SEMpdx brings you SearchFest 2008, a full-day search engine marketing conference featuring multiple learning sessions and expert panels to help you leverage search engine marketing (SEM) in your organization. Whether you are an SEM professional, work in an advertising agency or part of an in-house marketing department, SearchFest 2008 will connect you with the leading thinkers and practioners in SEM today.

Who Should Attend?
SearchFest 2008 is open to all SEM professionals and the wider business community interested in maximizing their success in SEM. This full-day conference will provide programs for both beginners and advanced marketers.

Online Marketers
Web Business Owners
SEM Industry Professionals
Web Designers / Web Masters
Interactive and Advertising Agency Professionals

What You Will Learn
Multiple sessions will cover a comprehensive range of topics to help you be more successful. In addition, we've added our ever-popular "SEM Hot Seat" series to this year's conference. Our "Hot Seat" panelists will critique real web sites and provide search marketing advice to the site owners. Conference tracks will cover:

SEM Fundamentals
Link Building and Affiliate Marketing Techniques
Social Media Marketing
Analyzing Campaign Results and Measuring ROI
Case Studies and Results from Real-Life Campaigns
SEM Industry Trends and Future Outlook

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Our January Hot Seat event will feature a presentation from Vanessa Fox, who will then participate as one of our Hot Seat panelists and dole out advice for your site!

During this event, our panelists will critique actual sites and address specific SEM questions / issues. Whether it?s advice on how to improve your site optimization (SEO) or how to fine-tune your pay per click (PPC) campaign for better results. Even if you don?t have a site for our panel to critique, you will still be able to gain valuable insight and answers for common search marketing problems and questions. We?re limiting attendance in order to provide the best possible value.

To purchase tickets or a site review, click here.

Event Sponsor:
Search Engine Academy of Oregon (http://www.sea-oregon.com/) - Training People to Leverage the Internet

SEMpdx Presents: SEM Six-Pack

SEM Six-Pack is an innovative learning event created to meet the needs of local search engine marketing (SEM) professionals and the business community. The Six Pack will feature 6 different speakers presenting on 6 unique topics relating to SEM techniques and trends for 15 minutes each.

Speakers & Topics:

Kent Lewis, President of Anvil Media, Inc.: SEM-PR: Kent will outline key strategies and tactics for a winning SEM PR program

Ben Lloyd, President of Amplify Interactive Content is King: Ben will outline why content is king for SEO, and will provide examples

Scott Hendison, aka the Search Commander: Leveraging Blogs, Feeds & RSS: Why and how to use these tools to beat the competition.

Tom Hale of Thomas Creek Concepts: Metric Strategies for Google AdWords: Google AdWords is a dynamic, immense, perplexing, real time auction. Many that participate in this auction do so while bidding blindly. Don't be one of the many.

Sean McMahon of EngineWorks: Social Media Optimization (SMO): Using social media content to increase qualified traffic and improve in-bound links.

Stan Davis of Straight On Consulting: SEO Joy - Starting Off on the Right Foot: How well-structured content, natural link bait, and expert use of style sheets make search engine optimization a joy.

For more information and to purchase tickets, please click the following link: http://www.sempdx.org/Events/?launch_pg=EventPage&launch_sel=1000139

SEMpdx Networking Event
Join SEMpdx at this networking and educational event. Meet SEMpdx board members, network with other Web professionals, and learn more about membership and sponsorship opportunities. We'll also be sprinkling a little something extra on the traditional networking event format by incorporating some search marketing "buzz" with topical discussion about recent search engine marketing industry developments, headlines, and hot topics.

Time and Location
When: September 11th, 5:00 PM ? 8:00 PM, announcement & mini-ed / presentation @ 6:30-6:45
Where: Paddy's Bar & Grill (65 SW Yamhill St., Portland, OR 97204)
Why: networking, meet SEMpdx, learn about membership & benefits, get latest search headlines & analysis, learn a little something about search marketing
Cost: Free, no host bar

Join SEMpdx at this networking and educational event. Meet SEMpdx board members, network with other Web professionals, and learn more about membership and sponsorship opportunities. We?ll also be sprinkling a little something extra on the traditional networking event format by incorporating some search marketing buzz with topical discussion about recent search engine marketing industry developments, headlines, and hot topics.

* Who: Open to all - interested in search engine marketing
* What: networking/mini-educational event
* When: July 10, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM, announcement & mini-ed / presentation @ 6:30-6:45
* Where: Paddy's Bar & Grill (65 SW Yamhill St., Portland, OR 97204)
* Why: networking, meet SEMpdx, learn about membership & benefits, get latest search headlines & analysis, learn a little something about search marketing
* How much: Free, no host bar