How to Generate 100+ Effective Content Ideas

No matter how creative and productive your content team may be, continually coming up with new content ideas is often challenging and frustrating for any content team. Unfortunately, when you hit a wall and your ideas are limited, your marketing results suffer. Attend this session to learn how to generate an endless flow of new content ideas for your marketing. You’ll leave the session with clarity on how to transform your content team into a powerful ideation engine that not only generates hundreds of new content ideas, but does so in a way that truly impacts your business.

Attend this session to learn all this, and more:

• How to go inside the minds of your audience for content ideas.
• Discover how to immediately triple the number of content ideas your business generates.
• Understand the power of a content portfolio.
• See how to use the customer journey to help you expand your content coverage.
• Discover how to easily turn a single content idea into dozens through content atomization.

Target Audience: Marketing Directors, Content Marketing Directors, Content Marketing Specialists, Content Creators

Tom Shapiro is CEO of Stratabeat, Inc. a B2B marketing, branding, and web design agency. Through his career, Shapiro has developed marketing strategies for multiple market leaders, including Intel, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, UnitedHealthcare, and P&G. Previously, Shapiro was the Director of Digital Strategy at the digital marketing agency iProspect. During his five years at the firm, the number of employees grew from 85 to more than 700. Shapiro has a deep passion for neuromarketing, psychology, and behavioral science, and his insights have been published in Chief Marketer, CMO.com, CNN.com, Forbes, MarketingProfs, among others. Shapiro's book "Rethink Your Marketing" is available on Amazon.com.

The Perfect Funnel Blueprint

Each day, it’s getting more difficult (and expensive) to acquire your ideal customer. EVERY industry is feeling this, whether you sell large scale B2B solutions to a local mom and pop shop that’s just dipping toes into digital marketing.

That’s why marketers need to make sure they’re getting the most out of every click, lead, and conversion. That’s where the perfect funnel, yes funnel, blueprint comes in.

Attend this session to learn…

• Offer types and positioning that turn clicks into customers
• Email formulas that move leads to prospects, prospects to customers, and customers to long-term evangelists
• Retargeting strategies at each stage to catch th 98% of folks who DON’T convert
• Real world examples and results so you know this isn’t all just theory

Target Audience: Marketing Directors, Email Marketers, Content Creators, Performance Marketers

Justin Rondeau is the Director of Optimization at DigitalMarketer and runs all of the optimization efforts at DM, has developed a rigorous analytics and optimization course, and has certified hundreds of optimization and analytics professionals. Named one of the top 25 most influential CRO professionals, Rondeau has spent his entire career working on optimization campaigns and has helped train some of the leading optimization teams at Fortune 500 companies. Rondeau has run hundreds of tests for both B2B and eCommerce brands and has has analyzed 3,000+ split tests tests across virtually every industry.

Don't Be A Bland Brand: 7 Snappy Ways to get Real for Better Results

Is your brand the wallflower of the social media party, missing out on all the fun? Standing out online in all the right ways means finding your unique brand personality, and flaunting it throughout your customer journey. That doesn't mean you need to be the loudest or most outrageous. It means you must find the most effective and authentic ways to communicate with your audience, creating much deeper connections along the way.

Attend this session, and learn 7 tactics for brand betterment:

• Align your brand core values in your reactive and planned content
• Stop the hamster wheel of content development - repurposing existing content
• On-Site and virtual content captures for company evergreen content
• Speak to your strengths by sourcing content from negative competitor reviews
• Activate employees to post and share with Linkedin notifications
• Showcase personality in review response with secret hacks
• Learn content content development hacks for visual communication

Target Audience: Brand Managers, Marketing Managers, Social Media Managers, Content Marketers

Beth Trejo is the leader, mentor, torchbearer, innovator, founder and CEO of Chatterkick. As a trailblazing entrepreneur, Beth loves to take risks, and starting Chatterkick in 2012 was her biggest one yet. Defying the odds of successful female-founded start-ups, Beth not only prevailed, she grew her company with predominantly female staff. Beth started her social media agency with a lot of goals in mind, like redefining how businesses connect with people and providing a human connection in the digital world. But she also had a deliberate goal to advance the role of women in the tech industry and enhance the potential of Siouxland women in order to create real change in the community. Beth locally mentors women and non-profits because she believes that high tech offers a fulfilling and unique career – and she launched a podcast in order to connect female leaders across the state of Iowa. She incorporates her passion for the digital landscape and social media into nearly every role she has known, from her craft as an entrepreneur and local business advocate to her calling as a wife and mom of two tech-savvy kids. She is kind, she is generous and she is a force.

Not Thought Leadership Marketing, Thought Followship Marketing

Plain and simple, your prospects are tired of vendors reaching out to them to pitch solutions. But what if you were reaching out to join forces with them to make a powerful impact on the world, with them as the hero? Attend this session to learn how to stop making your brand the hero, and instead make your client the hero to boost your trajectory. Learn to map out a way to make the world a better place, for both you and your client, by aligning forces and audiences on the thought leadership stage. Even better, learn how to boost your response rates from 5% to 20% with proven tactics and techniques.

Attend this session and learn how to…

• Align your content around a purpose to position your brand as a powerful force for change
• Flip the script on thought leadership by making your prospects the heroes
• Breakthrough no-reply-hell and turn gatekeepers into allies
• Recast your CTAs as CTPs (calls to purpose) and build amazing relationships with your targets

Target Audience: Brand/Marketing leaders in high-ticket B2B, Business Leaders, Agencies

As founder and CEO of Scrappy AF Marketing, Colt helps mid-stage organizations apply creativity and strategy to capture market share from industry incumbents and build pathways into new markets. He leverages strong strategies with creative execution to help businesses and sectors grow fast while spending less. Colt is also the co-founder of the Rad Creative, a global consulting group specializing applying cognitive science and creative coaching to unlock radical potential in businesses and communities. He’s been educating and inspiring audiences as a speaker since 2010, with an expertise in scrappy marketing, purpose-driven business leadership, boosting creativity, and capitalizing on the opportunities of the exponential age. HIs results-driven to marketing combines rich strategy with deeply practical application -- and a bit of humor -- to ensure his listeners come away equipped to succeed as better marketers and better leaders.

Building Your Thought Leadership Content Engine

Nina Christian is an award-winning, global branding and marketing expert. For nearly three decades years she has worked with small businesses, large corporations and startups helping them build their brands and get their message out to more people. In 2000 she established marketing agency Braveda, which was named "Best Marketing Agency" at the Australian Marketing Excellence Awards. She understands entrepreneurship as well as marketing, having started and grown several brands of her own over the years, including a successful exit of a brand of international renown. She has a knack for simplifying the complex which comes from being a hands-on mum to five young children, and uses this to turn time-sucking activities into easy-to-follow systems and processes that get outcomes fast. She is a Certified Practicing Marketer (CPM), a Fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute & State Chair of Victoria, and mentor to countless marketers and entrepreneurs around the world through her programs and social impact initiatives.

How to Build Your Brand with Authenticity, and Avoid Stupidity

If social media were a party, you would probably not want your brand to be the wallflower. Instead, you’d want your brand to stand out online in all the right ways, and that means finding and flaunting your unique brand personality. Attend this session to learn to how to craft your brand personality, without being the loudest or most outrageous amounst your competitors. You’ll learn to find the most effective and authentic ways to communicate your brand persona and create deep connections with your target audience.

After graduating from Ohio University, Morgan Lasher accepted a position as a strategic consultant with the Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte) in its Cambridge, MA offices. She collaborated on international teams to create corporate management and marketing communications strategies for top global companies, from pharmaceutical companies launching new drugs to a top home and beauty retailer identifying and quantitatively segmenting its target markets.

Cut Through the Fluff to Make Your Content More Authentic

Does your brand pass the authenticity smell test? We’ve all interacted with brands that felt like corporate robots. Brands that needed a heavy dose of human behind them. We’ve also interacted with brands that felt real and alive. Attend this session to learn how to be even more competitive in todays market with real, human connection your customer now demand. Learn how authenticity plays a big role, with real-world examples that share what authenticity is and is not. Leave with clarity on how authenticity plays a critical role in the digital experience you’re crafting. And how you can leverage a simple authenticity audit to make sure your brand comes across as genuine with each-and-every customer interaction.

Donna Mostrom has been in marketing for over 12 years. Through her company, Damn Smart Marketing, she provides content strategy, copywriting, and website UX services for mid- to large-size businesses. Donna uses the power of authenticity to help her clients build their audiences and create content that adds value at every touchpoint. She has worked with large companies such as Walmart.com, Hershey’s, Starbucks, L’Oreal, and Convince & Convert, as well as nonprofits and startups. Outside of work, Donna is a mother of two small boys and two feisty miniature schnauzers. She loves yoga, hiking, red wine, and whiskey. She and her husband, Stephen, live in blazing hot Chandler, Arizona.

The Killer Content Marketing Framework

Great content marketing improves lead generation, accelerates deals, and improves customer loyalty, yet so many companies relegate content development to evenings and weekends. It’s unsustainable, ineffective, and leaves a company open to disruption from competitors with better strategies. At best, you lose your weekends. At worst, your company loses market share. In this talk, Colt Briner, founder of ScrappyAF, will show you how to build a Thought Leadership Content Development Framework that will create massive visibility for your company’s expertise without burdening your operational leaders. Leverage your company’s inner wisdom. Harness the content for expressing it to your audience. Broadcast an impactful message through the Thought Leadership Content Development Framework. This is the framework Colt uses to help his clients grow to billion-dollar valuations!

Jennifer “JJ” Jank helps teams hack their brains for better performance, and her goal is to help entrepreneurs, especially women, engineer their businesses to be more productive so everyone in the company achieves optimal work-life balance. She can be found on her website, www.jenniferjank.com, as well as on LinkedIn.

Beyond Quippy Copy: Engaging on Social Media

Is the quest for quippy copy worth it? Many marketers think that making the most out of social media means crafting clever copy. Being lively on LinkedIn, facetious on Facebook, and tangible on Twitter. But what if we're wrong? What if engaging social media copy doesn't require alliteration, rhyming, and the perfect GIF? In this session, we'll take a deeper look at what really works to engage your audience.

Attend this session to learn…

• How to strike the right balance with content in the feed.
• 10 tropes for writing engaging social copy.
• Counter-intuitive tips to get the most out of LinkedIn.

Ashley Faus is a marketer, writer, and speaker by day, and a singer, actor, and fitness fiend by night. Her work has been featured in multiple publications, including TIME, Forbes, The Journey of Brand Strategy, and MarketingProfs, and she's shared insights with audiences at Harvard Business Review, INBOUND, and MarketingProfs.

How to Build the Only Earned Media Strategy You Need

Earned media coverage can have a huge impact on your business –– from elevated brand awareness to SEO benefits to accelerated sales velocity. The challenge is finding the unique story or data to make the media take notice of your brand. This session will show you how to unlock the earned media value in your business and develop strategies to earn press coverage.

Attend this session and learn…

• The value of earned media for your business
• The stepping stones you need to take to create an earned media strategy
• The tools you need for building an earned media program

As a marketing director at The Predictive Index, Erin Balsa helped create the category talent optimization and secure $50M Series A funding. She’s been featured as a subject matter expert and has discussed content marketing and leadership on multiple websites and podcasts. Her writing, consulting and content market strategies have produced astronomical results. She’s helped companies increase blog traffic by 580%, cut their sales cycle by 30%, and generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in closed-won revenue.

How to Start a Podcast in 2 Days or Less!

Learn how to start a successful PodCast with the latest hacks, tactics and gear that will save you time and get you going on the right trajectory. Get your voice out and the leads in with the right equipment, recording techniques, editing skill, publishing channel, and planning methods for success.

Attend this power-podcast how-to session and learn…

• The best gear to buy on a shoestring budget
• Production tips to save you time
• Three mistakes to avoid that are essential for success
• Secrets to a successful launch Benefits and incentives to offer guests and listeners

"Shark" is a highly accomplished and creative marketer, lead generation and growth executive. He is passionate about leveraging data in omni-channel strategies and known for driving growth in Digital Marketing and Advanced and Addressable TV. He's lead national campaigns working with brands including Acxiom, Citi, Chase, Target, GM, American Express, FedEx, Honda, Toyota, TD Ameritrade, Panera, TruGreen, and over 50 colleges and universities. He has also been an on air host and producer of TV and Radio programs. He is the VP of Marketing and Digital Strategy at Ai Media Group and the host of "A Shark's Perspective" podcast.

How to Boost the Findability and Credibility of B2B Content with Influence Optimization

What good is being found in search if no one trusts what they find? Go beyond optimizing with keywords to collaborating with influential creators that can help boost the expertise, authoritativeness and trust of your B2B content. Learn how Google's EAT guidelines can help bring SEO and influence together for content that attracts, engages and converts.

Attend this session to learn…

• Tips on finding SEO-friendly influencers.
• How to map SEO and influencer topics to content.
• How to activate influencers for inspired content sharing and promotion.

Lee is a marketing strategist, author, speaker and CEO of TopRank Marketing, a digital marketing agency serving some of the top brands in the world with content, search, social media and influencer marketing consulting. Cited by the The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and Forbes for his marketing expertise, Lee has evangelized an integrated approach to marketing and PR at nearly 200 speaking events in 16 different countries and through an award winning blog at toprankblog.com.

Emojis and Memes and GIFS, OH MY!

Ever wonder how to use the exact right emoji, meme or gif to convey the exact right emotion or thought in your communication? Believe it or not, you need an intricate understanding of these backstories and possible hidden meanings if you want to get it right. (Eggplant emoji anyone?) Many brands have been burned by not truly grasping the social references these ideograms represent.

In this presentation, you’ll learn…

• The difference between emojis and emoticons
• The secret life of emojis. There are more than 40 emojis that could get your brand in a world of trouble if used inappropriately.
• Why (and how) you should start incorporating memes, gifs and emojis in your content

Karine Bengualid is a French-Canadian-Moroccan-Jew, a recovering introvert and an aspiring comedienne. After 13 years leading corporate marketing teams, she started “Brought to you by the letter K” in 2015, where she helps B2B brands across North America like Shopify Plus or the Toronto Raptors find their Threshold of Fun™. In November 2019, Karine launched the first-ever physical content planner designed for marketing teams called P is for Planner. When she’s not saving the world from un-fun marketing, she’s building her animal rescue, Maison Misha.

How to Plan 6 Months of Blogs in 30 Minutes or Less

Get the step-by-step guide to planning your content calendar for the next six months of blog posts, with the help of some amazing tools and tool-free alternatives. Build your site's authority, establish credibility, and spend more time on implementation by getting the planning process out of the way. This approach is particularly ideal for startups where product or identity is constantly shifting but content needs to be consistent.

Attend this session and learn…

• How to build out your content pillars and develop an editorial calendar
• Best practices for deciding what to write and how frequently to publish
• Content planning tips to ensure your plan is easy to enact

Zoe is a former video game and tech journalist turned content marketing expert, adding a combination of wordsmithing and marketing strategy to her unique perspective. She has lived on three continents and is longing for the days of travel in the post-plague era. In her free time, she enjoys great food and books, as well as trashy science fiction and console gaming. She's a mom to two cats and a five-year-old daughter, living with her husband in perpetually sunny Arizona.

