Listen to to me provide online safety tips for Mother's Day on a local radio station near you. I'll be on at the following times and locations on Wednesday, May 5.

• 8:10 a.m. WSBA-AM - Harrisburg, PA
• 8:40 a.m. ET - WAMV-AM - Roanoke, VA
• 8:50 a.m. ET - KWLM-AM - Minneapolis, MN
• 9:00 a.m. ET - Family Life Radio Network - National Radio
• 9:15 a.m. ET - WSPL-AM - Chicago, IL
• 9:30 a.m. ET - WFIN-AM - Toledo, OH
• 9:40 a.m. ET - KRTI-FM - Des Moines, IA
• 9:45 a.m. ET - KFWB-AM - Los Angeles, CA
• 10:00a.m. ET - Wall Street Journal Radio Network - National Radio
• 10:10 a.m. ET - American Urban Radio Network - National Radio
• 10:45 a.m. ET - WXBR-AM - Boston, MA

[5/5/10 update: The radio tour went great. I spoke with a lot of terrific interviewers in eleven separate markets with a total estimated audience of 12.2. million listeners.]

Next week the ecommerce trade show and event calendar explodes. There are three events all in one week that online retailers do not want to miss. Etail West, Miva Merchant Conference, and Parallels Summit are chocked full of great sessions, speakers, and exhibitors. Of course, VeriSign is going to be there too to help you learn how to increase your online sales by instilling trust in customers.

eTail West 2010 February 22-25 in Palm Desert, CA

On Tuesday February 23rd at 1:10pm Tim Callan's session is a must see - How Trust Indicators Can Improve Conversions. Tim is presenting with Vibhav Prasad, VP of Online Marketing at 1-800-Flowers.com as a part of the Customer Acquisition & User Experience Innovation track.

Miva Merchant Conference 2010 February 24-17 in San Diego, CA...

My eTail East track presentation on security as a driver of online transactions was a big success. There were so many people in the room that the conference staff had to go out and round up some more chairs. As always we had a lively discussion and great interest after the speech.

We followed up wtih a by-invitation lunch with the online sales leaders of about twenty-five lighthouse e-commerce sites. We broke into four groups, each of which chose a topic to workshop and then read out to the rest. They were:

• Paid search and SEO
• Online security as a sales enabler (inspired by the previous speech)
• Optimizing the value of your confirmation page
• Social networking

as a sales, brand, and awareness driver

It was a nice session, and everyone seemed to enjoy it.

Next week I'm off to HostingCon in Washington D.C., where...

If you're in the greater Washington D.C. area, make sure you drop by to see these two speaking opportunities from VeriSign representatives.

I will be speaking on using security indicators to increase online sales at eTail East in Baltimore on August 4. If you're going to eTail, make sure you come up after the speech and say hello.

Fellow VeriSign blogger Bob Angus will be presenting how to sell premium services to cost-sensitive customers at HostinCon in Washington D.C. on August 11. I'll be at HostingCon as well, so once again, if you're an SSL Blog reader, stop by the VeriSign table.