2020 BREAKOUTS
7:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Thursday
PACKET PICK UP
7AM - 8AM
OPENING TALK
8AM - 8:30AM
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Richard Fagerlin, Author Trustology
8:30AM - 9:15AM
MEDIA PANEL DISCUSSION:
Kate Porras - Moderator
Bernie Lange, Jillian McCarthy, Libby Pelletier & Dennis Webb
9:30AM - 10:30AM
Thursday Creative Sessions
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Goal/Vision Boards
Take time to really get focused this year with your goals.
In this session, we'll have materials available for you to create your vision/goal board.
Keep them in your home or office for inspiration all year.
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Puppies & Pastries
Enjoy this calming and chaotically fun time with puppies!
Harmony Animal Matchmaker and Sanctuary will be bringing 4-5 litters of puppies that need love and socialization with lots of play before they are adopted out.
Best Meme & Photo Throwback
For those that call themselves Meme Masters, you'll be competing for awards in the following categories:
Best Meme,
Best Old School Photo,
& Most Creative Use of the Photo Booth.
Awards handed out Friday during Closing Ceremonies.
Suggested App: Mematic
Thursday Lunch
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Thursday
1:00 - 2:15 PM
Thursday Lunch Hosted By CMU
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Thursday
1:00 - 2:15 PM
SPECIALIST
Stretching the Dollars for the Best PR/Marketing Workout: Maximizing a Limited Marketing Budget
During this session, attendees will learn how to best leverage their marketing dollars in a competitive, complex media environment. Karen will guide attendees through various strategies to utilize earned media opportunities to compliment paid media buys. Attendees will also learn what mediums work well together and why some strategies fall short, regardless of the amount of money thrown at a campaign.
Karen Martsolf
Vice President of Marketing/Communications and Fund Development of Community Hospital
INTERMEDIATE
Planning Social Media Content
Bring your notebooks! In this session you will learn how to efficiently plan out your social media content for the month. We will discuss apps and websites to help you plan your content, how to batch content as well as a Q+A portion. This is a hands on session and you will leave with a content plan to implement for the month of March and the knowledge so that you can repeat every month.
Zoe Dunn
Owner @
Zoë Mae Designs
ADVANCED
Marketing Research: Where Do We Start?
This session will provide an overview of applying appreciate research methodology to solve practical problems. The basic concepts of research discussed with practical examples are:
-Building a solid theoretical framework
-Applying appreciate methods
-Triangulating methods and
-Evaluating the reliability and validity of the research
Dr. Shiang-Lih Chen McCain
Assistant Professor of
Marketing at Colorado Mesa
University
Thursday
2:30-3:45 PM
SPECIALIST
Becoming Beyond Reproach
In this compelling workshop, Bridgett will review multiple ways to manage your business reputation, appropriate ways to respond to negative feedback and how you can stay a step ahead of the media.
Bridgett Guiterrez
Account Executive, Digital Strategist @ Ryan/Sawyer Marketing
INTERMEDIATE
Lights, Phone, Action!
Join this workshop to learn how to live stream video and on which social platforms, best practices for going live, and editing both live and pre-recorded video all on your mobile device. For those who are Podcasters and Bloggers, learn how to repurpose or expand their podcast to video content!
*iMovie, InShot, Quick, Adobe Spark Video and Mojo Apps should be downloaded before session
Elaine Venter
Assistant Professor of Mass Communications @ Colorado Mesa University
ADVANCED
You're a Badass:
Brand Yourself
Using your personal branding toolbox, discover the tactics to discover who you are, what your target audience should be and how to communicate your personal brand in every channel you utilize.
Jennifer McCurdy
Director of Operations
ACD Direct, Inc.
Thursday
SPECIALIST
An Exercise in Ridiculosity
You are marketing your business by doing what everyone else is doing.
Are you trying to blend in or stand out?
This collaborative and experiential workshop will explore how to use "ridiculosity" to develop new ideas for marketing your business and developing new campaigns. Turn a limitation into an advantage and discover how ridiculous proposals can lead to the most innovative and memorable campaigns.
Adam Cochran
Multimedia Producer, ACAMS
LampStone Creative, Owner
INTERMEDIATE
Why Didn’t I Think of That?
Finding creative solutions to stand out from your competitors
Come ready to hear some of the creative ways to grab attention from potential customers. We will be focusing on creative print, branding and promotional items that help you get noticed.
Joel Kincaid
Guru of all Things Creative
Merge 2 Media
Marketing by Design
ADVANCED
Law: What to do with Cyber Trolls
Cassandra Kirsch will present on various kind of cyber issues that businesses in the digital age deal with like fake reviews to online bullying.
Cassandra Kirsch
Founding Attorney at Law Office of Cassandra Kirsch.
4:00-5:15 PM
Thursday Initiate Mixer
5:15 - 7:30 PM
The Initiate Mixer will include complimentary beer and wine, along with a cash bar.
Come prepared to mingle and let loose with your fellow conference attendees.
