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What Conferences Are You Attending?

Posted by Lee Odden on Apr 29th, 2008 in ACCM, DMA Annual Conference, Interactive Marketing, Marketing PR Conferences, Online Marketing, PR Conferences, Pubcon, Search Engine Strategies, Search Marketing Expo, adtech |

Facebook Marketing Panel Web 2.0 Expo

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 been focused on search marketing conferences but have expanded more into direct marketing, interactive and PR. We’ll continue that trend the rest of this year but with more conferences outside of search as our online marketing agency evolves.

Conferences that I’m attending in the coming months include:

Lee Odden

Parting Notes and Party Pictures from SES NY

Posted by Lee Odden on Mar 24th, 2008 in Search Engine Strategies |

Yahoo Sign Times Square

The abundance of Online Marketing Blog coverage of SES New York slowed significantly by Wed afternoon but there was nothing slowing down the SES NY conference, which had record breaking attendance numbers. Despite my TopRank blogging compatriot Jolina having Thursday off and myself moderating and speaking that day, there was plenty of action documented during the sessions day 1, 2, 3 and 4, at the Microsoft party and the WebmasterRadio.FM SearchBash.

Lee Odden

Jolina

SES NY Keynote: SEO Lessons and the Wall Street Journal

Posted by Jolina on Mar 19th, 2008 in Enterprise SEO, Marketing PR Conferences, Online Marketing, SEO, Search Engine Strategies |

SES NY Attendees, Keynote Day 3

After gathering around the caffeine this morning for Day 3 of SES New York, attendees gathered to listen to a keynote from Gordon McLeod, President, The Wall Street Journal Digital Network.

Gordon led the audience through the evolution of SEO within the Wall Street Journal organization, noting that they didn’t necessarily do things right the first or second time.

Since 1996, The Wall Street Journal has grown to incorporate SEO as a strategic business decision, not a grouping of tactics.

Here are some of the lessons they learned along the way:

Jolina

SES New York: Universal Search Panel

Posted by Jolina on Mar 18th, 2008 in Google, Marketing PR Conferences, Online Marketing, SEO, Search Engine Strategies, Search Engines |

Universal Search Session

Today’s Orion panel at SES NY really took a different spin on the topic of universal search. I went in expecting to hear the same info  about what it is, how info is gathered and how to optimize for universal search. Which, if you are interested, can be read about in a previous SES Chicago post regarding universal search.

This session was moderated by Kevin Ryan and Mike Grehan. The session was lively and engaging. Panelists included:
John Battelle from Federated Media, James Lamberti from comScore, Lyndsay Menzies from Big Mouth Media and Jack Menzel from Google.

Jolina

SES New York: Converting Visitors into Buyers

Posted by Jolina on Mar 18th, 2008 in Marketing PR Conferences, Online Marketing, SEO, SEO Tips, Search Engine Strategies, Web Analytics |

Visitors into Conversions Panel - SES NY

The conversions track at SES New York continues to be packed with those wanting to increase the performance of their search marketing campaigns.

The “Converting Visitors into Buyers” panel was moderated by Aaron Shear from Boost Search Marketing and the speakers included: Mike Moran from IBM, Nigel Ravenhill from McAfee, Michael Sack from Idearc Media Corp. and Howard Kaplanfrom Future Now Inc.

I missed the first half of this session but was able to sit in on the second half and hear Mike Sack and Howard Kaplan give the audience ideas on increasing conversions.

Lee Odden

Day One SES NY 2008 Summary and Photos

Posted by Lee Odden on Mar 18th, 2008 in Marketing PR Conferences, Online Marketing, Search Engine Strategies, Search Industry News |

SES New York Audience

Yesterday proved to be an interesting kickoff to this year’s Search Engine Strategies conference here in New York. The Organic Listings panel was entertaining and informative as always and the Build Investment Interest in your SEO/SEM firm was an early indulgence for myself that offered great tips for those looking at the future liquidity and monetization for their agency.

Jolina weighed in with her posts on excellent sessions, Four Ways to Redfine the Customer and Three Tips for Successful Analytics. There was also a spontaneous goofball interview with Mike McDonald of WebProNews offering a few insights about the future of SES/SMX.

Lee Odden

SES New York 2008 Day .5

Posted by Lee Odden on Mar 16th, 2008 in Marketing PR Conferences, Search Engine Strategies |

Sky Clouds

After a seemingly quicker than normal flight from Minneapolis into LaGuardia, Jolina and I then made it to the Sheraton in near record time. Monday begins what is the biggest SES show of the year: Search Engine Strategies New York. We’re both looking forward to this SES with great anticipation. Jolina blogged SMX West recently and will also be blogging the SES show.

