So, you’ve attended a blog conference. You have a couple days of life-changing information, motivation, new relationships, a notebook full of notes, and a mile-long to-do list – now what!?!

I’m going to help you stop your head from spinning and break it all down into six steps: what to so immediately, 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, and forever after.

Sit down for a minute, relax, put the to-do list on hold. Let’s decompress and organize…

Immediately

Make a lasting impression on anyone on anyone you met who made a lasting impression on you.

• Reach out during the conference on social media (ie. live tweeting, IG/FB comments…)
• Find a chance to talk to them and let them know you’d like to keep in touch
• Give them a handwritten note thanking them for speaking, putting on the conference, or chatting during the conference
• When you exchange cards, not a handwritten note, “so great to meet you! Let’s keep in touch” so that it stands out in their stack of business cards

Within 3 days

Follow the people you met and, exchanged cards with, on their social media channels and let them know you enjoyed meeting them.

There are so many people to meet in a short period of time, this will help you remember the people you came in contact with and help them remember you. Another great way to keep in touch with all the people who shared the experience with you is to

Create or join a Facebook group just for attendees.

You have a pre-built tribe here. Take advantage of it! Share experiences from the conference, promote your conference recaps, find contact information you missed, and learn from others who had a different take than you did. Everyone is so diverse; from one end of the country to the other, large bloggers and bloggers just starting out, different niches of bloggers – it can be such a unique group.

Within 1 Week

Recap the experience on your blog 

It can be overwhelming to come back from a conference and have so much information to share and no idea where to start. Just do a quick recap of the feeling you’re having and a brief teaser of all the great things you’d like to share, then spend some time to think about how you can separate those ideas into smaller posts.

It’s usually impossible to fit it all into one post that will keep someone’s attention to the end – there are just way too much awesomeness that comes with a blog conference! Instead, you should be inspired and draw from all you learned to create a months worth of blog posts!

Within 2 Weeks

Reach out to any brands you connected with and be prepared with some ideas of how you could work together.

This could happen sooner, but I chose within 2 weeks to give some time for some genuine and creative thought instead of just shooting off a quick, “I’d love to work together.” You have much more potential for solidifying a relationship with a brand if you take some time to think about your approach.

Something that would work much better could look like, “I really enjoyed meeting you at ___. I loved that your product/company ___ and I think my audience would really relate to a post about ___. I would love to work together in the near future.”

Within 1 Month

Check back over your notes and business cards.

Relive it while you’re not so overwhelmed with it all. Try to reach out to anyone you may have missed, because everyone understands how fast time flies. Study your notes and remind yourself what you learned and all those things you were going to do right when you got home.

Forever After

Strengthen and nourish those relationships.

Don’t just leave the conference and think, “that was great, maybe I’ll do it again next year.” You just met so e amazing people and could end up with some exciting opportunities. Check in from time to time, come up with some more creative proposals for brands, and keep yourself on the radar for these people who will always feel like you shared something special.

Have you attended a blog conference? Or any type of conference?

What is your biggest post-conference tip?