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We’re just getting back from our second stop on the BarCamp Tour: the 6th annual MinneBar held at the Best Buy headquarters in Minneapolis. MinneBar is the largest BarCamp in the country, with about 1,000 people attending this year’s event.
The conference itself was great; lots of interesting sessions, fantastically smart and engaged attendees, and the Best Buy headquarters blew me away with how eco-friendly and employee-focused it was by design. Fellow BarCamp Tour busser and Shopify‘s Tech Ambassador Joey DeVilla wrote up a great post about the day’s event over on his blog Global Nerdy, and Stephanie Bullis from Grasshopper posted on 5 Ways to Make Your BarCamp the Next Minnebar.
The thing that impressed me the most from a sponsor’s perspective, though, was how the event organizers Ben Edwards, Luke Francl and Adrienne Pierce really took the time to make us feel welcomed, included and appreciated.
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Tags: batchblue, Community, marketing, sponsorship
BatchBlue made the front page of the Providence Journal recently, an event made even more exciting by the fact that we’re playing cornhole in the accompanying picture (sadly, you can’t see it on the online edition. But look! Here are our custom cornhole bags currently touring the country as part of the BarCamp Tour). The story focuses on our humble beginnings as a few frustrated parents trying to balance work life with some brand new babies. If you’ve ever wondered just how many babies, you can read all about it here. Thanks to our friends at the Projo for the nice write-up.
In other local news, our president Pamela was awarded a Business Women’s Award for the Technical Services category award by the Providence Business News. Pamela and her fellow winners will be honored at a luncheon from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. on May 5 at the Providence Marriott Downtown. Pamela also weighed in a recent eCRM article entitled Ten Common CRM Mistakes and How to Avoid Them – you should check it out if you’re looking for great tips on using a CRM. Congrads to Pam!
You can always check out our latest BatchBlue press over on our press page. And over on the Small Business Web page, you’ll find some articles about what’s happening in Small Business Web news.
But enough about us. It’s time to get back to helping customers, planning our upcoming events and finding cool new stuff to do. Have a great week, everyone!
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Last week’s trip to Atlanta was a whirlwind of Realtors, Batchbook customers and monkeys (more on that later!). Pamela and I were there to attend the 4th annual ReTech South conference, where Pamela was presenting on panel with some other Small Business Web friends.
The thing that struck me the most about the conference was the great enthusiasm and energy from both attendees and presenters. Pamela and I attended a different real estate conference a few years ago, and I was amazed at how far the industry has come in terms of its adoption of technology in general and social media specifically. Most of the sessions were standing-room only, as panelists discussed ways to use blogs to attract leads, using Facebook to build network and of course, how web applications can help grow their businesses. Plus, you will not meet a nicer, more network group of people than Realtors. These guys are definitely in our wheelhouse!
Here’s some thoughts on the conference from Realtor Jim Duncan, who made a short video while driving home from the conference. Please note: we do not condone videotaping and driving!
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Tags: batchblue, mailchimp, small business
BatchBlue is on the road again, this time heading to Atlanta to attend the Real Estate & Technology Conference & Expo (RETech South). Pamela will be speaking on a panel about The Small Business Web and using cloud services with MailChimp, Expensify and IfByPhone. I’ll be there, too, armed with lots of stickers, shirts and stories and talking to folks about how they’re using Batchbook to manage their real estate contacts. If there was ever a well-connected group of folks, it’s Realtors! And judging from photos of past conferences, they’re fun, too. We like that.
We can’t wait to meet some Realtors doing cool things with technology in the real estate industry. We’ve even re-vamped our Batchbook for Real Estate page and added a new case study so folks can see how one tech-savvy Realtor is using a variety of web-based services to run his real estate agency.
As always, we’re interested in meeting our friends and customers, so if you are going to be there please let us know! We may put together a hosted Drink-up Thursday night – follow us on Twitter (twitter.com/batchblue) for details as they shape up.
Tags: batchblue, batchbook, Community, mailchimp, real estate, realtors
We’re back from the great state of Texas and slowly recovering from our SXSW experience. This was my fourth time to the event I’m amazed every year at how much bigger and more intense it seems: the city of Austin literally vibrates with energy 24×7, making it hard for old ladies like me to get their beauty rest.
This year, TJ Sondermann (our business development manager) and Christelle Lachapelle (marketing designer) made the trip to Texas with me. Because this was their first time attending, I asked them to share their impressions as folks who’ve never been to SXSW before. Here’s what they had to say:
Christelle’s thoughts
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Tags: guy kawasaki, sbweb, small business web, SXSW, SXSWi
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