Jeff Coyle

Real Pubcon Tip #3 - Don’t RankBrag as a First Impression

I’ve heard it 100 times in 10 years of conferences,  and RankBragging during the our first conversation leaves a weird aftertaste.

RankBrag (verb)

Namedropping your site and its awesome search engine rankings specifically.

“Bryan RankBragged for 10 minutes about his new mortgage site and its top 5 Bing rankings”

There’s a time and place for this, usually its a few conversations in and at around 2am at the bar.

Real PubCon Tip #2 - Stay until at least Saturday.

A lot of folks treat PubCon planning like any other conference…once…

Attendance at Friday’s event is a must, and you’ll definitely regret it if your worried about having to head out to the airport, checking out of your hotel, etc.

Set the family, office, and everyone else’s expectations that from 1pm Friday to Saturday AM, you are off the grid.

Secret PubCon Tip #1: don’t ‘Big Time’ people during the conference…they’ll remember.

Big Time (verb)

Big timing is when you stand someone up, usually because you are pretending to be cooler than you really are in front of others.

Blowing someone off or not keeping an appointment.

Looking at your phone, seeing the caller ID and then not answering, even though you asked someone to call you.

“Nate big timed us.  He was going to come to dinner with us, but decided to hit the clubs with Jeff Randall.”

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