BluShark Digital 0:00
Welcome to the Conference Connection. Your go-to place to get the scoop on what conferences are coming up that you need to know about. Here are your hosts, Paul Faust, President of Ringboost, and Seth Price, founder of BluShark Digital and managing partner of Price Benowitz.
Paul Faust 0:17
How you guys doing? Paul Faust, here from Ringboost, as always, with my host, my co-host, Seth Price from Price Benowitz and BluShark, and this week’s episode, or this episode, we have a very special guest, Claude from Smart Advocate, who’s going to tell us about the Smart Advocate Conference coming up. Welcome Claude.
Claude 0:33
Thank you so much. I know I feel so privileged. I mean, any day you’re you’re in the presence of Paul Faust and Seth Price is a great day. So I am having a great day.
Paul Faust 0:45
Well, thank you so much. Go on, tell everybody what’s the conference about? Who should attend? Where is it? What is it? All that fun stuff.
Claude 0:51
Of course, it’s our annual SmartAdvocate User Group Conference. This year is going to be October 13 to the 15th. It’s going to be in the fantastic JW Marriott at Marco Island in South Florida. So not only is the conference promise to have awesome content we could talk about, but just the location and in and of itself, just getting away being on Marco Island at the JW Marriott, it’s great for the entire firm, staff. People bring their family. We promise you, you will have three great days just visiting with us.
Paul Faust 1:27
Who should be attending this conference. Is this only for SmartAdvocate users? Is for people who are considering SmartAdvocate? Who is the perfect attendee and who has to be there?
Claude 1:35
All of the above, Paul. all the above. Of course, traditionally, our conferences have been, you know, primarily geared towards the current users of Smart Advocate, but this year in particular, the content of what we will be talking about, we’re going to have awesome vendors or partners who are going to be there. So it’s not only for your current users of Smart Advocate, but if you’re in the market where you’re looking at these products out there, for assistant for your firm. Absolutely, come on down and join us. Here’s why you want to join us. We’re going to have a lot of, as we said, our vendors there, but we’re also going to have the Smart Advocate people there, who’s going to tell you more about SmartAdvocate. Give you hands on you’re going to get one-on-one. So absolutely amazing across the board. And then we’ll talk a little bit more about the content of the conference in and of itself.
Seth Price 2:25
So Paul, what I’ve loved is, in the past, it has been content-heavy, and not the prettiest of locations, right? We had the old Mooney Hotel in New York. So instead, they’ve taken this great content and they’re putting it at one of the most ideal spots domestically you can get to. So some people use it as an opportunity to bring their staff along, because it is, you know, they have tracks separate for the staff as for ownership. And the other thing I’ll say is that I think Jerry Parker gets bored every once in a while, and he brings in these wild guests. You know, you just never know whether it’s gonna be a Knick or New York Giant, or who, whoever, yeah, his Rolodex ends up showing up. And I’ve had a blast.
Paul Faust 3:08
That’s where I got to meet John Starks at the SmartAdvocate event in New York.
Seth Price 3:12
Where Sean landetta, you know, they’ve brought real rock stars to this.
Paul Faust 3:16
And guys, remember, when you’re looking at these conferences, I’ve always said there’s three parts every conference: there’s the people putting on the conference and the speakers that’s important. It’s the vendors attending who have an unbelievable amount of knowledge, and it’s the other attendees that you get to network with. I just went to a conference and two people introduce each other who are now referring cases back and forth. So there’s really three components to all these conferences, and when you look at them, you should be looking at all three of those components. You could say, I already know enough from those speakers. Okay, well, then come learn from the vendors and the other attendees, and vice versa. So I just think it’s something that everyone needs to be looking at.
Claude 3:53
You know, Paul, it’s, I’m glad you said that, because it’s one of those things that you’ve been doing this. You guys have been doing conferences. I mean, how long you’re veterans, you’re experts. You know what it’s like. And so what you just said just resonates, because people discount that part of the attendance, right, where you can make connections, good connections, where you can expand and grow your business, where you can grow your law firms. BluShark is going to be there. You know, you’re going to learn so much from what they do, from other firms that are using their products, and it goes on and on. So don’t discount that part of it, right? That you will going to benefit, and everyone in your firm will benefit that way.
Paul Faust 4:34
Absolutely, you’re also going to find that if you’re both smart advocate users, that’s going to be 20, 30, 40, other firms, choosing SmartAdvocate and talking to them. They might have a way they’re using it that you’re not. And you might go, oh, wow, I just learned that. That’s interesting. So when you look at these conferences, you analyze, I know there’s a big conference schedule, obviously, look at the locations, but look at all these reasons and all the connections. You come down and make one good connection. It might not have been a speaker, it might have been an attendee. Might have been another vendor showing up, and all of a sudden you’ve changed your SEO game, or you’ve changed something your AI game. So I encourage people to smart advocates. Been around a long time. Jerry puts on great events. The team at Smart advocate puts on great events. So how does someone register? Is there a way to register? Is there a website?
Claude 5:20
Our website, smartadvocate.com? Right on there, you will see it your registration. It has the agenda, it has the location, has travel information or contact information. You go on there, and you have all that you need to register and be part of the entire team. A couple more things I want to mention. Paul, you know, one of the reasons this conference is going to be a little bit a lot different from your typical run-of-the-mill is we’re going to have immersive training, right? So I’m going to have three different training tracks. They’re
Paul Faust 5:52
Okay.
Claude 5:52
Depending on what you do in the firm, from the basic intermediate to the advanced. And then we are also going to have, guess what, CLE credit.
Paul Faust 6:01
So another reason.
Speaker 1 6:02
Another reason to go exactly. So you come down, you have fun, you have a great location. Meet guys like you meet us. And then on top of that, you get their CLE credits, you know, from attending something like this. I mean, how good does it get?
Seth Price 6:17
And mystery gifts.
Claude 6:18
And mystery guests. Of course, of course.
Paul Faust 6:21
Guys look, as Seth and I have said this channel, this show, is strictly to let you guys know what’s coming up, where you need to be, why you should be there. If you’ve got something coming up, reach out to us, please like, share, comment, reach out to us. Reach out to Claude about this event, but like, share, comment, tell us if you have an event coming up, we want to get this out to the industry. We look forward to seeing everybody at SmartAdvocate.
Claude 6:43
Awesome. Thank you so much, guys. Have a good one and see you in a few down in Marco Island.
Seth 6:49
Thanks guys.
Paul 6:50
Thank you.
BluShark Digital 6:51
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