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5-Ways to Attend Brand Camp ’10 for Free!

Brand Camp '10

Brand Camp ’10 theme centers round entrepreneurial thinking so I thought a blog post that fosters that mindset to attend Brand Camp would be a great topic.

How do you fund your vision?  Whether you run a start-up, work for someone or have entrepreneurial aspirations life revolves around problem solving.  History celebrates the great minds that use creative capital to get to their end results.

Brand Camp is a great event (with great speaker:  Olivier Blanchard, PR Sarah Evans, Wayne Sutton, Peter Shankman, Lynne D. Johnson, and CD Vann) so I thought it would be cool to provide strategies to help people attend Brand Camp ’10 for free.  I have listed a few options from micro financing to having a garage sale.

Conference Website Link: www.BrandCampU.com

1. Go Fund Me

Go Fund me (http://www.gofundme.com) is a way to raise money for your ideas and dreams via Micro-financing. People are willing to support events or causes that they believe in.  Start by putting together a list of educational, career and networking benefits.  A recent example of this is Heather MacDonald who raised $419 to attend the #Epic #Tweet-up in Detroit.  Surely you can raise $75.

2. Employer Sponsorship

Employee Driven

Most companies are looking for ways to grow their social presence be proactive pitch your employer.  Become the brand ambassador for your company and but together a business case of how a day at Brand Camp will benefit the company.

Employer Driven

Employers looking to integrate social media into their marketing mix should understand this is not just the job of one person.   You can equip your employees/staff with the tools  needed to become more knowledgeable using social networks for business.  Employers can sponsor three or more employees for a small investment of $75 a ticket.

3. Corporate Sponsorship

Put together a proposal for a company that you will represent at Brand Camp by blogging and tweeting for them.  Be creative maybe you can wear a company shirt and become a human billboard and create some social capital they can use Flickr, Twitter ,etc.

4. Garage Sale (Estate Sale)

For high society folks that don’t attend garage sales you can call it an ‘Estate Sale’.  What is the difference?  Typically it is zip code driven cities like Grosse Pointe take these events very seriously.  Find some cool things at your house/apartment/condo that needs to be cleaned out or that closet which is full of items you have been meaning to get rite of.  Before it gets to cool create a sign, tweet about it and post it to your Facebook status.  Let your friends know what your goals are and you will be on your way to Brand Camp.

5. Collecting Bottles (in Michigan $.10/per bottle)

Now the most labor intensive option of them all is collecting returnable bottles in the state of Michigan.  So lets break this down so $75 dollars means 750 bottles so if you develop a bottle collecting strategy for three-weeks which breaks down to 250 bottles.  If you work 3-days a week for 8-hours a day for a month (You will need two other friends to purchase tickets at the same time to get the $75 rate.)

Let us know the creative way you are funding your way to Brand Camp!

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Why You Should Attend Brand Camp ‘10?

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What is Brand Camp?  If I were to define Brand Camp I wouldn’t call it a conference I would call it a gathering of the minds.  It is one of the most unique personal branding experiences in the Midwest region and it is happening on Friday, October 8th. (From more information:  www.BrandCampU.com)

We have assembled a unique group of voices and practioneers in the business, branding and social media space many of which are new to Detroit.  One of the key elements that separates Brand Camp from other interactive conferences is that we bring in CEOs and business owners that run million dollar corporations to bring you their business perspective from the C-Suite.  If you run a $35M dollar business where you have to make payroll every week you provide a different perspective than someone who just directs the Marketing department in a small company.

Why Detroit?

Why was Detroit selected as the launching pad for Brand Camp besides it being my hometown?  Detroit is the perfect location for Brand Camp.  Detroit is a hard-working city and is known for it creativity from the days of Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Motown.

Currently the unemployment rate in Michigan is 13.1%, which is higher than the national average (9.5%).  The workplace has changed dramatically over the past five years but have you evolved with these changes?  Are you prepared to work in a multi-generational workplace where location doesn’t matter and communication is rewired by the social web?  These are some of the issues we will be tackling at Brand Camp.  We will take a look at how a local economy (like Detroit) is impacted by government, media, technology, and entrepreneurial thinking.

