The next SEMpdx Event will be the SEM Hot Seat:
February 13, 2006, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Hotel Deluxe
729 SW 15th Ave, Portland, OR 97205
(503) 219-2094
Food, Compliments of Gracies
Signups are closed for this event
Scott Hendison is the CEO of Search Commander, Inc. and a recovering affiliate marketer. He is also one of the founding board members of SEMpdx. Find out more about him at his website, SearchCommander.com.
I’m looking for a page in sempdx.org that describes the hotseat for folks who don’t know about it. But, “visit this page” link broken as per below (last line). (IMHO, the hotseat should be more prominently featured on sempdx.org):
The next SEMpdx Event will be the SEM Hot Seat:
February 13, 2006, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Hotel Deluxe
729 SW 15th Ave, Portland, OR 97205
(503) 219-2094
Food, Compliments of Gracies
For more details about the event, or to sign up for attendance, visit this page
Good idea on a featured Hot Seat page, and we’ll consider it – but every Hot Seat is different… Also, there are a LOT less hot seats taking place this year, so i’m not sure – This page does need updating… https://www.sempdx.org/category/sempdx-events/
FYI, the reason the link is bad is because it was to sign up for attending the 2006 event, which was on the old event management system –
>FYI, the reason the link is bad is because it was to sign up for attending the 2006 event, which was on the old event management system –
well the site itself is a bit confusing, but then I’m easily confused, but then most people are (cf. “Don’t Make Me Think” Steve Krug)…and links do still lead there..Happy New Year Scott.
How come Hot Seat is getting less emphasis. It has always struck me as an incredibly great branding and pr tool, not to mention wonderfully educational, fun, interesting etc.
I agree the site is still a bit confusing and a couple of us have it on our lists to confer and simplify – and there’s a company pending takeover of the whole darn thing soon we hope – However – wherever did you find a link ((or links) that lead to this old post? Yahoo shows none – https://tinyurl.com/yg5et6j
The URL is to it even weird – (see it contains “hello-world” – and i’m pretty sure it’s the first post ever made on the blog, back before we knew any better to change the URL –
As far as why Hot Seats are being cut down to appx. quarterly, I suspect it’s because we were having trouble consistently getting enough candidates for reviews, and the board wanted to broaden the educational appeal to other things besides just organic SEO.
I agree the site is still a bit confusing and a couple of us have it on our lists to confer and simplify – and there’s a company pending takeover of the whole darn thing soon we hope – However – >wherever did you find a link ((or links) that lead to this old post? Yahoo shows none – https://tinyurl.com/yg5et6j
I think that after not finding much at sempdx.org, I just googled “hotseat sempdx.org”, hence the outdated info.
>As far as why Hot Seats are being cut down to appx. quarterly, I suspect it’s because we were having trouble consistently getting enough candidates for reviews….
Well, I can remember attending meeting with 4 sites paying $100 each, and I, for one, was impressed, taught, entertained (and fed). I dunno, it was the best $35 I ever spent, and it seemed to me that the four site owners were definitely getting their money’s worth.
>…and the board wanted to broaden the educational appeal to other things besides just organic SEO.
Hmm, well what I remember is that the panel addressed the whole gestalt of what makes a “successful” site, w/ SEO just being a part of the mix.
For what it’s worth, I think that the whole idea has legs, maybe the marketing needs tweaking, but the audience was charged up, the houses were full. Perhaps the weak link was finding the businesse who wanted to volunteer their websites? There certainly were enough people attending on the times I attended…In terms of finding four businesses, I think that with the right tweaks, businesses would be fighting to get in on it.
Just my thoughts, obviously.
Those particular events just remained too focused on fundamental SEO 101. we want ta attract attendees 12 x a year and for our monthyl membership meetings, we want to draw marketing firms to raise the knowledge level of the local professionals.
That’s not to say we won’t continue to have 2 or 3 annual SEO 101 events and a PPC “Landing page hot seat”, or “Analytics Hot Seat” etc. but we’er revamping the hot seat moniker as the event comitee continues to hammer out the remaining 2009 schedule.
How ironic that this discussion is going on in such an old post LOL – I see I even got the year wrong back then – it was 2007 😉