“Meet Liz Strauss, founder of SOBCon, the
high-touch business summit, social web strategist, and one of the most
thoughtful, prolific bloggers on the planet. — Connie Deiken, The Top
Influencers Alive: 10 Breakout Influencers of 2011
“Relationships are everyone’s business, and
every business is relationships,” explains strategist and presenter, Liz
Strauss of Successful-Blog. — Work with Liz, 773 809 5499
According to EatonWeb, “Liz Strauss is perhaps
the most influential relational blogger on the Internet.” Her blog –Liz Strauss
at Successful Blog — has been called both a destination and an event. She is
known as connector who makes lasting relationships. Her blog has tens of
thousands of comments. The WordPress Plugin Liz Comment Counter by Ozh was
named in her honor to celebrate her dedication to responding to the readers of
her blog.
Liz is a social web strategist and community
builder. Coming from a background of publishing, business, and instructional
design, Liz understands how people perceive a blog, a product, and an
experience — how the head and heart engage to make a fiercely loyal customer.
She can articulate what makes things irresistible — what keeps people coming
back — from literacy, editorial, design, and marketing sensitivities.
Liz works with businesses, universities, and
individuals to help them understand how text, words, and images work in the
culture of the social web. She has over 20 years in print, software, and online
publishing, and has strategized with publishers in Europe, Australia, the UK,
and Ireland.
She was recently a featured speaker at the Cass Business School of City
University in London
and taught a Master’s Level class at the CityU School of Publishing.
Liz is a founder of the highly successful
business event– SOBCon — which has gained the partnership of companies such as
Citrix – GotoMeeting, GMC, Intuit, Glam Media, IZEA, ReveNews, Walmart,
Colgate, Allstate, and Klondike Frozen Treats, as well as the attention of
BusinessWeek, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Innovation
Initiative of the Kellogg School of Business.”
