Five Things You Need to Do After a Conference: WordCamp Sacramento 2017
WordCamp Sacramento 2017
Are you “conferenced”? I mean, have you ever been “conferenced”? What I really mean is: have you attended one or many conferences, for business or personal interest? And has it been like an information and sensory tidal wave for you?
Chewy-Organic-Matter-Processor Program (ChOMPP)
1) Get your CTA on! Look over your notes, lightly and quickly. Then, go back and choose just one to schedule a date to take action on. You will be more likely to respond to a single Call-To-Action, than to every note you recorded.
2) Photo-synthesize (the non-plant way). Browse your photos and remember. In my case, I wish I had taken more pictures of the conference in general and the people I met, one-on-one. Make notes of the reason you took the photo (if it’s not obvious) and the identity of the people in the pictures. You’ve met these people in person: the force is strong with these ones.
3) Review the program. Go ahead and lament the presentations and speakers you didn’t get to see. So sad, all is lost, right?
No, I figured out a hack. Well, probably YOU already knew to do this, but it only just occurred to me (lots of white noise happening in my grey matter): I went to the conference’s handy website and looked up the speakers’ websites and blogs. While I didn’t always find the exact subject they addressed at the conference, I DID ALWAYS find something really useful, if not lots of something’s useful! It’s like these speakers know a lot more than the one subject they presented!
4) Tell someone about your experiences at the conference. It can be in person or in a blog, like this is (am I breaking the fourth or fifth wall here?). When I went to write about the conference, the disparate bits of random information and memories started to form groups of their own (just like we attendees did in the Speed Networking Session) and revealed to me the meta-information I had picked up unawares from the experience. And the meta stuff is the really cool stuff!
5) Gratitude is Great. Let the conference organizers know how much you loved it. They often send out surveys, so do take the time to give your opinions and send them a thank-you with a link if you’ve shared your conference experience on your blog or another platform. Of course, the awesome organizers for WordCamp Sacramento have offered to link to all blogs (like this one) describing the recent conference experience. Gotta love ’em!
Now, theory is theory, but solid is solid, so here are my top 3 solid notes from the presentations.
Top 3 Solid Notes
3) Leslie Staller: How to Optimize Images for SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Resize and compress images.
Don’t load images larger than your theme will serve.
Name and describe your images.
Use Keywords
Use Alt text for accessibility
Add captions.
Consistent visual branding (your images should look recognizable as your brand’s).
Leslie Staller’s WordCamp Image SEO session
2) Cory Miller: Entrepreneurial Resilience: Handling the Toughest Times in Business and Surviving
Two keys to get you through the tough times:
- Attitude and mindset: ask, “What can I do and control?”
- Establish a life support team: people who rush in when everyone else runs out; your significant other; a counselor (mental health) professional ; an entrepreneur group (a group of like-minded people on a similar path meeting regularly to share life together).
- Zenfounder.com/zentribes, MastermindJam.com
1) Chris Lema: The Single Thing You Need to Get Right to Succeeding at Peace, Love, And WordPress
Ask your repeat-customers why they keep coming back.
Write it down. Shape it (for the combination of Attribute 1: goal-oriented customer or risk-avoiding customer, and Attribute 2: influenced by their internal standards or influenced by external forces/other people’s opinions).
Use it in your proposal, on your website, in your marketing materials. Customers talking to customers.
And web-iful is wonderful, so here are just five of the many useful websites I found on the WordCamp Sacramento website.
5 Presenters’ Websites/Blogs to Check Out:
(In no particular order. Really, don’t want to ruffle any feathers here.)
Communicating with customers, e-commerce trends, WordPress, and making money, he’s covering it all.
Yummy desserts, but also great tips for blogging and finding your tribe online, and I don’t think she even says you have to lure your tribe with sweets. But you could, you know.
From WordPress and entrepreneurship to challenging your excuses and truth and openness, there’s a world of ideas to ponder here.
Everything blogging: secrets, dangers, napkin drawings. Yes, you’ll find it all here.
Branding, blogging, aBout (yeah, that kinda alliterates) pages, there’s a lotta handy stuff for an entrepreneur, like me, here.
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