Comcast & BizTechDay award scholarship to R3R
There’s a new marketing technology conference in town, and it’s aiming right at the small and medium sized business owners. We’ll be heading to the SF event tomorrow – courtesy of Comcast (the conference’s top sponsor), who awarded R3R a full pass ‘scholarship,’ based on an application we submitted online, ba.
BizTechDay is a conference that says it ‘puts business before technology,’ to empower small business owners and entrepreneurs to harness the power of the internet to grow their businesses. To us this sounds all too familiar – because, well, that’s what we do, too. We help small businesses leverage web tools to grow their businesses online. So, I suppose it’s lucky for us we’ll be rubbing elbows with what’s shaping up to be a great crowd and solid list of featured guests – all free of charge.
We spend a good bit of our productive time at a coworking space in San Francisco called Sandbox Suites – who are also a sponsor of the conference. Sandbox co-owner Sasha Vasilyuk initially clued me in to this new event, even though flyers for BizTechDay had been catching my eye for weeks. On those flyers, by the way, was the face of New York Times best-selling author, Tim Ferriss (whose recommendations prompted me to experiment with overseas virtual assistants). Even so, it was Sasha who got me interested.
I’m resistant to new conferences, simply because there are so many, and I have to filter out the noise in order to find the good ones. But BizTechDay’s stated mission just jives with our own, so let’s see what it’s all about. Plus the conference description reads like an old R3R post about helping businesses find best of breed technology solutions, so yes, we’ll be there.