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We’ll be doing a mix of blogging sessions, taking photos and video interviews as well as participating in a few after conference events. Sessions I plan on attending Monday include:

Jolina

SES New York and the Industry That Never Seems to Sleep

Posted by Jolina on Feb 26th, 2008 in Marketing PR Conferences, Online Marketing, Search Engine Strategies |

New York CityNext month I’m heading to New York to blog the SES NY conference for Online Marketing Blog where Lee is speaking on the “Beyond Linkbait: Getting Authoritative Online Mentions” panel with newly elected SEMPO board member Chris Boggs and PR veteran Sally Falkow.

I’m over-the-moon excited to attend and have stumbled upon a tiny connection between the host city and the conference.

The industry that never sleeps will be placed smack in the middle of the city that never sleeps. While I’m not sure what kind of cosmic connection to make of this (and it’s not the first time so I’m pretty sure the earth won’t start spiraling toward the sun), I am curious to see how it all goes down and to share my insights with you.

Lee Odden

SES London Day Two Photos

Posted by Lee Odden on Feb 20th, 2008 in Search Engine Strategies |

Here’s a roundup of photos from day two of Search Engine Strategies London 2008:

Anne Kennedy Bryan Eisenberg
Anne Kennedy and Bryan Eisenberg

Jim Sterne Andy Beal
Jim Sterne and Andy Beal

Raise your hands if you love SEO
Audience

Massimo does his magic
Massimo does his magic as Amanda looks on

Competitive Intelligence Panel
Competitive Intelligence panel

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Blog SEO session

SEO Lovebirds Rob Kerry & Lisa Ditlefsen
Lisa Ditlefsen and Rob Kerry

Chris Leggett Jon Meyers
Chris Leggett and Jon Meyers

SES London Hilton Bar
Post conference activities

Here’s a day SES London day one wrap up video from Incisive:

And here’s a wrap up of day two SES London blog coverage, images and video on Search Engine Watch

Lee Odden

SES London Day One Photos

Posted by Lee Odden on Feb 19th, 2008 in Online Marketing, SEO, Search Engine Strategies, Search Industry News |

Let’s kick things off for SES London 2008 with a few photos:

The Business Design Centre Islington
Business Design Centre - Cool venue for a conference

Matt, Sock Puppet and Greg
Matt Bailey getting the sock puppet treatment from Greg Jarboe, pre-conference

Frank and Li
Frank Watson and his budda belly gets rubbed by Li Evans

Kevin, Kevin, Kevin2 Boss, Stewart
Kevin Heisler, Kevin Ryan, Gary Lynch and Stewart Quealy from Incisive

Mike Grehan Dr Ralph Wilson
SES London co-host Mike Grehan and Keynote speaker Dr. Ralph Wilson

SES London Registration
Registration

SES London Exhibit Hall
Exhibit Hall

Dave, Edward and Ralph (Fantomaster)
Dave Naylor, Edward Cowell and Ralph Tegtmeier, aka Fantomaster duing the Organic Listings Forum

Mike Grehan
Mike Grehan moderates the Organic Listings Forum

Thomas McMahon

SES Chicago 2007 Wrap Up

Posted by Thomas McMahon on Dec 7th, 2007 in Marketing PR Conferences, Online Marketing, Search Engine Strategies |

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Jolina and Mike had a great time at the Search Engine Strategies conference in Chicago. Not only is it the windy city, but a festive, cold and snowy one too by the sounds of it. :)

Here is a recap of the SES Chicago posts in case you missed any:

Lee Odden

SES Chicago Interview: Kevin Ryan and Kevin Heisler

Posted by Lee Odden on Nov 29th, 2007 in Interviews, Online Marketing, Search Engine Strategies, Spotlight on Search |

Spotlight on Search: Interview

What we have for you today is a double scoop, double feature and two times our regular interview spunk involving Kevin Ryan, Global Content Director for Search Engine Strategies and Search Engine Watch and Kevin Heisler, Executive Editor of Search Engine Watch. I’ll have to say, there are a few gems in this one, so read on:

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(Heisler photo credit, Christine Churchill)

Let’s cut to the chase on SES Chicago and Pubcon happening at the same time this year. I am not sure most people realize it was not intended to happen that way. Do you anticipate there being much of an effect on attendance? How different are the audiences these two events are attempting to attract?


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