Client acquisition and market presence do not wait for the conference. This is the system that runs on the way there. Minimal words. The work speaks.
Same frame on every channel, so three months of touches feel like one campaign.
The event lockup. Used from September on.
The brand lockup. Used from day one, event or not.
Two posts a week from August. Founders reshare within two hours: three to five times the reach, zero spend.
Point of view. Half the calendar. Positions the firm, sells nothing.
Event presence. From September. Books meetings before the badge scan.
Carousel + founder reshare. The amplification layer, 30 seconds of founder time.
No blasts. Every send is one-to-one, plain text, from a name they know.
Warm-up · September. House list and known contacts. Goal: pre-booked meetings.
The dinner invite · Oct 5–9. Founder-signed, to the Top 12. The highest-leverage send.
The 48-hour follow-up. Founder-signed, within two days, while everyone else sends a template a week later.
Four lists, one goal: 10–15 meetings booked before we walk in.
The lists. Theirs and ours, worked at the same time.
LinkedIn DM · founder voice. Short, specific, one clear next step.
The matchmaking app. Profiles live day one, requests out the same morning.
$400 a month, Miami and South Florida, running from August 1. Leads arrive weekly, not in October.
Instagram story. The lead engine: report download → accreditation question → two-tap form → deal team calls next day.
Meta feed. Brand familiarity in the market, every day, event or no event.
LinkedIn boost. Money goes only behind posts that already proved engagement, targeted to CIO and principal titles.
Four channels, three months, one system. This is the integration.
| August | September | October | After | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engine on: 2 posts/week, founders resharing | POV + event posts · Top-60 follows and comments | Daily during the event, live from the floor | Recap post + the insights note announced | |
| Warm-up drafted, list cleaned | Warm-up to house list · individual notes begin | Dinner invites Oct 5–9 · 48-hour follow-ups Oct 28–29 | November meeting confirmations | |
| Direct outreach | Target board final: ours + Preqin + last year's IMN list | Matchmaking opens ~Sept 28: requests out day one | Final booking push with the IMN list · 10–15 booked | 5–7 second meetings held |
| Advertising | $400/mo live Aug 1: story + feed + retargeting | First 30-day calibration: cost per lead, scale or hold | Event flight added · boosted posts | Off Dec 5 · leads keep routing to the deal team |
| The room | Venue held · IMN terms closed | Dinner list locked · Oct 1 checkpoint set | Oct 26 dinner · Oct 27 the floor | 1–2 LPs closing by Q1 2027 |
For everyone who was not in the room.
The insights note · November. The reason to sit down with everyone who could not attend. Expertise, not a recap.