a single source, nothing corroborates it
Offer to help run somebody else's event
When an event your people already attend is being organised by someone else, the way in is to find the organiser and offer help in any capacity at all. Helping puts you in the planning conversations, and the planning conversations are how you end up on the programme in front of the room.
The method
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When somebody else is organising an event your people already attend, contact the organiser and offer help in any capacity; that is how you end up inside the planning and on the programme.
What it returned
- 200
Hillman tracked down BlogPhiladelphia organiser Annie Heckenberger at GPTMC, joined the planning sessions, and got a slot presenting the open grid format to over 200 registered attendees.
Sources
- holy crap, that’s tomorrow: blogphiladelphiaAlex Hillman · dangerouslyawesome.com · 2007-07-01
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
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