10 Things to Know about Structured Data to Make Your Content Stand Out

Google’s search results have special features called Rich Results. Learn to design your content to have it literally stand out in search with FAQs, how-tos, and more. We will explore how to architect your content for maximum visibility in search, resulting in more clicks and traffic. You’ll leave understanding the basics of schema markup and advanced strategies you can apply the next day.

Attend this session and learn how to…

• Figure out what to include in your content to achieve “rich” search results
• Identify topics to include in your content to inform search engines
• Connect topics and properties with the Schema Paths tool
• Create schema markup for articles with FAQ and videos

Tools discussed and showcased:

• Google Rich Results Test
• Schema Paths
• Merkle’s
• Schema Markup Generator Schema App

Tips, Tactics, and To-Dos When Contracting with Influencers

Every influencer campaign needs an agreement in writing—even if it only involves giving free product in exchange for a post. But not just any template agreement will cover you. Understand the legal issues that you need to think through to limit the risk of an influencer campaign turning from a partnership into a problem.

Attend this sessions and learn…

• The must-haves for every influencer agreement
• FTC disclosure rules and how they apply to your campaigns
• Lessons learned from the mistakes of others and how to avoid them
• What to do if something goes wrong

Robert Freund is an experienced advertising attorney and advisor focused on social media marketing and e-commerce. Before opening his own firm, Rob honed his legal skills working at Greenberg Traurig, LLP, one of the largest and most respected international law firms on the planet. Rob has lectured about advertising law at the University of Southern California and the University of San Diego, and he has been quoted in The New York Times on legal issues. Rob was named as a Southern California Super Lawyers Rising Star in Media & Advertising for 2020 and 2021.

Conquer Multi-Channel Content Creation with Style Flexing

Content creators struggle with creating content for multiple channels. "Style flexing" is a new art, science, and skill required for success, and not something that comes naturally to everyone. Learn to create a structured content framework and experience map as the starting point. Then learn the tactics to create content for all your channels smarter, better, faster and wiser.

Attend this session and learn how to…

• Create a structured content framework
• Use a new toolkit for omnichannel content strategy
• Style flex your content for all your channels

Lindy has over two decades of experience in content and digital strategy, CMS, SEO, user experience, consumer insights, branding and analytics. She has led a broad range of engagements including enterprise-level websites, ecommerce sites, experiential micro sites, online communities, integrated campaigns, mobile applications and email and social media programs. Lindy is experienced in a number of enterprise CMS's, Digital Asset Mangagement (DAM's), ecommerce and community platforms including Adobe Experience Manager, SDL Tridion, Sitecore, Sharepoint, Telligent, Lithium, Hybris and ADAM. Her experience spans leading media, technology, consulting, non-profit, travel, pharma and consumer retail brands.

Sweepstakes and Giveaways: Tactics for Compliance to Keep It Legal

Do you know the difference between a sweepstakes and a lottery? For starters, running a lottery is illegal in every state. Ensuring that your promotion isn't a lottery requires careful planning and understanding of relevant state laws—but the risks don't end there. To safely run a sweepstakes or giveaway, you need to understand the rules regarding registration, record keeping, methods of entry, official rules, and more. Learn the rules today so you don't have to pay for problems later.

Attend this session and learn…

• How to ensure your sweepstakes or giveaway is not an illegal lottery
• The rules regarding state registration and record keeping
• Tips for drafting your official rules
• What disclosures you need to make and how to make them

Robert Freund is an experienced advertising attorney and advisor focused on social media marketing and e-commerce. Before opening his own firm, Rob honed his legal skills working at Greenberg Traurig, LLP, one of the largest and most respected international law firms on the planet. Rob has lectured about advertising law at the University of Southern California and the University of San Diego, and he has been quoted in The New York Times on legal issues. Rob was named as a Southern California Super Lawyers Rising Star in Media & Advertising for 2020 and 2021.

Pressure Test Your Message

Now more than ever, it's important for your message to be heard. But is it strong enough to withstand whatever is thrown at it? Does it stand out from the crowd? With more than 20 years of working on the big ideas of individuals and organizations, I’ve learned a thing or two about what makes ideas endure. I've also discovered key measurements you can take to test if your message is built to last.

After this keynote, you’ll be able to…

• Understand the difference between your message and your idea
• Identify key metrics to help your message stand out
• Test the strength of your message
• Develop the story people will tell themselves about your message

As a professional "Idea Whisperer," Tamsen helps people find, build, and tell the stories of their ideas. She combined 20 years in brand and message strategy with four years as a TEDx Executive Producer to create The Red Thread®, a simple way to change how people see...and what they do as a result. (Though as she'll tell you, everything she knows about people, speaking, and change, she learned at Weight Watchers.) Today, Tamsen is a globe-hopping keynote speaker who consults with enterprise companies like Verizon, Johnson & Johnson, and State Street Bank on how to get their big ideas to have the impact they deserve.

Now or never: Why AI-enabled collaborative work management is the future

As marketers, our digital IQ is years ahead of what anyone thought it would be. We’re more prepared than ever to be Agile and pivot to meet the needs of our audience — and with more of our lives spent online, that audience is more available to us than ever. But with the increase in online content, how can we break through the noise and stand out from other brands? Automation and real-time insights will be the engine that enables brands to differentiate themselves. At Wrike, we’re finding that by using artificial intelligence capabilities, we’re able to get more insights with data than ever before with up to 99% accuracy. See how AI plus a collaborative work management solution allows marketing teams to work together in one platform to manage those insights and create impactful campaigns.

In this session, you’ll learn how to…

• Automate repetitive tasks so you can focus efforts on connecting with your audience.
• Unify your marketing processes, streamline communication, and turbocharge your results.
• Gain instant access to campaign performance across various channels so you can easily optimize results.

Saranya Babu is the SVP of Marketing at Wrike. Babu oversees all aspects of marketing, including demand generation strategy, product marketing, and communications. Before joining Wrike, Babu was VP of Marketing and Business Development at Instapage where she grew revenue and valuation by 4X, customer base by 3X, and annual contract value by 30X. She previously held roles at ChargePoint, Inc., BDNA (acquired by Flexera), Dell, and NetApp. With more than 15 years of experience in the tech sector, Babu has honed a diverse skill set in enterprise go-to-market strategy development, demand generation, marketing operations, field marketing, and more.

How to Create a Different Kind of Brand Guide for Writers

Most brand guides don’t provide sufficient guidance for content writers. Typically, they list a company’s brand values such as “authentic,” “friendly,” or “expert,” but leave the meaning of these words open to interpretation. As a result, writers make inconsistent decisions; content production drags on and the brand gets diluted. Learn how to create a content guide that provides effective direction for writers so they can save time, increase consistency, and amplify your company’s brand.

Learn all this and more…

• How intentional content creation can make a brand come to life on the page
• The differences between brand voice, tone, and style
• How to craft a brand guide that content writers will actually use

Margie Agin helps B2B technology companies discover what makes them unique and find the words to say it. She is founder and chief strategist of Centerboard Marketing and author of “Brand Breakthrough.” She has helped companies in the cybersecurity, communications, EdTech and software industries distill complex topics into content and campaigns that drive action. She led demand generation efforts for Blackboard and digital marketing for Tandberg and Cisco. She also taught content marketing and web writing at Johns Hopkins University.

Optimize Customer Case Studies to Increase Trust and Influence

Case studies are the sharpest tool in the marketing toolbox. More than 75% of B2B buyers rely on them when researching purchases, and they convert at the highest rate of any content type. Getting customers to share their stories publicly is often challenging. When you do get approval for a case study, you need to make the most of it.

Attend this session and learn how to…

• Create a steady pipeline of customer case studies and testimonials.
• Craft interview questions that help you strike case study gold.
• Present case studies in more engaging formats than the standard “two-pager.”

Margie Agin helps B2B technology companies discover what makes them unique and find the words to say it. She is founder and chief strategist of Centerboard Marketing and author of “Brand Breakthrough.” She has helped companies in the cybersecurity, communications, EdTech and software industries distill complex topics into content and campaigns that drive action. She led demand generation efforts for Blackboard and digital marketing for Tandberg and Cisco. She also taught content marketing and web writing at Johns Hopkins University.

Don't Ask, Give! How to Create Winning Influencer Partnerships

Getting the most out of your influencer marketing campaigns is challenging, to say the least. Attend this session and learn the 10 steps for success, focused on relationships, not transactions, to drive more likes and more sales. Three case studies will show you the way, including an award-winning case boosting sales 457% year to year. Leave with a clear blueprint and step-by-step instructions on how to use next-gen tools to locate influencers, track UGC, and stay organized along the way.

Attend this session and learn how to…

• Identify the best influencers
• Select and negotiate campaigns
• Craft outreach campaigns
• Enlighten influence on your product distinction
• Track organic post success
• Run paid Facebook ads for amplification
• Stay organized and track performance

Target Audience: Marketing Directors, Content Marketers, Content Creators, Social Media Managers, Agency Owners, Freelancers

Cody Wittick is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Kynship, an influencer marketing agency located in Orange County, CA.Prior to co-founding Kynship, Cody began his journey at QALO, the brand that created the silicone wedding ring. Throughout his time there, he built out a robust influencer program of 500+ influencers, all through the foundation of seeding. This included contracting thousands of micro-influencers in a variety of industries to produce monthly UGC and organic posts, while also working with household names such as Lebron James, Jason Aldean, Mike Trout, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Over the course of his time there, he saw the power of influencer's ability to build trust and ultimately, sell products within Facebook and Instagram advertising.

Agile Marketing: The Ultimate Co-Creation Framework

The content creation and approval process is time consuming and, at times, stressful. What if your team and your clients worked together right from the start to create the exact content needed to reach your ideal audience? Attend this session to learn the impact of continuous integration during the content creation process and four agile practices that directly impact teams to work smarter, faster and produce more content using less resources while reporting less stress in their work environment.

Learn all this, and a lot more:

• What it means to have an agile mindset
• Which four agile practices can transform small teams
• What tools are agile-friendly and allow for continuous integration
• How to implement agile methodology in your content creation process

Target Audience: Marketing Directors, Content Marketers, Content Creators, Social Media Managers, Agency Owners, Freelancers

How to Create Non-Robotic Captivating Content that Ranks Quickly

To say Google is saturated with content would be an understatement. With so many brands out there competing with yours for page one search listings, you need to know how to execute an SEO-first content strategy that doesn’t sacrifice content quality or your brand’s personality.

Attend this session to learn how to…

• Assess the volume of content you need to be competitive
• Select keywords and topics that will rank quickly
• Scale onsite content creation without sacrificing quality
• Scale onsite content creation without sacrificing quality
• Improve your copywriting to drive more conversions and sales

Target audience: Content Creators, Writers, Brand Managers, Marketing Directors, Storytellers

Rachel has been a digital content creator and strategist for close to a decade. In 2016, she launched The HOTH's content department, leading in-house teams and 700+ freelancers to produce thousands of high-quality pieces of content each week. She's currently The HOTH's Director of Brand Strategy, and is responsible for all organic marketing content, as well as developing and maintaining a consistent brand voice.

A Checklist for Humanizing Your Digital Content

The key to creating a product that is humanized isn’t just about finding places and ways to connect with something approximating a human; it’s about using a product that makes users feel human. Get the checklist for creating humanized digital experiences, with examples of how marketers should focus on empathy, clarity, satisfaction, delight, and trust when designing interactive content.

Attend this session to learn how to…

• Keep the human experience in mind as you design digital content
• Humanize all customer touchpoints—the twelves touchpoints you should focus on, and the questions you should ask yourself at each stop
• Discover the five factors human’s value, and how to prioritize those in your content

Target Audience: Marketing Directors, Content Marketers, Content Creators, Social Media Managers, Agency Owners, Freelancers

Alex oversees a growth marketing team that includes paid acquisition, SEO, integrated campaigns, events, and marketing operations, working with brands including NBC Universal, Monster.com, JP Morgan, Wall Street Journal, United Airlines, and United Healthcare to create immersive content experiences, and implement modern digital marketing programs that efficiently drive revenue. Prior to Ceros, he was a demand generation marketer at Datadog and developed inbound marketing strategies for several clients across real estate, technology, and education at HubSpot-partner agency Ironpaper.

40 as the New 30: How to Drive Impact Across Generations

Age is just a number—and a dated customer segmentation strategy. Marketers flock to meet (and separate) the interests of Boomers, Millennials, and Gen Z. Yet, shifts in tech and content consumption have led to habits across generations becoming even more blended. Learn how preconceived notions about demographics result in missed opportunities to connect with meaningful audiences. And how marketers should focus more on building multi-generational connections to create memorable experiences—resulting in fresh experiences for core audiences and beyond.

Attend this session to learn how to…

• Create memorable connections through experiential marketing— from content, to delivery, to engagement— that impact multi-generations to increase your target audience impact.
• Un-learn preconceived notions about demographics that are causing you to lose valuable opportunities to connect with consumers relevant to your brand by creating human connections.
• Take unexpected social media approaches, from paid to organic content, to garner attention from the core, as well as new audiences.

Gina is CEO and Executive Creative Director of The Craftsman Agency, where she focuses on creating magical moments through custom experiential marketing and immersive storytelling for B2B and B2C brands. With past clients including Cisco, Disney, Paramount, and Microsoft, Gina has led projects from concept to delivery of immersive digital experiences, experiential installations, websites, and bespoke advertising campaigns. Gina’s work spans from marketing and sales within brands, to agencies, to management consulting. Her time in management consulting has strengthened her ability to think both strategically and creatively, leading teams to push the envelope with work that surprises and intrigues prospective clients.

How to Tap Humor to Build Empathy and Understanding

When it comes to using humor in content marketing campaigns, content creators can find lots of conflicting advice: “Just toss in some metaphors " or "snap together a funny story-- that should do it" or “Don’t try to be funny—it’s too dangerous." But humor is more than just a spice to sprinkle on top of content—when baked into the content, it can create a lasting bond between your audience and your message. Attend this session to learn the 4 principles of baked-in, relationship-based humor, and how you can use each principle to build humor into your content and messages. And leave with clarity on how to better communicate the why’s and how’s of using relationship-based humor to transform browsers into buyers.

Attend this session and learn...

• The 4 principles of success with relationship-based humor
• How to apply these 4 principles to your content projects
• Fabulous examples and epic failures of funny and not-so-funny content
• Good risk vs. bad risk in humor and how to tell them apart (spoiler alert: the secret is empathy)

Jamie Gower is a writer/producer who helps Fortune 500 tech clients use humor to connect with their audiences while staying accurate and authoritative. Videos, webcomics, websites, even smartphone home screens and faux late-night talk shows — Jamie creates scenarios and content that speak in a fun, human voice. As a comedian, he performed for real live ticket-buying audiences from Seattle to the Edinburgh Fringe. As a filmmaker, his award-winning comedy shorts have appeared in over a dozen film festivals in the US and Europe.

