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Welcome to our latest curated list of events, contests and awards for small businesses, solo entrepreneurs and growing companies.
This is a partial list of all we carry. If you’d like to see more events or contests or awards — or submit your own event, contest or award listing — visit the Small Business Events Calendar.
Featured Events, Contests and Awards
WordStream’s $25,000 Marketing Makeover
December 15, 2013, Online
Win $25,000 in pay-per-click advertising budget for 2014, plus marketing tools from WordStream and Constant Contact. Grade and get paid today! Hashtag: #25KforPPC
Customer Feedback: Your Fast Path to Profits
December 18, 2013, Online
An action-packed hour of discussion with panelists from #custserv , #feedback , #socialmedia , and #smallbiz marketing disciplines. Learn the value of measuring customer feedback, how it can immediately help your business and dramatically increase profits!
Affiliate Management Days San Francisco 2014
March 19, 2014, San Francisco, CA
AM Days is the must attend event for affiliate managers who are responsible for their company’s affiliate marketing strategy, management and operations. Whether you have an existing affiliate program or you are creating a new initiative, AMDays offers you valuable insight into how other online retailers are successfully implementing and managing their affiliate programs. Topics include: Affiliate program set up; Affiliate recruitment techniques; Affiliate marketing fraud; M-commerce; and much more.
Hashtag: #AMDays
ICON14 by Infusionsoft
April 23, 2014, Phoenix, AZ
#ICON14 is the eighth annual conference for small business, hosted by Infusionsoft (previously called Infusioncon). Over 3,000 attendees expected. Confirmed speakers include Seth Godin, JJ Ramberg and Peter Shankman.
Hashtag: #ICON14
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December 17, 2013, Online - B Corporations 101
December 17, 2013, Online - Free Shipping Day – USA
December 18, 2013, Everywhere, USA! - New HIPAA Breach Notification Rules
December 19, 2013, Online - Aspen Global Investment Forum
January 06, 2014, Aspen, CO - Google Analytics Grand Tour: Roadmap to Collecting, Reporting and Analyzing Data
January 07, 2014, Uniontown, OH - SYMPOSIA::2014 Conference for Women Entrepreneurs
January 10, 2014, San Francisco, CA - Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry: Creating What Will Be
January 13, 2014, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA - Small Business Expo 2013 – Miami
January 16, 2014, Miami, FL - Take Action. Get A SLAP: Create A One-Year Growth Plan For Your Business
January 23, 2014, Online - Mastering the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules
January 30, 2014, Online - Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training (AIFT)
February 10, 2014, Las Vegas, NV - Small Bytes & Apps
February 22, 2014, Cambridge, MA - 18th Annual North American Shared Services & Outsourcing Week
March 12, 2014, Orlando, FL - Conversion Conference West 2014 San Francisco
March 17, 2014, San Francisco, CA - International Conference on E-Technologies and Business on the Web
March 18, 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Second International Conference on Green Computing, Technology and Innovation
March 18, 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - International Conference on Technological Advances in Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering
March 18, 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - SPREE 2014 – Specialty Retail Entrepreneur Expo & Conference
April 08, 2014, Las Vegas, NV - International Conference on Computing Technology (ICCTIM2014)
April 10, 2014, Dubai, UAE
More Contests
- Small Business ICON Contest
December 17, 2013, Online - 200 Million HP LaserJet Sweepstakes
December 24, 2013, Online - SBA’s National Small Business Week Awards
January 17, 2014, Online - DREAM BIG Small Business of the Year Award
February 03, 2014, Online
This weekly listing of small business events, contests and awards is provided as a community service by Small Business Trends and SmallBizTechnology.
Thanks for sharing. This list is very helpful, especially for those who have small businesses. It’s very hard to keep track of these things.
I am particularly interested in the Customer Feedback online discussion. I think that you can really learn a lot from it. After all, you can really never get enough of knowledge when it comes to customers. Your customers are the life of your business. This is why you should strive to continuously provide their needs.