The Influence Conference 2013
Ashley Wifey
Posted on February 27, 2013
Today we are thrilled to start talking about The Influence Conference 2013! This year, The Influence Conference will be held September 26-28 at the beautiful Westin Indianapolis Hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana. Tickets will officially go on sale April 1, 2013 and we just can’t wait! But we don’t want to wait until then to connect with you! You can connect with the Influence Network on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
We are so excited for this year’s conference and have already been praying for all our attendees If you’ve ever wondered how or why the Lord was going to use you in your home, work, community, or online – The Influence Conference is a fantastic place to connect and learn. We believe that God has given you influence right where you are, for one purpose: to make much of Him. At The Influence Conference we’re going to dig into the common thread of all of us – the Good News. We plan on doing a little teaching, talking, sharing, and celebrating concerning the ways He might want to use you on the individual platforms He’s given.
If you’re a blogger or social media pro who wants to grow in her ability to leverage the internet to make much of Jesus–and help support your family’s ability to act and minister – Influence will be that conference. If you’re a gal who cares little about the internet, we believe Influence is for you too and you’ll be blessed beyond measure by coming. If you’ve always wanted a community of women, but never felt you fit in at Christian conferences before, come knowing you’ll be embraced and all your charm and quirk will be loved! If you’re looking for a weekend to experience community among like-minded women, if you’re looking for a fun and engaging weekend, if you want to meet some of the amazing women online who you talk to or read about or think you could learn from, The Influence Conference is the place.
We have some incredible speakers lined up! They are wise and precious and cannot wait to dig into a variety of topics in life and strategy– we’re going to talk about it all. We have two tracks that we hope will bless your socks off: Life and strategy. LIFE: Each of our lives are uniquely shaped by God Himself. By telling our stories of grace, forgiveness, trials, loss, and triumph- we are telling of the Good News. Each speaker has a story to tell, full to the brim with the Goodness of God. STRATEGY: If you are wanting to take your storytelling to a new place this track will help. Your influence in social media can bless you and your ministries relationally and even financially. These sessions will give you practical tips to leverage your business or blog for God’s glory and your good.

Susie Davis//The Good News Girl — Jeff Goins//Goins, Writer — Annie Downs//Annie Blogs
Jenna Weber// Eat, Live, Run — Kate Bryan//The Small Things Blog — Diana Stone//Hormonal Imbalances
Hayley Morgan//The Tiny Twig — Jessica Thompson//Give Them Grace — Jessi Connolly//Naptime Diaries
We couldn’t be more excited about this new addition the conference. We asked what you wanted to see and are so excited to meet your strategy needs! They are women just like you, who make real and consistent money and are ready to teach you how to be all about the Gospel and support your family’s ability to spread it. They will speak on everything from about advertising, working with brands, blog growth, finding your voice, small businesses and branding. They KNOW their stuff and would love to get to know you. Go stop by and say hello!
Erin//Blue-Eyed Bride — Nicole//The Style Hatch — Kacia//Coconut Robot — Lindsay//Hello Hue
We’d like to introduce you to some awesome ladies that will be looking after you during the conference. Our community leaders are meant to be available at all times and be a source of encouragement and guidance for our attendees. These women of influence are excited to help lead and create community within our new tribe throughout the conference weekend. This year, all our community leaders will be teaching a workshop- but more on that later! Each of these women is sweet and engaging and we would LOVE for you to head on over and get to know them better before September if you haven’t already!

Amanda//A Royal Daughter – Kim//Oh, Sweet Joy! – Rebecca//Better Life Bags
Erika//Rouge+Whimsy — Ellen//Sweetwater – Erin//Sweetness Itself
Arielle//Arielle Elise — Megan//She Does Justice — Kara-Kae//The Mom Diggity
We want to make it clear that the Influence Conference, and the Influence Network as a whole, is just as much yours as it is ours. We want you to listen to the Holy Spirit and ask, “Do I really believe I have been given influence to make much of Jesus? Do I see the influence I’ve been given here, today – right where I am? If I do believe that, then how am I responding? Am I being convicted and humbled and given hope by the Good News?” That’s why we’re having this conference. So that we can ask and answer those questions together. And we can start right now on the network & keep going right till September.
We’d love for YOU to join us.

