2024 Maine Stay Topics

• Digital Marketing Tactics: Building productive and profitable customer-creating systems.
• PR & Crisis Management: Best practices for what to do – and what not to do – for your brand.
• Start-ups & Entrepreneurship: Planning and scaling to get the most from your ideas.
• Social Media Strategy: What to say, post, and create to find and build your audience.
• Measurement & Metrics: How to make sense of all the data that’s around us

• Non-Profit Innovation: Finding sponsors, donors, and members through today’s challenges.
• A.I. & Chat GPT for Marketing: Best practices and powerful tips to grow impact and efficiency.
• Personal Branding: Capitalizing on the authentic power and promise within you.
• Inbound Marketing: Learn content creation secrets to finding endless customers.
• Marketing With Video: Tips and tools you can use for short-form video success.

Pete Roberts
Founder
Origin USA

Karley Cunningham
Big Thinker & Growth Strategist 
BIG BOLD BRAND

Chris Brogan
Chief of Staff
Appfire

Dr. TJ Holloway
Senior Partner
Holloway Group Consulting/Professional Development

Jason Harkins
Executive Dean and Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship
Maine Business School, University of Maine

Elizabeth Sutherland
CEO
Sutherland Weston Marketing Communications

Ethan Levesque
C-Founder
Northern Oak Memories

“The Mainah Man”

Rylee O’Connell
Miss Rylee Jade, LCC

Frugal Marketing Mastery – Do the Free Stuff First

Begin a journey of frugal marketing mastery. Join us at the Maine Stage for an enlightening session that will empower you with practical, creative strategies to amplify your business visibility without breaking the bank. Luke’s wealth of experience spans over two decades, ensuring you’ll receive theoretical insights and actionable tactics that have been tried and tested. Prepare to reignite your passion for promotion, unearth the perfect niche for your brand, and embark on a cost-conscious marketing crusade to connect with customers.

Marketing Your Business for Growth

The ultimate overview of building a marketing plan that works not just in theory but for real, tangible growth.

This presentation will outline a step-by-step guide to how to be persuasive and, just as importantly, prepared for new business.

ChatGPT For Marketing ROI

Let’s unpack the potential of improving the ROI of your marketing your hospitality, tourism, and experience-based businesses using this ever-evolving tool.

Cary will have your head spinning and your hands scribbling with ideas to take back to your shop.

If you’re looking for a way to improve your website, craft powerful messaging, and build planning calendars and social media posting schedules- with less effort and more impact – don’t miss this presentation.

Transform Your Business With Short Form Video

During the Maine Stage keynote on Thursday, you’re going to learn how to easily use the power of short-form video to capture your audiences’ attention, keep them glued to the screen, and inspire them to take action and buy from you! Don’t miss Alex B Sheridan’s explosive presentation on making waves in the digital world and remember to keep your fingers nimble and warm for all the speedy note taking!

Cooking Content To Capture Customers

CONTENT is KING when capturing the customers clicking to your website or scrolling your socials! Sutherland Weston’s “Content Chefs” Jessica Ward and Ric Tyler lead this dynamic Maine-Stage presentation detailing what content will best capture customer eyes and ears — plus when and where to share!

Relentlessly Helpful: Unleashing the Power of Generosity to Build an Unbeatable Organization

Every organization wants to gain visibility, be seen as an expert, get more prospects and clients, and make more money. But the typical approach to this effort is sales-heavy marketing that neither we or our prospects enjoy. Building authentic thought leadership through generously sharing what your organization knows can stop the endless outbound selling, transform your organization, and even make marketing fun again.

The Podcast Cheatsheet: The What, How and Why?

This is a what, why, and how for non-techy people! Bring your curiosity and questions to help start and sustain a successful podcast.

Leveraging International Audiences

Are you interested in attracting folks ‘from away’…like from really away? We’ll cover what you need to know to find, connect with, and attract.

ChapGPT – Let’s Test Jarvis

A real-time test of Chat GPT live to show you what it can and cannot (yet) do to help make your work more efficient and effective.

Social Media Advertising Unleashed: From Boosting to Expertise

Tips, recommendations, and best practices to increase your engagement and results.

3 P’s Of Public Relations

From earned media to social media, we’ll cover the best practices of helping PR work for you – Pitch, Promote, and Publicity

Recruiting The Right Employees

A moderator-led panel sharing proven strategies to attract and retain talent. 

Your Marketing Audit

Fast-paced, real-time help for the websites, business, and marketing challenges brought before us.

Building Fans and Followers – Strategies and Secrets for Attracting Your Perfect Audience

It’s more than marketing; it’s product, price, and place! A panel of industry owners and leaders share their experiences, successes, and failures to learn from.

Promotion Done Right: Get the Best Bang for Your Buck

Hear from the pros of tv, radio, and promotion on how to get the best return from any investment.