Yesterday a group come up with an idea called The Influencer Project. The brilliant concept was tagged as the "shortest marketing conference ever".  The concept is simple, 60 Speakers in 60 Seconds delivering advice on how to be influential online.

Some of the best speakers and most influencial people were involved including Gary Vanyerchuck (Crush It) , John Jantsch (Duct Tape Marketing) , Brian Clark (Copy Blogger), Mike Volpe HubSpot, Mitch Joel Six Pixels of Separation and many more. 

I loved the bite-sized bits of advice that you received from each presenter. Although some people have stated they wished there was more time for each person to elaborate, I felt it was enough information to get the point across. Furthermore if you liked the point the speaker was making you could follow up with that speakers website for more detailed information. 

Below is a list with notes from each presenter. 

60 Ways to Increase Your Influence Online

I was able to listen to the entire conference but thought the following were the best bits of advice. 

You have to know where you’re going. Nobody’s going to want to follow you if you don’t know where you’re going. Then stand up and look at the people around you and make it all about them. – Liz Strauss

Get very, very good at filtering and aggregating content. – John Janstch 

Content is king.  You must know what you’re talking about. - Gary Vaynerchuk

Give more than you get. Influence comes from a passive place, not pushing. - Amber Naslund

Find one niche and master it, own it. Then teach people in that niche how to be successful in it. - Lewis Howes 

Understand the needs of your audience, look at data and build things that help them. - Vanessa Fox

Put your business model before fame or influence. Your Social Media must add to your bottom line. You must have something to show for it. - Wendy Piersall

Use Twitter to converse, participate, & respond...NOT to advertise 

A complete transcript and mp3 will be available shortly if you want to see all of the comments in their entirety. All in all this was a great concept that provided some excellent advice. 

Thanks for reading!

Chad Blenkin
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