz calls a blogger a day to find out more about the folks who blog.
Liz Strauss has worked in print, software, and online publishing with small companies and corporate giants such as Pearson, Reed Elsevier, and Wolters Kluwer. She conceived and drove the reader-centered strategy that turned around a sharply declining company, taking it from $9M to sell for $35M in 3 years. Her presentations are known for being fun, insightful, and packed with quality content.
Successful-Blog Thinking, writing, business ideas. You’re only a stranger once.
Jeremy Wright, CEO of b5media, has described Successful-Blog as “both a destination and an event.” Discussing topics that interest both business and hobby bloggers, highlights include an extensive series on Effective Writing, A Comprehensive New Bloggers’ Section, A Deep Archive on Net Neutrality, and several Successful Series.
Following a “Blue Ocean Strategy” to be a category of one, Successful-Blog, at 15 months of continuous publishing, has achieved a rank in the top 2000 at Technorati with a Google Toolbar Page Rank of 6. It offers 1380+ posts and 26,713 comments. The community shows itself most noticeably in two places.
- The SOB program, which stands for Successful and Outstanding Bloggers, now boasts a directory of over 500 bloggers most of whom sport the SOB badge on their blog. The program has spawned imitators and caught the notice of Seth Godin.
- Tuesday Open Comments Night At 7pm CST bloggers gather in the comment box to have a conversation at the rate of as many as 90 comments per minute. It’s been called live social media and been live blogged many times.
