SPECIAL GUEST!! HUBSPOT's Courtney Dagher 🎤 Why Your Speaker Pitch Keeps Getting Rejected | Ep. 577
SPECIAL GUEST!! HUBSPOT's Courtney Dagher 🎤 Why Your Speaker Pitch Keeps Getting Rejected | Ep. 577  
Podcast: Do This, NOT That: Marketing Tips with Jay Schwedelson
Published On: Fri Oct 16 2026
Description: Partner with Jay: https://www.jayschwedelson.com/contactă…¤Check out Jay Schwedelson's new book: Stupider People Have Done It All net proceeds are donated to The V Foundation for Cancer Research, let's kick cancer's butt: https://www.amazon.com/Stupider-People-Have-Done-Marketing/dp/1637635206ă…¤Subscribe to Jay's newsletter for weekly marketing tips and tactics: https://www.jayschwedelson.com/newsletteră…¤Register for GuruConference (FREE + VIRTUAL!) https://www.guruconference.comă…¤Check out Eventastic (FREE + VIRTUAL!) https://www.eventastic.comă…¤Connect with Jay on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schwedelson/Check out Jay's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@schwedelsonCheck out Jay's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jayschwedelson/Ask Jay anything: https://www.jayschwedelson.com/askă…¤Leave a comment and follow the show, it really helps us out!ă…¤Follow Courtney Dagher on LinkedIn, and secure your budget now for UNBOUND 2027, with tickets going on sale Cyber Monday at unbound.hubspot.com.ă…¤Nobody graduates with a degree in British Victorian history and literature planning to run one of the biggest marketing events in the world, but that's exactly where Courtney Dagher landed. She and Jay Schwedelson get into what makes someone feel like they genuinely can't miss an event, and why the answer has less to do with the agenda than you'd think. It's an honest, funny look behind the curtain from someone who still gets a rush from thousands of people and zero sleep.ă…¤Best Moments:(02:23) How a Harvard history grad with no tech background talked her way into HubSpot(07:55) The year and a half of work behind retiring the INBOUND name(11:56) Why the most successful events are actually boring for the people running them(12:59) The one thing that gets speaker submissions rejected every time(15:46) Attendees are tired of hearing about agents and want outcomes instead(20:07) Execution is the new currency, and why great ideas aren't enough anymore