They are having a conference 58 miles from my apartment…in Orlando. That might be fun to go to and learn how to make money as a blogger. Lord knows I’m not good for much else! I could write when I feel marginally OK, when I’m not able to do much else.
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Let the fiesta begin! This three-day conference connecting bloggers and advertisers, and is open to anyone. So come join the party! Schedule is featured below. For complete event details visit IZEAFest.com. And join our Eventful Community as well — you can interact with other attendees and speakers.
Schedule:
Thursday, September 11th
7:00 – 10:00pm : Cocktails and appetizers
Grand Bohemian sky pool
Friday, September 12th
8:00 – 9:00am : Registration, Coffee and Networking.
9:00 – 10:15am : Keynote
Jeremy Schoemaker of Shoemoney.com
10:15 -10:30am : Break
10:30 -11:30am : Improving your content
Susie Gardner, author of Blogging for Dummies
11:30 -1:00pm : Lunch and Social
Downtown area restaurants
1:00 – 2:00pm : Panel – Big Money Bloggs
Stephanie Agresta of Internetgeekgirl.com
John Chow of JohnChow.com
Neil Patel of Pronetadvertising.com
Jeremy Schoemaker of Shoemoney.com
2:00 – 2:15pm : Break
2:15 – 3:15pm : Panel – Growing Traffic
Lea Alcantara of lealea.net
Brian Clark of Copyblogger.com
Alexander Schek of FayerWayer.com
Steve Spalding of Howtosplitanatom.com
3:15 – 3:30pm : Break
3:30 – 4:30pm : Panel – What Advertisers Want
Michael Brito, Social Media Manager at Intel and author of britopian
Katia Adams, Interactive Marketing Manger at 1800-Flowers.com
Mark Young, Chairman at Western Creative
Additional TBA
4:30 – 5:30pm : SocialSpark Beta 2
Ted Murphy, IZEA
6:00pm – : Group Dinner and Social
Downtown Orlando
Saturday, September 13
8:00 – 9:00am : Registration, Coffee and Networking.
9:00 – 10:15am : Keynote
Merlin Mann of 43Folders.com
10:15 -10:30am : Break
10:30 -11:30am : Panel – Social Networking : What’s in it for you?
Sean Bonner of SeanBonner.com
Etan Horowitz of Orlando Sentinel
Peter Shankman, author of Can We Do That and shankman.com
Lena West, CEO of xynoMedia.com
Additional TBA
11:30 -1:00pm : Lunch and Social
Downtown area restaurants
1:00 – 2:00pm : Killer Content
Loren Feldman, 1938Media.com
2:00 – 2:15pm : Break
2:15 – 3:15pm : Panel- Tools and Plug-Ins
Zach Coelius of Triggit.com
Erick Hersman, author of whiteafrican.com
Additional TBA
3:15 – 3:30pm : Break
3:30 – 4:30pm : Blog Design Makeover
Nate Whitehall, Founder of Unique Blog Designs
Christopher Schmitt, Author of CSS Cookbook, Designing CSS Web Pages and Professional CSS
Scott Allen, VP of Creative Service at MindComet
4:30 – 5:00pm : Closing and QA
Ted Murphy, IZEA
7:00pm – : Group Multimedia Scavenger Hunt
Downtown Orlando…. this is going to get MESSY!
* Registration includes swag bag.
I hope you come and join us at IZEAFest!
All I need is money!
Sounds like it would be fun. I’ve been blogging almost since the beginning of blogs.
If you come to this event you can easily make enough money to pay for it.
Ah….one of those deals where you have to have money to make money. I live on $573/month disability….not easy. I’ll see what I can do towards paying for the conference. I can always sleep in my van, but there’s also gas. My van gets 12 mpg. Then I need food, etc…
I do have a rather large readership and could write more on-purpose stuff. The potential to make money is there
This month I made $13 on my blog of things for sale….my only income besides disability. I have a ways to go 