This post is a total plug.

If you don’t like commercial pitches, don’t care what I do from day to day, hate Inman News and are otherwise disinterested, move on. Go ahead and hit that J key in your reader…

The rest of you, we’ve spent a lot of this week working on this summer’s Connect conference and I’m really stoked.

We’ve got some great speakers lined up; Merlin Mann is keynoting (how cool is that?) and we’ve got lots more to be announced soon.

Plus, based on the feedback of our fantastic advisors, we’ve rejigged the format of a couple of our pre-conference workshops into formats that I think are going to be way more instructive for everyone.

We’re updating the web site as I write this, so check it out over the next couple of days for more information.

But that’s not really why I’m writing this today…

The reason I’m plugging Connect today is that today is the last day to register at the early bird rate. You’ll save $280 if you register today. Monday – the prices all go up!

So if even if you’re thinking of wanting to consider the possibility that you might try and come out to San Francisco from July 23rd to 25th – make sure you make that decision today and try and save yourself some bucks.

It’s probably not a bad idea to book your tickets now too – who knows how expensive the fuel surcharges will be come summer. Just make sure you pick an airline that’s not going to A) fall apart or B) go out of business.

One more thing, if you’re coming out to Connect, make sure you come a day early and check out ReBARCamp too – it’s going to be a gathering of true real estate geeks. I’ll be there, I’m the tall guy with the shaved head. Come out and say hi.

Look forward to seeing you all in San Francisco.

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Todd Carpenter (lenderama), Jessica Swesey and myself at Bloggers Connect (Photo by Erik Hersman)

Don’t forget to tune in to Inman TV for highlights of the Real Estate Connect conference in San Francisco.

I’ll be back here next week, after I catch up on some much needed sleep.

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Bloggers Connect is a wrap! I want to thank all the great bloggers who joined the moderators (myself, Jessica Swesey and Kevin Boer) on stage at ConnectSF for sharing some incredibly valuable real estate blogging advice. Thanks to Glenn Kelman of Redfin for delivering a fine keynote too.

Most importantly, a big shout out to all the audience members who stuck with us through a pretty grueling schedule – it was encouraging to see so much enthusiasm for real estate blogging – I’m sure we’ll hear many new voices joining the conversation soon.

Congrats to Mary Pope-Handy of Live in Los Gatos for winning the Project Blogger competition. Though all the Apprentices deserve kudos for sticking with it and creating some fantastic new real estate blogs.

It was also great to catch up with some of the best real estate bloggers out there; Marlow Harris from 360 Digest, Kevin Tomlinson, Dustin, Ardell, Robbie and Galen from Rain City Guide, Dan Green from Mortgage Reports, Brian Brady, Kris Berg, Phil from BoiseBlog, Noah from UrbanDigs, and countless others who I’m sure I’ve forgotten to mention here.

There’s some of the great coverage coming out of Day One at Inman Connect, so make sure you stop by each one and catch up.

3Oceans Real Estate
Blogging Systems Group blog
BloodhoundBlog
Carnival of Real Estate
Inman News Blog
Oodle Blog
Zillow Blog

Don’t forget to check out the photos on Flickr.

It’s been a fantastic day and we’ve only just begun!

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