More Than Just a Pretty Picture
Mastering Instagram for Growth and Engagement
A one-day Instagram conference at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA with The Bucket List Family, Courtney Quinn, Carly Anderson, Chelsea and Nate Day, and Susan Pazera.
Growing and maintaining an authentic presence on Instagram can be a challenge. Creative, beautiful, like-worthy photos help. But how do you maintain an account that consistently engages your audience and continues earning new followers? And what steps should you take to keep them engaged, interested, and thirsty for more?
Learn from experts who have mastered the art and rhythm of sharing stories, experiences, and adventures around the world with an ever growing set of fans and followers. What guides them as they choose what to post each day. Where do they find ideas for the content they share? And how do they seek out those perfect photos and videos to add to an ever-growing stream of awesomeness?
Join us at Disneyland for an entire day focused entirely on Instagram. Discover how these pros spot and capture their photo and video-worthy moments, make an art and a sizeable following of their content, and how this opens doors to new opportunities.
Featured speakers
The Bucket List Family has traveled to over 70 countries. They work remotely full-time as Family Travel Journalists documenting their adventures on Instagram, YouTube, and at thebucketlistfamily.com. Their journey began in 2015 when they made a life-changing decision to sell everything and leave home for an adventure around the world. It began as a five-month family vacation, and turned into three full years of travel.
Garrett handles the creative work for the family, including all photography, videography, and editing. Jessica runs social media and works with sponsors and other business collaborations. They recently purchased a home and continue to travel using Hawaii as their home base.
Courtney Quinn is a quirky New Yorker with an out of the box sense of style obsessed with all things colorful! After growing up in Arizona and earning her MBA in San Francisco, she moved to NYC to pursue a career in fashion, starting Color Me Courtney as a resume booster & creative outlet along the way. After years of working in the corporate world for brands like Tommy Hilfiger, Jonathan Adler, Kate Spade and Coach, Courtney left her role developing handbags to pursue Color Me Courtney full time. When she’s not creating candy colored content here, you’ll find Courtney front row at the latest Broadway show, eating her way through New York or binge-watching bad TV with her fiancé Paris.
Carly Anderson is founder of Lipgloss and Crayons, a lifestyle brand that focuses on fashion for the every girl, female empowerment and body positivity, raising a daughter to be happy and confident, and family fun. Carly is passionate about empowering women to celebrate their beauty and to find confidence in every stage of life. Her #justwearthesuit community created a space where women can share their journeys and find encouragement along the way. Carly loves supporting women as they chase their dreams, and encourages them to do so with style and passion! Carly lives in Los Angeles with her musician hubby, and a sassy preschooler.
Chelsea and Nate Day run Someday I’ll Learn, and are on a mission to share smart ideas for adventurous families. They set out to make everyday life more efficient and inspire people to seize fun opportunities. Nate offers up hands-on fatherhood and a forthright approach to life’s challenges. Chelsea adds color with creative how-tos and commentary about rugged living in a modern era. Their site culminates in a he-said-she-said humorous journal that documents our daily exploits.
They believe that life doesn’t have to be lived on anyone’s terms but your own, and even the smallest moments can hold BIG life lessons.
Susan is a travel and lifestyle writer and photographer. Susan is Mom to four children ranging in age from 10 to 22. She’s been traveling with her kids since they were little and has become proficient at planning trips for families with kids at any age and any stage. She’s learned the ins and outs, the good and bad, and every late night snack stop there is in between!
She enjoys traveling with her family but also loves to travel solo too, especially when it involves exploring and being active. You can find her skiing, hiking, swimming, relaxing on the beach, or just roaming the globe! She’s always on the look-out for her next adventure and loves to share each of her journeys along the way at She’s on the Go!
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What you can expect
- Get the tips and tricks Instagram masters use to maximize their photo and video engagement.
- Determine what value you can offer to earn new followers.
- Elevate your own photography skills and knowledge.
- Master photo editing directly on your phone, and know why you should always post-process your photos.
- Know what to do differently with photos taken from your phone vs. a DSLR camera.
- Understand how to capture a perfect photo opportunity while still living in the moment.
- Hear best practices for working with brands and how to implement them.
- See what brands look for in influencer marketing, and how you could turn a short-term project into a long-term relationship.
- Determine Instagram’s role in your overall social, photo, and video sharing strategy.
- Learn how to adopt a consistent content schedule and compliment your feed with Instagram Stories.
