My next internet marketing session is geared towards local businesses, (sign up  here) and is specifically focused on beginners who don’t have technical skills. Web designers who are not SEO’s are also welcome.

I’m happy to announce that I’m running my own Meetup groups for 2012, and my first event has now been scheduled for January 19th, at the Convention Center Red Lion Inn.

Why? 

Over the past few years, I’ve spoken on more panels and given more presentations than I can count. I’ve presented to multiple private groups and businesses, as well as at various search marketing conferences. Some have been national, some local, and I’ve instructed some weekend college classes for PCC.

The oldest, largest, and arguably best internet marketing conference will take place in Las Vegas on November 8th, 9th and 10th, 2011, at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

The session grid is huge, with 9 sessions running concurrently at most times, and this year I’m proud to have been selected to appear in three sessions, more than ever before.

It was an honor to be asked to speak this year at WebCam – Central Oregon’s web and creative marketing conference, coming up on September 29 and 30th.

This will be the third annual conference, and it’s gotten rave reviews for the past two years. The agenda and list of speakers is pretty impressive, not to mention the Thursday night Brew ha-ha party sounds like it’s going to be a blast too.

I just got confirmation that I will be speaking at PubCon South, in Austin Texas, on March 8 & 9, 2011.  I still haven’t been given my session topics, but I’m really looking forward to attending this conference.

I’m on the events planning committee for SEMpdx, and for the January 2011 meeting, I’m happy to announce that I’ll be one of the three presenters. If this seems a little self-serving, then I apologize, but I promise it will be a good one.

I’m really looking forward to giving this year’s Pubcon presentations, not only because I’m heading to Las Vegas, November 8-12 for the longest running internet marketing conference, but because in both sessions, I get to speak about things that I have a strong passion for.

This Thursday, I’ll be giving a lunchtime presentation for the East Portland Chamber of Commerce about Web 2.0 and “social sites” for people that are not internet marketers.

I’ll be joined by two other local networking experts, Charles Powell – Coaching at it’s Best, and Norm Rice – Portland Homes Online

I just finished my slides for an hour-long presentation that I’m giving on Wednesday, April 15 at a monthly meeting of the Corvallis Etailers Association.

The presentation is taking place at

• 420 NW 2nd St, Corvallis, OR 97330
• 12 noon to 1:30pm

I’ve prepared a presentation on a few essential SEO basics, but after gauging the room for SEO knowledge I plan to quickly shift to a more advanced presentation.

Okay, catchy headline, I’m guilty. It won’t be the last, but may very well be the best you’ll ever see, if you look at it logically…

Regional conferences are showing up all over, dividing the time talent and energy of the conference speakers.

After the original SearchFest in 2005 did not return in 2006, SEMpdx was formed and revived the event for the following year.

As I promised this morning, I have uploaded my East Portland Chamber of Commerce presentation here, including all of the links that I spoke about.

You may open it directly from this link, or just right click here and choose “save as” to get it onto your own computer.

For those that weren’t in attendance, it’s a basic presentation with a few site-usability tips, and links to what I believe are the best 12 places for listing your website for free in local directories.

Believe it or not, the board of SEMpdx has been getting a number of emails asking us where to register for SearchFest 2009, coming up in March.

So, I figured I would take a minute to point out the SearchFest registration, as well as the entire SearchFest 2009 agenda, and a link to our sponsors.