Small Business SEM

Bitter Beer Face!

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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. [...]

Hehehehe. With a travel schedule like this coming up, the only way to get ready is to have fun with it and make fun of it. I have no idea what I’ve gotten myself into, but I have a feeling that conference burnout is right around the corner … six months from now. So, in [...]

Top 4 Things I Did Last Week (in hours spent)
1.) Worked.
2.) Slept.
3.) Moderated Sphinn.
4.) Read Pubcon and SES session recaps.
Numbers three and four are a direct result of the bozos that decided to schedule two conferences at the same time. (Thanks for nothing.) Since Danny Sullivan was (I think) the only person to attend both [...]

This is pretty cool. The gang at Search Engine Guide, fresh off their re-launch of Small Business Brief a couple weeks ago, has just announced a new search/marketing conference just for small businesses. Sweet! It’s called … drum-roll, please:
Small Business Marketing Unleashed
Get it? “Unleashed”? The puppy mascot?
It’ll happen April 21-22 in Houston at [...]

SMX Social Media goes in the books as one of my favorite conferences, for several reasons.
One, social media marketing is fun, right? Think about it — On-page optimization? Necessary, but pretty boring. Link building? Like pulling teeth. Crawling/technical issues? Gotta do it, but not my cup of tea. But jumping into the social media [...]

I don’t know how many of you live in the greater Seattle area, but if you do I’d like to invite you to come downtown next Wednesday for an SEO Luncheon that BusinessWire is hosting.
I’ll be speaking on a panel with fellow Seattleite Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz and Chris Boggs of Brulant, who’s coming in [...]

One of the fun parts of SES San Jose last week was the chance to do my first interview with the crew at WebProNews. WPN seems to be doing more video interviews at every show I go to, and creating a really great resource archive in the process.
I always enjoyed doing interviews back in [...]

Last week I shared my first “takeaway” from SES San Jose: I get a lot more out of the sessions when I’m not live-blogging every word the speakers say. But there was a lot more that I’ll be holding onto in the coming weeks and months. Here are 14 more takeaways from San Jose….
1.) PR [...]