Friday
PACKET PICK UP
OPENING TALK
Morning Presenter:
Josh Lewis, Colorado State Patrol PIO
MARKETING PANEL DISCUSSION:
Heather Benjamin-Moderator, Jennifer McCurdy, Mistalynn Meyeraan, Jill Coyle, & Joel Kincaid
7:00 AM - 10:30 AM
7AM - 8AM
8AM - 8:30AM
8:30AM - 9:15AM
9:30AM - 10:30AM
Friday Creative Sessions
10:45 AM- 11:45 AM
Goal/Vision Boards
Take time to really get focused this year with your goals.
In this session, we'll have materials available for you to create your vision/goal board.
Keep them in your home or office for inspiration all year.
Puppies & Pastries
Enjoy this calming and chaotically fun time with puppies!
Harmony Animal Matchmaker and Sactuary will be bringing 4-5 litters of puppies that need love and socialization with lots of play before they are adopted out.
Silicon Valley StartUps Game
In this Shark Tank-Meets-Cards Against Humanity Game, you'll be given 3 cards that help you figure out your company name, target user, and industry.
But when you start to pitch to the Investors-get ready for them to pull the Hot Trend card to incorporate into your new business.
One person/team will be awarded Best Pitch!
11:45 AM- 12:45 PM
Friday Lunch Hosted By CMU
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Friday
1:00 - 2:15 PM
SPECIALIST
Who are They, Where did They Come From and What do They Want?
Intro to Data-Driven Marketing
Who are they? Where did they come from and what do they want?
Come ready with all your analytics up and open as Sarah walks you through the different kinds of information you can find out about brand/business customers. Expect a dynamic, positive learning atmosphere to help create more effective campaigns with your discoveries.
Sarah Allen
Global Marketing Director for Mountain Racing Products
INTERMEDIATE
Brand and Culture: How it Affects Your Customer
Your employees have powerful energy to bring to your organization and influence your customer relationships. However, when Marketing is responsible for the company’s brand and executing campaigns, but not shaping how it’s experienced, a disconnect between brand strategy and customer experience is created.
Come ready to learn and experience how Marketing is best positioned to design and manage unified CX and EX while developing successful campaign strategies in this interactive workshop.
Libby Olson
Principal, Marketing Strategist @ Growl Agency
ADVANCED
The Weirdness of People - Customer Behaviors
Consumers are wildly unpredictable and often make illogical purchasing decisions. How do companies plan for and adapt to changing consumer needs and wants? This interactive workshop examines consumer behavior today and how it affects the way your company should be doing be doing business. Explore the methodology (and benefits!) of building long-term, mutually satisfing customer relationships.
Deb Parman
Associate Professor of Marketing CMU
& Parman and Associates, Owner
Friday
2:30 - 3:45 PM
SPECIALIST
Crack Your Back...Links
A Practical Approach to SEO, Analytics, and UX/CX in 2020
In this session, Shea will break down the fundamental Search Engine Optimization practices your business should be implementing in their 2020 digital strategy, practical tips and tricks to get more value from your customer data and analytics, and how to use that information to increase digital engagement with your brand across all brand touch points.
Shea Bramer
Marketing Coordinator
Western Rockies Federal Credit Union
INTERMEDIATE
Wait a minute, is that an Ad?
If it looks like an ad, talks like an ad and smells like an ad, it’s probably not going to work. We'll look at how new mediums like social, experiential, guerrilla are changing the game.
Gordy Hirsch
Creative Director @
Hill Aevium
ADVANCED
Corporate/Business Culture 2020
Why is Corporate Culture so Important to Your Overall Marketing Scheme for 2020?
Learn the TOP secrets from Nike, Zappos, Ritz Carlton and Chick-Fil-A on how they are integrating their corporate culture into their marketing initiatives. Corporate/business culture marketing is the fastest growing marketing trend and we want to share the secrets. Let's have fun and GROW corporate culture for your business ... it does add to your brand and marketing equity.
Ryan Lewis
Marketing and Communications
@ Ryan Lewis Agency
Friday
4:00 - 5:15 PM
SPECIALIST
I Have a Video...Now What?
Have the content, and now don't know what to do with it? Or have a marketing plan but don't have the assets to execute it? It can sometimes be the hardest "what comes first, chicken or egg?" conversation in businesses. In this session, Jill Coyle owner of Colvita Creative a marketing and advertising agency based in Eagle, and agency partner, Michael Hans Principal of Meyvn Creative located in Crested Butte share agency secrets of creating and planning out rich video/media to reach your audience and achieve your marketing goals. There will be discussion around items such as: what comes first, collaboration between agencies, approach and project planning, and setting up your budget for both.
Jill Coyle
Owner
Colvita Creative
INTERMEDIATE
Once Upon a Brand Story
Telling your brand’s story and why anyone should care.
Gordy Hirsch
Creative Director @
Hill Aevium
ADVANCED
The Pursuit of Conversions
Whether your goal is to generate leads, drive in-store sales, or recruit volunteers - measuring conversions is a key step. Join us to learn how to identify, measure and increase the conversions that drive real growth.
Stan Stephens
Owner, Lead Strategist
Long Point Digital
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Friday Closing Ceremony
Creative Session Awards Presented by Long Point Digital
Initiation for 2020