Alex Koby
"My first Inbound experience was impressive, overwhelming, and enlightening. The collective energy of over 20,000 marketers, business owners, and industry professionals was intoxicating and inspiring."
The educational side of Inbound featured over 250 seminars and lectures specifically targeting pain-points for marketing and sales professionals as well as new business owners. I was positively giddy for the opportunity to learn from industry leaders who walk-the-walk and talk-the-talk. With inspiring keynote speakers like Michelle Obama, John Cena, and Brene Brown I was possessed with a sense of purpose and urgency that fueled my Inbound experience.
This year for the first time, Adhere Creative had a booth on the main floor. As this was my first time attending Inbound it was a new experience for the whole team.
So there we were, a team of Inbound Marketing professionals with a booth on the main floor of the largest event in our industry. It was a humbling and invigorating experience.
In the weeks before Inbound 2017 the Adhere Creative All-stars were working hard to make our mark. We designed and created a powerful workbook for those looking to build a successful Inbound Marketing campaign from scratch. Our inbound workbook was distributed through a website we built for Inbound 2017 specifically and has videos to explain each segment. Access to the website could be found on specific marketing materials at our booth and on thousands of Beer Koozies we had made to support the numerous happy hours and social events around Inbound 2017.
Our team had so much fun speaking with other marketers and business owners about inbound strategies and handing out dozens of Koozies to those in need.
At one point, we had the opportunity to schmooze with some SEO specialists from a company that gets over 100 million unique web visitor per month!!! Can you guess the company?
Inbound 2017 featured scores of educational opportunities in the form of breakout sessions, keynote speeches, and hands-on training seminars. Industry leaders and innovators shared key insights and best practices that they use to be successful marketers and entrepreneurs. A few of my favorite lessons from Inbound were:
- + Ruth Sherman’s
"Attention! Re-Igniting Focus in a World Drowning in Distraction" - + Garrett Moon’s
"Content Hacking: Creating Content That Stands Out and Actually Builds an Audience" - + Josh Bernoff’s
"End Toxic Content"
My aim was to discover ways to cut through the online noise while providing relevant and poignant content. These specific lessons taught about finding space in the market, creating confidence within your content, and to stop bullshitting your audience with unnecessary word vomit. I highly recommend finding their slide decks and reviewing their full lectures.
Overall Inbound 2017 brought me closer to my team at Adhere Creative while providing me with a more complete picture of the Inbound Marketing community. Hearing inspirational stories from peers and industry leaders gave me an opportunity to connect with this movement driving my curiosity for additional knowledge and personal growth. I look forward to attending many more Inbound conferences in the future. See you in 2018!