10 Creative Content Ideas You’ll Want to Try Today

Have you noticed that some B2B marketers seem to produce a never-ending stream of clever, compelling, and creative content while others fall flat? What’s the secret to content superiority? The truth is, there is no secret. Just a better way than trying to do it all on your own! With rising expectations from digital-first B2B buyers, elevating the marketing experience is more important than ever. To develop creative content that genuinely attracts, engages, and drives action, marketers need to break free from what’s comfortable, find new sources of inspiration, and tap resources and talent beyond the brand. Attend this session to discover how to creative content that keeps your customers coming back for more.

Attend this session and learn:

• The “break free of boring B2B” process for content ideation
• Why and how to steal great ideas from other industries, sources, and data
• How to get down with OPC (other people’s content) by working with influential creators

Lee is a marketing strategist, author, speaker and CEO of TopRank Marketing, a digital marketing agency serving some of the top brands in the world with content, search, social media and influencer marketing consulting. Cited by the The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and Forbes for his marketing expertise, Lee has evangelized an integrated approach to marketing and PR at nearly 200 speaking events in 16 different countries and through an award winning blog at toprankblog.com.

Your Product Experience is Content Too

Got a complex, difficult-to-explain product? Stop marketing the features and functions and start showing how your solution makes customers smarter, faster, and more successful. Even better – give them a taste of the results so they get hungry for more.

Attend this session to learn exciting ways to offer a slimmed-down version of your product to create interactive demos, engaging trial experiences, and freemium offers that convert paying customers. Your options for implementing product-based content depend on your tech, your stage of growth, and the types of customers you want to attract. This presentation will share examples of successful approaches and demonstrate how to leverage them to accelerate growth.

You’ll learn how to:

• Tell product stories with interactive, story-based demos
• Position freemium products and free trials within your overall marketing and sales strategy
• Integrate triggers to get customers to that all-important “aha” moment
• Set up key milestones and metrics to track progress toward your goals

Target Audience: Content Marketers, Product Marketers, or Technology Product Marketers(B2B or B2C)

Margie Agin helps B2B technology companies discover what makes them unique and find the words to say it. She is founder and chief strategist of Centerboard Marketing and author of “Brand Breakthrough.” She has helped companies in the cybersecurity, communications, EdTech and software industries distill complex topics into content and campaigns that drive action. She led demand generation efforts for Blackboard and digital marketing for Tandberg and Cisco. She also taught content marketing and web writing at Johns Hopkins University.

How to Publish a Year’s Worth of Content From One Research Study

Cranking out an endless stream of content that engages your audience and transforms them from believers to buyers seems impossible. Until now. Attend this session to learn how one research project can establish your brand as an authority, and provide the base camp you need to keep the content flowing and leads converting to achieve y our marketing goals. Learn that with the right mindset, you can craft story-worthy survey questions that will propel your content forward. And leave with a solid plan on how to create a survey from the ground up and use your data and insights to carry forward to multiple formats and channels.

Attend this session and learn all this, and more…

• Six types of survey questions to fuel your editorial calendar
• Customizable framework for publishing consistency
• Fifty+ examples of how to repurpose your research project

Michele is a content marketing guru, having worked in the field since its early days. She is the co-founder of Mantis Research, which publishes and spotlights research in marketing. She has written and published hundreds of articles on the subject, being recognized as one of Folio’s Top Women in Media in 2015. Michele cut her teeth as the head of editorial at the Content Marketing Institute. She was the first employee hired there and helped the organization grow to an audience of 200,000 subscribers. She’s no stranger to podcasts either, having co-hosted the Marketing Breakout Podcast for six months.

How to Write Copy That Actually Converts

If you're getting campaign ideas and inspiration from your competitors, you're likely following the herd of mediocracy and not getting the fuel you need to stand out from the pack. Attend this session to learn proven methodology and techniques to find unique positioning for your story, campaigns, products, and/or services. And leave with clarity on how to craft better messages and copy that transforms browsers into believers that actually convert.

Attend this session and learn....

• 5 methods to find high-converting, engaging product positioning and messaging
• How to find creative ideas and triggers for greatness — without being creative
• Patterns of success from high-converting ad campaigns and website landing pages
• How to craft copy that makes your brand stand-out in a sea of boring competitors

Liz Willits is a marketing expert, business owner, and conversion copywriter who guides the copy and content strategies of some of the fastest-growing tech companies in the world. She's worked in B2B SaaS marketing for nearly a decade and is a marketing instructor at the University of Vermont.

How to Write Irresistible Email Subject Lines

Your email subject lines can make or break the performance of your entire email marketing strategy. Learn how to create subject lines that stand out from the pack while enticing readers, boosting open rates, and better delivering on email marketing goals.

Takeaways include…

• Five subject line best practices top email marketers always follow
• Proven formulas to quickly write engaging subject lines
• Real-life examples of subject lines with open rates over 60%

Liz Willits is a marketing expert, business owner, and conversion copywriter who guides the copy and content strategies of some of the fastest-growing tech companies in the world. She's worked in B2B SaaS marketing for nearly a decade and is a marketing instructor at the University of Vermont.

Grow Your LinkedIn Audience with Content Smarts

Sure, you'll need some pretty remarkable content to grow your fan base on LinkedIn. But choosing what topics to tackle and what format and style to use can make or break your efforts. Learn the latest tips and tactics for LinkedIn content creation and optimization, and how to get more followers, fans, and fame!

Takeaways include…

• 20 tips for getting followers and attention on LinkedIn
• How to optimize your LinkedIn profile
• Copywriting strategies for writing viral posts

Liz Willits is a marketing expert, business owner, and conversion copywriter who guides the copy and content strategies of some of the fastest-growing tech companies in the world. She's worked in B2B SaaS marketing for nearly a decade and is a marketing instructor at the University of Vermont.

10 Tactical Steps to Generating Persuasive Content

Marketers have lost sight of their content objectives. Instead of highlighting industry buzzwords with little emotional appeal, marketers should be creating persuasive content to peak interest, boost engagement, and increase conversions. Learn how to make your content more persuasive with the latest tactics, tools, and techniques for success.

Takeaways, techniques, and tactics include…

• A step-by-step guide for creating persuasive content
• How to fully engross your readers in your solution
• Tools to find questions your audience is asking

After climbing the corporate ranks to Vice President of Marketing for a multimillion dollar company, Kayla Elliott decided to pursue her own marketing firm and founded ell Consulting. With over a decade of experience in content marketing, social media management, and digital advertising, she’s equipped to provide insightful guidance on how to create compelling content and capitalize on digital and social opportunities.

How to Create B2B Content That Won’t Put Your Audience to Sleep

Want to learn how to dethrone the content Goliath in your industry, despite being pitted against zillions of dollars in content marketing budget? Learn new tactics to improve content quality, stop content waste, and increase the likelihood of capturing your audience’s attention—and their mindshare.

Attend this session and learn…

• Competitive tactics that the Goliath players can't and won't use
• Audience analysis tactics that drive content creation for success
• New tools, frameworks and tips to master B2B content creation

Paxton Gray is the Vice President of Operations at 97th Floor and is responsible for the overall work the agency produces for clients like CapitalOne, Discover, ESPN, and Salesforce. He started in the digital marketing world in 2007 and joined 97th Floor in 2013. Paxton has been a featured speaker at industry conferences all over the world, sharing insights learned through day-to-day client work and strategy. He holds a degree in advertising from BYU.

How to Create an Authentic Bio: Let Readers Get To Know You!

You know your amazing content will drive readers to “look you up,” eager to learn more about you and your greatness. But too often we fail to explain ourselves and what makes us tick. Long-winded brags or me-me-me rambles make readers run for the hills. Learn how to create a deeper sense of connection with your audience by documenting your work, learnings, inspirations and goals in a magical way.

Attend this bio-writing session to get all this…

• The exact process for creating your bio
• How to structure your story and stories
• Three mistakes to avoid when creating your bio
• Download at http://ryan.online/bio

Ryan Foland is a high energy speaker, author, and consultant who teaches executives how to grow their influence. His 3-1-3® Method uncovers core brand messaging to guide bespoke communication strategies. Ryan is a four-time TEDx speaker and has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Inc., Entrepreneur, and more. His award-winning book, Ditch the Act, teaches leaders how to get ahead in business by simply being human. For fun, Ryan sails, draws stick figures, and raps. Learn more at https://ryan.online

How to Write an Article Google Will Love Without Complicated Keyword Research

Learn to write a blog post or article that is exactly what Google wants without expensive SEO tools, identifying primary and secondary keyword phrases, or awkward keyword-filled sentences. Get your voice found with these simple techniques that will drive thousands of Googlers to your site.

Attend this article writing how-to session (even if you aren't a writer, blogger or know anything about SEO) and learn all of this…

• The best title to impress Google and attract readers to your article
• Simple method of channeling your high-school English teacher's article outline instruction (she will be so proud of you)
• How to find the super-secret context words that makes Google happy
• What to do to boost your article
• How to apply what you just learned to crush it on social media, too!

Holly has been blogging for 12 years. That seems like a simple path, but "blogging" included about 18 different websites and projects that all lead to what she is doing today. Holly's main website is KidsActivities.com and the Quirky Momma FB page. She is the co-author of three books: 101 Kids Activities that are the Bestest, Funnest Ever!, The 101 Coolest Simple Science Experiments, and 101 Kids Activities that are the Ooey, Gooey-est Ever! There are 219,492 copies of these books in the world and counting!

How to Update an Old Article for SEO in Less than 20 Minutes

With the right tactics, old content becomes SEO gold. Learn how to update your old content to generate page views and authority with just a few tweaks that take just a few minutes. Great SEO is a long-game, but most website owners and bloggers play just one card—the first publication of an article.

Attend this how-to session and learn all of this…

• The best free tools to identify what blog posts and articles to update first
• How to quickly identify your article's strengths
• How to rapidly pinpoint what Google wants from your article that you have not delivered
• Simple methods to make only the important changes
• When and why to evaluate the results
• How to boost traffic to updated posts

Holly has been blogging for 12 years. That seems like a simple path, but "blogging" included about 18 different websites and projects that all lead to what she is doing today. Holly's main website is KidsActivities.com and the Quirky Momma FB page. She is the co-author of three books: 101 Kids Activities that are the Bestest, Funnest Ever!, The 101 Coolest Simple Science Experiments, and 101 Kids Activities that are the Ooey, Gooey-est Ever! There are 219,492 copies of these books in the world and counting!

5 Easy, Quick Tune-Up Tactics to Make Your Content Crush It

Whether you want to refresh your existing marketing content—or create new campaigns that have every possible advantage—you need to know these five creative tactics. They make it easy to improve engagement and response, even during tough times. Backed by neuroscientific research and in-market testing, they work because they’re based on how people really make decisions. Discover the best ways to phrase your copy, position your product, and make your offer irresistible. See numerous examples from a variety of verticals and channels (email, websites, offline, ads). And leave armed with actionable tactics that drive instant improvements.

Discover all this…

• The one common mistake you must avoid
• What to say first before you ask for action
• How to get people to see your product or service differently
• The fascinating brain science backstories behind why these tactics work
• Common missed opportunities—and easy ways to fix them, fast

Nancy Harhut is passionate about the impact behavioral science can have on marketing. A BostInno "50 on Fire" winner, Online Marketing Institute Top 40 Digital Strategist, and Social Top 50 email marketing leader, she has spearheaded integrated campaigns for clients large and small. She and her teams have won over 175 awards for digital and direct marketing effectiveness. Harhut is known for her interesting and actionable insights that focus on the impact of behavioral science on marketing. A top-ranked speaker, she's wowed audiences from the US Department of Defense to Moscow marketers to SXSW attendees. Companies seeking an added advantage tap her for consulting, creative direction and content development. Follow her on twitter at @nharhut or reach her at nharhut@me.com.

How to get more, better content ideas faster

Struggling to come up with new content ideas for your business? Tired of using the same old process to generate the same old content ideas? There’s a better way to tap into the knowledge of your team, identify areas of opportunity, and craft the content your target personas want to read. Learn how to design and implement a better content ideation process that will produce more ideas and less painful meetings.

Learn…

• Common challenges that can derail your brainstorm
• 5 simple fixes to set you up for success
• How to tap into the experiences and insights hidden within your team
• A flexible framework that encourages divergent thinking and yields more, different ideas

Michael Wienke is a 20 year marketing veteran with experience leading content and creative development brainstorms for global brands like Microsoft, Coca-Cola and Bacardi Limited. He has a Master’s in Critical and Creative Thinking from the University of Massachusetts - Boston, where his thesis was on the development of a new organizational approach to brainstorming and innovation. He also has a Master’s of Business Administration from Webster University. In his current role, he is Director of Product Marketing and Sales Enablement for Mastercard Payment Gateway Services, where he works closely with the product, sales and B2B marketing organizations to provide compelling content to a growing list of global enterprise customers.

How to Design Banner Ads That Sell

Delivering content marketing performance requires advertising. Period. Learn how to design killer banner ads using core design principles featured in most high-performing ads. Get tactical advice on how-to ads that sell without selling, including design do’s and don’ts, copywriting tips, creative examples, and best practices for campaign success.

Attend this session to…

• Review core design principles for color, contrast, typography, white space, and imagery.
• Learn how to craft ad copy that sells with less urgency for better results.
• Learn how to scale campaigns to multi-sizes and formats with ease.
• View high-performance examples of excellence that inspire creative expression.

Gery Meleg is the head of Design and UX at Creatopy. He mentors a growing team of over 12 design experts from fields like User Experience, Interface Design, Branding, Visual Design, and Motion Graphics. He’s tasked with synchronizing key business activities across the department, with a focus on generating business value and growth through design, problem-solving, creativity, and craft.

How to Effectively Bring NLP into your Content Workflow

AI-generated content can definitely save time in your content process. It can generate ideas, write copy with your voice and style, and scale production. Yay, right?! But, are you taking the output for granted? What do you know about the underlying technology that creates your inspiration and text? Attend this session and learn

• How NLG is being used for long-form content today and what to expect in the future
• Considerations when vetting technology, like what models they use and how they apply filters
• Why human creativity and subject matter expertise are more important than ever with NLP/NLG

Jeff is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer for MarketMuse, where he is focused on helping content marketers, search engine marketers, agencies and publishers build topical authority, improve content quality and turn semantic research into actionable insights. Before joining as Co-founder at MarketMuse, Jeff owned and operated his own inbound marketing consultancy and managed the Traffic, Search and Engagement team for TechTarget, a leader in B2B technology publishing and lead generation.

Effective Delegation - The Missing Ingredient for

Are you running out of time? Are you working more than anyone else in your own company, yet you can’t seem to scale your business? Join this session to learn how to empower your employees to take full responsibility for their jobs and bring in results faster than ever. You will learn simple and actionable ways to delegate work to your staff and scale your business rapidly while working a lot less.

Attend this session to learn….

