Blogalicious Weekend 2017

BEAT BURNOUT: Invest in Sustainable Success

Effectively overcome the overwhelm. Demonstrate why burnout disproportionately affects women and people of color and review the research behind and significance of sustainable success. Underscore the importance of maintaining a growth mindset in effectively overcoming inevitable failures on the road to long-term success and review healthy coping mechanisms to keep anxiety, stress, and burnout at bay.

When you think of collaborating with another creative, you think of working with someone who may be in the same industry and with a similar audience. But what if you could create an incredible partnership with someone with a completely different brand? During “When 2 Become 1”, Alisha and Kimberly will teach you how collaborate to expand your brand beyond your industry. Using their personal experience with creating a successful online workshop, you will learn how to:

• Identify someone as a potential partner and build relationships with people outside of your industry or normal tribe

• Decide the type of partnership you will create together

• Determine speaker/brand strengths to highlight and share to make sure collaboration goals are mutually beneficial

• How to equally delegate tasks with a sample workflow

• How to evaluate both of your brand core values so that you’re serving your audience for a bigger purpose

• How to develop and revamp your old content so that you’re not “reinventing the wheel”

During this class, attendees will have the chance to begin brainstorming and outlining their next collaboration!

It's All About The Pitch is a workshop designed to teach content creators how to pitch themselves to media and companies for sponsored opportunities, media placement and more. Expect to leave with a better understanding of how to format your emails, the proper way to approach companies as well as tips and tricks for getting your pitch taken from inbox to reality! 

KNOW YOUR WORTH: Negotiation

Leave participants 100% prepared and confident in their ability to negotiate their next salary offer. Review how to calculate your true market value using available data online and good old-fashioned networking. Cover how to identify your strengths and communicate them using strategic framing that highlights your value. Practice how to frame your asks and prioritize them with a focused, tiered strategy and delivered with assertive communication/ Review common pitfalls to avoid and how to recover a conversation gone awry.

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In this workshop, you'll learn from a critically-acclaimed author on how to best write your own story, including fool-proof writing tips, how to create a writing schedule you won't get sick off and the ins and outs of the editing process. You'll also hear from an expert that's gotten authors on the New York Times bestseller list on how to market your book and monetize your book by finding the audiences who really want to learn from you.

Join us!  Go RVing will host a fun and informative panel on Friday, October 6 at 4pm in Concerto D!  Our guest panelists will be Keith Sims and Esther Fu, who’ll share their love of RVing, the most spectacular places they’ve visited around the USA and will answer your questions about RVing and the RV lifestyle.

Meet Keith Sims, retired former Pro Bowl offensive lineman for the Miami Dolphins and Washington Redskins, who was a member of the Dolphin's Game-Day broadcast team. Keith and his wife Tia call themselves "not your typical RV family." Their mission is to educate other families, especially African American families, about the benefits of traveling in an RV. The Sims are passionate about the RV lifestyle and how it aids their children’s education and strengthens family bonds. Follow Keith and his RV adventures at theSoulful RV Family.

Esther Fu will share her experiences traveling full time in an RV.  Esther and her husband Jacob document their travel on their blog Local Adventurer, one of the top 50 travel blogs in the world.  They believe that adventure can be found both near and far, and hope to inspire others to explore locally. They move to a new city every year and currently live in Portland, Oregon.

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Let’s be honest: How many times have your garnered up just enough courage to go LIVE on Facebook, only to cancel at the last minute? How about, when you think about going live, you worry that no one will show up? These are all self-defeating thoughts. This was my story. I was afraid of live video. I will help you overcome the fear of going LIVE in order to build your community and to #TribeUp.

I will share how I went from going LIVE sporadically to going LIVE for 30 days straight and with over 35 guests. I will also share how this experience grew into a book and a weekly online tv show.

Blogalicious tribe members will learn how to use FB Live to:

• Create a Movement around their subject matter (ex. travel club, etc.)

• Increase engagement of viewers in the conversation

• Convince viewers to add their friends and followers to your FB Live

• Encourage viewers to  join their FB group, email list

• Turn your videos into marketing tools, etc.

We will have a discussion around how to solicit help from Tribal BFFs who help you stay accountable to obtain your goal, more tribe members.

You’re invited! Jack Daniel’s is hosting tastings for #FriendsOfJack in the hospitality suite on Friday. Your friends at Jack Daniel’s encourage you to drink responsibly.

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Cheers! Your friends at Jack Daniel’s are back with another exclusive event. You’re invited to join us on Friday, October 6 for the #FriendsOfJack Miami Experience from 9:30-11:30 pm. Be prepared for an evening of great music, delicious cocktails and more. If you attended the party we hosted during #Blogalicious8, then you know it’s an event you will not want to miss!

This event is open to conference attendees ages 21+. Please RSVP now for a chance to join us, as space is limited. The location will be shared upon confirmation. Transportation to and from the event will be provided.

Hope to see you there!

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How to Create the Perfect Tribe-cation -- As a certified travel agent and travelpreneur, I've been able to create travel experiences for my tribe as way to connect others to culture, history and leisure. There's so much buzz around travel and communities of color and and even with the countless options online, folks still want to work with travel agents. Planning a group trip can be seem challenging, but with a little organization and enthusiasm, influencers can create memorable experiences for their awesome tribes!  Using my group experiences to Greece and upcoming trips to Dubai and South Africa, I will outline how to design the perfect tribe-cation. We'll talk about collecting information, creating private Facebook groups for communication, do's and dont's, dealing with different personalities on a group trip and identifying the group leader. This would also be a fun time to exchange travel experiences -- the joys and the horrors -- and discuss how I've channeled those experiences into dynamic blog posts and/or social media experiences.

You’re invited! Jack Daniel’s is hosting a farewell happy hour for #FriendsOfJack in the hospitality suite on Saturday. Join us for delicious cocktails, cool music and small bites as we wind down from a fun-filled weekend in Miami. Cocktails are refreshments will be provided until exhausted. Your friends at Jack Daniel’s encourage you to drink responsibly.