So exciting! I definitely hope to attend. I’ve already been so blessed connecting with many of you through The Network, and I’d love to meet you all in real life!
I also love this question: “If I do believe that, then how am I responding?” The women’s discipleship group I’m a part of is centered around asking the questions “What is God saying to me?” and “How am I going to respond?” I love that we have this community to process those questions together. Many thanks to everyone who is working hard to put this conference together!
Thankful for you!
Hope that as a community we can respond to our respective calls well.
Wow! It looks so wonderful! I’m so excited about the speakers and I probably can’t even come. I guess here’s where I start praying and see what God wants. I will definitely be praying for the conference and all you ladies there though!
Alesha <3
We’re working on some ideas for online content–so if you can’t come (although, hopefully you can!), then look into that when the time comes.
This would be my first blogging conference to attend and I hope I can!
We’d SO love to have you, Elisha! It was LOADS of fun last year–it can only get better, too, that’s the crazy part!
Super exciting! Hope I can make it again this year!
YES!! I so hope that, too!
Ah! SO exciting. Hopefully I’ll be abe to come! If so, this will be my first blogging conference. I’m sweating out of nervousness just thinking about it.
I totally understand that.
At my first conference, I was SUPER nervous but pretending I wasn’t until I REALLY wasn’t anymore. It seemed to work!
Mine too, Kimber! Really hope to meet you there
This would be my first blog conference as well and I’m so excited about the thought of being there this year. Can you let me know if ticket prices and/or a more detailed schedule will be available before tickets go on sale? I’m hoping I can tie this into my professional development fun for my job.
The tickets will be about $225 and we’ll have a pretty finalized schedule for you before tickets go on sale.
Wonderful – thanks so much Hayley! And I’m assuming that doesn’t include lodging, correct?
It doesn’t – it does include most a few meals and last year, our gals had a great time meeting online and then rooming together to split costs!
That should say “professional development fund” LOL
I have been waiting alllll day to get home from work so I could check the blog to see what news was promised – this is so exciting!! I will be praying hard about going. I want to attend SO badly – I’m very eager to connect with, learn from, share with, pray for, laugh with the Influence gals
I did have an idea/question about something at the Conference… who should I contact directly about that?
Thanks!!
Jessi
Hey Jessi – hoping you will be able to come as well! Be sure to talk with Ashley Wifey, our conference manager about it. Her twitter handle is @5ohwifey and I’m sure she can give you her email too.
Awesome, Lindsey, thank you!
I want to attend and I don’t live that far! I’m just starting to blog. I’ve been feeling led for a long time to restart blogging and this time, make more than just a journal for family and friends. I’m a relatively new Christian, so I feel woefully inadequate to influence others, but I’m feeling led to share more than I am now. I’m hoping meeting you all through this conference would give me the tools necessary to “do this thing” I’m feeling led to do!
Lori – we would LOVE to have you at the conference. I recently started a new blog with the same intention of making it more than just a journal. It has been really well received, especially since the Influence community has been “growing up” together.
One thing I’ve learned is that people love to hear your story right where you are. If that is a new Christian, then your voice and story is uniquely yours. You’ll never be in this spot again, and you can relate to a certain group better than others in the Network ever could.
If you feel led to start writing sooner than September, we’d love to have you join the Network now for whatever support we can give you!
I’m super excited about the timing and location of this conference! And also that Diana Stone is one of the speakers
I’ve been blogging for 8.5 years but have only gone more public in the last 2 years. I know God is weaving His story in my life and I’m excited to follow His lead on my blog and to learn more from the conference!
I’m super excited about those speakers – especially Jeff Goins! Great line-up – good job ladies!
I’ve only recently joined the network and learned of your conference and am seriously considering attending!
I might be in Africa as a blogger, eek! Maybe God can work on those little details.
Still exciting to see what God is doing through this, through those you’ve got connected here!
I’ve just learned about this…in the last 5 minutes! I want to learn more!!! Just what I’ve been looking for!!!
Just learning about this event and i am going to start praying about going! I so want direction on how God can use me to influence his kingdom in any small or big way through my little blog
…And the speakers make it all worth it too!!
Whoo hoo! So excited just purchased my ticket! Cant wait to see more of the schedule as it gets closer!
Very energetic article, I enjoyed that bit. Will there
be a part 2?