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You see them on Twitter, Facebook or Plancast plotting out their next 12 conference. They are professional conference attendees. Inevitably a certain number of entrepreneurs feel compelled to attend every conference. It’s not possible to be a conference ho and a leader at the same time. Look at me!
I recently spoke at the Blue Glass conference on the topic of marketing. I’ll write up some thoughts in a blog post format soon. I’ve been spending time looking at marketing conversion metrics at portfolio companies lately.
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I have written about this before in my post on Conference Hos. These are people at every conference. Because often these Conference Hos bring back their latest idea from the hot tub cocktail session with their favorite tech superstar. In conferences, in bars, at late-night food, touring the sites in China. Back stage.
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As the day approached I noticed that there was a conference in LA that I wanted to attend. The day before the conference I thought about rescheduling this meeting but then thought, “oh, well. ” So I didn’t go to the conference. ” They were stuck at the same conference that I had wanted to attend. .”
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It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. I ask the conference organizer all the details I need to know: how many people will be in the audience? Show some energy!
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They may have met you at a conference, attended a web conference or somehow else interacted with your company’s marketing department. And of course you also need your outbound marketing campaigns to emphasize your USPs so that prospects are already asking about them before the sales reps even start their meeting. So what’s next?
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It’s a big conference and all big conferences charge money, make money and serve a diverse set of needs. I hate attending big conference. So what will you get out of Web Summit or any big conference? Big conferences in part are about education and entertainment. Let me get that out of the way.
Modern-society is also littered with over-networkers and over-introducers and professional conference attendees. Saying “no” often to people who want to divert you from your mission becomes obligatory if you want to make progress. Focus is almost always the right answer.
You probably follow some high-profile entrepreneurs on Instagram and Twitter and see conference pictures of them in Davos, Mexico, Monaco or wherever. There is a difference between a Conference Ho and a successful entrepreneur. Clicking on their glam party pictures. You’re not. You’re where you should be.
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While many companies chased features, functions, integrations, platforms, toys, conferences … these companies quietly sharpened the saw. But think about it … What made Instagram, Instagram with a B? Or DropBox. Or most recently the smashing and unstoppable success that is WhatsApp? Made life easier. Methodically.
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unless you’re a conference ho … then it’s too much ). Whatever amount you’re getting out and talking with prospects, customers, employees, recruits, competitors, press, investors, potential investors … it’s never enough.
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But I have to catch a flight to New York for a two-day computer vision conference and 2 board meetings, 2 board dinners and a catch up with my LPs to tell them how our fund is going. And there is no short-cut, no collaboration tool, no spreadsheet, no web conference tool that can build trust even remotely as effectively as being in person.
I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. I learned to avoid unnecessary conferences, avoid non-essential costs and strive for at least a neutral EBITDA if for no other reason than nobody was interested in giving us any more money.
Since it is sometimes hard to get the full context from a conference presentation, I have included blog posts links on the topics in which I have written fuller posts in the presentation itself. Ok, well not that pretty since I do my own slides and often at 1am. But my slides are linked above and you can also download from SlideShare.
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