I just spent nearly 2 1/2 hours on my 10 minute presentation for the East Portland Chamber of Commerce, tomorrow morning at Warner Pacific College.
If you’re already a search marketer you probably won’t learn much, but if you’re a small business owner, it should be enlightening.
I’ve been working hard on one of my two upcoming Pubcon presentations, which I’ll be giving in Las Vegas on Wed November 12 2008.
The subject I’ll be discussing is “SEO and Web hosting” and last year my presentation was pretty generic. I prepared well, and I thought it went over okay, but it was geared more towards the beginner, where I tried to dispel some myths about hosting rather than educate too much.
Next week’s SEMpdx presentation gets very specific regarding the local search ranking algorithm. SEMpdx is fortunate to have a new board member join us for 2009 who’s recently moved here from San Fransisco.
His name is David Mihm, he’s an expert in local search, and he’s agreed to give a similar presentation to the one he gave at SMX West in California couple of months ago.
Apparently, my portion of last months internet marketing class went well enough that Colleen from Search Engine Academy of Oregon got good feedback, and she has asked me to speak again to her class in September.
My portion will be about making the most of your efforts when marketing via the social networking sites, and I’ll be covering my own agenda too, as well as covering the materials they provide.
My segment will be presented on Thursday morning, September 26th at 10:30 AM, on day two of the three day advanced search marketing class and remember, you can get 10% off, if you enter the coupon code “commander” here .
I will be speaking on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 at the Software Association of Oregon’s monthly meeting, in a presentation entitled -
Content Management Systems Myths Busted – The Good, Bad and the Ugly”
The general topics covered by the speakers will be these, although you can bet that my own portion will focus exclusively on WordPress, and why it is NOT one of the many crappy content management systems out there today…
After several months of being unable to coordinate the date and time, this past weekend I finally confirmed that I will be teaching a portion of an advanced Internet marketing class, to be held next week in Beaverton.
I’m honored to be a part of next tuesday evenings SEM Hotseat, because we have another guest star coming in from out of town to speak.
I’m going to go out on a limb and risk embarrassment by admitting that I did not recognize the name Matt McGee when Todd Mintz mentioned him about 18 months ago in a discussion about “people we’d like to get to Portland some day” while we were at an SEMpdx board meeting. (Sorry Matt 
I’ll be on a panel at Innotech this year, because for the first time, there will be live website reviews taking place at the conference, here in Portland Oregon.
The entire conference is scheduled for next Wednesday, April 16th and Thursday April 17th, but the live SEM Hotseat is Thursday April 17 3:30 PM in Room D135
Today I got confirmation from Brett Tabke that I will be participating in not just one, but two sessions at Pubcon Vegas 2007. The first will be in one of the Web hosting & SEM sessions, and for the second I will get to sit on one of the site review panels.
I will be giving an internet marketing presentation to a small group of about 50 realtors next Wednesday, August 15th, 2007, from real estate companies all over Oregon.
The subject matter came as a request from a local title company, and the presentation is called “12 things you can do to get your website noticed”, and will be non-technical, yet filled with information that small business owner can take to the bank.
There are currently no remaining seats available, and I believe they already have a waiting list, but if you are interested in attending, please contact me directly, and I’ll see what I can do but can’t make any promises.
I’m happy to announce that I’ve now received a final confirmation from Brett Tabke that I will be one of the speakers at the 2007 Las Vegas Pubcon show, December 4 – 8.
As this industry grows, I know there are many people getting their feet wet speaking a different conferences. Still, as a long time attendee of several previous Pubcon shows, I consider it an honor to be selected, and I’m pretty damn excited about it!
The August meeting of Portland Oregons premier search marketing group will be a return of everyone’s favorite event, the SEO Hot Seat, by SEMpdx.
We will also be returning to the Hotel Deluxe, and like always, it promises to be educational as well as entertaining.
This month, the panelists are:
