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The weekly Stage Finder email only sends when something matches you. Here is how to make it. · Speaker Hub
The weekly Stage Finder email only sends when something matches you. Here is how to make it.
Stage Finder sends a short weekly email of open calls matched to your keynotes. Here is who gets it, what decides the five rows, why it sometimes stays silent, and what its unsubscribe link actually turns off.
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Most email from a tool you signed up for months ago is noise. The Stage Finder digest is built around the opposite idea: it should either carry a deadline or not arrive at all.
It is a short weekly email called Stages open to you. Understanding what it does, and what stops it, tells you what to fix when it goes quiet.
It only sends when your keynotes give it something to match
The digest has no way to guess what you speak about. It reads the titles of the keynotes saved in your account and matches open calls against them. If you have no keynotes, you get nothing. The email promises calls matched to you, and with no keynotes that promise would be empty.
So the first fix for a silent inbox is the boring one. Add a keynote in Keynote Tailoring. The same keynote titles also feed the Open Calls page, which is covered in Open Calls does not sort by newest.
A week with no match is a week with no email
Each call gets scored against your topics, and anything that scores zero is dropped. If nothing is left, the digest skips you rather than sending a list of conferences you have no business pitching.
That can feel like the tool is broken. It is the tool declining to pad. A weekly email that fills itself with filler teaches you to stop opening it, and then it fails on the one week it has something real.
Five rows, not twenty
The email holds at most five calls. Each row shows the event name linked to its call for speakers page, or its event page if there is no call link, a deadline phrase such as "Closes in 6 days" or "Closes tomorrow", the place, and the topics that matched your work.
The cap is deliberate. Five is a glance and twenty is a chore. If you want the long version, the button at the bottom opens the full Open Calls page.
One detail is worth knowing. The tagline under the heading says soonest deadline first, but the rows follow the same ranking as Open Calls, where topic fit counts for more than urgency. The subject line is where the soonest deadline shows up.
The subject line tells you whether to open it today
The subject is written around the nearest closing date among the five:
If a call closes today or tomorrow, it says so: "A stage you could be on closes tomorrow."
Otherwise it gives the count and the nearest deadline: "5 stages open to you, one closes in 9 days."
If none of the five has a date, it falls back to the count alone.
Treat a deadline in the subject as a to-do, not a headline. Open the call's own page and confirm the date there before you plan around it, since a listing can be out of date.
It goes out weekly because deadlines move slowly
Call for speakers deadlines shift over weeks. A daily email would show you much the same list five days running. A weekly one is more likely to show you something new.
What the digest cannot do is cover calls that never reach a database. Plenty of good stages post a call on their own site and nowhere else. Where to find a call for speakers before it closes covers building your own dated list for those.
Unsubscribing here also silences the daily brief
The digest does not have its own switch. It follows the same email preference as the daily brief, and its unsubscribe link carries the brief's signed token, so clicking it clears that one setting for both emails.
If you want the brief but not the digest, there is currently no way to split them. Decide which you would rather lose before you click.
Making it useful each week
Skim the subject first. If it names a close date within a week, open the email today. Otherwise read the matched topics line on each row. A row that matches on a vague word from a keynote title is a hint that your keynote titles are too thin for the matcher, not a reason to apply.
Then pick one call, check its date on the source page, and put the next step in your calendar. The email only points at the stage. Getting on it is still your job.
Questions
Why did I not get a Stages open to you email this week?
The digest skips a speaker for a few plain reasons. You have no keynotes saved, none of the stored open calls matched your topics that week, you turned off the brief email, or no address could be found for the account. An empty email is never sent in place of a quiet week.
Does the email list the same calls as Open Calls?
It draws on the same ranking, trimmed to the top five. Open Calls shows the full ranked list, so the page is where to go when you want more than the email gives you.
If I unsubscribe from the digest, do I still get the daily brief?
No. The digest reuses the brief's email preference and its signed unsubscribe link, so unsubscribing from either one stops both.
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