Figuring out how to get the most out of internet marketing conferences takes experience with plenty of conferences, including events like Search Engine Strategies happening in San Jose this week. So it seems fitting to follow up on Danny Sullivan’s advice with the insight of fellow Minnesotan, Chris Sherman.
Chris is co-founder of Third Door Media as well as the SMX conferences, has a search marketing consulting business and has been as involved with the details of conference programming, moderating and speaking as anyone you can find.
When torn between going to one session over another, go to the one that has fewest attendees. With so many people live blogging conferences these days, the odds are good that someone (or many) will be covering the popular session, so you’ll effectively get a two-fer even without personally attending both.
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What better follow up to our impressive list of internet marketing conference tipsters during SES San Jose than sage advice from one of the most visible people in the search marketing industry, Danny Sullivan. As co-founder of Third Door Media, parent to Search Engine Land, Search Marketing Today and the Search Marketing Expo series of conferences, Danny Sullivan is one of the most often quoted experts in the search engine industry.
Online marketing Blog readers may remember this interview with Danny Sullivan and Neil Patel before a SMX Social Media Conference. You can also find him on Twitter and his personal blog, Daggle
Take the time to actually read the program. Look at the descriptions, who is speaking and understand what the session proposes to be about. If you’ve still got questions, seek out a conference organizer at the show. While I’m always busy at a show, I still love to […]
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With all the sessions, speakers, networking and photo-snapping going on in the last 2 days at SMX Advanced in Seattle, it’s surprising any attendee got anything else completed at all.
While I didn’t attend every session (can’t be in three places at once - just not possible for this girl :)) I managed to get to quite a few where I learned a lot of valuable information and got a feel for what everyone was talking about.
The main theme I noticed in Seattle this week was the idea of value, and how to increase value. With the idea of the recession looming over our heads like a dark cloud, there are many people who want to see their dollar going as far as it can.
Search Marketing and Surviving a Recession this morning talked mentioned the idea of getting the biggest bang for your buck; the highest value for your marketing […]
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While there is still a debate over the effect of the recession we are in, or even if we are in a recession at all, it seems most companies and individuals are preparing for it the best they can. Talks of budget cuts and conserving resources are on everyone’s minds these days.
So where does search marketing fit in to all of this?
Our expert panel this morning at SMX Advanced - consisting of Jon Miller from Marketo , Russ Mann of Covario , Dave Davies of Beanstalk Search Engine Positioning and Andrew Beckman of Location3 Media - gave great advice and opinions in how to come out of this recession thriving.
Search Marketing and Surviving a Recession consisted of prepared and audience-asked questions to the panel about what we can do as an industry to make it through this economic downturn.
Glass Half Empty or Glass Half Full?
An audience poll revealed […]
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Day 1 at SMX Advanced has wrapped up quite nicely. Below are some of the session highlights and the gorgeous Bell Harbor Conference Center.
Danny Sullivan opening the show this morning in Seattle.
Everyone milling around, getting ready for the first of this mornings sessions
Blow Your Mind Linkbuilding Tactics panel this morning
Building Value for your SEO Business session, where we learned that we must invest in our clients and employees to increase the value of the company
Buying Sites for SEO panel, featuring Shoemoney in a fantastic video. You can view his SMX Advanced video here.
Danny and Matt, dressed as twins, during You & A with Matt Cutts to close the conference today.
Sponsored By: Reputation Management in a Google World PRSA Teleseminar
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Watch out link-and site-buyers alike! Matt Cutts is in town!
For those of you know don’t know (is there anyone out there who doesn’t?), Matt Cutts is the head of Google’s web spam team; which means any secret we are hearing at SMX Advanced, Matt is making sure the shady tactics aren’t working anymore next week.
Beginning with a pop culture comparison, Matt states that risky link building behavior is a lot like Milli Vanilli. If you do something that will benefit your site right away, like lip synching your way to a Grammy, you will get caught and it wont benefit your company in the future. You will be stripped of your Grammy and acquire a drug problem. And your site will be banned.
So… what should we do? Matt answers some great questions from the audience.
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Technical issues flavored the beginning of this session at SMX Advanced in Seattle. However, "oopsies" notwithstanding, Blow Your Mind Linkbuilding Tactics was informative with plenty of advice for gaining the authoritative inbound links web sites need to rank well in the search engines.
The session was packed with link builders looking for new and cutting edge linking information. While we listened, Greg Boser, Roger Montti, Jay Young, Stephan Spencer and Todd Friesen did their best to share with the audience how to get the best links. Their tips included:
Gain .edu links - The need for .edu inbound links is not a new idea, but we heard a couple new ways to gain these .edu links for your website. One of them was finding the heavy hitters in a certain industry and reaching out to those .edu sites linking to them. The idea here is that if this .edu site […]
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SMX Advanced is less than a week away, and let me tell you, I am excited. Not only is Seattle one of my favorite cities in the country, but the agenda for the 2 day long search marketing event looks outstanding.
Along with the keynote speakers - Kevin Johnson and Matt Cutts - here are a few other sessions I am really looking forward to.
SMX Advanced Day 1
Blow your Mind Link Building Techniques - Want to learn how to build a database of high-value link acquisition targets? Want to know how to get on the radar of nonprofits, government and university departments and compel them to give you some of that sweet, authoritative link love? Want to learn the most coveted secrets to "buying" the links the engines would never consider a "paid link?" This, along with non-traditional link sources, linking strategies and nofollow PageRank "scuplting" or "siloing" […]
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Conferences are a big part of TopRank’s marketing and content promotion strategy and it looks like a busy summer is ahead of us. Numerous events are coming up quickly - enough to make your head spin. Here is a summary of our involvement with PRSA, DMA, PUSH, SIS, SES and SMX events over the next 30 days:
05/14/08 - MIMA: Duality Reality - Who Controls Social Media in the Enterprise?
The local interactive marketing association along with inspiration and motivation from Doug Pollei, there will be a very interesting panel of in-house Interactives discussing how large companies (General Mills, Best Buy, Target, Fingerhut and OptumHealth) are adopting and measuring social media programs. If you’re in the Twin Cities this week and involved with social marketing now or in the future, this is a MUST ATTEND event.
05/15/08 - Teleseminar: Reputation Management in a Google World
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Jeremiah Owyang posted recently asking his readers what conferences they would be attending in the coming months and I thought that would be a great question for Online Marketing Blog readers as well.
Over the past 3 years we’ve become very much involved with conferences and even becoming the first blog to be an official media sponsor for SES. Our focus in the past has been with search marketing conferences but have expanded more into direct marketing, interactive and PR. We’ll continue that trend the rest of this year and focus on more conferences outside of search as the needs of our online marketing clients and agency continue to evolve and refine.
The conferences that I’m attending in the coming months include:
May: ACCM in Florida
Jun: PRSA Digital Impact in NYC
Jul: ad:tech in Chicago
Aug: Search Engine Strategies in San Jose
Sep: Blogworld Expo in Las Vegas
Oct: DMA08 in Vegas
Oct PRSA International Conference in Detroit
Nov: […]
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