The Small Business Book Awards and other events crowd the small business calendar for the next several months. The awards recognize the best business books and also publishing and author resources. For more on how to nominate your favorite book, read the details below. You’ll also find events for the rest of the year and a detailed list of events for the rest of February so read on.
To see a full list or to submit your own event, contest or award listing, visit the Small Business Events Calendar.
Small Business Book Awards
March 11, 2015, Online
Nominations are now open! The 2015 Small Business Book Awards, hosted by Small Business Trends, now in it’s 7th year, celebrates the best business books out there. The Awards also recognize important resources supporting authors and the publishing industry. Nominations end on March 11th – so nominate your favorite business books today!
Featured Events, Contests and Awards
SXSW Interactive
March 13, 2015, Austin, Texas
South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of film, interactive, and music festivals and conferences that take place early each year in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. The event is broken into three events beginning with SXSW Interactive on March 13–17. And then the Film portion on March 13–21 and it ends with the Music portion on March 17–22.
AM DAYS Affiliate Management Days Conference
March 30, 2015, San Francisco, Calif.
The Affiliate Management Days San Francisco 2015 conference is an event for marketing managers and those responsible for their company’s affiliate marketing strategy, management and operations. Whether you have an existing affiliate program or you’re creating a new initiative, AM Days provides insight into how others are successfully implementing and managing their affiliate programs. Receive 10% off a full conference registration with the discount code: SBIZSF15!
ICON15
March 30, 2015, Phoenix, Ariz.
ICON is the signature small business event of Infusionsoft, for its customers, partners and in general, for passionate entrepreneurs, small business owners and industry experts to gather for three days of networking, education and inspiration. Over 4,000 are expected to attend in 2015.
Moz Con
July 13, 2015, Seattle, Wash.
Not your average stuffy networking event, MozCon features three days of forward-thinking, actionable sessions in SEO, social media, community building, content marketing, brand development, CRO, the mobile landscape, analytics, and more. MozCon speakers share advanced advice on everything from building a loyal community to making data-driven decisions in your marketing.
BlogHer
July 16, 2015, New York, N.Y.
A conference celebrating women who blog. The mission is to create opportunities for women in social media to gain community, education, exposure and economic empowerment. The event will be co-hosted along with SheKnows Media in New York City at the New York Hilton.
Adobe Max
Oct. 03, 2015, Los Angeles, Calif.
MAX provides strictly unplugged, old-school inspiration with a mix of people from creative leaders, designers, broadcast and video pros, tech and business strategists, photographers, and more. This shared energy and passion sparks new ideas, drives new partnerships, and breaks new ground every year. MAX attracts inspirational and iconic speakers that share their personal stories. GRAMMY-award winning band Kings of Leon will be there and you can connect with 5,000 other creatives at daily social events.
Dreamforce
Oct. 13, 2015, San Francisco, Calif.
Whether you’re a company of five or a Fortune 500, you’ll learn a lot of innovative ways to improve your business at Dreamforce. With over 1,400 sessions and thousands of live solutions from the world’s largest cloud ecosystem, Dreamforce has tailored content specific to your business size and type, for any role in your company.
World Business Forum New York 2015
Nov. 12, 2015, New York City, N.Y.
In 2015 the World Business Forum will present two days of powerful stories; of individuals who face shocks – both personal and organizational – and who use those shocks to achieve the extraordinary. Speakers include Sir Richard Branson, Jim Collins, a former faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Walter Isaacson, once the 14th editor of TIME magazine in 1996 and named Chairman and CEO of CNN in 2001, Adam Grant, author of the New York Times bestseller Give and Take and Herminia Ibarra, Professor of Leadership and Learning and Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD.
More Events
- Click Z Live London
Feb. 9, 2015, London, U.K. - Predictive Analytics & Business Insights 2015
Feb. 9, 2015, San Francisco, Calif. - PLASTEC West
Feb. 10, 2015, Anaheim, Calif. - Social Media Strategies Summit 2
Feb. 10, 2015, Las Vegas, Nev. - Investigating Tangled Complaints – Employees with Multiple Complaints
Feb. 10, 2015, Online - GameDevHacker “Past Trends & Future Bets”
Feb. 10, 2015, New York, N.Y. - Retail Traffic and Conversion Summit
Feb. 11, 2015, Orlando, Fla. - Toastmaster’s Club Inaugural Meetup in Wicker Park
Feb. 11, 2015, Chicago, Ill. - Responding to an EEOC Charge
Feb. 11, 2015, Online - GrowthWheel Series: Do You Know the Way to Profitability?
Feb. 11, 2015, Online - Chirp, Chirp: The 25 Hour Global Master Class on Twitter for Small Businesses
Feb. 12, 2015, Online - Business Plan Critique Clinic
Feb. 12, 2015, Chicago, Ill. - Smart Talk Business Luncheon (Elmsford, NY)
Feb. 12, 2015, Elmsford, N.Y. - B2B Content 2 Conversions
Feb. 16, 2015, Scottsdale, Ariz. - An Event Apart
Feb. 16, 2015, Atlanta, Ga. - Innovation Arabia 8
Feb. 16, 2015, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Business Technology Webinar: A Day in the Life of a Paperless Office
Feb. 17, 2015, Online - Code Media
Feb. 17, 2015, Dana Point, Calif. - Traffic and Conversion Summit
Feb. 17, 2015, San Diego, Calif. - Business Technology Webinar: A Day in the Life of a Paperless Office
Feb. 17, 2015, Online
More Contests
- Shorty Awards for Brands and Agencies
Feb. 15, 2015, Online
This weekly listing of small business events, contests and awards is provided as a community service by Small Business Trends and SmallBizTechnology.
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Aira Bongco
Another batch of the book awards is here. I am excited to see how authors are properly given acknowledgement in this event. It’s an event of sharing information with each other and reading more books for more learning.