You’re already producing useful content that educates and informs. But if you “remove the label” (or the logo in the header), will people know that content is yours? If the answer is “Not sure”, then you need to strengthen your brand’s voice.

People want to connect with content that has a strong personality. This makes building your brand voice a key part of your content’s differentiation strategy. And that’s not just relevant for blog posts – the best brands will make you chuckle, feel inspired, or cared for even with the modals, buttons, and form descriptions across the site.

In this session, learn how defining brand tone of voice is much more than just throwing a bunch of adjectives on a whiteboard and seeing what sticks. You’ll learn specific exercises that will help your team make sense of the madness and create an actionable voice blueprint that works in real life.

We often put a dividing line between quantitative data and the personal relationship with clients. The thinking goes that if we focus on numbers too much we forget the actual people behind them.

We’ll fight this notion by demonstrating how data can help you understand your users and build better buyer personas. We’ll answer the following questions:

• What can Google Analytics, Facebook Audience Insights, and Linkedin Website Demographics teach us about our audience?
• How to build on top of quantitative information with interviews and personal feedback?
• How to group and segment data into distinct personas?

Key takeaways: Even if your business is just starting, there’s lots of available information you can use to understand who your customers are, what value are they looking for and how you can talk to them efficiently.

How many types of content do you have in your posting plan? If the answer is “less than 10”, we’ve got some work to do!

People often think creating content is a question of creativity, but that’s not true. If you roll your sleeves up and do the work, you can come up with lots of content ideas that bring value to your audience.

During this talk, we’ll review different ways of generating content ideas and building topic groups and content clusters – for your blog, newsletter, or social media accounts.

We’ll start by defining your audience and researching their interests. We’ll choose the topics, formats, and channels that fit them well and differentiate you from competitors. Finally, we’ll combine all of them in a robust content distribution plan that increases your content production efficiency through repurposing.

You’ve worked your brain off. You’ve researched, written, edited, designed… you’ve sweated for hours to produce a stellar piece of content for your blog. That gets no eyeballs. Zilch. Nada. Crickets through and through.

This is an everyday reality for content creators – but it doesn’t need to be. You can expect far better results if you add two extra ingredients to your content production routine. And these are content distribution and repurposing. In this talk, you’ll see how to get them right.

You’ll learn how to get more eyeballs on your WordPress site by leveraging other channels. You’ll understand why you need to plan distribution at the start, not once you’ve already published your post. And you’ll see what you can delegate and what to keep under control.

You get a great idea about a blog post, you spend a bunch of time researching, a sleepless night writing, and a couple more hours editing and fine-tuning. You then push the Publish button and see your new creation flap its wings and disappear beyond the horizon of the Internet. You’re done! Right?

Wrong! You can’t improve what you can’t measure – so how are you going to get better at content creation if you seldom look at the numbers. This talk will give you a framework for evaluating content performance based on 3 types of content metrics. If you use them daily, I guarantee you’ll see content performance improving.

Key takeaways: Metrics aren’t scary when you use a simple framework to look at them. Measurement will help you improve existing content and build new content that drives results.

If you’re a freelance professional or part of a small size team, you have to work on the brand of you. But branding is associated with expensive and complex things like logos, color schemes, and ridiculously clever business cards. Where to start? This presentation will be a better place than most.

Over the span of 30 minutes, I will give you an actionable blueprint for your branding strategy. The basis here won’t be The Big Marketing Bucks (TM), but authenticity and professionalism. You will walk away ready to:

• define your ideal audience,
• understand their needs and how you can deliver on them, 
• build your value proposition by balancing the personal and the professional.

Key takeaways: Branding can be done without deep marketing knowledge if you know well your audience and their needs. Then you can provide them with consistent value, proving your professionalism.

Do you know what your customers want? Too often, we reply with a resounding yes when in reality we don’t have a clue. The first step to knowing more is to actually speak with your customers.

Jobs to be Done is a great methodology that helps you uncover the deeper motivation of customers. If done right, it can be a powerful weapon that can inform your messaging, product features, or pricing model. In this presentation, I will present the key components of the JTBD theory. I will also share my personal experience with implementing it and using the findings in the long-term marketing strategy.

Key takeaways: Personas tell us who our customers are, but Jobs to be Done tells us why they do what they do. Having one without the other is only part of the picture – and while everyone talks about buyer personas, few people talk about Jobs to be Done. The balance should be restored!

Deep work, Maker time, Personal Kanban, GTD, MIT, Pomodoro… Productivity is on everyone’s mind and there’s countless advice out there. Over the years, it feels like I’ve tried it all. Not out of curiosity, but out of sheer necessity – I’m working on 4 major projects at a time, not to count a blog, a series of science events, and a course with 600 students!

In this talk, I’ll share with you the methods, routines, and tools that worked. My goal is to give you 10 actionable takeaways you can apply to your work tomorrow – or even today. Some of them include:

• Why Pomodoro can be glorious – and why it sometimes flops?
• How to make your calendar the best guardian of your sanity?
• What else to pay attention to, if time management is just half the picture?

Key takeaways: Productive people work hard to stay productive – and you can start building habits towards that one step at a time.