What Will You Learn at BizTechDay 2009?

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What Will You Learn at BizTechDay 2009?

October 22, 2009 Thursday

Marketing Hall

New Media Hall

Money Hall

8:30 – 9:30 a.m.

Registration / Demo Zone

9:30 – 10:00 a.m.

Keynote: Mark O’Leary – Comcast Business Class

10:00 – 10:55 a.m.

How to Use Email Marketing Campaign to Build Your Database and Close Sales

Stu Carty
Regional Director
Constant Contact

How to Build a Business Brand on Yelp, Linkedin, Facebook and Google

Moderator

Shauna Causey
Comcast Business Class

Panelist

Ryan Hayward
Product Manager
Google Local Business Center

Michelle Broderick
Marketing Director
Yelp

Hazel Grace Dircksen
Founder
Socialbees

Funding 2.0 – How to Use Social Media Tools and Raise $40,000 – $300,000 in 30 days

Kristy Hall
Founder
Universal Synergy Group

11:00 – 11:55 a.m.

Video Entrepreneur: How to Turn Visitors to Customers Using Viral Videos

Justin Kan
Founder
Justin.tv

Mike Koenigs
Founder
Traffic Geyser

How to Sell to Niche Markets Online LGBT and Women Community

Moderator
Elaine Starling
Founder of Starling Media

Panelists

Kristy Rogers
Regional Director, eWomenNetwork

Kenneth Stram
Director Economic Development of SF Center

How to Run Your Business or Nonprofit on the Cheap

Moderator

Barbara Russo
Founder of Barbara Russo Strategies

Panelists

Jonathan Rochelle
Group Product Manager, Google Apps

Mark O’Leary
Regional Vice President, Comcast Business Class

Matt Jordan
Enterprise Development Manager, Skype

Kevin Reeth
Founder
Outright

12:00 – 12:55 p.m.

Networking Lunch / Demo Zone

1:00 – 1:45 p.m.

Keynote Panel:

How to Build a Virtual Organization

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

1:50 – 2:45 p.m.

Leverage Mobile Platform to Market Your Business. How iFart became #1 App on iTunes

Joel Comm
Creator iFart iPhone App

How to Sell to Niche Markets Online Baby Boomer & Teens

Ali Moiz
COO
Peanut Labs

Daniel Brusilovsky
Founder
Teens in Tech

How to Build Partnerships with Fortune 500 Companies as a nonprofit

Moderator

Janet Edwards
Founder
Edwards Unlimited

Panelists

Bruce Nasby
Executive Vice President, International at SIFE

Tracey Awad
Marketing Manager
Comcast Business Class

Jay Blazensky
Vice President of Business Development
Ring Central

Linda Hollander
Founder
Wealthy Bag Lady

2:50 – 3:45p.m.

Google for Technophobes: How to Secure Your Number One Spot on Google

David Rodnitzky
Founder
PPC Associates

How to Grow Your Audience on Facebook

Hazel Grace Dircksen
Founder
Socialbees

How to Get Media, Celebrity or Blogger Attention for Your Business or Nonprofit

Ramon Ray
Chief Editor
Smallbiztechnology.com

Jill Lublin
Founder
Promising Promotion

3:50 – 4:50 p.m.

Keynote Panel:

Twittering with the Stars

Porter Gale – Virgin America

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

Kevin Rose – Digg.com

5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Cocktail Hour and Demo Zone

7:00 – 10:00 p.m.

