Get To Know Ben Ilfeld

Ben is Lead Audience & Revenue Strategist at 10up, a full service digital agency focused on creating amazing web and content management experiences with a passionate team of 135+ full-time strategists, designers and engineers working around the globe.

Ben has over 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur, publisher and innovator, that make him well suited to 10up’s monetization, content conversion, and ad ops business. He led product development, analysis and iterative design processes, while overseeing all business operations at The Sacramento Press and AdGlue. Ben has consistently stepped over the edge to experiment with new models for creating healthy media ecosystems.

In 2008, Ben launched The Sacramento Press as a new breed of local publication dedicated to rethinking how media interacts with a local audience. In just a few years, his team built an army of over 1,500 volunteer community contributors. During this time, Ben built the first independent online local ad network (SLOAN) that generated hundreds of thousands of dollars for over 60 publishers. He was also a founding board member of the Local Independent Online News publishers (LION).

We’re thrilled Ben will be speaking at WordCamp Sacramento 2016 on Debugging the Website Money Maker!

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Round Two Ticket Release Happens Today!

The second batch of tickets for WordCamp Sacramento goes on sale today at 6:00 pm pacific time.

The first round of 150 tickets sold out in only 44 minutes, so here’s what we recommend:

• Bookmark the Tickets Page
• Set a reminder for 5:50 pm, 10 minutes before tickets go on sale so you can get in front of your computer.
• Set another reminder for 6:00 pm, so you don’t get busy checking email or clicking around social media and forget to buy your ticket.
• If tickets aren’t available at 6:00 on your screen, be sure to clear your cache and browser history.

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Securing a Ticket Can Be Tough

After all tickets for WordCamp Sacramento 2015 sold out in just over two hours, we knew tickets for our 2016 event would sell out fast, and they did. The first round of 150 tickets sold out in only 44 minutes. So if you weren’t at your computer at 10:00 am on Thursday, September 1, you probably didn’t get a ticket. Bummer.

The second round of tickets for WordCamp Sacramento 2016 goes on sale this evening, Wednesday, September 7 at 6:00 pm.

But what happens if your kids have soccer or you coach soccer, or you’ll be commuting home, or you’re busy and can’t get to a computer? Bummer again.

You could wait for the third and final round of tickets to go on sale and try to get your ticket then. That is always an option. But what if you’re busy then too? What if you’re not going to be near a computer?

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just get a guaranteed ticket and be done with it, skipping all the fuss of buying a ticket along with everyone else?

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Meet The Speakers

If you’re subscribed to the WordCamp Sacramento event updates, you’ve already seen the first few Speaker Interviews, including one for Tate Barber, Cristina Robinson, and Mark Tilly. Over the six weeks, we’ll be publishing interviews with all of our speakers to help you learn more about them and their experience with WordPress — and it’s going to take us that long because we have 31 different speakers this year!

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This is the fourth post in a series to help you get to know our 2016 WordCamp Sacramento organizers a little better! You’ve already met Jose Castaneda, Bill Mead, and 2016 Lead Jennifer Bourn, and today we’re introducing you to John Locke.

Since 2012, John Locke has been helping business owners in Sacramento and across the country. His WordPress consultancy, Lockedown Design, helps businesses improve their SEO, launch and improve their e-commerce stores, and solves business critical problems on their WordPress websites. John also serves the WordPress community as a co-organizer the Sacramento WordPress Meetup and as the co-host of the WP-Tonic podcast.

Be sure to give John at shout out on Twitter and don’t forget to use our hashtag #wcsac.

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Get To Know David McCormick

David McCormick is a Senior Marketing Strategist at Blast Analytics & Marketing. He’s had the privilege of working as a strategist for a wide range of clients from local to international including Healthcare.gov, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Intuit, and PayPal. David spends his days helping clients understand how to make their websites and their teams perform better. In his private time David loves adventuring with his kids, painting, trail running, and trying new restaurants.

We’re thrilled David will be speaking at WordCamp Sacramento 2016 on Taking The Yoast SEO Plugin To The Next Level!

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Get To Know Jon Shumate

I love building on the web and mobile. I love startups (I’ve now started three of them). At this point, I feel like a salty web old timer, but with that comes hard won skills on both the tech and business fronts. I’m a builder for life, steeped in full stack web development, from interfaces and user experience to data & code architecture including API development and integration. I’m skilled with Php, Ruby on Rails, MySql, Postgres, Javascript & Node, Famous, React, Polymer and a healthy smattering of other buzzy acronyms.

We’re thrilled Jon will be speaking at WordCamp Sacramento 2016 and sharing his story of building A Slack Bot SAAS Built On WordPress!

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The First Round Of Tickets Is Sold Out

If you snagged yourself a ticket to WordCamp Sacramento, CONGRATULATIONS! We’re so happy you’ll be joining us for a fantastic event!

The first round of WordCamp Sacramento tickets sold out in only 44 minutes. In 2015 it took us just over two hours to sell 150 tickets, so while we knew tickets would sell out, we had no idea they would go so quickly!

This is my first time as lead organizer for WordCamp and we’re all volunteers donating our time to make this event happen. We’re not event planning professionals who do this all the time, so this was pretty exciting to watch…

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Tickets Go On Sale Today

If you haven’t heard about WordCamp Sacramento yet, pay attention. Tickets go on sale today at 10:00 am Pacific time — and they are only $40.00. That’s it.

Trust me on this. You better not dawdle. Bookmark the Tickets page and set up a reminder to secure your ticket today. We do expect this first round of tickets to sell out.

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Get To Know Mark Tilly

Mark Tilly is the CEO of Target Info, the developer of the top ranked MyCurator Content Curation WordPress plugin first introduced in 2012. Mark has over 30 years of software development experience. He founded iMany (now Revitas) with a partner in 1988 to build client server software for Pharmaceutical firms and grew it to over $30 million in sales and an IPO. He has been working with WordPress for 6 years building, marketing and supporting the AI based MyCurator plugin utilizing Amazon cloud services.

We’re thrilled Mark will be speaking at WordCamp Sacramento 2016 on Building A Cloud Service Into Your Plugin!

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