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Blair Enns blogs about agency business development, free pitching and occasionally, life in Kaslo.

Returning to the Scene of the Crime | 21 February 2008

My first speech at a major conference was the HOW Mind Your Own Business Conference in los Cabos, Mexico in 2003 when a then-unknown-to-me David C. Baker invited me to speak on Mistakes to Avoid in Positioning Your Firm.

My message went over well enough (although I got poor marks for my rusty and wooden style!) that I was invited back two years later. David Baker has now ended his involvement with the conference that he co-founded, but the event is soldiering on (now an annual event again after two stints as a biannual) in Austin the weekend of September 25th, 2008. I've been invited back this year to do the opening keynote, giving me a rare opportunity to take back some of the things I said five years ago.

But will I?

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