Moderator

Alison Covarrubias
Founder of Hatch Network

Panelists

Fabio Rosati
President & CEO of Elance

Gary Swart
CEO of oDesk

Tim Ferriss
New York Times Best Selling Author of the 4-Hour Workweek

Daniel Guillory
Founder and CEO
Innovations International

Fireside Chat with Craig Newmark – Founder of Craigslist.Org. In this interview, you will learn:

• How Craig came up with the idea of Craigslist.Org
• Craig’s journey in starting Craigslist as a business
• How Craig sucked as a manager and his challenges in creating Craigslist
• How Craigslist.Org makes money
• His ‘relationship’ with President Obama
• Craig’s Social Media Experiment
• His Attempts at Comedy
• Next Step for Craigslist.Org
• Why does he do customer service?
• His passion of Customer Service, Public Service and Governance
• His view on Twitter

Edith Yeung explains what BizTechDay is all about, her story and why all entrepreneurs and small business owners must come and join her, Tim Ferriss, Kevin Rose, Michael Gerber and over a thousand of us.

Great strategies for gaining a web presence for yourself and your business that makes you go “Yes, I WANT to blog”.

Learn the pros of outsourcing and how cost-effective and convenient it is to have someone handle the little details for you. Thinking that you can’t outsource everything? Find out how Tim Ferriss landed a long-term girlfriend when he outsourced his dating.

Everything has pros and cons and Google Checkout is no different. Learn what merchants like and don’t like about this payment option.

Setting up your social network site could be daunting for a non-techie, but Ann Evanston makes it look easy. Let her show you how to set up and manage your very own social network page on Ning.com.

Ann Evanston, speaker, coach, non-techie, brilliant social networker, talks about the rules of social networking.

Adsymmetrix’s Rick Rochon talks of how the marketing game has changed, and how “social marketing” can ensure that businesses can make MORE money without pouring most of it into advertising.

Will these small changes really lead to massive hits to your site or will they result in more frustration?

When you watch this video, you’ll see how you can ensure your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts are truly impactful.

You will see how tiny changes can have an incredibly powerful impact in your business both immediate and long term.

Feel free to share these answers and any other feedback by leaving a comment here on this blog.

Until next time,

To Your Success,
Edith