Which Conferences Do You Attend?
Glen / 
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July 20th, 2009 / 
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Just a quick post today but I’m really interested to know: which conferences in the internet marketing industry do you like the most? This may be surprising to some, but in the four years I’ve been active in this industry, I have yet to attend a single event.
I plan to change that later this year or early next, but the fact still remains, I’m a conference virgin. I’ve been looking around Conference Calendar which is a new creation by Al Carlton and wondering which ones would be the best. Some that have caught my attention include:
- SMX
- Wordcamp
- Webmaster World
- SEOmoz Pro Seminar
- Think Visibility
- Pubcon
and some others that I’ve probably missed off the list. If you’re already active in an industry and know most of what there is to know, is there still much benefit to conferences apart from (the obviously awesome) networking aspect of things?
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Hi Glen
By the way love your product! I bought it last week. I am not a graphics Girl though I have to ask what do you use for your PDFs they look great?
Back to the question of seminars. I was very blessed to go to a recent couple of events. One was Bob Proctor from the secret andone was in the states with a guy called Howie Schwartz. Both were excellent. I also went recently to Mark Anastasias event in london. I guess you get what you pay for sometimes. This was low cost £97. There was some good content though a major pitch fest. T Harve is coming in August and I am off to that so I will let you know.
The thing about seminars is you can meet some fabulous people who you stay connected with for years. So they are alsways worth it.
Take Care
Denise
I would love to join the seomoz sometime
I would love to join the seomoz sometime
Glen even if you get to the point of knowing most things talked about in the general public, I feel like interesting ideas can still come to me in sessions that are very overplayed and over talked about (common knowledge) just from seeing other peoples perspectives.
Also like you said the networking is why you go. Nothing makes up for face time and real life connections.
Pubcon is my favorite. Its a great overall event, networking and content.
Dear Glen,
thank you so much for your honest and informative guide. I enjoyed reading it (and still do). I am not experienced at all in marketing nor setting up websites. But I finally did it. It took some days hard work but it’s finally online. Maybe you will have a look at it. Maybe I did all wrong??
Thanks and cheers, Mike
Even I would like to attain such conferences sometimes.
“…is there still much benefit to conferences apart from (the obviously awesome) networking aspect of things?”
While networking at events is always an incredible opportunity for everyone involved, I think it falls to the wayside in comparison to video production and distribution of a kick ass speech (such as Tim Ferris’s WordCamp speech seen here http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/06/29/how-to-build-a-high-traffic-blog-without-killing-yourself/ ).
Few would agree who haven’t been behind the scenes with video, but I really believe it’s where the internet, and “focus” (attention) is going, a la the popularity and viralbility of YouTube. In other words, video is grossly underrated at this point in time.
Hence you see sites like TED and T21C skyrocket.
-Anthony