Notes from the talks
- My 4 key takeaways from the conference
- Growth Edition, Day 1
- Natalie Nagele, Is FOMO (fear of missing out) holding you back?
- Russ Henneberry, The Perfect Content Marketing Strategy
- James Kennedy, How to Stop Giving Demos and Build a Sales Factory Instead
- Bridget Harris, Bootstrapping for Badasses
- Attendee Talks
- Derrick Reimer, Transforming Customer Input into Killer Features
- Andy Baldacci, Profitable content marketing in 1 hour a week
- Brennan Dunn, Personalizing Your Marketing: Why You Should Be Niching In Real-Time
- Dave Churchville, Making Facebook Ads profitable for your SaaS
- Rob Walling, 11 Years to Overnight Success: From Beach Towels to A Successful Exit
- Growth Edition, Day 2
- Joanna Wiebe, How to Be Specific: From-The-Trenches Lessons in High-Converting Copy
- Ezra Firestone, The Exact Formula We’ve Used to Generate $5M in Revenue from Software in the last 3 Years
- Thomas Smale, Q&A on selling businesses
- Attendee Talks - John Sonmez, Dodd Caldwell, Matthew Paulson, Daniel Craig
- Sherry Walling, Where Did You Come From and Where are You Going?: Thriving in Business by Understanding your Origins, Identity, and Future Self
- Lars Lofgren, Two Inbound Engines that Drive 30K+ Leads Per Month
- Starter Edition, Day 1
- Jordan Gal, Two Years in the SaaS Trenches
- Ben Orenstein, Blind Spots of the Developer Entrepreneur
- Sherry Walling, Iocane Powder and the Battle of Wits: Developing the Psychological Immunity to Stay Alive While You’re Starting Up
- Attendee Talks
- Josh Doody, How you can get to 180,000 visitors a year in under 12 months
- Austin L. Church, Content Marketing Without the Huge Time Suck
- Sujan Patel, From Idea to Launch to Your First 1000 Customers With Zero Marketing Budget
- Starter Edition, Day 2
- Patrick McKenzie, Paint By Numbers: From Productized Service to SaaS
- Justin Jackson, The Freedom Ladder: Financial Independence through Products
- Attendee Talks
- Matt Inglot, Validate Your Product Idea With Pre-Sales
- Matthew Du Pont, Outnumbered: Selling to 2 or more B2B decisionmakers at the same time
- Keith Perhac, Building Your First Effective Marketing Funnel
- Ryan Battles, How to Gain Traction in a Crowded Market
- John Collison, Q&A on cofounding Stripe
- Mike Taber, Idea Validation and Customer Development
Attending MicroConf this year?
Past attendees have put together these excellent guides, packed with tips for getting the most out of the conference:
Do any more of these exist? @-me, I’d love to include them here.