Big Success Business Pitch Grand Finale

October 23, 2009 Friday

	Marketing & Sales Hall	New Media/New Idea Hall	Money/Nonprofit Hall
7:30 – 9:00 a.m.	Executive Round Table, Tutorials and Geniuses in Residence Angel Investing 101 for Entrepreneurs Venture Capital 101 for Entrepreneurs Business Pitch Critique for Entrepreneurs
9:00 – 9:55 a.m.	Morning Keynote How to Dream Big and Become an World Class Entrepreneur Michael Gerber Inc. Magazine called him “The World’s #1 Small Business Guru”
10:00 – 10:55 a.m.	Special Session with Michael Gerber – World’s #1 Small Business Guru Michael Gerber Inc. Magazine called him “the World’s #1 Small Business Guru”	13 Things All Business Owners Must Know About a Compelling Business Website Randy Almond VP of Marketing Yola Luanne Teoh BizTechDay	How to Raise $5000 – $100,000 for Your Business Moderator Adriana Gascoigne Director of Global Communications for SGN Panelists Chris Larsen CEO and Co-founder of Prosper Julie Castro Abrams CEO of Women’s Initiative Giovanna Masci Regional Director, the Americas Kiva
11:00 – 11:55 a.m.	How to Make the Media Love You: Media Training for Entrepreneurs Sue Kwon ConsumerWatch reporter for CBS 5 Eyewitness News and host of Bay Sunday CBS 5	How to Access Investment Capital and Make Federal Stimulus Program Work for You? Marty Keller Director of the Office of Small Business Advocate by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
12:00 – 12:55 p.m.	Networking Lunch / Demo Zone
1:00 – 1:55 p.m.	Keynote Panel: How to Raise $100,000 to $3 Million for Your Business Moderated by: Mark Coopersmith Founder of The Argonauts Group Panelists Will Bunker Founder Match.com Matt Mullenweg Founder WordPress Randy Williams Founder of Keiretsu Forum Bill Reichert Managing Director Garage Technology Ventures
2:00 – 2:55 p.m.	How to Build Your Online Community from Zero to Millions Ranjith Kumaran Founder YouSendIt Phil Libin Founder Evernote iPhone App Matt Mullenweg Founder of WordPress Kevin Hartz Founder of Eventbrite	How to Make Money on Twitter Matt Mickiewicz Founder 99Designs.com Nelly Yusupova CTO Webgrrls International
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.	Genius Hour Topics range from: How to Write a Business Plan, How To Access Make the Federal Stimulus Program Work For You to How To Implement a Successful Pay Per Click Campaign.
4:30 – 5:25 p.m.	Final Keynote His Entrepreneurial Journey to Building Community Fireside Chat with Craig Newmark
5:30 – 8:30p.m.	Cocktails, Entertainment & Networking. You have worked hard. Now it’s time to mingle and party!

How to Build a Strong Brand on Google Local, Yelp, Linkedin and Facebook

Learn how to build a strong and reputable brand for your business on Google Local, Yelp, Linkedin and Facebook.
Each presenter will discuss:

How to Use an Email Marketing Campaign to Build Your Database and Close Sales

Email marketing is a cost effective way to build your customer database. Proactive, outbound Email Marketing should be an important, key component of your overall marketing or customer/member acquisition strategy.
Learn to master email marketing communications by learning:

Funding 2.0 – How to Use Social Media Tools to Raise $40,000 in 30 days

Picture this: Your organization’s bank account is filled with funds. Your nonprofit is completely sustainable. You are striding ahead, accomplishing your mission and having a great time doing it! You emerge as a leader and hear from people daily about how your organization has made a difference.
In this session, you will learn:

13 Things All Entrepreneurs Must Know About Building a Compelling Business Website

How many times have you surfed a website only to immediately click off to somewhere else? Your customers are now more discerning than ever before. Simply having a website with your logo and name is no longer sufficient to draw business your way.
Join this session to learn:

How to Sell to Niche Markets Online – Women & the LGBT Community

83 percent of all consumer purchases are made by women, including 94% of home products, 89% of vacations, and 75% of all decisions regarding the purchase of the largest investment most of us will ever make — a house. As women have increased their earnings, built their own businesses, weathered divorces & widowhood, and taken charge of family bequests, they’ve grown more wealthy and independent.

The LGBT Community’s buying power is estimated at $712 Billion in the U.S., and this lucrative, tech savvy, niche market is also very brand loyal, preferring to spend money with companies that support the LGBT Community.

