Are you going to the 2009 eMarketingSummit at Innotech? The eMarketingSummit kicks off tomorrow (Wednesday 4/22) and if you look at the agenda, you’ll see some pretty heavy involvement from SEMpdx.

• SEMpdx board member David Mihm will be doing a presentation @ 1pm on Wednesday “Local Search Marketing Strategies“
• Past SEMpdx President Kent Lewis served as this year’s eMarketingSummit chairperson, and he’s moderating a session @ 3:30 on Wednesday “Just the Tips Please – Implementing a Successful Online Strategy“

“Keep your eyes on the prize…hold on.”…Bruce Springsteen

Many of the paid search accounts that I’ve worked with contain a geographical component and I have a well-used spreadsheet that contains the names of the biggest U.S. Cities, States, and State Abbreviations for those accounts. I often combine this list with my “core” keywords so that my ads can reach the geographical paid search long tail.

June 2 and 3rd, 2009 SMX Advanced is taking place in Seattle, and a few people from Portland are going to be taking Amtrak up, and leave the driving to them.

What’s a good place to meet on the train? Hey, I know, how about the lounge car?

As Ben LLoyd current President of SEMpdx puts it -

See them here.

Thanks to Kent Schnepp for being our photographer.

Dr. Don Schultz, Ph.D. from Northwestern University and Agora, Inc, will be presenting here in Portland in four hour session called MEdia Generations: Media Allocation in a Consumer-Controlled Marketplace.

Media planning is a dramatically different marketplace i.e. “push-pull” – which has developed as a result of the current economic situation.

As a business owner, there are dozens of social networks that can benefit you, and they change all the time, along with the value of your participation.

Whether you’re Digging, Stumbling, or just Twittering around, understanding why you should participate can be a challenge in itself, but if you’re new to all this, and you’ve simply been hearing that “you have to get into Web 2.0″ then you can consider this a primer.

Last month at our SearchFest SEM conference, we reviewed House of Antique Hardware’s web site in our Hot Seat portion of the event. After the event Bob Treuber, Marketing Director, and David Norris, Chief Technologist asked if they could continue the dialog between the panel as they had a few questions after hearing feedback from the panel. They also wanted time to explain to the panel why they had implemented certain things and why they hadn’t. The Hot Seat lead to a great offline conversation that we thought the membership and SearchFest attendees should be part of. Ian Lurie of Portent Interactive represented the panel on Round II. Below is the transcription of this offline conversation. Feel free to add your $0.02 and continue the conversation.

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“Oh cheeky cheeky
Oh naughty sneaky
You’re so perceptive
And I wonder how you knew.”
…Brian Eno ‘Dead Finks Don’t Talk’