New to Brand Camp this Year

  • Case Study: PR Sarah Evans will be doing a personal branding case study of herself and how she has developed her personal brand.
  • Panel: Re-Branding of Detroit: This panel would be made up of mostly baby boomers/gen Y with one millennial. The focus of this panel would center around the roles that entrepreneurship, technology, media and government play in growing the local economy of Detroit.
  • Moved Brand Camp to a week day to target a larger business community.
  • CEO  Ari Weinzweig – CEO/Co-Founder of Zingerman’s a $35M local non-franchised business in Ann Arbor, MI.

Globalocal

What is ‘Globalocal’?  It is a Global + local experience where you bring the two worlds together at Brand Camp you will get a taste of what this means.

Speakers

  • Hajj Flemings – Founder/Principal of Brand Camp University
  • PR Sarah Evans -  President of Sevans Strategy/Founder of #journchat
  • Ari Weinzweig – Founder of Zingerman’s Deli
  • Lynne D. Johnson -  SVP of the Advertising Research Federation
  • Peter Shankman – Founder of Help A Reporter Out (HARO)/The Geek Factory
  • Wayne Sutton – Marketing Strategist at TriOut
  • Cd Vann – Founder of unGeeked e’Lites Retreats
  • Olivier Blanchard – Principal at Brand Builder Marketing

There is no place in the country you will get the experience we are going to provide for the price.  Early bird registration of $50 ends August 26th and the rate will then escalate to $100 for general registration.

I will see you in Detroit on Friday, October 8th.  Get your tickets while they last!!!!

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Brand Camp ’09: Personal Branding 2.0 Conference Wrap-Up

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What happens when you get a collection of true thought leaders, entrepreneurs, storytellers, tweeters, visionaries and a world-class athlete in a single room?  You get the Brand Camp ’09 experience: engaging conversations with like-minded people that inspire change and transform gray matter with each spoken word and each character of every tweet.

Why Detroit?  Detroit is a blue collar, manufacturing town that was built on the back of the automotive industry which was the Silicon Valley of its day. The cheese has moved and Detroit is currently going through a brand crisis.  It is the perfect location to discuss how social media, personal branding and passion is changing the way we work and live.

Super Heroes/Professors

The list of Rock stars that rocked Lawrence Tech University providing nutrious content for attendees to consume for 7-hours and shared in short 140 character burst of information.

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Mitch Joel, Ken Brown, Scott Monty, Rohit Bhargava, Hajj E. Flemings ,  Valeria Maltoni, April Holmes,  and Robert (Bob) Fish (Not Pictured)

What others are saying about Brand Camp ‘09

Is Brand Camp a conference, an experience, or a movement? Only time will tell, but for now it is a passionate community of early adopters who are growing their personal brands and businesses with social media.

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Nominate Someone to Attend Brand Camp ‘09 for FREE!

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Nominate a Brand Icon.
Do you know someone with a strong personal brand? A person that really understands what it means to Grustle?

We want them to attend Brand Camp University 2009 on us.

Here is how you can nominate them to attend:

Leave a comment on this post with the name of the person you are nominating and why you feel should attend.

OR

Tweet their name and why they should attend (include the hashtag #brandcampu)

We will extend offers to attend the conference for free based on the nominations we receive.

(Note: You can only self-nominate if you recommend someone as well.)

Thanks for your participation!

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Official Brand Camp ‘09: Conference T-Shirt Release

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Today we released the official design for the Brand Camp ‘09 graphic tee design.  The Brand Camp Conference t-shirts will follow the Air Jordan tradition and every year we will drop the hottest social media conference t-shirt design in the land.  Be apart of the Brand Camp shirt genealogy and get your social media lifestyle wear.

Brand Camp II (2009): Design Specs:

  • Design:  The design integrates: “I Grustle all Day.” and “Brand Camp”
  • Garment: American apparel 100% cotton garment will be used for a great fit.
  • Colors:  Brown/Yellow/White

Note: To get your Brand Camp ‘09 t-shirt you have to attend the conference. : )

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