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If you’re thinking about investing in search marketing or other online services, it’s a great place to come meet the talent in person. SearchFest boasts more than 300 attendees and 44 speakers, many of whom are high caliber online marketing practitioners.
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You may learn something that can make you a lot of money. One of my clients came to SearchFest 2 years ago and made a single change to their URL structure and saw a 48% increase in revenue.
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Your admission price of $259 (between now and 3/8) includes 44 tracks/18 speakers of information that will help you improve your online presence AND you get breakfast/lunch & post show beer.
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Your competition may be going.
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Added Bonus: If you become a member of SEMpdx now and attend SearchFest March 9th 2010, you’ll get a full day of information from the countries best online marketers AND you can attend our Members ONLY “Ask the Experts” event on April 13th and ask the burning SEO/SEM questions you’ve been dying to ask the pros.
Register for SearchFest today!
Lisa Williams is the President of Sustainable Digital Marketing. She is an 18-year veteran of online marketing and has been featured in Kiplinger Magazine, Glamour Magazine, Boston Globe and The Oregonian. Lisa is on the SEMpdx (Search Engine Marketing Professionals of Portland Oregon) Advisory Board and member of SEMPO. She speaks at regional, national and international conferences on the topics of digital strategy, marketing integration, team development and leadership. She is available for training and consulting.
It seems like a worthy event! However, I don’t quite get the reasoning, except for #1. Quality SEO and SEM information is available on the Internet galore and for free, and your speakers are unlikely to reveal any secrets that are not publicly available for free. It seems o me that the real power of SE and SEM industry events lies elsewhere. I realize that it’s important to “meet the talent” face to face — you may want to pick someone you will enjoy working with. As Samuel Jackson says in Pulp Fiction, “personality goes a long way.” 🙂 So you put that at #1 with good reason.
Yes many of the things you will learn at Searchfest are available for free online but the fact is, having someone explain it to you in an on topic session is a really good way to learn faster and stay in touch with what is going on in the industry. Also, the speakers at Searchfest are known for dropping tidbits of “secrets” here and there. It’s worth the price.
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Thanks Greg, it was a fantastic show and I think you’d be hard pressed to say you’d have same experience by reading info online. Thanks for the comment. Cheers, Lisa