Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at
8:16 am
The Belk Theatre in Charlotte, NC will be the host of the 2010 Search Exchange Conference and Expo. Search Exchange is a 3 day internet marketing conference that will feature the top professionals in the industry.
The three day conference is being held from May 17-19th and will consist of keynotes and panel discussions on search engine optimization, social media marketing, pay per click advertising, and web analytics.
Keynotes by:
David Szetela – CEO, Clix Marketing
Chris Brogan – President of New Marketing Labs
Chris Winfield – President/Co-Founder of 10e20
Lee Odden – CEO of TopRank Online Marketing
Rhea Drysdale – Co-Founder of Outspoken Media
Rae Hoffman – Co-Founder & CEO of Outspoken Media
Monday, November 2nd, 2009 at
7:38 am
Dan Siroker recently founded Carrotsticks a startup focused on using technology to help kids learn.
During the presidential transition, Dan was the Deputy New Media Director where he was responsible for strategic planning of the administration’s use of the internet and technology. He led several online initiatives on change.gov including a way for the American people to publicly comment on proposed policy, ask a question, or submit an idea—all of which could be voted on by others and went directly to President Obama and his cabinet.
Prior to working on the presidential transition, Dan led the analytics team for the Obama presidential campaign and served as a senior member of the larger New Media team. He led a team of software engineers and analysts responsible for optimizing the effectiveness of the campaign’s online operations that ended up raising over half a billion dollars, registering over 2 million voters, and enabling 3 million phone calls to be made in the final four days of the campaign.
Before joining the campaign, Dan was a Product Manager for Google Chrome, the open-source web browser from Google. He worked previously as a Product Manager for Google AdWords. Dan graduated with Honors from Stanford University with a B.S. in Computer Science. Dan shares a blog with his identical twin brother, Eric, available at: siroker.com
Sunday, February 8th, 2009 at
3:09 am
Sherman Hu is a veteran blogger, podcaster, and video blogger (“vlogger”).
Sherman’s long years of experience in blogging have made him an expert in the WordPress blogging platform. He is recognized as the WordPress Guru who thousands of “solopreneurs” and small and medium sized business owners regularly run to for advice and opinion.
He shares his knowledge through training videos, seminars and conferences where he regularly speaks about setting up, customizing, utilizing, marketing and making profits from WordPress blogs. He is currently the Chief Blogging Instructor of WordPress Tutorials.com, a membership site that offers training videos to business owners.
Sherman Hu also maintains his own website shermanlive.com where he regularly hosts a weekly web TV show the “Half Hour Huddle”. In his show, Sherman Hu simplifies new media for business owners so that they may use them in profitable ways. He provides step-by-step and easy to follow tutorials to guide any business owner who uses blogs to create profits from the internet. He joined other internet marketing experts at StomperNet as a regular guest speaker at conferences and teleseminars where he shares his valuable insights on blogging, podcasting, videocasting, search marketing, screen casting and traffic generation.
He has helped various marketing and promotion websites earn multi-million revenues, and is currently assisting in the marketing and promotions of Fortune 1000 companies.
While he was born and raised in Singapore, Sherman Hu now resides in Canada.
Saturday, February 7th, 2009 at
10:37 pm
Dubbed as the “keyword guru”, Dan Thies is an expert in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), who founded the SEO Research Labs in 2003. The SEO Research Labs provides keyword research services to webmasters, site designers and search engine consultants.
Dan’s knowledge in SEO has him invited to be a regular speaker at Search Engine Strategies conferences conducted by Jupiter Media annually.
In 2006, Dan Thies joined StomperNet, the leading course provider for online marketers, as its Chief eXperience Officer and Dean of Faculty. At StomperNet, Mr. Thies was responsible for creating the SEO video training course, “Stomping the Search Engines 2.0”. As SEO coach, he also offers private coaching to those who wish to hone and improve their SEO skills. He is a member of the executive committee of SEOPros, an organization of SEO professionals and the moderator for High Ranking forums specifically on the keyword research forum. He is also a committee member and volunteer for SEMPO (The Search Engine marketing Professional Organization).
Dan Thies is the author of The Search Engine Marketing Kit, Search Engine Optimization Fast Start and Search Engine Strategy: Links or Content? Dan Thies lives in Frisco, Texas with his wife and two sons.
Saturday, February 7th, 2009 at
9:56 pm
As an expert in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Andy Edmonds makes use of his background in cognitive psychology to understand internet users and their behaviour in the internet, their direct interaction with websites and their profiles and preferences.
By studying user behaviour in connection to website usability, he is able to maximize the use of search technology by manipulating search rules not only to generate more traffic but also to improve the internet user’s website experience. Andy Edmonds’ strength lies in his ability to analyse a site’s metrics to obtain valuable information about users, volume, age group, gender, location, targets, etc.
Aside from research and data collection, Andy Edmonds takes advantage of usability testing, mouse and eye tracking and interpretation to help clients understand how internet users interact with their websites to improve user experience which may ultimately lead to more internet traffic and site stickiness.
Andy Edmonds was a webmaster from 1996 to 1999 before becoming a macromedia instructor who applied cognitive psychology in his methods.He holds a degree from Carnegie Mellon University and Georgia Institute of Technology and until recently, he was the head of Microsoft’s MSN Live Search Team.
He is currently the Chief eXperience Officer of Smart Marketing and a guest faculty at StomperNet.
Friday, February 6th, 2009 at
11:15 am
Ross Goldberg started his foray in making money online with a mere $1,000 that he received from army rehabilitation as a former soldier.
His initial experience in e-commerce was selling on eBay to augment his family’s income as his wife was expecting another child at the time. What started out as a mere sideline eventually led to a successful internet business that has become his passion. He attributes most of his success to specific techniques in SEO that he learned from actual experience and which he continues to practise and develop. He strongly believes that using smart methods, anyone can earn money in the internet quickly.
Shortly after coming out of a coma, Ross Goldberg decided to share his knowledge in Internet Marketing to help others succeed in their internet businesses. Among the products he has developed is a system that anyone can use to place a website not only at the top of search engine results but also in multiple entries at the top ten results. As an internet marketing teacher, Ross Goldberg is a popular and sought after speaker at internet marketing seminars where he shares valuable tips and insights to those who are new in the internet business.
Thursday, February 5th, 2009 at
9:34 pm
Andy Jenkins has been an internet entrepreneur for more than ten years now. His extensive experience in internet marketing led him to establish an internet marketing training program, StomperNet, in 2006 where he stood as its co-founder and CEO.
Under Jenkins’ stewardship, StomperNet earned millions in membership and sales and continues to be the leading provider of Internet Marketing knowledge. StomperNet’s library has the most comprehensive collection of internet marketing videos, audios and online courses for people who are seriously interested in making money online.
As a trainer, Andy Jenkins has coached thousands of online entrepreneurs who eventually became successful in their endeavors. He specializes in SEO, teaching internet marketers the techniques to optimize their web pages in search engines such as Google and Yahoo! so that they are given high rankings in search results, and directing visitors to their websites. Andy Jenkins is also a gifted feature film editor and has set up several e-commerce sites, among them courses on how to build an online shop using Yahoo Store platform, selling AVID editing software training DVD’s and an online store selling medieval weapons.
Andy Jenkins has recently turned over the reins of StomperNet to Brad Fallon to allow him to pursue higher personal and professional goals.
