The first time I met Michelle Briggs, co-founder and writer for The Foodie Robots, I told her a little white lie.
We were at Elemental Coffee a month before the conference with Linds and Annie, the other Foodie Robots, and she asked me how many people we’d had sign up for Confluence.
I told we’d had a few.
But we hadn’t. We’d had one. And he was working on the event.
Later that day we sold our first ever ticket to the public, and Michelle Briggs was the early adopter who bought it. She’s an intellectual property lawyer and chair of the wonderful Ignite OKC events.
Thank you Michelle!
Over the next two weeks the other Foodie Robots bought tickets too, along with lots of other folks. Then Michelle’s husband Justin Briggs bought a ticket.
I recognized the name. He was one of the potential speakers Kelly Beall from Design Crush had recommended I get in touch with months before. One of the many balls I’ve dropped along the way.
Kelly had said he spoke well about the lean startup and bootstrapping a tech business. His software development company Chorus Labs are currently launching Baton, an online project and task management software. Now he tells me that the whole chorus team are going to be coming to Confluence.
“We complement each other,” Michelle says of their relationship, “We play devil’s advocate. It gives us a perspective that’s a little further removed from our own ideas.”
So why are they coming to Confluence?
Michelle says she bought her ticket because she wants to learn more about digital marketing, something she understands to a point but lacks practical experience of. She wants access to specific tools to help her get Foodie Robots content out to a wider audience, and to provide the framework for her ideas to come together in a more strategic way.
Justin and his team have had their heads down getting the Baton product ready for launch, he says the conference has come along at the perfect time for them to snap up some tips on how to help it gain traction and a user base.
Our speakers won’t disappoint. No lie.
And thank you both again for your support in our crucial first year.
