More Pictures from Kansas City Get Your Business Online

Day 2 of Kansas City Get Your Business Online is in full swing at OfficePort in the Crossroads District of Kansas City.  With a successful first day, the event has attracted thousands of small business owners, entrepreneurs, visionaries, and Google fans to the Kansas City coworking space for the event's second day.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to meet with Google experts and learn how to get your business online.  Swing by OfficePort today and check out the expo if you didn't make the registration deadline.

Written by Allison Way
@AllisonThinkBig

Kansas City Get Your Business Online with Google Happening NOW

Today marks the first day of Kansas City Get Your Business Online, a forum for local small businesses and entrepreneurs to better understand and learn how to effectively use the Internet for their business ventures. At the event, Google experts are sitting down with Kansas City entrepreneurs to teach search engine optimization, Google Places, Google Adwords, building and running a website, and much more.

This morning, Kansas City Get Your Business Online brought together both the KCMO and the KCK mayors (Sly James and Joe Reardon) as they spoke about the city's giant opportunity to innovate on the Google Fiber network.  Of the 1,100 cities that applied to be the first city in the nation with a fiber network, Kansas City was chosen due to its growing tech base and entrepreneurial vibrancy.

In addition, the attendees of Kansas City Get Your Business Online had the chance to listen to the team of Burns-McDonnell, an extremely successful engineering firm in Kansas City.  In 1898, Clinton Burns and Robert McDonnell themselves chose Kansas City, MO as their original base of operations because it was growing quickly and it had the most potential.  Burns and McDonnell chose correctly: Since then, the firm has grown to fill three office buildings with more than 2,200 employee-owners.  We like to think that Kansas City is back to that fast-paced lifestyle with the implementation of new tech advances like Google Fiber. 

Because OfficePort, the host of Get Your Business Online, is a friendly neighbor of bizperc and Think Big Partners, the Kansas City coworking space invited us to check out the event. Of course, we snapped a few pictures:

Day 2 of Kansas City Get Your Business Online starts tomorrow. Sorry, guys; the event has already reached capacity. However, feel free to come by and talk with Google product experts one-on-one in the online expo area.

Written by Allison Way

@AllisonThinkBig

Get Your Business Online with Help From Google!

Not on Google Places?  Struggling to develop an effective website?  Can't wrap your head around SEO?

Great news, Kansas City.  Google has the event made just for you.

On August 31st and September 1st, Google is presenting Kansas City Get Your Business Online - a new program that is easy, free and a fast way to get your business online.  At this event, you will learn how to develop a Google Places page, how to start a great website and much more.  Google will provide the web professionals and computers...the only thing you need to provide is an open mind.

But what does this opportunity mean for Kansas City entrepreneurs, anyway?  According to Greg Kratofil, legal counsel provider for Kansas City's Google Fiber initiative, the implementation of Google Fiber has started a growth spurt in Kansas City.  Kansas City Get Your Business Online is a testament to that.  With Google Fiber coming to Kansas City, entrepreneurs will find more opportunities, ideas and resources in order to reach the American Dream from their very own Kansas City.

"I think this is a game-changer for the entire region," says Kratofil. "The opportunity and tools that we are going ot get out of this investment by Google will put us on the map."

If your business is ready to get online, pre-register to reserve your spot (spaces are filling up fast, so get to it!).  This event will take place at Officeport (208 West 19th Street in Kansas City, Missouri) from 7:30am until 6:30pm.

Get online with Google and start Thinking Big!

Written by Allison Way
@AllisonThinkBig