A Few Words from Jason Falls

It’s hard to con­tain my excite­ment that I finally get to come to Dal­las and spend time with folks involved with the Social Media Club chap­ter there. Mike Mer­rill and I have been talk­ing back and forth about what is hap­pen­ing there for a while now and I enjoy noth­ing more than hang­ing with like-minded folks and learn­ing about what you’re doing with social media. Safe to say March 23 has a big cir­cle on my calendar.

My trav­els bring me to Dal­las to speak at the Opti­miza­tion Sum­mits Dal­las Work­shop, which is a pretty heady group of Inter­net mar­ket­ing and com­mu­ni­ca­tions minds pro­vid­ing an inten­sive, two-day work­shop for folks in the area. The speak­ers include myself, John Jantsch of Duct Tape Mar­ket­ing, Geno Church from Brains on Fire, long-time indus­try thought leader Mack Col­lier, Jay Ehret, your very own Gio­vanni Gal­lucci … and that’s just the ones I could think of off the top of my head. It’s going to be a fun event with a lot of prac­ti­cal, real-world learning.

Being that I’m a Social Media Club guy, I fig­ured I’d ask Tammy Siewruk, who is putting on the event, if there wassome­thing she could do to let me get some of you in to the con­fer­ence. Much to my sur­prise (I was think­ing of giv­ing away a cou­ple passes), she said, “How about I give SMC Dal­las mem­bers $125 off registration?”

I almost fell out of my chair! To my knowl­edge, no one else is get­ting this type of dis­count (though I’m sure some­one will hear about it now and ask Tammy to extend the offer to them). So it’s an SMC Dal­las Exclu­sive for the time being.

Thanks to her gen­eros­ity, YOU get $125 off the cost of a two-day work­shop that only costs $429. (Cheap com­pared to sim­i­lar con­fer­ences and boot camps with the same types of speak­ers.) All you have to do is reg­is­ter and use the code “FallsVIP” when prompted for such.

The event is being held at the Sher­a­ton Dal­las and includes some net­work­ing events that will give you some good time with speak­ers and atten­dees. Please con­sider com­ing. It would rock for you to be there.

Okay — Enough of the sales pitch. Oh, and for full disclosure’s sake, Tammy keeps track of that FallsVIP code which serves as an affil­i­ate thing for me, so yeah, if you come I think I get a cheese­burger or some­thing out of it. If you want to pay $125 more and I get noth­ing, that’s totally cool by me. Just don’t use the VIP code.

Now back to you! Mike asked me to come pre­pared to talk to you folks about case stud­ies and proof points for social media. I’m not plan­ning on any­thing dif­fer­ent, but I want to know what you’d like me to talk about when I’m there. Please hit me via email at jason — at — socialmediaexplorer.com or send me a Twit­ter mes­sage and tell me what you want to hear. For that mat­ter, drop a com­ment here and I’ll use all that feed­back to bring you what you want to hear in the 20 min­utes or so I offi­cially have the floor on March 23. It’s impor­tant for me to feel like you got out of the event what you wanted or needed, but I can’t read your mind. What can I pro­vide that will make SMC Dal­las valu­able for you in March? I’m all ears. Please reg­is­ter here.

Beyond that, please plan on com­ing March 23. I’m super-excited to come to Dal­las. Mike called me when the orga­ni­za­tion there was first get­ting orga­nized and I offered up my expe­ri­ences with SMC Louisville as some point­ers. I feel like I’m a (very small) part of SMC Dal­las and can’t wait to meet every­one. See you soon!