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25 September 2023

UpLift Live conference

UpLift Live is the UK’s first LinkedIn-focused conference for LinkedIn specialists, power users and enthusiasts.

Join the apex operators of LinkedIn to learn best practices for the world’s number one business networking platform.

🗓️ Thursday 21 March 2024
📍 Millennium Point, Birmingham, UK
🔗 uplift-live.com

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This is the only event of its type in the UK. Don’t miss it!

What you get with your ticket.

  • A one-day conference focused on LinkedIn best practice
  • Talks from 8 of the world’s leading LinkedIn specialists
  • Captioned and transcribed recordings of all sessions
  • Networking with LinkedIn power users & enthusiasts
  • Pre-event get-together to break the ice
  • Some surprise secret stuff 😎

Let’s meet the speakers and the Mission Control team bringing you the event.

Podcast trailer.

Before we kick off, check out the trailer for the UpLift Live podcast. You can listen to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music.

TRANSCRIPT
Hi, everyone, and welcome to the UpLift Live podcast.

This is a podcast to tell you a little bit more about the upcoming UpLift Live conference.

This event is going to be the first of its kind – a conference in the UK, specifically focusing on LinkedIn and aimed at LinkedIn specialists, power users and enthusiasts.

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Jeremy Freeman.

Meet one of the co-organisers of the UpLift live conference, the Human Content Writer, Jeremy Freeman.

TRANSCRIPT
Jeremy Freeman, welcome to the UpLift Live podcast.

You are one of our co-organisers, our Mission Control, for the conference project.

But for anyone who doesn’t know who you are, tell us a little bit about Jeremy Freeman, and who is a Human Content Writer? Ooh, mystery there.

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Gus Bhandal.

Meet another co-organiser of the UpLift Live conference, The M Guru, Gus Bhandal.

TRANSCRIPT
OK, Gus Bhandal, welcome to the UpLift Live podcast.

You are one of my co-organisers for this conference.

Gus, for people who don’t know you, tell us, who is this M Guru person? Thank you, John.

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Louise Brogan.

From Belfast and speaking at the UpLift Live conference about LinkedIn company pages, it’s Louise Brogan.

TRANSCRIPT
Louise Brogan, thank you for joining us on the UpLift Live podcast.

You are going to be our first speaker announcement for the conference next year.

Welcome and tell us why did Mission Control pick you as our speaker for this event? What do you know about LinkedIn?

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Kevin D Turner.

King of new features on LinkedIn, Kevin D Turner is coming to us all the way from Dallas, Texas.

TRANSCRIPT
Kevin D Turner, welcome to the UpLift Live conference podcast.

Thank you so much for being here.

Tell everyone a little bit about who Kevin D Turner is.

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Gillian Whitney.

Gillian Whitney makes video easy peasy, and she’s coming from Las Vegas to speak about LinkedIn livestream video.

TRANSCRIPT
OK, Gillian Whitney, welcome to the UpLift Live podcast, and you are going to be one of our speakers in Birmingham next year.

Gillian, tell us, what do you know about LinkedIn? Ah, LinkedIn is just like my home.

I love LinkedIn.

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Nigel Cliffe.

Nigel Cliffe is one of the UK’s foremost LinkedIn specialists, and will be speaking at UpLift Live about advanced search on LinkedIn and Sales Navigator.

TRANSCRIPT

Nigel Cliffe, welcome to the UpLift Live podcast.

You are going to be one of our speakers at our event in Birmingham next year.

Nigel, tell me, what do you know about LinkedIn? Thank you, John.

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John Espirian.

Meet one of the co-organisers of the UpLift live conference, the relentlessly helpful® LinkedIn nerd, John Espirian. That’s me! And I’m also a speaker. Here’s the announcement:

TRANSCRIPT
We’ve already announced some of our speakers at UpLift Live, starting with Louise Brogan, moving on to Kevin D Turner.

We have Gillian Whitney, and we have Nigel Cliffe.

And the next speaker announcement will be … me. Yup, it’s me.

I’m speaking at my own conference, surprise-surprise, but the announcement had to be made.

So, here I am. If you want to join us in Birmingham, Thursday 21 March 2024.

And you can get your ticket at uplift-live.com.

There’s a longer version of this announcement on the audio podcast, which you can hear on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music.

And stay tuned for the remaining speaker announcements who are up on my wall now.

I hope you’ll really, really like who we’ve got lined up in full.

I’ll see you in Birmingham soon. Cheers.

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Tiina Jarvet.

Our next speaker is an international headhunter and recruitment specialist based in Belgium. Say hello to Tiina Jarvet!

TRANSCRIPT
Welcome, Tiina Jarvet, to the UpLift Live podcast.

Thank you so much for being here.

You are going to be one of our speakers, one of our international speakers at the UpLift Live conference in Birmingham next year.

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Mark Williams.

Mark Williams is the host of the excellent Linkedinformed podcast and is known around the world as Mr LinkedIn:

TRANSCRIPT
Mark Williams, welcome to the UpLift Live podcast.

You are going to be one of our speakers in Birmingham. It’s a great honour to be able to host you. Welcome to the show.

Thank you very much.

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Richard van der Blom.

Richard van der Blom is the world’s best-known analyst of latest changes to the LinkedIn algorithm.

He’s flying over from Valencia to share his newest research with us along with how these insights can inform our social selling strategies on LinkedIn.

TRANSCRIPT

Richard van der Blom, welcome to the show. You are going to be a speaker at the UpLift Live conference in Birmingham in March. Welcome aboard.

Tell us, what do you know about LinkedIn? Thank you, John, first of all, thank you for having me both here on the show and in March in Birmingham.

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