Is It Worth Speaking at Conferences?

By Neil Patel

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Can you guess how many conferences I have spoken at during my career? A whopping 239.

That’s a lot considering I’m only 30 years old.

So, I thought it would be interesting to go over whether it’s worth speaking at conferences from a business, marketing, and financial point of view. Here’s what I learned by speaking at 239 conferences:

Most conferences won’t be worth your time

If you haven’t spoken at a conference before, you’ll have to start somewhere. That means you’ll have to accept whatever speaking gigs you can get. But once you’ve spoken at a handful of conferences, you …read more      

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The Introvert’s Guide to Surviving an In-Person Conference

By Pamela Wilson

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Tonight kicks off our Authority Rainmaker conference in Denver, Colorado, and many of us are terrified.

Here’s the thing: we’re a company mostly made up of introverts.

We all fall somewhere on an “introvert’s scale” that ranges from extreme discomfort in social settings, to mild dread, to slight concern before entering a packed room.

So an event like Authority Rainmaker tests us. It gives us a chance to practice extroversion, even if it’s just for a couple of days.

If your personality leans more toward introversion than extroversion, I have five tips that will help …read more      

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Mentioned B2B Brand, B2B Brand Online, Global B2B Companies, And B2B Chatter Online

IBM is the most mentioned B2B brand online globally, according to a recent report from Brandwatch.
The report was based on an analysis of over 5 million online conversations about 200 top global B2B companies. The researchers looked at mentions on social networks as well as on news sites, forums, an…

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Social Shake-up, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, And Employee Advocacy

Don’t follow the trends. Start them. Learn how from Twitter, Facebook, Arby’s, Discover, Whole Foods, NASA, Coca-Cola, and many more top brands
Brought to you by: Social Media Today
The Social Shake-Up brings together a wide array of speakers from the top brands in social. Full speaker list here.
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How Chief Content Officer Sonia Simone Writes

By Rainmaker.FM

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Coral-coiffed marketer and prolific online publisher Sonia Simone stopped by The Writer Files on Rainmaker.FM this week to share her writing secrets with us.

Ms. Simone is co-founder and Chief Content Officer of Copyblogger Media, as well as an educator, speaker, and the devious mastermind behind the podcast Confessions of a Pink-Haired Marketer.

Sonia appeared in The Writer Files written series on Copyblogger and stopped by again to drop some writerly wisdom on us.

In this 18-minute file, host Kelton Reid and Sonia Simone discuss:

  • Why you should read outside your echo chamber
  • Sonia’s secret of reading the tea leaves
  • Writer’s block vs. deadlines
  • Productivity for flakes, …read more      
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