Small Business SEM

I called my wife from Houston this past Monday afternoon and left a quick message on her voicemail: “If you’re going to come to a search conference again next year, you should probably come to this one.”
The “this one” I was referring to was Small Business Marketing Unleashed 2008, the first of what I [...]

This is some of the schwag available to attendees at the Small Business Marketing Unleashed 2008 conference, which is underway tonight with a charity networking event at the Northwest Forest Conference Center in Cypress, TX (outside Houston).
The 2-day conference formally kicks off tomorrow morning. I’ll be presenting the SEO Success Pyramid during the opening [...]

I’m finally finished. After griping about the challenge of putting together an interesting 90-minute presentation on a single topic, I’m actually somewhat pleased with the final results. I’m talking about the “Local Search Workshop” I’ll be leading next week at the Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference in Houston.

So, what on earth am I going to [...]

Confession: Putting together a 90-freakin’-minute presentation on local search is a pain in the you-know-what.
However: I’m really looking forward to the presentation and think it’ll be valuable information for attendees. My plan is to give what will amount to 3-4 separate presentations, breaking for Q&A in between each topic, all the while trying [...]

Since I’m not on Twitter, I’ll pass along a couple notes the old-fashioned way…..
More on SES New York
In addition to my previous post here on SBS about the SES New York conference last week, I’ve written up something with a little more detail on the video/small business session my wife and I attended. You can [...]

The 2008 World Tour took me to the Big Apple last week for SES New York — one of the most professionally satisfying and personally enjoyable conferences I’ve attended. Oddly, I attended fewer sessions at this conference than at any before. I spent more time doing real work (one day was largely devoted to meeting [...]

The 2nd annual SearchFest conference (hosted by SEMpdx) is in the books, and the folks in Portland have a good thing going here.
This year’s conference was held at the Oregon Zoo (thus this photo of a sleeping tiger, which is pretty much how I felt by the end of the day), and the location [...]

Bitter Beer Face!

Originally uploaded by SmallBusinessSEM.com.

This is one of my favorite photo from SMX West: Poor Danny S. isn’t too fond of the taste of beer (me, neither), but during the Search Bowl they weren’t able to bring him anything he really wanted to drink. [...]