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’re you doing everybody, it is Paul Faust with Seth Price here with the conference connection coming to you with our next episode, want to talk to you about coming events for the rest of this month, which is really not anything coming up, and getting right into March which is jam packed with conferences. Seth you want to take it away?
Seth Price 0:33
No, very excited. We got a lot of stuff coming, then, you know, I think we’re gonna go also into early April, just so people are planning, you know, with the sort of first big, big conference of that piece being MTMP, you know, followed by a Craig Goldenfarb John Fisher mastermind duo later in the month.
Paul Faust 0:54
Yeah, so April, April’s got a lot coming up. But we do have one coming up, March 4th to 7th, it’s called the Motorcycle Summit its in happening in Savannah, Georgia at the JW Marriott, if I am right you can get up to 12 CLE credits, and this is the conference, if you handle motorcycle cases want to handle motorcycle case want to learn about motorcycle cases, this is A-Z on how to find them, how to try them how to do everything. The speaker lineup is great. I was looking at it. And this is really, this is focused on motorcycle cases around the country. So this is coming up in Savannah, Georgia, March 4th through the 7th.
Seth Price 1:35
Yeah and the actual, the venue. So two things about this conference are interesting: One, Chase Givens and the Asssociation Management Group, helping put it on which is you know, for a first time conference will be a big deal. And secondly, the JW Marriott that it’s being held in is quite extraordinary. It is like half traditional hotel and one of the ma- the major lobby is almost like a museum with a really extraordinary gem exhibit with dinosaurs. It’s really over the top. We lost you, Paul for a second there you are, you’re back.
Paul Faust 2:11
You got me back? Sorry about that. Yeah, I’m excited for that one. You know, I think you know, it’s interesting, because we hear a lot of things about you know, what’s going on with automobiles and technology and crumple zones and auto driving. But motorcycles is a great way to supplement your firm, you know, obviously, not a lot of protection of driving a motorcycle, this is one where if you’re not doing it now, you can go learn how to get into it. And if you’re doing it, how to do it better, how to try them how to excetra. So that’s a big one coming up, I’m excited for.
Seth Price 2:39
Yeah, and we got, you mentioned before the show, Women in Trial, want to tell people about that.
Paul Faust 2:43
I don’t know a lot about. You know, I heard from my friend Jen Gore, who everybody knows, she speaks a lot of conferences that they’re going, I believe it’s in Punta Mita, Mexico, which I guess a lot of people don’t need a reason to go take a trip to Mexico and conference, but it’s called Women in Trial. And I believe you have the dates on that, because I’m not looking at it as, its in March, correct?
Seth Price 3:04
We’ll post that in the notes, to make sure we get it right. But the Travel Summit, which is, you know, look, it’s a, I think with every conference, and you get this more than most, there’s a balance between, like the larger ones, where there’s a lot of different people in network and talk to, versus some of the smaller ones to really cool destinations, where you get some real quality time outside the box where you get to know people in a really different way.
Paul Faust 3:28
Yeah, I talked about that. In a separate post, a lot of people are always worried about the amount of people. And I think that’s a mistake to only look at conferences, say aw, there’s, that one is only going to have 100 people, I just got back from a great conference in Arizona TortX, small group, but very intimate. Everybody sat together, everybody talked, makes some great new, intimate relationships. Sometimes when they’re so big, you’re pulled in so many directions, you don’t get time with anybody. So don’t look at size of attendees. Look at what is the conference about, who are some of the attendees of where you can kind of make some deeper relationships?
Seth Price 4:05
Well, I’ll throw it back this way. It depends on what you’re looking for, and where you are in your career, your business, you know, whether you know, so that there are ones where if, that are great on let’s say, the substance of the CLE, but less good if you’re a vendor, trying to make connections because people are really there for that substance. And a lot of those conferences, the person going may be the person who is involved in the sausage making at the firm and not the decision maker. And so I think that it’s not just size, but it’s what is the target audience that you are looking for, either as a lawyer or as a vendor?
Paul Faust 4:43
Well, I think, I think it’s one of the reasons you and I started this, this group and this podcast was to let people know, hey, this is a conference where these are trial lawyers going to learn trial skills. You know, these aren’t the guys who are handling maybe the marketing or the SEO or the this, these guys are you know, whether that be like an Lanier Trial Academy or a TLU, but even now, they’ve added a marketing track. So important if you, if you come here, you know, ask questions, please engage in, ask us questions. The goal is to kind of educate and give out as much information we can so you know, where you as the firm owners could be going, where maybe your trial lawyers should be going or maybe where some of your marketing or paralegal staff should be going to there’s different conferences for different purposes. That’s why we started this group. It’s still new, we’re developing it. Anybody with an event, please let us know, so we can talk about it. We want to get as much information out there to both the legal community and the vendor community so we could put the match together for everybody.
Seth Price 5:40
Awesome. Well, well, I’m sure we’ll be coming back with, you know, smaller updates as the conference schedule unfolds. And we get, you know, great, more, more feedback on what’s going on
Paul Faust 5:54
Yeah. So get yourselves ready for March, because March between the motorcycle conference, Mass Tort Made Perfect. Craig Goldenfarb’s conference up in Boston.
Seth Price 6:06
And just to be clear, those are both April conferences.
Paul Faust 6:08
Oh, April I apologize. April, April, April. You know, not a lot in March except what I know about the motorcycle conference. But then April is jam packed. So come back here we’ll post links, we’ll post how to register. So you can pick the ones you think you should be at this time, and then we’ll get into the following months. And please, please, please send us your info. If you have an event, a mastermind, a conference, we want to talk about it.
Seth Price 6:34
Very cool. We’ll see you soon
Paul Faust 6:36
Thanks, guys.
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