Author Archives: Laura Leites

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Laura plans and manages Smallbiztechnology’s live and virtual events, including the five-city Small Business Technology Tour, now in its third year. She also produces events for clients through her event planning company, L2 Event Production. Her popular roundups of events and competitions for small businesses is published weekly on Smallbiztechnology.com and Small Business Trends.

Small Business Events, Contests & Awards: Big Awards for Business, Ecommerce Done Right, UPS Sweepstakes + More

Welcome to our latest curated list of events, contests and awards for small businesses, solo entrepreneurs and growing companies. To see a full list or to submit your own event, contest or award listing, visit the Small Business Events Calendar. Featured Events, Contests and Awards Access to Capital Chicago May 22, 2013, Chicago, Illinois Join…

Small Biz Events & Contest Roundup: Techspeak for Entrepreneurs, SMB Nation, UPS Sweepstakes + More

Welcome to our latest curated list of events, contests and awards for small businesses.  Each item is carefully reviewed for relevancy and quality.  To see a full list or to submit your own event, contest or award listing, visit the Small Business Events Calendar. Featured Events, Contests and Awards 2013 Content Marketing Strategies Conference May…

New List of Contests & Small Biz Events: Access to Capital, Local U, TechCrunch NY + More

Welcome to this week’s list of events, competitions and awards for small businesses, solo entrepreneurs and growing companies. To see a full list or to submit your own event, contest or award listing, visit the Small Business Events Calendar. Featured Events, Contests and Awards Affiliate Management Days April 16, 2013, San Francisco, CA Whether your…

Contests, Awards & Events Roundup: Entrepreneur of 2013, Minnesota Cup, Affiliate Days, Local U + More

Welcome to our curated weekly listings of small business events, awards and contests.   To see a full list or to submit your own event, contest or award listing, visit the Small Business Events Calendar. Featured Events, Contests and Awards Affiliate Management Days April 16, 2013, San Francisco, CA Whether your company already offers an…

New Events and Contests List for Small Business: Affiliate Management, SMB Nation, BlackBerry Awards + More

We’ve launched the new Events Calendar launched jointly with Small Business Trends, and we’ve been getting a steady stream of new listings of events, contests and awards for small business people and entrepreneurs.  The list is carefully curated — all  events, contests and awards submitted are vetted to bring you only the highest quality. Below is a…

Small Business Contests & Awards: NY’s Top Entrepreneurs, BlackBerry Achievement Awards, Pitch at MIT + More

Here’s a fresh list of awards, contests and competitions for growing companies and entrepreneurs. There are some great contests and awards in this week’s roundup. If you’ve entered and won a contest or award listed here, let me know so we can share your news. This list is brought to you every other week by…

Small Biz Events Roundup: Confab, Seth Godin Live, BlogHer, Black Enterprise + More

Welcome to this week’s roundup of events, conferences and webinars for growing companies and entrepreneurs, brought to you every other week by Small Business Trends and Smallbiztechnology.com. Why not register for one or more of these educational conferences, webinars and events? Get out of the office, learn something, and make new connections for 2013 and…

Small Business Contests & Awards: TechAmerica, Enrich Your Pitch, Top Entrepreneurs, SCORE Awards + More

Here’s a fresh list of awards, contests and competitions for growing companies and entrepreneurs. There are some great contests and awards in this week’s roundup. If you’ve entered and won a contest or award listed here, let me know so we can share your news. This list is brought to you every other week by…

Fresh Small Biz Events Roundup: Social Media, Crowdsourcing, Sales Culture, Content, Federal Contracting + More

Welcome to this week’s roundup of events, conferences and webinars for growing companies and entrepreneurs, brought to you every other week by Small Business Trends and Smallbiztechnology.com. Why not register for one or more of these educational conferences, webinars and events? Get out of the office, learn something, and make new connections for 2013 and…

Contests & Awards: Heartland Makeover, Small Biz Book Awards, 2 Innovation Competitions + More

Here’s a fresh list of awards, contests and competitions for growing companies and entrepreneurs. There are some great contests and awards in this week’s roundup. If you’ve entered and won a contest or award listed here, let me know so we can share your news. This list is brought to you every other week by…