Toledo, Northern Ohio, Southeastern Michigan and Northeastern Indiana are in for a real treat on May 18 as the Exploring Social Media Business Summit comes to the Hilton Toledo. We’ve got an all day strategy learning session planned that is sure to take business owners and marketing managers from wondering about social media to having a strategic approach to implementing it. The early bird deadline, saving you $50 off the full price, ends on Wednesday, May 4 (next week), so I wanted to remind everyone to register now and save!

The roster of speakers and their topics are listed on the ESM Business Summit event page, along with the great sponsors who will be in attendance. As you know from the events I produce, each sponsor is asked to prepare a talk for the audience that is focused on our overall theme and not their sales pitch or demo. So attendees will get to learn from our four highlighted speakers – Joe Pulizzi, Allen Mireles, Erik Deckers and myself – as well as some of the innovative thinkers at impressive companies like Awareness Networks, Radian6, Emma, Compendium and Cision.

I caught up with Joe Pulizzi of Junta42 and the Content Marketing Institute recently to give us a sneak peak at his talk for the day. Here’s what we’ll learn from Joe:

The event is 8:30-4:30 on May 18 at the Hilton Toledo. We’re providing you with breakfast and lunch and each attendee gets a one-month free subscription to Exploring Social Media as an added benefit. We’ll also have some fun giveaways and plenty of time to network and rub elbows.

Register for ESM Toledo Now!

If you register by end-of-day Wednesday, you get $50 off the full price and get all that learning and value for just $199.00. Members of PRSA and Ad Club of Toledo get an additional $50 off and pay just $149 for the Early Bird registration.

We’re pumped to bring some quality learning to Toledo. Heck, even the Toledo Free Press is excited about us coming. We’ll see you there!