MozCon is heading again to Seattle this July, and we’re excited to announce the return of our annual name for up-and-coming neighborhood audio system!

Yearly, we take nice satisfaction in reserving area on our stage for brand new voices. Are you the individual that everybody in your community appears to be like to for digital advertising and marketing recommendation? Maybe you’ve been honing your voice on podcasts or blogs, all of the whereas dreaming of stepping onto the massive stage to share your progressive concepts? Now’s your probability to submit your pitch for the chance to hitch business leaders on the MozCon stage in entrance of 1,500 of your friends. (No stress!)

Undecided what a neighborhood speaker is?

At MozCon, we have now a speaker choice committee that identifies practitioners on the prime of their skilled subject with a imply talking recreation. However these classes are by invite solely, and we all know the neighborhood is bursting on the seams with hidden gems able to share groundbreaking analysis, scorching ideas, and search engine optimisation exams that drive outcomes.

Cue our MozCon neighborhood speaker program! We reserve six 15-minute neighborhood talking slots all through our three-day convention. We encourage anybody within the search engine optimisation neighborhood to submit their finest and most fun presentation concepts for MozCon. Not solely are these classes extremely well-received by our attendees, however they’re additionally a unbelievable method to get your foot within the door in the case of the search engine optimisation talking circuit.

Taken with pitching your individual concept? Learn on for every little thing it’s worthwhile to know:

Methods to submit

To submit a pitch, fill out the neighborhood speaker submission kind beneath. Solely submit one discuss! We would like the one you’re most keen about.

Talks have to be associated to on-line advertising and marketing and be a subject you possibly can cowl in quarter-hour. Submissions shut on Friday, February twenty fifth at 5pm PDT — no exceptions!

If chosen, you’ll be required to current your discuss July 11-13, 2022 at MozCon in Seattle, WA. Incomplete submissions won’t be thought-about, and all selections are ultimate. All audio system should adhere to the MozCon Code of Conduct and observe our Covid-19 well being protocols together with offering proof of full vaccination.

Submit my pitch!

If you happen to submit a pitch, you’ll hear again from us no matter your acceptance standing, so please be affected person till you hear again — we’ll work exhausting to make our selections as rapidly as we are able to! Please word that because of the quantity of submissions we usually obtain, we’re unable to supply particular suggestions on particular person purposes.

What do audio system obtain?

As a neighborhood speaker you’ll obtain:

• quarter-hour on the MozCon stage for a keynote-style presentation

• A free ticket to MozCon (we are able to situation a refund or switch for those who’ve already bought yours)

• The whole MozCon 2022 bundle of speaker movies

• Journey and lodging throughout MozCon

• Help and suggestions as you construct your ultimate presentation deck to ensure you ship the discuss of your life on our stage.

• And some extra surprises…

How we choose our audio system

We now have an inner committee of skilled Mozzers that evaluation each pitch. We analyze every subject to verify there’s no overlap and to substantiate that it’s a very good match for our viewers.

Subsequent, we have a look at the whole thing of the pitch to assist us get a complete concept of what to anticipate out of your discuss on the MozCon stage and the way it could be acquired by the viewers. That is the place hyperlinks to earlier decks, content material, and movies of previous displays is useful (however isn’t required).

Right here’s methods to make your pitch stand out:

• Maintain your pitch targeted on digital advertising and marketing. search engine optimisation subjects are nice however we additionally love subjects that flatter or sit adjoining to search engine optimisation. The extra actionable the pitch, the higher.

• Be targeted and concise. What worth does your discuss present? We need to hear the precise takeaways our viewers will likely be studying about and why it’s vital — not only a imprecise reference to them. Bear in mind, we obtain a ton of pitches, so the extra clearly you possibly can clarify the tactical steps and studying goals for the viewers, the higher you’ll stand out.

• Do your analysis! Assessment the subjects offered at previous MozCons, on the Moz Weblog and in our Whiteboard Friday movies for a way of what resonates with our viewers— we’re searching for classes which might be new and that spherical out our agenda so as to add to the stage.

• Brush up on methods to put together for talking.

• No pitches will likely be evaluated prematurely, so please don’t ask 🙂

• Utilizing social media to foyer your pitch received’t assist. As an alternative, put your time and power into the precise pitch itself!

• Linking to a earlier instance of a slide deck or presentation isn’t required, but it surely does assist the committee.

Main as much as MozCon

In case your pitch is chosen, the MozCon workforce is right here to help you alongside the best way. It’s our purpose to verify that is your finest discuss up to now, whether or not it’s your first time underneath these vibrant stage lights otherwise you’re a seasoned speaker who feels completely at house in entrance of a giant crowd. We’ll reply any questions you’ll have and work with you to ship a chat you’ll be pleased with. Listed here are only a handful of ways in which we’re right here to assist:

• Matter refinement

• Serving to together with your session title and outline

• Reviewing any session outlines and drafts

• Offering loads of ideas round finest practices — particularly with the MozCon stage and viewers in thoughts

• Complete present information

• Being obtainable to hearken to you apply your discuss

• Reviewing your ultimate deck

• A full stage tour on the Sunday earlier than MozCon to satisfy our A/V crew, see your presentation on the massive display, and get a really feel for the present

• A tremendous 15-person A/V workforce to help your presentation each second it’s on the massive display and past

We’ve obtained our fingers crossed for you. Good luck!

Submit my pitch!