• How to identify what and when you need to delegate
• Why is it harmful to your business to delegate the wrong tasks
• Empower your staff through effective communication

Target Audience: CEOs, Managers, Business Owners, Directors, Team Leads

Mads has more than 10 years of experience in Fortune 500 companies, such as Xerox and IBM, and more than 10 years of experience coaching and consulting online entrepreneurs on Management & Outsourcing. He has also spoken at many larger events such as CMSEO, TiECon, DCBKK, DMSS Bali, SEO Spring Training, SEODay, 7 Figure Seller Summit and the Survive and Thrive Ecommerce Summit. Mads currently owns and runs 5 companies, and manages more than 150 people, he doesn't just talk the talk, he walks the walk. As well as being a management expert, Mads is also an expert on growing and scaling an online business, and he is one of the industry experts in the DiSC methodology, which is a cornerstone in his management philosophy and he shares his knowledge through the Effective Management Mastery course & community.

De-Risk Domain Authority: How to Increase Content Efficiency

You know the concept of “Your car loses value the moment you drive it off the lot”? It’s the same thing when you publish a piece of content and never revisit it. You can’t rely on one piece of content to power traffic anymore. If one piece doesn't perform well, it impacts your authority and the cost of every piece of content increases and your chance at performing well is at risk. You need an ecosystem of content that is consistently maintained and optimized.

Learn how to increase your content efficiency and reduce risk in this session. And learn the framework to ensure each piece of content drives the impact it should so you can maximize your investment.

Attend this session to learn how to…

• Identify at-risk content
• Build clusters at scale
• Publish the best possible content the first time around
• Understand when to go back and update

Target Audience: SEOs, content marketers, content strategist, content creators

Jeff is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer for MarketMuse, where he is focused on helping content marketers, search engine marketers, agencies and publishers build topical authority, improve content quality and turn semantic research into actionable insights. Before joining as Co-founder at MarketMuse, Jeff owned and operated his own inbound marketing consultancy and managed the Traffic, Search and Engagement team for TechTarget, a leader in B2B technology publishing and lead generation.

How to Optimize for Different Social Channels

Video ads make up more than 82% of all consumer internet traffic (InVideo) and there’s more ad fatigue than ever. On top of that, many younger consumers' attention is divided between more than one screen - making the next generation especially difficult to capitavate. Hope can share tips on how to leverage short-form video campaigns on platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and more to capitalize on second screen media and combat ad fatigue. She’ll take you step by step on building platform-specific content for each channel and strategies for embracing second screen media like creating a second touchpoint that amplifies original content.

Attend this session to learn how to…

• Strengthen brand awareness and engage new audiences by creating platform-specific content.
• Leverage short form video to capitalize on second screen media and combat ad fatigue.
• Engage Gen Z by staying up to date on trends and consistently refreshing your content strategy.

A three-time entrepreneur who has been featured in Inc.'s Top 25 Entrepreneurs to Watch, Entrepreneur's 11 Marketing Experts that Could Change Your Business, and Pepperdine’s 40 Under 40 Hope founded Lemonlight in 2014. Lemonlight is an LA-based business on a mission to make content creation easy through innovative tools and the world’s greatest creators. Lemonlight has been honored in Inc. 500 and Entrepreneur 360 three years in a row and Hope is a regular contributor at Entrepreneur, Forbes, Inc. and multiple other publications. In 2021, Lemonlight released their own video production platform.

3 Unique Ways to Leverage Keyword Research

Content marketers and SEOs often treat keyword research as a necessary evil, something to check off the list before moving to bigger and better things. But what if this oversight leaves untapped potential hidden in your keyword research? During this session, you'll learn how to gain insights from keyword research to inform messaging, how to map intention to user journey to inform page depth optimizations, and how to leverage keyword data to prioritize content opportunities. By surfacing intention from keyword research, you’ll fortify your smartitude with new tactics for your content arsenal.

Attend this session and learn how to..

• Perform emotional keyword research
• Organize keywords by intention
• Leverage keyword research to inform asset creation
• Use keyword data as an input in content prioritization

Target Audience: Content Marketers, SEOs, Content Creators, Storytellers

Beginning her career at Collective Measures over a decade ago, Katie brings a strategic and genuinely enthusiastic approach to all things content SEO and content marketing. With experience on brands including Cargill, Land O’Lakes, and Room & Board, Katie creates content strategies that maximize search visibility and engage audiences throughout their entire consumer journey. She firmly believes that when it comes to content, everything is rooted in data. In other words, she melds science and storytelling to help her clients meet their business objectives.

Overcoming Strategic Challenges in Content Marketing

How do you develop a content marketing strategy when you have seemingly insurmountable challenges to overcome? Attend this session to learn how to develop a cost-effective integrated content marketing plan that scales. Get the framework you need with “scrappy” strategies to reap rewards from the toughest challenges like low volume keyword, narrow target audience, and limited budget. And learn to pinpoint high intention moments in the customer journey to improve conversion rates and capture competitors market share, so you can get the return you demand from content marketing investment.

Attend this session to learn how to..

• Analyze core content marketing strategy needs
• Develop a template to articulate content marketing objectives and goals
• Build a KPI Dashboard to measure results and drive optimization goals

Target Audience: Growth marketers, Brand Managers, Marketing Directors, Storytelling-driven Content Marketers who hate SEO.

Jennifer Apy is a growth marketer who champions the cause of innovative, community-driven brands that are passionate about their customers. By leveraging insights about the company, customers and competitors, she works with brands to develop a roadmap to success that often surpasses unbeatable marketing odds. She built her marketing career working with Fortune 500 companies to startups, from consumer brands (Discovery Toys, American Girl) to enterprise software companies (Adobe, Intuit) to startups that achieved successful exits in recent years. Currently she is a Partner and CMO with Chief Outsiders, serving several SMBs as a part-time fractional chief marketing officer.

Do This, Not That: Ignite Your Email Marketing

Content is king when it comes to successful marketing initiatives. But, ensuring that your intended audience is actually receiving and engaging with this content is critical for success. Attend this session to learn proven techniques for driving strong email marketing results for content strategists. Converting customer engagement goes beyond just opening that initial email; it includes the full lifecycle from email subject lines, online forms, to mobile landing pages and online navigation bars. Whether you’re a marketer for a startup, B2C or B2B company, email marketing can significantly support your business efforts for driving engagement for your latest content.

Learn all this, and more…

• Small changes to your email creative, landing pages and overall setup that will radically improve your marketing ROI
• Simple and quick tweaks to double open rates for your email campaigns
• The power of subject lines and how specific words can make your email standout
• The best days and ideal frequencies for sending emails

Target Audience: Content Strategist, Brand Managers, Marketing Directors and Content Marketers.

Jay Schwedelson is the founder of SubjectLine.com, the leading free subject-line rating tool ranked in the top 1% of all websites worldwide. Having led SubjectLine.com through the testing of more than 12 million subject lines, Jay uses his knowledge to guide organizations across multiple industries on how to implement impactful email marketing. Jay is also the president and CEO of Worldata Group, a multi-brand marketing services company whose portfolio includes Subjectline.com, Outcome Media and Guru Events which puts on the GURU conference, the world’s largest email marketing event.

New “Helpful Content” Ranking Strategy: Use Social Behavior and Audience Intelligence Data

Google’s latest “Helpful Content” ranking update is certainly changing the landscape for search optimization marketing, leaving old techniques like keyword stuffing in the dust. It turns out that creating content for people, not bots, is what matters to Google, and that’s good news for us all. Attend this session to learn what’s new and what’s next with search optimization, and how to improve your SEO content strategy by using social behavioral and audience intelligence data to forge an “audience-first SEO” approach to content creation and re-creation, delivering the results you demand from your content marketing investments.

Attend this session and learn how to…

• Develop Audience-First SEO Personas, and why they matter
• Integrate keyword intelligence with audience intelligence
• Survey search landscape to find SEO competitors
• Create and analyze an audience intelligence report
• Use SEO Persona Insights for SEO Topic Modeling

Target Audience: Content Marketers, SEOs, Digital Marketers, Content Creators, Storytellers.

Rory is an SEO and growth marketer who is highly experienced at formulating successful SEO strategies that are designed to deliver a clear ROI, SEO growth and multi-million dollar revenues for global organizations. He has over eight years of experience scaling an agency, and working with some of the world's most successful SaaS companies. Rory is passionate about developing integrated channel strategies and sharing his knowledge about how to use audience insights to optimize SEO strategies. He’s previously been featured in INBOUND22, BrightonSEO, Semrush, OnCrawl, Content Marketing Institute, and Audiense.

10 Positioning Strategies to Make your Product/Service 10X Valuable

We have virtually unlimited traffic available to us today, with inexpensive options like DMs, groups, content, cold email, and paid media at scale. But with all this access, why do we still struggle to get right-sized paying customers and clients that align with our services and solutions. It turns out that it's not about the traffic, it’s about turning your product into an irresistible offer that sells to the right person, at the right time. Attend this session to learn the 10 positioning strategies that will help your business convert more browsers into believers, and believers into buyers, with increased prices that align with your solutions.

Learn all this and more!

• Advanced Risk-Reversal Techniques to convert traffic
• Tactics to De-Commoditizing Your Business
• Secrets behind the $120 Cheesesteak
• How to create your own ‘Purple Ocean’
• How to 10X your services value without changing the deliverables

Target Audience: Marketing Professionals and Founders in the Information and Software Industry

Paul Sanders is the CEO of Offer Economics - a consulting firm that helps Education Companies make their backend products up to 10X more valuable through dynamic market positioning. His experience started 6 years ago in a struggling startup about to go under days before Christmas. He constructed a single compelling offer which enabled the fledgling startup to cashflow their traffic and go on to bring in over one million dollars the next year. Today Paul helps companies in 3 continents convert more traffic, increase prices and close clients by turning products into high value, irresistible offers.

How To Optimize for Searcher/User Intent

The biggest brands with the biggest budgets, best tools, and biggest teams really NAIL it when it comes to user intent. Attend this session to learn how the big dogs like Amazon, Home Depot and Allstate make the optimization magic happen—so you can replicate the hacks, tricks and techniques for your small business or agency.

Learn all this and more…

• Why searcher intent is the future of content and SEO
• The changes Google is making to its algorithm that will change how we make content
• How to track content changes on industry leading (and competitor) websites
• How to tell if website updates are deliberately guided by data or just run-of-the-mill
• What you can do today to start learning from your competitors and the leaders of your industry

Tools you'll be diving into include:

• Optimizely
• Hotjar
• And an unreleased proprietary tool you’ll be able to access!

Daniel Russell is the COO at award-winning agency Go Fish Digital, where he has worked with the world's largest organizations and well-known public figures to build their brands online. His innovative strategies cover nearly all digital platforms, from improving Yelp scores to creating new sales channels through social media. In just the last year, Daniel's work has hit the front page of Reddit, earned the #1 spot on YouTube, and has been featured in The Washington Post, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Yahoo News, and Inc. He is also a licensed attorney.

The Future of SEO Content Starts With the Death of Classic Keyword Research

SEO content strategy using classic keyword selection that only considers monthly search volume and keyword difficulty is an outdated approach. To win rankings and organic traffic, your content must address the needs of the searcher today and tomorrow for the topic you're writing about. Attend this session and learn how to…>/p>

• Research keywords effectively intent and not search volume
• Plan evergreen content strategy for topics that shift in popularity over time
• Use tools like Clearscope, Google Trends, and Google Search Results

Bernard is the co-founder at Clearscope, an AI-powered content optimization tool for SEO. Prior to that, Bernard was the co-founded Mushi Labs, an SEO consulting agency, and SEO point of contact for 500+ startups companies.

How To Create Custom Keyword Clusters and Map Out Months of Topics

Good news. The next-generation of keyword research is far less boring, with keyword clusters emerging like stars in the sky. Machine learning algorithms are leading the way, quickly surfacing fresh topic ideas that will appeal to your readers and fans. Learn the latest tactics for keyword research, topic selection and content optimization.

Attend this session and learn how to…

• Tap open-source python scripts used in science
• Create a custom keyword clustering algorithm
• Pinpoint the right keywords to target for content optimization
• Optimize content efficiently using AI-powered tools

Digital marketer with love for SEO, Michał co-founded SurferSEO and has been evangelizing the product and data-driven approach to optimization content at scale. He trained hundreds of SEOs, copywriters, and marketers over the years on the full spectrum of search marketing ranging from on-page SEO, content optimization, and how to use AI to perform SEO magic.

SEO is Math, Not Magic: Add Up the Ranking Factors that Matter Most in Your Industry

Google’s search algorithms use hundreds of metrics to score search results and provide searchers with the highest-quality results. But did you know those factors vary from industry to industry, and even keyword to keyword? It all depends on the intent behind the question. With the help of machine learning and powerful computing, learn how to reverse-engineer Google’s ranking algorithm for any keyword. This lets you identify, test, and iterate on select factors to start outranking your competition and break onto the first page for high-value keywords in your niche.

Attend this session and learn how to…

• Use competitor analysis to develop your content strategy
• Optimize content for semantic richness and content-quality signals
• A/B test on-page optimizations using Google Search Console data
• Redeploy your strategy for other landing pages on your website

Tools discussed and showcased:

• Ahrefs’ Keyword Explorer
• LinkGraph’s SEO Content Optimizer
• Google Search Console and GSC Insights

Manick Bhan is the founder and CTO of LinkGraph – an award-winning mission-driven SEO and digital marketing agency – and the creator, founder and CEO of the SearchAtlas SEO software suite. As a growth hacker, data scientist, and skilled programmer, SEO is Bhan’s greatest passion and his life’s work. With 10+ years of experience in Search Engine Optimization from the in-house and agency side, Bhan has taught both startups and Fortune 500 companies how to scale their brands with a data-driven SEO strategy that can break into any market with ease and outrank even the biggest of competitors.

How Intelligent Content Inspires Browsers to Take Action and Buy

Driving traffic is hard work. And it’s wasted work if your site doesn’t transform browsers into buyers. So why aren't more of your visitors turning into leads or buyers? Attend this keynote to learn how to instantly remove the friction and boost the migration through each journey stage.

Attend this keynote and learn…

• THE key motivator for engagement and action.
• Why most websites fail, according to 12 years of research.
• How to fix most of the problems in one swoop with a new "aspect" of the infamous call-to-action.

Andy Crestodina is a co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Orbit Media, an award-winning 40-person digital agency in Chicago. Over the past 20 years, Andy has provided digital marketing advice to 1000+ businesses. He speaks at national marketing conferences and writes for big marketing blogs. He's also the author of Content Chemistry: The Illustrated Handbook for Content Marketing. Andy has written 400+ of articles on content strategy, search engine optimization, influencer marketing, conversion and Analytics. Top 10 Online Marketing Experts to Watch, Forbes Top 50 Marketing Influencer, Entrepreneur Magazine Top 20 Content Marketing Thought Leaders, Alexa Top 25 Content Marketers, Buzzsumo Top 100 Digital Marketers, Brand 24 Top 10 Social Media Influencers to Watch, Social Media Explorer Top 50 Content Marketing Influencers to Follow, Outbrain Top 15 Growth Marketing Speakers, Read Write 3x Inc 5000 Winner

[Re]Build Your Brand With COVID-19 Insights

Chances are you spent last year following one of these brand positions: business-as-usual, customer-hyperfocus or duck-and-cover. With the new year arriving and optimism on the horizon, now is the time to learn from the past and map out your future content and brand strategy. Attend this session to learn how to consistently create value-add content to engage customers and accelerate brand growth—the content marketing way!

Attend this session and learn how to…

• Refresh your content strategy.
• Re-engage your customers.
• Amplify your message with advertising.
• Enhance public relations.

Scott Kolbe empowers owners and managers to grow sales using high-performance brand marketing. His passion for storytelling is contagious, sharing 20+ years of experience working with companies like Jim Beam, Oakley and Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Learn best practices for standing out in a crowded market with digital, social, public relations and events. Enter with an open mind about marketing as an asset and leave ready to immediately expand the capabilities of your internal teams and grow your business!

Maximize Your Content Pipeline

This past year pushed us to the [content] limit, forcing businesses to get creative around driving traffic, building engagement and capturing new sales. Producing high-quality, on-brand content became a priority, prompting investment in teams and systems to help manage delivery at scale. Learn how to flex your content planning, map out timely and topical messaging, and optimize content to engage the “new” searcher and reader.

Attend this session to learn how to…

• Map out content topics intelligently.
• Flex content styles for sensitive situations.
• Balance scheduled content versus “Hallmark” events.
• Leverage publishing, listening and reporting tools.

Scott Kolbe empowers owners and managers to grow sales using high-performance brand marketing. His passion for storytelling is contagious, sharing 20+ years of experience working with companies like Jim Beam, Oakley and Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Learn best practices for standing out in a crowded market with digital, social, public relations and events. Enter with an open mind about marketing as an asset and leave ready to immediately expand the capabilities of your internal teams and grow your business!

Gain A Competitive Edge Using Advanced Tools

The typical marketer doesn’t spend much time following the competition. Their customer, however, is doing just that, assessing how a brand stacks up against alternatives. Attend this session to get ahead of the competition with proven tools to measure your storytelling and brand discoverability. Identify performance strengths and gaps relative to your peer group with the goal of controlling a greater share of mind and market.

Attend this session to learn how to…

• Identify your competitive mindshare.
• Create a template for [objective] review.
• Measure storytelling index and brand discoverability.
• Pit competitors head-to-head.

Scott Kolbe empowers owners and managers to grow sales using high-performance brand marketing. His passion for storytelling is contagious, sharing 20+ years of experience working with companies like Jim Beam, Oakley and Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Learn best practices for standing out in a crowded market with digital, social, public relations and events. Enter with an open mind about marketing as an asset and leave ready to immediately expand the capabilities of your internal teams and grow your business!

Be Feared and Loved: Ranking Content The Office Way

If you're a content marketer AND fan of The Office series, you'll want to tune into this session to learn how to orchestrate keyword research, on-page optimization, and link building in a new way. You'll learn the pitfalls of why brands simply can't get their content to rank and stand out from the pack of low-performing content. Learn how to create content that is feared by your competition, and loved by Google.

Attend this session to learn how to…

• Smarten your keyword research to inform your content strategy
• Improve on-page optimization to boost search performance
• Earn quality backlinks with secret sauce used by the pros

Michael has been in the SEO industry for over eight years. He's developed hundreds of SEO campaigns and strategies for companies of all sizes, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 brands. As Sales Manager at Page One Power, Michael works with prospective partners to ensure goals, expectations, and beliefs all align before the launch of every campaign.

Human-Centric Ads: What Are They and How They Out-Perform Traditional Ads

With more than 40% of internet users declaring online ads are too aggressive, following them on every browser and device, what’s an advertiser to do? Attend this session to learn about human-centric ads, and how to utilize their power to outperform traditional display ads, reaching targeted audiences with meaningful engagement.

Attend this session to learn…

• Key elements of human-centric ads (B2B vs B2C).
• Suggested variation for alternative channels.
• Resources for inspiration (Like Outbrain’s best native ad campaign examples 2019).
• Methods to boost native conversion rates.

Dan is the President of Sharethrough, the largest independent native advertising platform that powers in-feed native ads for publishers like Forbes, Time and CBS and enables marketers like Coca Cola and P&G to programmatically distribute branded content at scale. He dropped out of the Stanford Masters program to start Sharethrough and went on to popularize the term “native advertising” in 2008 and now serves as Chair of the IAB Native Ad Committee. He has been named to the Ad Age's 40 Under 40, Forbes 30 Under 30, Inc.'s 35 Under 35 Founders List and honored as an Ad Age Media Maven. Recently Dan led a merger with District M to become a top 5 independent omnichannel ad exchange.

An Inside Look into Profitable YouTube Ad Campaigns and the Strategies that Make it Happen

YouTube Ads can be tough to crack, while other Ad platforms have seen CPA costs rise with reduced tracking abilities. But if you can make YouTube Ads work, it can be your strongest source of qualified leads and sales. Learn the strategies that will help you to create profitable YouTube Ad Campaigns, and get an inside look into Campaigns that are highly profitable. You'll see the strategies that are working in SASS, E-commerce, Education, and coaching.

Learn all this, and more…

• How to make a Video Ad that Converts
• The Strongest performing Targeting Types
• Setting to Avoid Wasting Money
• How to Measure Success

Marlon Doll is the founder and lead video strategist of Vireo Video Marketing. He's a YouTube Certified Consultant in Audience Growth and Digital Rights Management. At Vireo Video, he helps clients develop effective video content strategies that convert viewers into customers. Marlon and his team specialize in Video Advertising on most major platforms, Organic Video SEO Optimization, and implementing strategic growth and conversion campaigns with native video and branded content. Previously, he worked at the World's largest YouTube network, BroadbandTV, as the Audience Development manager for some of the World's largest independent music labels, artists, and hubs. He also produces and hosts a weekly cooking show called "Bachelor on a Budget" that teaches people how to create healthy, and affordable meals. The channel has grown to over 40,000 Subscribers and gets over 200,000 views monthly through organic growth.

LinkedIn Ads: The Secrets to Lower Cost & Higher Performance

LinkedIn Ads generally have the greatest targeting for B2B companies of any platform, but if you've advertised there before, you'll know that you pay a large premium to access that amazing targeting. Because the costs are high, any mistake you make becomes an expensive mistake, which puts marketers in a tough spot. Attend this session to learn how to de-risk the platform with the best tools to crush your lead generation goals.

Attend this session to learn all this, and more!

• Who should and shouldn't advertise on LinkedIn
• Which ad formats you should use
• How to pay less for your traffic than your competitors
• And much more

Target Audience: Whether you're brand new to LinkedIn advertising or a seasoned user, you'll get valuable insight from this session.

AJ Wilcox is a LinkedIn Ads pro who founded B2Linked.com, a LinkedIn Ads-specific agency, in 2014. As official LinkedIn partners, they manage among the world's most sophisticated advertising accounts worldwide. He's a ginger & triathlete. He & his wife live in Utah, with their 4 kids, and his company car is a wicked-fast gokart.

Plan & Record Video Like A Pro From Anywhere

Are you scrambling with video and winging it along the way? Learn the new systematic approach to save time and avoid video burnout. Get the step-by-step breakdown for a flawless setup and workflow. And discover the stress-free approach that will boost your confidence and deliver quality presentations you’re proud to share with your teams and audiences.

Attend this session to get….

• Essential do’s and don'ts for DIY video setup
• Video content planning template for video strategy mastery
• Presentation tips to avoid memorizing the script

Target Audience: Content Creators, Video Content Creators, Agency Professionals, Influencers

Meaghan Corson is a former CBS news reporter with experience building video programs for various organizations from startups and small businesses to billion-dollar software and medical companies. Executives and professionals seek Meaghan's expertise to map out their video strategy and improve their on-camera skills so they can achieve their marketing, sales, and internal communications goals.

Secret Ranking Factors of the Twitter Algorithm: How to Get More Exposure Through Tweets

Do you get the feeling you are spinning your wheels on Twitter, only to get less and less traction? You are not alone! Twitter's mysterious algorithm has evolved, and if you do not flex to meet it, all of your social work there will be largely wasted as only a fraction of your followers will see your Tweets. However, the potential is huge for reaching many more people beyond just your followers -- without resorting to paid ads. Based on a review of multiple Twitter patents and other publications, this session will bring you an approachable overview of the ranking factors used in Twitter's algorithm, and will show you how to propel your Tweets into growing followers and gaining engagement to make the little blue bird work for you!

You will take away from this session:

• Actionable tactics to maximize your Twitter reach by up to 10,000%
• Eliciting engagement that expands promotion potential exponentially
• How to avoid profile characteristics and behaviors that sandbags visibility
• Bonus: Translating Twitter exposure into greater presence on Google

Target Audience: Social Media Managers, Marketing Directors, Agency Social Media Developers, Self-Promoters, Corporate Marketers

Chris Silver Smith is founder of Argent Media, a search marketing agency specializing in Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Management, and Online Reputation Management. Chris has provided consulting for many Fortune 500 and Internet Retailer 500 companies and has served on the board of advisors for Universal Business Listing, and the SEO Board of Advisors for Thomson-Reuters FindLaw. Chris frequently has served as an expert witness for litigation involving online trademark infringement, defamation, and search engine results. As an expert witness he has served in cases involving PODS Enterprises, U-Haul, Google, The Academy Awards, GoDaddy, Fox News, and more. Chris is also a long-time columnist at Search Engine Land and Marketing Land.

A Guide to Marketing to Gen Z:

Gen Z has $143 billion in spending power. How much of that is landing with your brand? Attend this session to hear the best practices to appeal to Gen Z audiences as they emerge as the dominant consumers growing into the market. You’ll learn how the shift in demand for consumable content has drastically influenced buying decisions and strategies to engage with Gen Z consumers growing into the market.

Attend this session to learn how to…

• Appeal to Gen Z audiences through short form content and influencer marketing as they emerge as the dominant consumers growing into the market.
• Utilize TikTok and other social media platforms to reach a new generation based on the shift in demand for consumable content.
• Optimize marketing strategies that promote brand authenticity to create high-performing campaigns geared towards Gen Z consumers with a lack of trust in corporations.

Erik Huberman is the CEO and founder of Hawke Media, the fastest-growing digital marketing agency in Los Angeles. Ranked on the Inc. 5000 in 2019 and 2020, Hawke Media has worked with clients such as Red Bull, Verizon and Eddie Bauer. Prior to Hawke, Erik exited his company Swag of the Month and was recruited to Science Incubator (Dollar Shave Club, DogVacay, MeUndies), where he grew Ellie.com’s sales to $1 million in four months.

How to Reverse Engineer Your Competitor's Social Media Content Strategy

Many companies don't know how much of what they should post on their social media channels and are looking for benchmarks. This detailed, hands-on how-to session will show you how to precisely understand what content your competitors are publishing on what social media channels at which frequency to inform your own social media content marketing strategy. Learn to use this analysis to inform every aspect of your own organic social media content strategy and develop a truly data-driven approach that is aligned with and built upon best practices that others in your industry are employing.

Attend this session to learn all this and more…

• Discover insights in your competitors social media content that can help your own social media and content marketing strategy
• Create KPIs for your organic social media content marketing based upon industry-specific norms
• Equip your organization with a truly data-driven approach to optimizing your social media marketing

Target Audience: Marketing Directors, Content Marketers, Content Creators, Marketing Consultants, Social Media Managers

Neal Schaffer is a leading authority on helping businesses through their digital transformation through consulting, training, and helping enterprises large and small execute on social media marketing strategy, influencer marketing, and social selling initiatives. President of the social media agency PDCA Social, Neal also teaches digital media to executives at Rutgers University, the Irish Management Institute (Ireland), and the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland). Fluent in Japanese and Mandarin Chinese, Neal is a popular keynote speaker and has been invited to speak about digital media on four continents in a dozen countries. He is also the author of 3 books on social media, including Maximize Your Social (Wiley), and in 2018 will publish his 4th book, The Business of Influence, on educating the market on how any business can leverage the potential of influencer marketing. Neal resides in Irvine, California but also frequently travels to Japan.

How To Scale Marketing While Revenue Grows 5x in One Year

Joining an early-stage startup is equal parts exciting and challenging. I joined Hunters, an Israeli security startup, as the first Demand Generation hire in 2021. Within my first 12-months, Hunters' revenue grew from 1M-5M ARR. During this session I'll share the six-step framework we used to scale our inbound marketing: 1. Audit 'current state' before Making Changes; 2. Understand opportunity source; 3. Align and focus your leadership on KPIs; 4. Get some quick wins; 5. Analyze website performance and create an improvement plan; 6. Build an operations roadmap focused on: people, process, and tech stack.

Sarah Breathnach works with startups, to build a strong inbound marketing foundation for fast growth. As the Head of Demand Generation at Hunters, a cybersecurity startup headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel – Sarah is building the Demand Gen & Field Marketing function globally. Prior to Hunters, Sarah started her tech career at Localytics, a Boston, MA start-up acquired by Upland Software in 2019. From there, Sarah was hired to build out the Demand Gen team at Tamr, a data & analytics start-up HQ'd in Cambridge, MA.

The Netflixization of Marketing: Turning Creativity Into Marketing Fuel

Netflix, Disney+, and even TikTok—they've raised the bar on audience expectations. The result? Whether you're creating on behalf of Pixar, an enterprise brand, a small business, or even just yourself, you've got to get creative if you want to compete. This is a lot of pressure for today's marketers. But, it's also an opportunity. Those who get creative, authentic, and engaging will be rewarded. However, what about the ROI on that creativity? In this session, learn to maximize your return on creativity by starting with core creative content, breaking it into smaller pieces, and amplifying it.

Lindsay Tjepkema is CEO and co-founder at Casted, the world's first Amplified Marketing Platform. Since its start in 2019, Casted has been leading a marketing movement with its product and a new category, Amplified Marketing, empowering marketers to pursue creativity and connection, while quantifying and maximizing business impact. With a wealth of hands-on experience and proven success, Lindsay is part of the Forbes Business Council and the Entrepreneur Leadership Network where she shares her experience on being a a female founder and woman in tech leadership.

Peek Behind the Curtain: Using Video to Give Your Audience a Look Backstage and Earn Their Trust

Customers are cynical... and they have a right to be. Too many companies try to pull the wool over their eyes, pretending to be something they're not. Instead of trying to fool customers, you should invite them backstage to learn how your products are made, or how your services were developed. Attend this session to learn how to give your customers and prospects a sense of what it's like to work with you and why they should trust you. You’ll leave with clarity on how to take viewers behind-the-scenes at your company or organization, to boost your conversion and sales.

Attend this session to learn all this and more...

• How being transparent will help you earn customers' trust.
• That video isn't about facts and figures. Video is about emotion.
• Tips for types of videos to shoot, and content suggestions for making them better.

Target Audience: Brand Managers, Marketing Directors, Content Marketers, Content Creators, Storytellers

Tony Gnau is the Founder and Chief Storytelling Officer at T60 Productions. He’s a three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist and has led T60 Productions to winning 17 Telly Awards for its corporate videos. He has created videos for the likes of CommonSpirit Health, Walgreen’s, Catholic Health Initiatives, United Airlines, US Bank, Goose Island Beer Company, as well as NBA legend Dwyane Wade. Tony has written over 700 blog posts on video marketing, publishing for the T60 blog as well as other sites related to PR and marketing (Spin Sucks, Ragan, Eventbrite, Milwaukee BizTimes). He also speaks on the subject to communications professionals at conferences such as Content Marketing World, the Midwest Digital Marketing Conference, and Content Jam. Finally, Tony is a former USC Trojan football player, Star Wars geek, and a devoted husband and father.

LinkedIn Ads: The Difference is in the Quality

LinkedIn Ads are the best way to reach your most ideal B2B audience, but they're unapologetically expensive, which makes your job as a marketer much harder. Attend this session to learn the approach for paid advertising success on LinkedIn.

Learn all this, and a lot more…

• Tips to target your ideal audience
• Strategies for creating the CTAs that convert
• Pros and cons of each of the various ad formats

AJ Wilcox is a LinkedIn Ads pro who founded B2Linked.com, a LinkedIn Ads-specific agency, in 2014. As official LinkedIn partners, they manage among the world's most sophisticated advertising accounts worldwide. He's a ginger & triathlete. He & his wife live in Utah, with their 4 kids, and his company car is a wicked-fast gokart.

Ridiculously Awesome [Organic] Facebook Marketing Strategies for 2021

With so many changes in Facebook over the past year, you need to re-calibrate your GPS for marketing success. Start by learning how Facebook's algorithm pinpoints certain patterns to penalize and reward content. Discover AI tools that generate frighteningly good content in text and video form. Learn the framework for intermediate and advanced users to apply immediately for Facebook success.

• Become the go-to marketing expert with the six-phase Social Amplification Engine
• Learn Facebook's best practices for 2021: vertical video, stories, and testimonials
• Maximize ROI with Facebook ads; info on iOS14, conversion API, and IG reels
• Boost confidence with powerful strategies and structure for your marketing plan

Dennis Yu is CEO of BlitzMetrics. He is an internationally recognized lecturer in Facebook marketing, having been featured on National Public Radio, TechCrunch, Fox News, AllFacebook, CBS Evening News, and KTLA-TV. He has spoken at Search Marketing Expo, Search Engine Strategies, Web 2.0, The American Marketing Association, PubCon, Conversational Commerce Conference, Pacific Conferences, HostingCon, Affiliate Summit, Affiliate Convention, UltraLight Startups, and other venues. Yu has also counselled the Federal Trade Commission on privacy issues for social networks. Dennis has held leadership positions at Yahoo! and American Airlines. His educational background is Finance and Economics from Southern Methodist University and London School of Economics.

Documentary Films, Interactive Demos, and Episodic Series: Lessons Learned from the Top B2B Video Marketing of 2020

Video has come a long way from its roots in advertising and social media. In 2020 we saw the explosion of video in B2B marketing, not just for webinars and virtual events, but as a new content marketing format for impactful storytelling, educating buyers, and creating a more emotional connection with online communities. Join Tyler Lessard to discover today’s top trends in B2B video and how award-winning marketers are using the medium to succeed.

Attendees will learn…

• How top marketers use creative storytelling and series-based video content
• How video techniques capture the imagination, and demand, of online audiences
• What makes video the perfect medium for today’s B2B marketing landscape

Tyler is a B2B marketing executive with a passion for creative storytelling, data-driven marketing, and creating exceptional content experiences. As VP of Marketing at Vidyard, he's spent more than 6 years immersed in the world of B2B video and content, helping to define and share industry best practices. He is a frequent speaker and author on topics including video marketing, content marketing, B2B sales, account-based marketing, and modern demand generation. Tyler loves to travel, is a proud father of 4, and a big fan of Westworld and Stranger Things.

Top 11 Instagram Growth Marketing Hacks of All Time

This session will cover the latest hacks, tricks, and updates to build and grow your Instagram following and Engagement for your Story & Feed. Walk away with tangible information that you can use immediately including:

• How to Build and Grow Your Instagram Following
• Learn Simple Instagram Hacks to maximize engagement
• Discover types of bot automation powered by MobileMonkey

Larry Kim is the founder and CEO of MobileMonkey, the world’s best Sales Outreach Automation and B2C + Creator/Influencer Data platform used by sales and marketing at companies of all sizes. He’s been named Search Marketer of the Year from PPC Hero (2013, 2014, 2015, and 2017), Search Engine Land, and the US Search Awards, and received the Barry M. Portnoy Immigrant Award for high-tech entrepreneurship in 2019. Larry is also ranked the #8 most popular author on Medium, and a contributor to CNBC and Inc. Magazine.

Top Tips to Growing Your Business on TikTok

Short-form mobile video is quickly taking over the social media landscape. TikTok is leading the charge with the fastest potential for growth. Attend this session to learn growth strategies from a verified user who TikTok has hired to train some of their top creators.

• What sets TikTok apart from every other platform.
• How the "For You Page" really works.
• Tips to get started and grow without ads.

Giselle Ugarte is the Founder & CEO of Action-Forward, which exists to coach and support forward-facing influencers, entrepreneurs and thought leaders to use the power of social media to launch new revenue streams, amplify messages and attract meaningful communities. She has a collective following of more than 500,000 worldwide, with TikTok and Clubhouse currently serving as her favorite playgrounds to connect and share (TikTok recognized her as one of the Top 100 Women to Watch in 2021 and she's been featured in AdWeek and Business Insider for her work on Clubhouse.)

How to Get Started on Clubhouse

No need to show your face or curate an immaculate feed, when YOU are the content on Clubhouse. This drop-in, audio-only app is currently being valued at $4B. Go ahead and pull out your phone for this in-depth tour with tangible tips for Clubhouse growth.

• A hands-on tour of Clubhouse.
• Profile do’s and don'ts.
• Tips to start your first room.

Giselle Ugarte is the Founder & CEO of Action-Forward, which exists to coach and support forward-facing influencers, entrepreneurs and thought leaders to use the power of social media to launch new revenue streams, amplify messages and attract meaningful communities. She has a collective following of more than 500,000 worldwide, with TikTok and Clubhouse currently serving as her favorite playgrounds to connect and share (TikTok recognized her as one of the Top 100 Women to Watch in 2021 and she's been featured in AdWeek and Business Insider for her work on Clubhouse.)

The New Content Distribution Platform: Smart Speakers

Whether you create text, audio or video content, you'll soon want your audience to be able to just ask for your content—and get it. Both Amazon and Google have made a way for you to publish your brand (and your content) on voice assistants. The same way you register a domain name on the internet, you’ll want your own invocation name on voice assistants. Whether you love ’em or hate ’em, smart speakers like Amazon Alexa are being used by millions every day. Join Chip Edwards to learn how to become an early adopter of this new content distribution platform.

Attend this session for…

• A rundown on the invocation name, which is how you converse with and deliver content directly to your audience
• Examples of brands currently using voice assistant technology to deliver content
• Tips for making voice assistant technology work for you

Love ’em or hate ’em, smart speakers like Amazon Alexa are used by millions of people every day. Technologist and teacher Chip Edwards has spoken across the country about how content producers can use smart speaker platforms like Amazon Alexa and Google Home to distribute content and engage with their audience. Chip is a partner at CreateMyVoice.com, where they help content producers claim their Invocation Name and be found on the Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa platforms.

How to Win Big with YouTube Marketing and Advertising for your Brand

YouTube marketing can be one of the greatest channels to grow an audience and convert them into customers. Learn why building an organic audience is one of the strongest ways to leverage YouTube ads and how to scale with video. Discover the latest on what’s working and what’s not, and how to create great YouTube ads that convert!

• The VAMP model to scale your YouTube growth.
• How to convert viewers into customers.
• What's working right now with YouTube ads.
• What to avoid with YouTube advertising.

Marlon Doll is the founder and lead video strategist of Vireo Video Marketing. He's a YouTube Certified Consultant in Audience Growth and Digital Rights Management. At Vireo Video, he helps clients develop effective video content strategies that convert viewers into customers. Marlon and his team specialize in Video Advertising on most major platforms, Organic Video SEO Optimization, and implementing strategic growth and conversion campaigns with native video and branded content. Previously, he worked at the World's largest YouTube network, BroadbandTV, as the Audience Development manager for some of the World's largest independent music labels, artists, and hubs. He also produces and hosts a weekly cooking show called "Bachelor on a Budget" that teaches people how to create healthy, and affordable meals. The channel has grown to over 40,000 Subscribers and gets over 200,000 views monthly through organic growth.

Why and How to Batch Create Video Content

We all know the best way to sell a product is to build trust with the purchaser, right? And the best way to build trust is face to face. With the increasing limitations we are dealt on a daily basis, we can’t meet everyone face to face; so the next best thing is video. In this session, you will learn why video is so important for an organization and your personal brand, and how you can create it without too much stress.<.p>

• How to build a video content strategy with a mobile phone.
• Tips to increase your production without increasing cost.
• Tactics for increasing engagement.

While Gary's previous career was in corporate sales, he was always a creative at heart and considers content creation to be his calling. He's worked with Uber, Mercedes, Pepsi, and many more brands that tap his global video experience and passion for growth in organizations. And he’s now the Founder and Creative Director of Capital Content based in the UK, serving brands worldwide.

Go From Chasing Customers to Them Chasing You

In a digital world full of distraction, crowded news feeds, and 3-second attention spans, we are fighting for each other’s attention and it seems impossible to stand out as a business leader. How do we cut through the noise and become a magnet for success?

In this talk, Alexandria shares the secret sauce that competition-proofs your business, captivates the attention of your market, and puts you center stage in your ideal customers' lives. Now, the people you dream of serving see you, hear you, and are inspired to take action with you, even amongst the sea of other options.

• Learn how to speak a message that attracts the "die-hards"
• Explore different elements of the Movement Marketing Method
• Craft a rockin' game plan to take back to the marketing department that gets the team excited to create their next campaign

Alexandria believes in creating a world where people fully align what they do to make money with what they do to experience meaning and fulfillment in their lives. She calls it the “sweet spot” between purpose and profit. She co-founded Purpose Pioneers, where she's on a mission to use the power of purpose to turn businesses into movements. Join her in furthering the Purpose-First Movement.

How to Strategically Build Out Your Library of Content in One Year

Instead of always trying to figure out what to write about in your next blog post or wondering why you aren't ranking for strategic keywords, take Neal Schaffer's advice. Learn how to plan out and build one year's worth of blog content, which will become your strategic library of content. Attend this session to learn the exact steps Neal has taken to outrank formidable competitors building his own library of content.

• Helps you rank higher for SEO.
• Gives you a social "voice" that lets you engage with prospects and clients on social media.
• Enhances engagement with email subscribers.

Neal Schaffer is a leading authority on helping businesses through their digital transformation through consulting, training, and helping enterprises large and small execute on social media marketing strategy, influencer marketing, and social selling initiatives. President of the social media agency PDCA Social, Neal also teaches digital media to executives at Rutgers University, the Irish Management Institute (Ireland), and the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland). Fluent in Japanese and Mandarin Chinese, Neal is a popular keynote speaker and has been invited to speak about digital media on four continents in a dozen countries. He is also the author of 3 books on social media, including Maximize Your Social (Wiley), and in 2018 will publish his 4th book, The Business of Influence, on educating the market on how any business can leverage the potential of influencer marketing. Neal resides in Irvine, California but also frequently travels to Japan.

Ridiculously Awesome [Paid] Facebook Marketing Strategies for 2021

With so many changes in Facebook over the past year, you need to re-calibrate your GPS for marketing success. Start by learning how Facebook's algorithm pinpoints certain patterns to penalize and reward content. Discover AI tools that generate frighteningly good content in text and video form. Learn the framework for intermediate and advanced users to apply immediately for Facebook success.

Dennis Yu is CEO of BlitzMetrics. He is an internationally recognized lecturer in Facebook marketing, having been featured on National Public Radio, TechCrunch, Fox News, AllFacebook, CBS Evening News, and KTLA-TV. He has spoken at Search Marketing Expo, Search Engine Strategies, Web 2.0, The American Marketing Association, PubCon, Conversational Commerce Conference, Pacific Conferences, HostingCon, Affiliate Summit, Affiliate Convention, UltraLight Startups, and other venues. Yu has also counselled the Federal Trade Commission on privacy issues for social networks. Dennis has held leadership positions at Yahoo! and American Airlines. His educational background is Finance and Economics from Southern Methodist University and London School of Economics.

A Guide for Nailing Your Virtual Presence

A year ago, many of us were thrown into work from home setups and endless virtual meetings. It’s very clear that virtual is here to stay. Now, it’s time to step back and improve both your technical set-up and your virtual presence. Get pro-tips for flawless video setup, advice on affordable gear, and presentation wisdom that will set you apart.

Takeaways you can put to work in your virtual meetings and webcam recordings:

• Foundations to crush your virtual meetings
• Upping your virtual presence
• Essentials for your DIY video setup
• Gear you need without the fear of price
• Advice for casting your presence
• Tips for authenticity and connection

Justin Andrews is co-founder and CEO at Animus Studios, a video strategy and production agency located in Rhode Island. At Animus Studios, Justin puts his creativity, strategic thinking, and caring attitude to work. He loves helping organizations plan, create, and share the fascinating stories that make them stand out.

Twitter: The Latest Tactics for Organic Success

Twitter provides significant value for companies and personal brands online via search engine results, but only if leveraged effectively. When your brand is searched-upon, does your Twitter profile rank prominently on page one? Individual Tweets can also get indexed by Google and can rank in search results augmenting content marketing and visibility. Attend this session to refine your tactics to get your presence in search results and the Twitterverse boosted.

• Learn how Google ranks Twitter content, in spite of Twitter "nofollowing"
• Discover how to optimize your Twitter profile to rank advantageously
• Gain key insights on the tactics that increase engagement, which in turn drives rankings
• See examples of how #hashtag strategy can increase your engagement and content visibility
• As a bonus, learn how to invoke the Twitter Carousel in Google

Chris Silver Smith is founder of Argent Media, a search marketing agency specializing in Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Management, and Online Reputation Management. Chris has provided consulting for many Fortune 500 and Internet Retailer 500 companies and has served on the board of advisors for Universal Business Listing, and the SEO Board of Advisors for Thomson-Reuters FindLaw. Chris frequently has served as an expert witness for litigation involving online trademark infringement, defamation, and search engine results. As an expert witness he has served in cases involving PODS Enterprises, U-Haul, Google, The Academy Awards, GoDaddy, Fox News, and more. Chris is also a long-time columnist at Search Engine Land and Marketing Land.

How Experiences Create Customer Profiles in a World of First-Party Data

We often talk about how to measure digital content, but often overlook IRL content—experiences. Brands and marketers are focusing more and more on experiential marketing, but there’s still room to grow in learning how to get and measure this content. The best way? Gather it yourself. Jonathan will share how data-driven experiences help build a complete customer profile while creating an enjoyable experience for the user.

Attend this session to…

• Understand what types of data points experiential marketing offers that are otherwise hard to discern.
• Explore how data and insights gathered before, during, and after experiences help brands understand customers.
• Learn how brand experiences will add value in a post-GDPR world.

Jonathan Yaffe is the CEO and Co-Founder of AnyRoad (which recently closed their $47M Series B), a data and analytics platform that powers the data behind many of the Fortune 2000’s experiences, including Absolut, the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, Michaels Arts & Crafts, Honda, and Diageo. Jonathan began his career in experiential marketing at Red Bull, and holds a degree in Cognitive Science from the University of California Berkeley.

Stop Selling Blindly

Today's buyers prefer to remain invisible, talking to Google instead of your sales team when researching potential purchases. Attend this session to discover how cutting-edge organizations are levering the power of content, marketing automation & website tracking to uncover sales prospects' previously invisible sales signals. You'll leave the session with actionable tactics to immediately improve your organization's ability to generate high-quality leads that your sales teams will feel like they can't live without.

Learn all of this, and more...

• Leverage the Google Effect to capture DIY buyer prospect leads
• Develop Behavioral Email campaigns to uncover the 1% of hot but hidden leads
• Creating marketing automation hacks to automagically alert Sales on interest transitions into intent

Target Audience: Brand Managers, Marketing Directors, Content Marketers, Sales Enablement Managers

Tom is a no nonsense, straight-talking 30-year veteran of the sales & and marketing business who favors stiff drinks, good debates and helping companies Sell Greatly by turning conversations into customers. As an internationally recognized sales & marketing keynote speaker, founder of Converse Digital, and Author of The Invisible Sale, Tom marries his two passions, marketing & technology, to teach companies how to leverage digital marketing channels to achieve and sustain sales growth, enhance brand perception and painlessly prospect for new customers.

17 Ways to Track Content Marketing Performance

You’re already using social media metrics and web analytics to track content marketing performance. But, your C-Suite executives keep asking you for other key performance indicators (KPIs). Attend this session to learn 17 ways to measure what matters – whether your goal is to create brand awareness, generate demand/leads, increase sales/revenue, or show the return on investment (ROI) of your content marketing initiatives. You’ll leave the session understanding which set of KPIs to use to measure how you’re doing against different objectives – so you don’t judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree.

Learn all this, and more...

• Use brand lift surveys to measure content marketing campaigns
• Compare the economic value of all you social media programs
• Set up new conversion events in Google Analytics 4 (GA4)
• Calculate the return on investment in content marketing

Target Audiences: Marketing Directors, Brand Managers, Content Marketers, Content Creators

Greg Jarboe is president of SEO-PR, which he co-founded with Jamie O'Donnell in 2003. Their content marketing agency has generated award-winning results for The Christian Science Monitor, eHarlequin, Get City Dealz, MarketingSherpa, Parents magazine, the SES Conference & Expo, Southwest Airlines, and Rutgers University. Jarboe is also the author of YouTube and Video Marketing, which is in its second edition. He's also a contributor to four other books and is also one of the 25 successful gurus interviewed in Online Marketing Heroes by Michael Miller. Since 2003, Jarboe has written more than 1,000 posts for ClickZ, Inked, Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Watch, The SEM Post, and Tubular Insights. He is also an instructor at Coursera, Rutgers Business School Executive Education, Simplilearn, and Udemy. In addition, he's a Senior Fellow at The Society for New Communications Research. Since 2003, Jarboe has spoken at more than 50 industry conferences, including the Content Marketing Conference. He's also been a keynote speaker at the Be-Wizard conference in Rimini, Italy; the International Search Summit in London, where the audience voted him the winner of its first Medallion Speaker Award; and the 'berTube Brand Summit in New York City.

Data-driven customer segments that will transform customer retention campaigns

With customers buying through social and returning to physical stores, marketing teams are challenged with putting the data together to get insights on the customer. Sure, you have valuable insights regarding location, the category they buy, and all the dates they purchased to help inform us of the exact messaging required to help the customer buy again, and again. Attend this session to learn a few new hacks and tricks, especially using a customer data platform (CDP) software that connects to killer apps, visualizes the customer journey, and enlights marketing teams to better craft customer retention strategy with a more informed view of customer segmentation that details the right content that will converts, again and again.

Areeya Lila, CEO of ViewN, has domain expertise in enterprise software, product development, and business process coming from a 20-year career in management consulting and software product management. Now as an entrepreneur with a passion for awesome customer experiences and leading-edge technology, she started ViewN, an artificial intelligence fueled customer data platform to help marketers understand their customers from the data they have in orders, marketing engagement and customer service. We turn data into insights that marketers need to deliver brand empathy and personalization.

Killer Tools to Drive Content Strategy and Deliver Traffic

Digital content consumption has seen seismic shifts in the post- pandemic world. In 2022, US consumers spent a whopping 8 hours 15 mins daily consuming digital content. Realigned priorities have influenced the kind of content audiences are consuming. But tapping into this content hungry audience is challenging, to say the least. Attend this session to learn the best tool to drive your content strategy, maximize content performance, and deliver traffic to fuel growth.

Attend this session to upgrade your tool-box and learn about..

• Keyword Research and data mining: Grepwords, Soolve, SEMrush
• Content Consumption: BuzzSumo, aHrefs
• Data: Google Analytics
• Performance Tracking: SEMRush, Similarweb
• How to Leverage Tools to Drive Traffic and Conversion
• How to Maximize Content Performance

Prashant Puri is a seasoned marketing professional with over 15 years of online experience.He brings to the table a proven track record of dramatically increasing traffic and effectively monetizing traffic. Prashant has successfully utilized a variety of online marketing strategies and techniques - SEO, SEM, Display/Rich Media Ads, Affiliate Marketing and E-Mail Marketing.

Content Marketing in a Cookie-less World

The cookie is about to crumble in 2023, the third-party cookie that is. And that means you’ll need to learn the strategies to harvest first- and second- party data to target and grow your audiences with content that engages and converts. Attend this session to learn how brands can be relevant and targeted in the new age, and how to create Google-friendly content to propel customers through their journey. See examples and options for content that converts, including SEO, long-form content, video, social media, Amazon, e- commerce portals, retail e-stores, websites, and Martech apps.

Attend this session to zone in on the following, and more...

• Personalization options
• Content and commerce best-practices
• How the content journey maps to the customer journey

Target audience: Content Marketers, Brand Ambassadors, Content Creators

Jacquie is a content strategy and media executive specializing in delivering multi-platform content marketing solutions and ROI for brands across social media, digital, video, print, SEO, custom research and e-commerce. With over 25 years of experience, she is a branded content solutions expert who drives engagement and results for clients, and cultivates C-level relationships. In her role as EVP Customer Innovation, she works closely with SJC's largest clients to create innovative and compelling cross platform content solutions that deliver on company revenue goals. Most recently, Jacquie was VP & Group Publisher at SJC Media and TC Media where she oversaw a portfolio of consumer media brands including FASHION, ELLE Canada, Canadian Living, and Style at Home, and held the roles of VP Content Solutions and VP Client Solutions at Rogers Media, where she launched and led Rogers award-winning Content Solutions division. A recognized leader in marketing solutions and media innovation, Jacquie is Chair of The Content Council (New York) and a frequent speaker across North America and Europe, having created award-winning multi-platform content strategies for a range of clients.

How AI Will Transform the Way Marketers Work

In 2022, artificial intelligence can write articles, monitor social media feeds and mimic creativity. Marketers who seek to future-proof their careers can no longer ignore the AI revolution that is transforming the way we work. Change is coming fast as technology providers work hard to integrate AI into their offerings. You have the opportunity to realize the most optimistic version of a future where you collaborate productively with your AI coworkers. Join AI expert and futurist Dale Bertrand for an optimistic take on leveraging your uniquely human traits to thrive in an AI marketing world.

Learn all this, and more...

• The visible and hidden forces driving the adoption of AI marketing tools
• How to get started with AI marketing tools that save time and generate ROI
• Which AI tools deliver the biggest bang for the buck
• What questions to ask marketing software vendors about their AI tools
• Ways to collaborate effectively with AI that help you stay in the driver’s seat
• Strategies to reorient your career as artificial intelligence transforms our profession

Target Audience: Brand Marketers, Marketing Directors, Content Marketers, Content Creators

Dale Bertrand has been an SEO specialist to Fortune 500 companies and venture-backed startups around the world for two decades. His clients include global brands such as Citizen Watch, Nestle, Raymond Weil and Bulova. He applies his graduate school work in artificial intelligence to search engine marketing. Dale speaks at industry conferences and leads corporate training events.

A Successful Content Creator Is a Healthy Content Creator

Learn five simple ways you can weave healthier eating into your regular habits. The trick to great content is having a focus on the daily health habits that you can control. This session focuses on actionable and achievable habits you can embed into your day.

Attend this healthy performance session and learn…

• What to eat and what to avoid
• How to change your relationship with food

Reyzan Shali, MD, provides comprehensive primary care services for adults, focusing on preventive medicine. Dr. Shali also has expertise in healthy aging and women’s health. Reyzan speaks on the topics of intuition and nutrition and how they apply to business success. Known for always speaking from the heart she brings palpable resilience, authenticity, and positivity to live and virtual stages. A proud daughter of two great Kurdish parents from the Kurdistan region of Iraq, she is a loving mother, wife, sister, aunt, and friend to many. A Pittsburgh Steelers fan to the core, her family often calls her the “Roethlisberger of Medetireaan Cooking!”

How to Improve Your Social Media Calls to Action

Are your social media posts missing the most important element: the information that lets your audience know what they should think, feel and do after viewing your content? In this session, Chartered Marketer Luan Wise will highlight the importance of social media calls to action and show you how to use them to transform your social media marketing content.

Attend this session and learn…

• Effective strategies for persuading your social media followers, viewers and fans
• How the best calls to action involve much more than asking for action
• How to write social media CTAs that get results

Luan Wise is a chartered marketer and fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (FCIM) with more than 20 years’ experience in agency, client-side, and consultancy roles. She has worked across a variety of industry sectors; for household names, award-winning institutions, and small but perfectly formed local businesses. A specialist in social media – Luan not only works directly with clients, but she is also a course instructor for LinkedIn’s online learning platform, a lead Blueprint trainer for Facebook and Instagram, and a coach for Google’s Digital Garage initiative. And she’s the author of the award-winning book Relax! It’s Only Social Media.

How Industry Leaders Drive Growth with Behavioral Experimentation Today

The leading companies don't just optimize their user experience, they embed behavioral science principles in every touchpoint. In this session, learn how to apply the latest proven experimentation ideas right now. Get fresh insights from leaders such as Dollar Shave Club, HP Instant Ink, The Motley Fool, and more.

In this session you’ll learn…

• How to add fuel and remove friction in your shopping experiences
• The one simple value proposition principle that boosted Dollar Shave Club's conversion rate by more than 11%
• How to apply the latest mixed method approach to gain customer insights
• How the COVID-19 pandemic revealed behavioral principles that influence your shoppers’ behavior

When companies like HP, Microsoft, The Motley Fool and Dollar Shave Club want to improve their digital experiences and growth, they call Chris Goward. Chris founded Widerfunnel in 2007 with the belief that a combination of creativity and scientific rigour gets the best results. He is the brain behind the popular LIFT Model®, Infinity Experimentation Process®, and MotivationLab®, wrote the bestselling book, You Should Test That!, and has spoken at 300+ events globally.

Content Marketing for Small Teams

Need to do more with less? For many businesses, content marketing seems to require more effort, time and money than they have on hand. Learn actionable tips and tactics to better use the resources you already have to crank out more content that delivers better results. You’ll not only discover how to do more with your small content marketing team, but you’ll also find out how to have more fun with less friction along the way.

In this session, you’ll learn…

• The importance of hyper customer-centricity
• Why it’s important to be authentic to your values
• How to nail goals to drive and track success
• Radical prioritization of everything

Tess leads content marketing at WordPress VIP, the agile content platform leading a powerful enterprise ecosystem. Tess is responsible for strategizing and coordinating WordPress VIP’s marketing projects and empowering her team to create innovative and unique content. With experience in support, project management, and training, Tess is passionate about using the creative arts to help people work with technology.

Transform Numbers to Narratives: How to Explain Data Insights Using Storytelling

Numbers can reveal fascinating insights. Big decisions are now made based on data alone. Yet when we communicate data, we often default to sharing dry information without really highlighting the meaning behind those numbers. Contrary to popular belief, the data does not speak for itself—it needs you. Compelling trends and intriguing observations remain inconsequential until you transform these numbers into a cohesive narrative. Your audience may not remember the data, but they'll always remember a data story.

Attend this keynote and learn how to…

• Uncover stories buried under your own data
• Package data and numbers into a memorable message
• Find the right balance between facts, data and stories
• Evolve from simply sharing graphs to actually sharing insights

Anita is an award-winning speaker who delivers high-value, energetic and actionable workshops on how to communicate sophisticated ideas and data insights, especially in the science and tech industry. A neuroscientist by training, she once wore gloves and examined brain sections before switching gears to become a science communicator. In her capacity as a science writer/editor, she has uncovered and crafted hundreds of stories buried under numbers, data and dry facts. She co-founded the science education website, Knowing Neurons, has written for NIH Research Matters and worked with high-profile science companies to develop their editorial campaigns. Through her company, Word Cortex, Anita helps package complex ideas in an engaging way.

How to Scale Personalized Email Marketing Campaigns

Email marketing continues to be the most powerful way to reach your target audience. But success demands that offers, messages, and frequency of communication are tailored to subscribers' needs. The challenge is scaling email campaigns effectively, without sacrificing personalization. Attend this session to learn how to dexterously use data to: segment your list, leverage your sales teams’ insights, and identify when and what to automate.

Learn all this and more…

• Why email will power the future of people-based marketing.
• How to use data to segment your subscribers and engage customers at all points throughout their journey.
• How to identify where AI can help with the heavy lifting.

Nick Dujnic is the Vice President of Marketing for LiveIntent, where he oversees the company’s brand and demand generation strategies. He is also the host of LiveIntentional, a video series that explains what’s going on in a very complicated digital marketing landscape in a fun and accessible way. The recipient of Marketing Edge’s Rising Star award in 2017, he once inspired the headline "How One Man Did the Impossible: Make Ad-Tech Jargon Fun."

How a New Approach to Influencer Marketing Boosts Performance

Influencer marketing has evolved to become an integral strategy for successful brands around the globe. Yet with so much noise, how can brands rise above and build meaningful connections with their consumers? The weight of influencer marketing has gone beyond just knowing the right people. It involves researching influencers, building relationships, and managing posts, engagement and conversions, as well as executing a creative strategy.

Attend this session to learn about…

• Bridging the trust gap between brands and consumers.
• Budget flexibility in the peaks and valleys.
• Nurturing audiences from awareness to conversion to engaged application.

Erik Huberman is the CEO and founder of Hawke Media, the fastest-growing digital marketing agency in Los Angeles. Ranked on the Inc. 5000 in 2019 and 2020, Hawke Media has worked with clients such as Red Bull, Verizon and Eddie Bauer. Prior to Hawke, Erik exited his company Swag of the Month and was recruited to Science Incubator (Dollar Shave Club, DogVacay, MeUndies), where he grew Ellie.com’s sales to $1 million in four months.

Supercharge Your Growth with Low-Code Apps for High-Growth Demands

The last year has brought monumental change for every organization, regardless of vertical. Suffice to say; large and small organizations and marketing teams have all had to do a lot more, with a lot less. That’s where No Code/Low Code Marketing Apps come in, performing the marketing magic you need without the staff or cost required to achieve performance goals. Learn all this and more…

• Review alternative marketing apps for consideration
• Learn how to put No Code/Low Code Apps to work
• Discover how to maintain high-quality marketing for a lot less

Diego Gomes is the CEO and Founder of Rock Content, a global leader in content marketing services and products built for scale. Founded in 2013, Rock Content has grown to a globally distributed team of 500 Rockers. In his free time, Diego likes to write about technology, marketing, and SaaS at SaaSholic.com.

How-to Layer Video Throughout Your Website

Video marketing continues to rise in popularity, and as a performance tool. Yet even the most forward-thinking businesses are perplexed on how to fit video into the user experience at the right time. Attend this session to learn how to place your videos in the right place and space on your website to better engage your audience and boost your video performance.

Learn all this and more…

• Mistakes with dreaded video libraries
• How to layer videos throughout your website
• Sample layered videos experience to model

Tony Gnau is the Founder and Chief Storytelling Officer at T60 Productions. He’s a three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist and has led T60 Productions to winning 17 Telly Awards for its corporate videos. He has created videos for the likes of CommonSpirit Health, Walgreen’s, Catholic Health Initiatives, United Airlines, US Bank, Goose Island Beer Company, as well as NBA legend Dwyane Wade. Tony has written over 700 blog posts on video marketing, publishing for the T60 blog as well as other sites related to PR and marketing (Spin Sucks, Ragan, Eventbrite, Milwaukee BizTimes). He also speaks on the subject to communications professionals at conferences such as Content Marketing World, the Midwest Digital Marketing Conference, and Content Jam. Finally, Tony is a former USC Trojan football player, Star Wars geek, and a devoted husband and father.

Now or never: Why AI-Enabled Collaborative Work Management is the Future

As marketers, our digital IQ is years ahead of what anyone thought it would be. We’re more prepared than ever to be Agile and pivot to meet the needs of our audience — and with more of our lives spent online, that audience is more available to us than ever. But with the increase in online content, how can we break through the noise and stand out from other brands? Automation and real-time insights will be the engine that enables brands to differentiate themselves. Learn how AI solutions allows marketing teams to work together in one platform to manage those insights and create impactful campaigns.

In this session, you’ll learn how to…

How to Measure Attribution for Content Assets, On-Page and Off-Page

In Google Analytics, conversions and e-commerce transactions are credited by default to the last interaction the user had when he or she converted. But what role did your content assets, on-page and off-page, play leading up to that conversion? Attend this session to learn how to track attribution to particular assets, and members of your team!

• How to measure assisted conversions
• How to track multi-channel funnel attribution
• Tactics for tracking attribution for on-page content assets
• Methods for measuring off-page content assets

Greg Jarboe is president of SEO-PR, which he co-founded with Jamie O'Donnell in 2003. Their content marketing agency has generated award-winning results for The Christian Science Monitor, eHarlequin, Get City Dealz, MarketingSherpa, Parents magazine, the SES Conference & Expo, Southwest Airlines, and Rutgers University. Jarboe is also the author of YouTube and Video Marketing, which is in its second edition. He's also a contributor to four other books and is also one of the 25 successful gurus interviewed in Online Marketing Heroes by Michael Miller. Since 2003, Jarboe has written more than 1,000 posts for ClickZ, Inked, Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Watch, The SEM Post, and Tubular Insights. He is also an instructor at Coursera, Rutgers Business School Executive Education, Simplilearn, and Udemy. In addition, he's a Senior Fellow at The Society for New Communications Research. Since 2003, Jarboe has spoken at more than 50 industry conferences, including the Content Marketing Conference. He's also been a keynote speaker at the Be-Wizard conference in Rimini, Italy; the International Search Summit in London, where the audience voted him the winner of its first Medallion Speaker Award; and the 'berTube Brand Summit in New York City.

CMC 2021 Comedy Stand Up

That’s Not Funny: Strategically Use Humor During UNFUNNY Times

Propelling one's content strategy using humor can oftentimes lead to a mountain of frustration and difficulty to connect, especially when the world seems unwilling and not ready to laugh. Each individual brand needs to work on finding their own path of laugh discovery in order to properly connect with new and existing audiences.

Attendees of this keynote will walk away with…

• Clear technique on how to approach funny content as we start to leave a lockdown-weary world
• How to approach your own brand or products identity in order to properly assess the direction of your content
• How to best address the positive and negatives of your brand in order to create a funny voice

A New York based comedian, Mike can be seen as a recurring character on BET's hit show, "The Game", in 2016 feature film "American Dirtbags" and as the host of the "Flavor Makers" cooking show. Mike finds his humor from his everyday life experiences mixed with his internal struggle with health, crippling paranoia and his longing for that perfect girl who he will inevitably blow it with. Mike produces the "Red Clay Comedy Festival annually" in Atlanta, GA and several showcases in New York City where he currently resides.

Funny by the Numbers

Comedy is simply the mathematics of punchlines. Every comedic principle can be traced to a formula (even though most comedians aren't aware of this). This session illuminates the basic scientific laws of humor which anyone can apply to content. YES, EVEN ROBOTS.

Attend the session and learn…

• Straightforward formulas and techniques behind common comedic principles
• How to use those techniques in your content marketing
• Amazing tactics to try at the next boring dinner party

Lebanese-Syrian-Palestinian-Italian American, (try saying it really fast) Sammy’s a double majoring in Business and Math at UC Berkeley, now focused on breaking down the latest trending topics into woke jokes that make you laugh your abs into a six pack, while simultaneously getting smarter. He’s currently the host of Netflix’s acclaimed show 100 Humans, where he conducts mind-blowing scientific and social experiments on a group of 100 test subjects (don’t worry they agreed to it). He’s also appeared on NBC's America's Got Talent, Last Comic Standing, TBS’s Conan, and often reminds strangers that he was the first comedian to ever tell jokes on the Food Network (sorry Rachel Ray). In 2013, Sammy set the world record for performing comedy 1,001 consecutive nights, with his story featured in Time Magazine and The New York Times. As soon as the pandemic hit, Sammy opened his own virtual comedy club, KO Comedy, helping comedians around the globe continue working their craft in the hard times.

Unboring Your Content: What Would Jerry Seinfeld Do?

Humor is a critical tool in modern day communications, marketing and content creation. Why? Because a dose of humor will grab and hold your audience’s interest, making you (and your message) memorable and more persuasive. David Nihill shows you how. With multiple pieces of viral content on TikTok, Facebook, YoTube, Inc and even Slideshare, David takes you through what Jerry Seinfeld might do to your content. You’ll learn why and how to use humor to make an impact, add value and connect with customers on a level that inspires loyalty—and causes coffee to shoot out their noses.

Attendees will learn…

• What makes something funny through a deconstruction of the comedy process
• How to apply easy, actionable steps from some of the very best content
• How best to translate comedy principles into skills for a business or marketing audience

David Nihill is a bestselling author of Do You Talk Funny, listed by Book Authority as the best book of all time on public speaking and storytelling. “One of the best coaches out there” according to Forbes.com his work has been featured in Inc, Lifehacker, The Huffington Post, Forbes, The Irish Times, TED, and NPR. His videos have been viewed more than 50 million times and his content has gone viral multiple times, across platforms including Facebook, Youtube, Tiktok and Slideshare. A sought after international business speaker and conference producer, David also performs standup comedy and was the winner of the prestigious San Francisco International Comedy Competition (previous finalists include Robin Williams, Dana Carvey and Ellen DeGeneres) and the first ever Irishman to have a special on Dry Bar Comedy. As a storyteller he finished runner up in NPR’s the Moth’s largest US story telling competition. As a lecturer he has taught at Stanford Graduate Business School, UC Berkeley, and University of Oxford. Originally from Dublin, Ireland and a graduate of the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School he calls San Francisco home these days (when immigration officials permit) and was named on the Irish America 100 List, which recognizes the accomplishments of the best and the brightest Irish-American and Irish-born leaders, and the 2021 GlobalGuru Top 30 List, which recognises the world's best communications professionals. For more information see: davidnihill.com

How to use the Four Styles of Humor to Connect with Audiences

The right touch of humor builds interest and empathy. The wrong kind damages reputations—even entire businesses. So how can you tell the difference? Let’s throw some science at it! Learn the four styles of humor, as discovered by actual psychologists, and discover how to apply these styles to ensure you’re using humor that attracts, not repels.

Attend this session and learn how to…

• Use the right humor style at the right time
• Chain humor styles together to form a compelling story
• Avoid the one humor style that can alienate audiences
• Use the humor styles to form a humor “vocabulary” with clients and co-workers

Jamie Gower is a writer/producer who helps Fortune 500 tech clients use humor to connect with their audiences while staying accurate and authoritative. Videos, webcomics, websites, even smartphone home screens and faux late-night talk shows — Jamie creates scenarios and content that speak in a fun, human voice. As a comedian, he performed for real live ticket-buying audiences from Seattle to the Edinburgh Fringe. As a filmmaker, his award-winning comedy shorts have appeared in over a dozen film festivals in the US and Europe.

How To Add Laughs and Not Get Fired (Again)

Comedians are just trying to get laughs—to make people happy—a noble goal. How can that get you in trouble? There is an old saying in comedy: "The joke is in the mind of the beholder." One person's joke is another person's micro- (or macro) aggression. Learn how to avoid the comedy minefield and the do's and don'ts of corporate humor so you don’t get fired (again).

Attend this session to learn…

• General rules of corporate humor.
• The best ways to mine for corporate comedy.
• A few horror stories to make you say "Oh, no he didn't!”

Don McMillan has a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He was a member of the design team on the world's first 32-bit microprocessor. He went on to become a founding member of the startup company: VLSI Technology. Then in 1993, he was the $100,000 Comedy Grand Champion on "Star Search". He's performed on "The Tonight Show", HBO, and ALL over the Internet. His unique act combines smart comedy observations with his one-of-a-kind PowerPoint presentation. Don spends most of his time writing and performing customized corporate comedy shows for companies like Google, Apple, IBM, Ford, ExxonMobil and now CMC. He has performed more than 800 corporate shows in the last 20 years and he was named the #1 Corporate Comedian by CBS Business Network.

Now That's Funny: It's All About Your Brand's Personality

Let's face it. The world is overrun with bad, boring content and terribly automated “Hello [firstname]” messages. Brands are struggling to cut through the clutter, and stand out from the pack in creative ways. It's time to examine our brand personality closely. Or even worse, create a brand personality that defines who we are, and what makes us Tik and Tok. Humor, as it turns out, has an unmatched, universal super-power that connects with an audience in mysterious ways. But getting the corporate funny and money ball rolling is challenging. Start here: Learn the truth about you AND your brand. The question isn’t are you funny? The question is this: What kind of funny are you? Learn the 7 brand personality options you have to leverage humor that works, delivering the performance you demand from your content marketing investments.

Attend this keynote for small humor secrets in a big bundle of joy…

• Discover the core components of a brand’s humor personality
• Review the good, bad, ugly and funny variations of 7 different brand styles
• Understand how to capture attention in a distracted world and build brand affinity
• Follow the framework for creating a humor-style guide to build a new, fresh brand personality

Andrew Tarvin is the CEO of Humor That Works, a leadership development company that teaches professionals how to use humor to achieve better business results. He has partnered with top organizations--including IBM, the UN, and the FBI--to solve human challenges with humor solutions. A best-selling author, Andrew has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Inc, and FastCompany, and was named a "Visionary Under 40" by the P&G Alumni Network. His TEDx talk on the skill of humor has been viewed more than six million times, only half of which were his mother. He loves chocolate and tweeting puns.

Digging Into Your Own Bag of Tricks to Find Humor

Turns out that those comedic moments of brilliance don’t just fall from the sky. Instead, they’re inspired by personal experiences and insights drawn from people, places, and things you encounter in life. Attend this session to explore how to connect the dots between personal experience, audience connection, and comedic selling without selling. You’ll learn that authenticity is the catalyst for success, and how to leverage that key element to connect and convert your audience to believe in you (and your products or services).

• Draw from who you know and what you know.
• Find your authentic self to better connect.
• Transform personal experiences into funny stuff.
• Sell without selling—the comedy way!

Casey Balsham is a comedian and cheese lover out of New York City. She has been seen on Gotham Comedy Live, Tidal's No Small Talk series and can be heard as one of the co-hosts of the popular Not Another True Crime Podcast by Betches. Casey was also the lead in the Off Broadway musical HA! and wrote and starred in her own one woman show called "Casey Balsham Does A Thing". Her debut album Son of a Barb hit #1 on the iTunes charts and she is currently writing a musical with her writing partner Bradley. She also wanted me to let you know she does not mind the quarantine.

WordPlay - Fewer Characters for More Character

In a fast-paced society with short attention spans and too many cat videos, we need to get attention and keep it. How do you do that with 40 characters or less? Learn how to choose your words wisely with the structure of wordplay, and how to apply it to any headline, caption, and post. Sharpen your brain to see words through a humorous lens and find wordplay in your day-to-day life.

Attend this session and learn…

• The different types of wordplay and formulas to construct them yourself
• Effective ways to use wordplay in your copy and marketing videos
• The advantages and disadvantages of wordplay
• How to make your wordplay personal to your brand

Tess Tregellas is an actor, comedian and filmmaker in New York City. She has been featured on Funny or Die, performed in comedy clubs all over New York City, and is aware that you have no idea how to pronounce her last name. Her short films, “Left To Your Own Devices,” and “The Cell Phone Block Tango,” have won awards at film festivals across the country. She has studied comedy at The Second City, Upright Citizen’s Brigade and has a Bachelor in Fine Arts in playing pretend (I mean Acting). She had her film acting debut in the feature film “Here On Out,” which is streaming on Amazon Prime. She currently works at Humor That Works teaching people the skill of humor in comedy writing workshops and open mics. You can follow her on Instagram @tesstreg.

Making Serious Topics Funny

There is nothing funny about climate change, World War II, or artificial intelligence—or is there? With the right techniques and comedic tactics, you can quickly transform just about any serious topic to seriously funny in a way that always brings a smile. If you're skeptical or think your brand/company is an exception, this session is for you. Learn how comedy can fuse into organizations like NASA, NIH, pharmaceutical companies, and medical associations on platforms like YouTube, social media, and live/virtual performance.

Attend this session to learn how to

• Find humorous elements in serious topics.
• Use comedy to inform and educate.
• Overcome the comedy obstacles, like your boss.

Named one of the “Best Undiscovered Comedians” in the U.S. by Thrillist magazine, Kasha Patel has a unique voice that couples life as an Indian-American and her love for science. She produces science-themed comedy shows through her company DC Science Comedy. She gave a TEDx talk called “Sneaking Science into Stand-Up” where she shares a series of surprising revelations pulled from her analysis of more than 500 of her stand-up jokes. She has been featured in “The Washington Post,” BBC World News, Travel Channel, The Science Channel, The Weather Channel, and hosted a mini series on NASA TV.