How to Get a Meeting with the CEO of any Company

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The single most useful thing if you want to bend the ear of any CEO (or executive, or mailroom boy, for that matter) is to be where they are. Assuming that doesn’t mean breaking into their house and waiting for them to come home (disclaimer: we do NOT recommend this course of action), a great way to do this is to attend the same conferences or events as they do.

Our next post will centre on preparing for conferences and trade shows itself, while this post focusses on how to secure a meeting once you’ve decided to attend an event your target will be at.

How to secure a meeting

We’ll assume you’ve done the background research to be as sure as possible that your pitch will strike a chord with the person you’re trying to meet. No matter what you do, selling the right product to the wrong person is likely to be a waste of everyone’s time.

If you don’t have your pitch and proposition nailed, this post might be a few steps ahead for you, since the assumption is that some market research and validation has already been done. We’ll also assume you don’t have a warm introduction into that person, since that’s the best way of all to get some ear-time.

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Technology Conferences and Enterprise Summits – March & April 2014

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Here’s our regular listing of conferences, summits and events happening around the world during March and April 2014. Highlights include the 2014 edition of SXSW in Austin and the future-focused Anticipating 2025 in London. By the way, if you’ll be at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona at the end of February, make sure to pop over to us at Stand 7F70 in Hall 7 to say hello and have a chat about our new ‘Intentional Advertising‘ product.

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A Statement of Intent: Mobile World Congress (MWC 2014) Beckons

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We’ll be heading to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona again this year, exhibiting on the Ireland pavillion in Hall 7, stand 7F70 and looking forward to another great event.

At this year’s event we’ll be unveiling the first of our “Intentional Advertising” offerings, built on the HeyStaks Collaborative Search Analytics platform. Mobile operators and other service providers looking to use subscriber data usage patterns to improve their CRM, precision marketing and advertising initiatives now have the perfect tool with our profile enrichment technology.

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Dublin Web Summit 2013 Review – The Best Talks – Part II

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In this, the second part of our roundup of the best of this year’s Dublin Web Summit, we have picked another selection of thought leaders, deal-makers, industry-creators and super-geeks whose talks we found particularly interesting. Like the Rolling Stone top 500 Albums ever, we’re sure we missed some and our choice will no doubt differ from yours, so please paste the links to the video you thought was best in the comments!

The main stage was packed to the rafters, so a large crowd gathered around the Pitch Stage to watch Enda Kenny trying to get Elon Musk to locate Tesla manufacturing in Ireland.

The main stage was packed to the rafters, so a large crowd gathered around the Pitch Stage to watch Enda Kenny trying to get Elon Musk to locate Tesla manufacturing in Ireland.

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Dublin Web Summit 2013 Review – The Best Talks – Part I

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This year’s Dublin Web Summit was bigger than ever, growing more than double last year’s size to a staggering 10,000 attendees. Paddy and team continued their awe-inspiring rush to the top of the pile of tech events. It’s still run like the startups the the event is all about – sometimes rough & ready, “good enough” at most things and doing one thing really, really well – bringing together anyone who’s anyone in the tech world in a flurry of great talks, fantastic networking and all kinds of amazing.

View from above - the Pitch stage and STARTGlobal area at Dublin Web Summit 2013

View from above – the Pitch stage and STARTGlobal area at Dublin Web Summit 2013

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HAPI days: HeyStaks API helps developers to make their own social search applications

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We were delighted to launch our developer programme at the Dublin Web Summit last week and also to announce the small matter of €800K in venture funding that we raised earlier this year. We raised the funding to help us build out the platform and infrastructure for the HeyStaks API (which we’re affectionately calling HAPI!) and to support our initial customer engagements.

HAPI can be used to make any search environment social. Driving higher conversions on eCommerce sites through personalized listings, creating superior context-aware mobile search experiences, reducing search effort and duplicated efforts for educators, students and enterprises. All can now be achieved without without having to invest in new search infrastructure.

It’s a very exciting time for us as a team, and we can’t wait to see what wonderful uses people make of our platform. The full text of last week’s press release is below, so enjoy and get building!

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Free Guide to the Dublin Web Summit 2013

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Attending Web Summit 2015? Our Free Guide to Web Summit 2015 has been released!

Update – October 29th: The latest version contains a full, printable version of the Web Summit Schedule, information about the Night Summit and which acts to see, a floorplan of the Web Summit, and more.

Dublin Web Summit 2013 Free Guide

The Dublin Web Summit, Ireland’s largest ever technology and business conference, is returning on the 30th and 31st October 2013. HeyStaks will be attending and exhibiting, and is also very proud to be part of the exclusive START inititive.

Being Web Summit veterans, we have produced a handy guide for attendees, which you can download for free. Whether you’ll be visiting from a far-away country or, like us, are a short walk away from the RDS in Dublin, our Guide to the Dublin Web Summit 2013 contains useful tips and practical info which will help you to make the most of this year’s Web Summit.

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