June :: 2007 :: Thinking Home Business | Practical Tips For People Who Work From Home

For anyone who wants to know how to use LinkedIn to make better sales, faster, more often and with less effort, there is a great opportunity coming up next week.

Scott Allen, master virtual networker and owner of the LinkedIntelligence blog site, is the featured guest on a free webinar on LinkedIn next week with Larry Benet, “The Connector”.

From the blurb I’ve just read, it sounds as if it will be good, practical stuff, covering:

Lead generation – How to find and attract highly targeted prospects in LinkedIn
Sales acceleration – How to use information and leverage relationships via LinkedIn to speed up the sales cycle and close more deals
Solution delivery – Use LinkedIn to find the partners to help you compete with larger companies for larger projects and contracts

And – oh, frabjous joy! – unlike many webinars and teleconferences I have recently been interested to take in but have been at times unfriendly to my disposition and health, this one is at the very civilised time (for me) of 11 am on Tuesday, July 3 (Australian eastern time).

For readers in North America, that’s Monday, July 2, at 6pm PDT and 9 pm EDT. Duration, one hour.

Places are limited. Register here.

In November this year I’ll not only be the first time in fabled Las Vegas, Nevada, but I’ll be meeting more bloggers than have possibly ever gathered previously in one place, at the BlogWorld & New Media Expo, November 8-9.

I know that expo/conference organiser Rick Calvert is keen to attract a wide range of bloggers, as indicated on the event home page:

Any Blogger, Vlogger, Podcaster, Internet radio broadcaster, or

producer of any other form of new media content. If you blog about

business, technology, politics, sports, lifestyle & culture,

general news items, or celebrity gossip, If you are a Milblogger, or

Godblogger, or advocate a social position you need to be at BlogWorld

& New Media Expo.

If there aren’t some good discussions – and good parties! – out of all of that, then we’ll only have ourselves to blame

The trade show will be a terrific opportunity for companies with products and services of interest to bloggers, podcasters, vloggers and other attendees:

Companies will include publishing platforms, design companies,

web/blog/podcast hosting companies, aggregators, add-on services,

plug-ins, widgets, computer hardware & software, wireless services,

podcasting products, wireless & high speed ISPs, VOIP companies,

on-line advertising networks, news readers, RSS/syndication services,

search engines, consulting companies, affiliate program partners, new

media products and services … and many more.

The Expo conference program covers a wide spectrum of topics, from Business Blogging 101 to “What Web 10.0 Might Look Like: The Far Future”.

As the program shows, there is a related Executive and Entrepreneur conference on November 7, at which I’m scheduled to speak. This is the event described on the expo website as the “CEO Conference“: