The Viral Genius Podcast

Speaker Preview: Why Events Beat Algorithms: Lessons from HeySummit’s Sheriff Subair


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In this episode, Sheriff Subair, Head of Marketing at HeySummit, shares how running workshops and virtual events can completely transform your marketing results. Sheriff explains how active, participatory experiences like summits generate deeper audience engagement, build stronger customer relationships, and create brands people actually remember.

He also previews his talk at the Strike Marketing Summit, “Summit as System: Turning Events into Authority, Community, and Revenue Machines,” and breaks down how businesses are running multiple summits a year to keep their customer acquisition engines constantly running.

🚀 Key Takeaways:

Running events can triple your monthly lead generation.

Workshops and summits build real relationships with your audience.

Memorable brands are the ones customers buy from.

Events outperform passive content like SEO and ads.

Hosting multiple summits a year keeps your growth flywheel spinning.

Conversations > impressions — proximity builds trust.

Summits create community, authority, and long-term visibility.

🔊 Sound Bites:

“We were able to triple the number of leads.”

“People buy from brands they remember.”

“Events and summits bring you closer to your audience.”

Chapters:

00:00 — Introduction to the Strike Marketing Summit

00:43 — The impact of summits on lead generation

03:12 — Why multiple summits a year can drive growth

07:56 — How summits outperform passive marketing1

0:00 — Building authority and community through events



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The Viral Genius PodcastBy Fernando Labastida