The founder of TBEX — Kim Mance
So the real reason 600 travel bloggers and 150 PR reps were in the Colorado Rockies was to learn and network. was originally founded by Kim Mance but she sold it to BlogWorld a few months ago which was a smart move. Kim will be the first to admit she was never an event organizer and the conference desperately needed structure and organization.
Main hall
TBEX was already the largest travel blogger conference but it’s now destined to be enormous. Each year the attendees have pretty much doubled including this year and now with BlogWorld at the helm – watch out! As long as they keep the registration fee for bloggers low (it’s around $80) and price it right for PR (I think it’s $600) it’s going to become a must-attend event for everyone in the online travel community.
Our panel (credit: Travelblogger101.com)
Our Panel
Here’s a list of this year’s . I was on a panel with and where we taught attendees how they can create a successful email newsletter. Although ours was on Sunday afternoon at 2 pm and most people had taken off or were just spent from the altitude and partying, I think it went well.
What’s crazy is that we had to leave at 2:30pm since Natalie had a 5:55pm flight so we did something creative – we did the Q&A from the car by using on Twitter. Here’s a sample tweet: @flashpackerhq: Can you provide a link for some great, amazing examples of newsletters? My answer was and .
CC Chapman
Here are some of the other presentations and blog posts about this year’s TBEX from other bloggers.
- Gary Arndt’s:
- Jen Miner:
- TBEX 2012
- JD Andrews:
- Katie Coakley:
- Britany Robinson: TBEX Wrap-up
- Sun[Shine] and Stilettos:
- AnywhereAndHere:
A huge thanks to , , & !
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- Scott & Natalie
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- Our panel (credit: Travelblogger101.com)
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- Beaver Tails!
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- Heather, Natalie & Laura
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- Canada party
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- This is what TBEX will do to you
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- Gogo booth
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- Kiersten & Courtney
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- Nadia G’s Bitchin’ Kitchen
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- Max and his Green team won iPhone’s
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- Jen Leo doing what she does
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- Courtney, Monica, Kelley & Lauren
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- Kay blogging began 2.5 weeks ago
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- Lunch
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- Expedia’s seminar
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- I was mentioned in a case study!
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- How to monetize your blog
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- Bathroom sponsor
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- Enough said
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- CC Chapman
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- The founder of TBEX — Kim Mance
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- Rick and Kim
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- Main hall
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- Scott from Scottevest
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- Jodi with oxygen
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- View from Keystone Lodge
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- Keystone Shuttle
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- We made it!
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- Welcome to Keystone
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- Beautiful views
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- Still driving
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- Driving to Keystone
TBEX 2012 Flickr Photos
JD Andrews: TBEX area photos
Katie Coakley: TBEX TAKEAWAYS
Britany Robinson: TBEX Wrap-up
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Love those thumbnail photos! Thanks for the link, Johnny – wish we could have met, hopefully the next TBEX. I’ll be sharing more about Chris Baker’s closing keynote this week. Somehow still recovering from not being at 10,000 feet!
Thanks for this JJ! I feel like I was there with you two! you’ve got me pysched to go next year.
Thank you for the kind Words Johnny. It was great to see you as always. You seemed to be having a lot of fun at the Expedia Shindig! It was also a real pleasure to meet your beautiful fiance. Congratulations to you both!
Regarding nuts and bolts pricing stuff; we don’t have any plans to increase the pricing for bloggers or industry attendees.