Shama Kabani of The Marketing Zen Group, Rick Burnes of HubSpot, the notorious Couch Surfing Ori, as well as other Social Media pros will be speaking at the Aloft Hotel Thursday, March 4th, to a crowd of entrepreneurs, C-level execs, and marketing and sales professionals on social media topics and techniques that businesses are using to achieve real business results in 2010.

Bring your laptop and join Shama for this intensive information-packed full day of professional speakers and workshops. This hands-on one-day conference will give you the inside scoop on emerging trends and ways savvy marketers and business owners are successfully promoting their businesses, increasing sales, generating qualified leads, and recruiting top personnel through social media. Find out why names like Pepsi decided to opt out of  Superbowl advertising after 23 years and reinvested 20 million in social media instead.

This will be the first opportunity to get your hands on The Zen of Social Media Marketing – An Easier Way to Build Credibility, Generate Buzz, and Increase Revenue.  It won’t be available in stores until April 2010. VIP attendees will get to meet Shama personally at an exclusive lunch as well as receive an autographed copy of the book.

General admission also includes a copy of Inbound Marketing- Getting Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs , an Amazon Top Seller for 22+ weeks, presented by Rick Burnes, Inbound Marketing Director at Hubspot.

Plus there will will be a Social Boot Camp Business Panel, an esteemed panel of Dallas-based business owners, entrepreneurs, trail blazers & Fortune 500 companies teaching how they have successfully leveraged Social Networking to support their business objectives.

Shama has spoken with the organizer of the event and since she is all about giving value, you can save $30 on the boot camp by using this special: link until Valentine’s Day.

Moderator: Ori Bengal, Couch Surfing Ori, Event MC
* Katharyn DeVille, Digital Producer WFAA Ch 8
* Shaun P. Wiliams, Editor of Dallas South News
* Kevin Williams, Director of Marketing National Breast Cancer Foundation
* James Pecht, Comm Specialist/Social Media of Interstate Batteries
* Kat Farmer, SticViews
* Bill Knecht, Partner Bengal Coast

Last but not least, after a hard day of Boot Camp Workshops you can enjoy mingling in the private Aloft Hotel Party Pad with other professionals and attendees.

Sign up using this link this week before this workshop sells out.

If you’re wondering why this post was written in 3rd person, that’s because it was written by Neil.