Inspiration and Coaching

I attended many awesome sessions and keynotes during the 3-day conference. I learned how to optimize my LikedIn Profile, how to better use semantics and webmaster tools, how to better use affiliate marketing in my monetization strategy just like what’s taught in the Best Affiliate Marketing Training courses, new ways to use short form video and much much more.

Some of my favorite quotes came from the keynotes I attended. Amber Naslund encouraged us to, “Follow the Fear’-if something scares the crap out of you, it is probably the thing you need to chase.” and she reminded us that, “The only irreversible thing is death.” So we should step out of our comfort zone and take risks in our lives and in our businesses. Gary Buchanan spoke to us about creativity and imagination. He had us laughing, crying and cheering throughout his presentation. This slide from his presentation says it all…

I took pages of notes and my next step is to prioritize the action steps I can home with so that I can start implementing them into my life, my blog and my social media world.

Friends

Most of the people that I call my true friends attend Type-A. I look forward to our annual time together. Type-A is full of hugs, tears and heart to heart talks. These people feed my soul and make me look forward to turning on my laptop every day so I can connect with them on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and even G+. One of my missions this year was to enlarge my circle of friends-and I feel I did that. All four nights I ate dinner with some people I would consider “new” to my circle of friends. I truly believe bonds are made over food and I know I made some new friends over our dinners at Panera, Dantanna’s, the AT&T Digital Life event and especially Red Pepper Taquiera Buckhead where Lizz Porter and I shared our first grilled oyster together…and I can’t wait for next year to go back and have more.

BAT’s oyster Red Pepper Taquiera Atlanta

Fun

I LOVE to dance and I seldom have an opportunity to dance back home so I enjoyed dancing the night away at the opening reception and at the closing Feedblitz British themed party. My favorite parties were the Saturday night parties though. You already know I am a fan of all things Disney and Saturday night’s Disney Parks Star Wars party was awesome! I was very excited to receive a pair of “Glow with the Show” ears, which will debut soon at Walt Disney World! Here is a video I shot of the awesome ear table, complete with a cameo but Disney’s own Gary Buchanan.

The party was fun, the food was great and the theming was AMAZING!

After the Disney party we went downstairs to the Time to Play Game Night After Party. This was my kind of party! On the tables were different games and you just sat down with friends and played. My table played Jenga Tetris and Draw Something Party. They were both a lot of fun and I’d love to own Draw Something Party. Also during the party, The Toy Guy, Chris Byrne was calling out numbers and asking trivia questions. I got called up, answered a question…with a little help from the audience and I won a copy of Chris’ book that comes out soon. I asked Chris to autograph the book for me and he did so as we bonded over childhood stories of Baby Alive.

Chris Byrne-The Toy Guy

Type-A Con

In my opinion Type-A Con is a must-do for every blogger. There is truly something for everyone beginner or veteran, man or woman, reviewed, memoirist, frugal or green-it doesn’t matter what your niche is, there is room in the sand box for everyone, as long as you play nice with others. I already have the dates for Type-A Con 2014 (9/19-21/2014) and Type-A Con Bootcamp at Disney World (3/29/14) in my calendar. I’ll miss all my friends IRL until then but thanks for an awesome, inspiring weekend!

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This year the conference moved from its original cozy home of Asheville to the larger city of Charlotte, NC. The biggest difference that the change in venue made was that we needed to explore new restaurants. We have our favorites in Asheville and now we needed to make new friends with restaurants in the City Center area of Charlotte. There were lots of new eateries that were explored last week and I am happy to say that most of them cost less than our usual Asheville hangouts!

In full 80’s regalia for the Ubisoft Just Dance, Just Sweat party

Putting food aside though, Type-A meant I got to spend time with my annual Type-A roommate Karon Warren of AllThingsLifestyle.net. We have a great time together every year. Type-A also means seeing my girlfriends! Living in a home with 3 men, I am always ready for some girl time and I get 4 days of it at Type-A. Whether we are sitting in the bar chatting, dining together or dancing at the parties-we know how to have fun!

Yes, Type-A is a blogging conference filled with keynotes and conference sessions and my mind is still reeling from all of the information I learned about SEO, email lists, vlogging, creating a killer about page and monetizing my blog. I will be making some changes here as I implement all that I learned but this is to help my blog become a better resource for you.

Hanging with Rene Syler in Charlotte, NC

My favorite keynote was the closing keynote by my friend Rene Syler of Good Enough Mother. Rene is a constant source of inspiration to me and I was blessed to be able to have dinner with her on Saturday night and hang out on the patio after dinner as we shared some great and insightful conversation.

All-in-all Type-A Con 2012 was another memorable weekend full of fun and learning amongst my best friends in the blogosphere. I am already waiting for announcements about 2013 and I hope to see YOU there!!

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This year She Streams is being held in Ft Lauderdale, FL, a mere 4 hour drive from my house. I am praying my dilapidated minivan survives the drive. I have my ticket and now I am looking for some roommates and sponsors to share the cost. Assuming I find at least 1 roommate, I still need to raise $700 before March 29th!

If you are attending She Streams and are looking for a roommate please let me know.

If you, your small business or large company would like to sponsor me at She Streams please take a look at my Sponsor Opps page I’d love to work with you!

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