Stop Wasting Your Conference Trip! Get MAX Value from Cvent CONNECT

Hey everyone, Awesome Sam here, and I wanted to just have a quick video and a thought around Cvent Connect and how you can get the most out of it. There's a really big difference between attending an event and getting something out of it. And here's the trap.

The agenda drops, we scroll through it, it looks amazing, there's hundreds of things, awesome, and your plan becomes, you know what, I'll figure this out, I'll look at this when I get there. I'm going to, you know, figure out my plan a little bit later. And then weeks go by, days go by, and you're on the plane coming back home, and you have nothing but a bunch of screenshots of slides, and your idea of like, huh, I don't remember what all this was about and where it went. So, I'm here to give you a couple tips to kind of walk you through this.

The one thing that I'm going to say that moves the needle is the one thing you need to focus on. What is one thing? The one problem I'm trying to solve right now. What will help solve that problem? That is you're going to be your filter. That

is your filter for looking through the sessions, cuz there's many, many amazing sessions, and the filter for looking through your people, the filter for looking through conversations. That is the way you're going to think through things, because it's not what is the five things I want to learn, what is the 10 sessions I want to check out, what is the 20 things I want to do. All of those things will fall into place if you know what your one filter is for what I want to get out of this and the problem I am trying to solve. And that's why you can

go and look at the sessions and be like, huh, does that session help against this problem? Does it get me closer to where I need to know? Are the right people going to be in the room that have the same problem as me for that session? Or is this going to be, you know, it's probably four or five on my bucket list of things that I want to try to do, but it's not going to help me. So, come back to that one thing that you want to kind of solve, and that can be your filter for all the sessions, all the vendors, all the people you want to talk with. Does this conversation get me further to figuring out that answer? The second thing I wanted to bring up is

the recap at the end of the day. I know, I'm crazy. At the end of the day, you want to go home, you want to be done, you want to go out to have whatever with whatever, and go to the dinner, and go to the whatever, you kind of need to do the recap at the end of the day. I promise you by just the next day, you will not remember what happened that day prior. If you've been to large events, like most of you probably have, you cannot remember what happened on day one, day two at the end of the a session. So, at the end of each day,

walk through kind of your sessions, walk through where you were, look at your photos in your app, see if you have any notes, scribble down, figure out what is the next step, what is the learning of this, do I need to email this to someone back home to check this out, do I need to do something with this, should I put a note in myself for checking this information out in 2 weeks in my Google calendar, whatever you kind of need to do, that's an easy way for you to kind of re-trigger your brain and your brain and your memory. I hope these two tips

help. Remember, one, filter. What is the problem you're trying to get solved? That will help you filter all the sessions, all the everything. And two, the recap at the end of the day. That will help you get a little bit closer and a little bit of the craziness out of your brain and into your operational systems. I'm so excited to see you at the Event Connect. Looking forward to seeing you soon, just a little bit. See you soon.