I spent the last two days with 2,800 awesome marketing ninjas from around the world, listening to phenomenal marketers like @garyvee and having beers with @mvolpe who I think is one of the top Saas CMOs in the country.

Here is what I learned:

You Must Care Immensely for Your End User – @garyvee

Facebook Sponsored Posts can now be sent to Friends of Fans – Chris Luo @facebook

Listen to your customers, answer their questions, compare your competitors and talk about the problems of your products and others – @thesaleslion

Nurturing your leads drives 2x conversion through your funnel – @loriwizdo

When you get spam email and your name is a different color and font, don’t you want to punch your screen with your neck? – @garyvee

Tell your story and make it exciting – Ann Handley @marketingprofs

Put more “heart” into running your business – @garyvee

I have to tell you that the energy and passion of the speakers and attendees was meteoric.

If you run a business of any kind or are involved in sales or marketing in your organization, you have to go to this conference next year.  Here is the registration page Inbound 2013 see you there!