Thanks to Sean Lowery and team for a great InnoTech and eMarketing Summit.

Here are our drawing winners:

SEMpdx 1 year Free Membership
Tom Berry, Marketing and Affiliate/Web Marketing Director, Pine Meadow Golf

SEMpdx Snuggies
Stacey Brown, President/CEO MindLink Resources
Alexa Meisler , Founder, 52PerfectDays.com

SEMpdx Mug
Ron Karsten, Director of Portland Campus DeVry University
Zach Schreckenberger, Apple

SEMpdx T-Shirt
Mike Wills, Internet Marketing Manager Netop Solutions

Portland Code Camp and SQLSaturday Portland (http://portlandcodecamp.org/) are pleased to announce that these events will join together on Saturday, May 22, 2010 at the University of Portland. These free, community-driven mini-conferences emphasize learning through sharing among the local development community, and have become quite popular in the Portland area. Having the events at the same venue at the same time will allow participants to explore a greater variety of topics.

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Attention search engine marketers, web designers, developers, digital strategists, PR rockstars and social media mavens! The SEMpdx board would like you to join us for an evening of social networking!

When: Tuesday April 20th, 2009 at 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Where: Rontoms 600 E Burnside, Portland, OR 97214
Cost: Free!!!

Seriously folks, if you want to verify the quality of a SEO vendor, ask for references. Read their blog posts. Look at their LinkedIn page and see how much a part of the SEO community they are. However, using an SEO verification service when you can’t verify the quality of the Search Marketer doing the verifying is a valuable as making a donation to that Nigerian prince asking for help in rescuing his family fortune.

What Portland-area digital marketing pro wouldn’t want the chance to meet Guy Kawasaki, business visionary, venture capitalist, author of nine books and nationally renowned speaker? Verizon and Cisco have recently partnered up to offer you a chance to not only meet Guy, but possibly land a personal two-hour consultation with him for your business.

Landing Page Testing

Great session full of tips, and excellent advice about how to deal with landing page testing and optimization. Please bare with my gross spelling and grammatical errors, and special shout out to Evan Davies for the use of his laptop.

Mary Huffman kicked off the session by offering 10 aspects to test on your landing pages. These 10 items are great ways to squeeze more value out of the clicks.

Making Friends & Generating Business

4 Point Plan for Facebook Domination

Speaker: Will Scott

1st remember to have a good time…and don’t interrupt people having a good time.  Rules:

1. Be real
2. Give to receive
3. Don’t be a jerk

4 Point Plan to Facebook Domination

1. Get team involved
2. Reach out to current fans
3. Give reason to get involved
4. Make new friends

Hold internal competitions

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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.

David Szeleta will be speaking about “Advanced PPC” at SearchFest 2010, which will take place on March 9th at the Governor Hotel in Portland, Oregon. Tickets are available now. To purchase, please click the following link.