Freelance Camp Santa Cruz
The San Francisco Bay area’s annual FreelanceCamp is coming Saturday, August 15 to a beach in gorgeous Santa Cruz!
FreelanceCamp is a community-driven conference that will connect, educate, motivate and inspire freelancers and startup entrepreneurs looking to grow a business.
- Venue: Downtown Santa Cruz, CA
- Date: Saturday August 15, 2009
- Time: 8am – 6pm + after party
- Cost: $25 or free if you are a student or really, really, really need the help
- Schwag: Klean Kanteen 27oz bottles (retail cost for these is more than the price of your ticket)
- Register: http://freelancecamp3.eventbrite.com/
- More Information: http://freelancecamp.org
Not in the area? Don’t worry! We have a freelance camp coming to Reno soon (date still to be decided). Still out of luck? Start your own. We have already had five freelance camps in 2009 and every freelancer who has put one on sent me personal notes telling stories of how much this has caused a serious boost to their careers and the local economy.
Why write this post so early? I usually wait until 2 weeks before the events, but in this case we have limited space. Fire marshal has us capped at 300 people and I love the venue we are finalizing so I won’t change even if you all try to beat the doors down. Last year, after my email blast (which we will be sending out around June 18th or so) we sold out in 3 days. This is my first mention of the event in any public form and we are already down to 231 tickets as of tonight (June 13th) just based upon word of mouth. So if you want to come, sign up fast.
Who should come? If you sell your services (or are considering it), you are a perfect fit: developer, designer, accountant, blogger, journalist, realtor, lawyer, carpenter, engineer, financial adviser, marketer, sales, musician, artist, inventor… Historically, the bulk of attendees are from hi-tech. We encourage all types of owners to come to provide a balanced perspective to business.
- Get experience based answers to your questions.
- Network and meet people running successful freelance businesses.
- Form partnerships and collaborate.
- Find clients.
- Help others and be a person of influence.
The “Camp” in FreelanceCamp implies that the event is informal with an emphasis on face-to-face interaction with other attendees. “Community-driven” means that the attendees of the conference actually run the conference by discussing topics appropriate to the subject of the event. The presentation schedule is determined on the morning of the conference and anyone is welcome to present.
Our sponsors include:
Baskin & Grant
City of Santa Cruz
Cruzio
Elance
Happy Santa Cruz
Hope Foundry
Nextspace Coworking and Innovation
Palace Arts
Parachute Creative
Rittenhouse
Santa Cruz New Tech Alliance
Shane & Peter Inc
Small Business Development Center
Studio Holladay
Sugar Crm
A special thanks to the freelancecamp.org team for the use of the brand and for all the advice and support.
Register: http://freelancecamp3.eventbrite.com/
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I would have surely loved to be a part of this event but we are unlucky ones as our Geographic location is too far and its hard reach there.
I hope you people will take steps to organize these kinds of events in Asia also. I would love to be a part of organizing team if i could be of any help to start of these kinds of events in Asia. As whole world is a family and we should take care of all
Thanks,
Okay, coolest thing I’ve read all month, without a doubt.
Hi Atul,
I would be extatic to see one of these happen in Asia. As all of these events are run by local volunteers for their region, I highly encourage you to start one. We would be happy to help in any way.