Jessica goes to conferences a lot, especially more now that she’s not employed full time. This is her eighth creator conference (4 World Domination Summits, 2 Craft and Commerces, 1 Neurodiversion summit, The Lab Offline, and a number of small mastermind and coaching retreats).

So today’s episode is both a debrief on going to conferences and also a recap of the 4 takeaways from Craft and Commerce that are informing our year ahead.

We dig into conferences:

* Why putting yourself in the position to meet people can help you meet your internet heroes… and can also help you sell more things. (Shoutout to former guest Jeremy Enns here).

* How does one maintain relationships with people so that the next years of the conference just get better and better?

* Why presentation-heavy conferences miss the point, especially for more seasoned attendees (and how to think about the composition of the audience).

And then, we dig into the four takeaways from the conference itself.

* We’re entering into an AI content doom loop.

* What’s your “use and refuse” AI strategy?.

* Storytelling reigns supreme.

* There is no “overnight success”.

“If they don't exist, they will in the next six months is a tool that if you list a number of the influencers you wanna follow and comment on their post… and so you just feed it into an AI tool and that AI tool will come up with an AI generated comment. So you don't even have to log into LinkedIn. If this doesn't exist, I guarantee it will in like the next six months. You wouldn't even have to log in to see what your favorite influencer posted and the AI comments on their stuff so that your stuff feeds goes into the feed.

And, some AI tool is gonna go into your library of content that you've created already, and it's gonna snip out something, drop it on LinkedIn, some other bot is gonna comment on it, and then there's no human involved in some of that stuff, period.” - Jessica

Mentioned Resources

Pamela Slim

Jeremy Enns’s Content Strategy Schematic

Neurodiversion Conference

She’s so Lucky with Les Alfred

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