Digital Marketing, Business & Networking Retreat - Sintra, Portugal

SnS Salon - 16 people. 4 nights. One glass house and private villa in the hills above Lisbon. Already coming to Web Summit? Stay a little longer. Web Summit Lisbon runs 9–12 November, and by the Thursday your notebook is full, your feet hurt, and you have roughly forty ideas you have not had a single quiet hour to think about. Sintra is forty minutes up the road. Come straight from the summit, drop your bag at the villa, and spend four days unpacking what you just heard with fifteen people who will actually argue with you about it. The things you take home from a big conference are almost never the ones you wrote down, they are the ones you got to talk through with someone afterwards. This is the afterwards. And if Web Summit is not your week at all, book anyway. The retreat was built to stand on its own and most of the room will not be coming from Lisbon. The timing is a convenience for the people it suits, not a requirement for anybody. What this actually is SnS Salon is the smallest thing we run and the one people talk about longest afterwards. Sixteen people, one house, four nights. Half of it is work, laptops open, everyone getting on with their own client load in the same room, which turns out to be the most productive week most of us have all year. The other half is learning from each other, properly, with enough time for the conversation to go somewhere. There is no stage. There is a glass house (event pavilion) at the villa with light coming in on all sides, and that is where we work and where we teach. Meals are long and at one table. Nobody is networking. Everyone is just there. You are not an attendee. You are on the programme. Here is the part that makes this different from anything else you will book this year: everybody in the villa presents something (as long as they want to). A workshop, a training session, a walkthrough of the thing you have spent the last two years getting good at. Sixteen people, sixteen bodies of knowledge, four days to share them. It does not have to be polished and it does not have to be long. Some people bring a full ninety-minute training. Some bring a twenty-minute teardown of a problem they solved last month. What matters is that you can turn up with something to give as well as something to take. We’ll shape the programme together once the group is complete. You’ll have the chance to share what you’d be happy to teach, what you’d most like to learn, and we’ll build the days around the areas where those interests naturally overlap. And if presenting isn’t your thing, that’s absolutely fine too; you’re just as welcome to join, contribute to the conversations, and take part in the experience. Salon Discussions Small-group conversations around SEO, AI Search, GEO, content, paid media, analytics, business and the future of digital marketing. Peer Problem-Solving Bring a problem, an idea, a project or something you’re trying to figure out. Sometimes fifteen other smart people are more useful than another slide deck. Optional Co-working Quiet time to work, compare notes or get another pair of eyes on something. Proper Networking No awkward speed networking. Four days together tends to solve that naturally. Long Tables Breakfasts and dinners are part of the retreat experience, not gaps between sessions. Sintra We’re not travelling all the way to Sintra to sit inside a meeting room from 09:00 to 18:00. There will be time to explore 😉 What’s Not Included? Unless we specifically announce otherwise, your booking does not include:Flights to PortugalAirport transfersAdditional activities outside of the retreat scopeAdditional food and drinks outside the retreat programmeTravel insuranceOnce your spot is confirmed, we’ll add you to the attendee WhatsApp group, where we can coordinate practical details such as the address, travel arrangements, shared taxis, and anything else you may need ahead of the retreat. We’ll share recommended travel routes, transfers and optional activities with confirmed guests closer to the retreat. And guess what? If we find a headline sponsor, we may bring some complimentary surprises for tours and gifts. Getting to Sintra Airport: Lisbon Humberto Delgado (LIS), roughly an hour from Sintra by car From Web Summit or central Lisbon: train from Rossio station, about 40 minutes, running frequently; or 35 minutes by car On arrival: full villa address and directions go out with the booking confirmation Getting around: Sintra’s centre is walkable; taxis and rideshares run to the villa