During this session, you will learn:

How to Sell to Niche Markets Online – Baby Boomer and GenY/Teen Communities

As each generation ages, what they buy and how much they spend will change. Each product and service has a “best customer” that sustains its business. As these customers mature, the smart marketers will stay one step ahead of them and their money. The Baby Boomer and Generation Y communities are redefining how we market and it would be wise to learn how to anticipate their needs more effectively.
During this session, you will learn:

How to Build Your Online Community from Zero to Millions

The old adage of the ‘field of dreams’ isn’t true – if you ‘build it’, they won’t necessarily come. All those community with millions of users once started from zero. Is this possible for all businesses or only a select few? What is their secret?
During this session, you will learn:

How to Run Your Business or Nonprofit on the Cheap

It doesn’t have to take a lot of money to start or grow your business. Now, more than ever before, inexpensive technology will not only save you money, but can actually help you to survive and thrive in this sluggish economy.

During this session, you will learn:

Leverage the Mobile Platform to Market Your Business. How iFart became the #1 App on iTunes

Meet Joel Comm, the Creator of iFart iPhone App – one of the Top 20 Most Downloaded Apps on iTune. The iFart iPhone software makes US$10,000 a day.

During this session, you will learn:

How to Build Partnerships with Fortune 500 Companies as a Nonprofit Organization

Interested in partnering with Fortune 500 companies? Want to learn the language of large corporations before approaching them?

Come to this session and learn:

Google for Technophobes: How to Secure Your Number One Spot on Google

Come learn the ‘7 Habits of a Highly Effective Search Engine Marketing Campaign’.

In this session, you will learn:

How to Grow Your Audience on Facebook

With over 300,000,000 active users and a powerful, self-serve advertising platform, Facebook is the ultimate social media tool for businesses small or large to reach their target audience.

Come to this session and learn:

How to Get Media, Celebrity or Blogger Attention for Your Business or Nonprofit

Can you imagine having your business featured on the Big Idea or Oprah? Or having Julia Roberts endorsing one of your products? Or better still being featured in famous blogs like Techcrunch or Mashable?

Come to this session and learn:

Special Session with Michael Gerber- World’s #1 Small Business guru

Feeling Stuck? Not sure what you should be, could be, want to be doing for the rest of your life? Not certain that the business you own is the right one for you, or is doing what you really want it to do?

Awaken the Entrepreneur Within You with Michael Gerber. Spend this special hour with Michael and discovering your entrepreneurial personality.

Video Entrepreneur: How to Turn Visitors to Customers Using Viral Videos

Viral video is an idea that spreads–and while it is spreading actually helps market your business or cause. Discover new ways to market your business or nonprofit using viral videos.

Come to this session and learn:

How to Raise $5000 – $100,000 for Your Business

Whether you’ve been in business for one week or five years additional funds are always welcome. But what type of financing is ideal for your business? How to initiate this process? What factors to consider? These wide range of choices can be overwhelming at times.

Come to this session and learn:

How to Build Partnerships with Fortune 500 Companies as a Small Business

Interested in partnering with Fortune 500 companies? Want to learn the language of large corporations before approaching them?

Come to this session and learn:

How to Make (Raise) Money on Twitter

Can you believe this? Somebody has actually done this!…Learn how to raise $300,000 in 72 hours using Twitter alone.

Come to this session and find out how they did it.

How to Raise Money & Awareness on Squidoo, Facebook and eBay for Your Nonprofit

eBay customers raised total of $36M for U.S. nonprofits during 2008 through eBay Giving Works donation system. Facebook Causes raised $10,000,000 in just over two years.

It’s time to tap into some of the largest social communities in the world and raise money & awareness for your cause.

Come to this session and learn:

Comcast Business Class

Elance

Constant Contact

Google

American Express

Wells Fargo

CBS 5

WordPress

Virgin America

btrax

Wasp Barcode

Trademarkia

MagCloud

Yola

pier2marketing

Meetup

Keiretsu Forum

NAWBO

Eventbrite

Girls In Tech

Info Bay Area

TIE

PR News Wire

Oriented

Savor the Success

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