Liz and Terry have extended the contest for this year’s SOBCon discounted ticket until 1 April!

A Room of Excellence to Fine Tune Your Business

Suppose you could take a weekend retreat away from the noise of the Internet …

• to focus entirely on your business
• to work with the support of a mastermind team
• to get quality time to interact with the top people in social media
• to get the best information AND time to discuss how you’ll apply it
• to work with sponsors who are doing the same thing
• in a room limited to 150 people — all focused in the same direction
• without worry because the food and the wireless are outstanding.

Imagine a weekend work retreat with these people totally invested in sharing this content.

The BlogIt EarnIt Discount Until April 1!!

Click to the SOBCon contest page to learn the details.

Every year, at about this time, I start writing about SOBcon and my annual trek to Chicago to meet and network with some of the smartest people in business. This year, Liz and Terry are having the Blog it Earn it contest again:

Liz Strauss at Successful Blog

150 People to Fine Tune Your Web Presence

Suppose you could take a weekend retreat away from the noise of the Internet …

* to focus entirely on your business
* to work with the support of a mastermind team
* to get quality time to interact with the top people in social media
* to get the best information AND time to discuss how you’ll apply it
* to work with sponsors who are doing the same thing
* in a room limited to 150 people — all focused in the same direction
* without worry because the food and the wireless are outstanding.

Imagine a weekend work retreat with these people totally invested.

Learn how to win a free SOBCon Weekend here.

There is a new post up at the SOBCon blog: “Setting Goals for Your Business Website”

This is the question you should be asking yourself every day:

How effective is your website at achieving the goals you have for your business?

If you do not know the answer, it may be because you have not set your goals properly. Do you know what the purpose of your site is? What are the benefits for you and your business?

Denise Wakeman captured a couple of short interviews at SOBCon this weekend, one of which features yours truly:

First, you’ll probably ask, “what the heck is SOBCon?” Stands for Successful Outstanding Blog Conference, the brainchild of Liz Strauss who publishes the wildly successful Successful- Blog.com. The actual name of the conference is Biz School for Bloggers and this year marked the third iteration.

My intention was to get quicky tips from many of the successful bloggers in attendance, but alas, I fell short. You’ll see I only managed 3 tips and two of them were in a dark bar at Morton’s Steak House so Stephen Smith and Michelle Vandepas are hard to see. Hope you’ll cut me some slack on these. It was a full 3 days, lots of talking, learning, photos, videos so getting interviews felt like a challenge for me. I’m just not assertive enough to break into conversations, though others have no trouble with that!