- Wow your coworkers with the new words you learned like “gamification” (pronounced: game-eh-feh-cay-shin)
- Get all sorts of free swag - “Yay! Another free t-shirt that I probably won’t ever wear”
- Free beer and food during the entire day – “Would you like a free beer?” “It’s 9 am.” “It’s free.” “Sure.”
- Make your friends realize you are even a bigger nerd than they originally thought. – “I saw Matt Cutts, Steve Krug, and Matt Inman!” “Who?” “I saw Mike Tyson.” “Ohhhhhh”
- Use twitter as the sole communication tool - “I’m sitting next to @AdvCollector at @mattcutts #sxswi panel #qagb”
- Envy all the people who have iPads – “Ohhh… shiny Apple goodness!”
- Give you a list of 9 billion things you want to change with your website. – “We must make our site a game like Foursquare!”
- Become sick of seeing QR codes EVERYWHERE! (Insert QR Code here to see this list)
- Make you self-conscience that you’re not enough of a tech hipster – “Must wear skinny jeans. Must have Macbook/iPad. Must wear keds or converse sneakers.”
- Make you want to go back to SXSW next year