NVI blog: SEO, web design and social media

Moderator: Chuck Hamrick
Speakers:
Durk Price, President, eAccountableOPM
Karen Garcia, Partner & Co-Founder, GTO Management
Jamie Birch, Owner, JEBCommerce
Karen White, Vice President of Marketing, SquirtGun Media Group
This session was less about why to launch an affiliate program, and more about how to properly launch and manage one. So in a sense, the title was a bit misleading, but the [...]

Moderator: Jim Boykin
Speakers:
Steve Schaffer, Publisher, Offers.com
Elisabeth Archambault, Freelance Affiliate Marketer, Wedding-Resources
Rae Hoffman, CEO, Outspoken Media
Jerry West, President, SEORevolution

 
Given the way this session unfolded, the title of the session was a little misleading. Rather than focusing on actual “hot topics and trends,” the panelist either focused on affiliate strategies or just took the opportunity to talk [...]

StumbleUpon recently made the beta ‘final’ version of their upcoming patch available to the public. Between major redesigns and feature changes, this patch is proving to be one of their biggest to date. The real question is: How are these changes going to affect SU users? I’ll touch on some of the most radical changes [...]

Moderator: Andrew Goodman, Founder and Principal, Page Zero Media Chris Copeland
Speakers:
John Antognoli, Senior Director, Account Management, M80
Chris Copeland, CEO, GroupM Search, The Americas
Graham Mudd, Vice President Search & Media, comScore, Inc.
This really marks the first real social media focused session at SMX East I’ve been to thus far and as an added bonus, John Antognoli [...]

An affiliate program, for the uninitiated, is basically an interface between you as an online merchant and affiliates. Affiliates are typically webmasters who want to “monetize their traffic” by placing your advertisements on their blog or website. Payouts to affiliates are typically based on performance, usually on a cost-per-action (CPA) or Revenue Share [...]

Moderator: Cindy Krum, CEO Rank-Mobile, LLC
Speakers: Mark Evans, Rayanna Langdon, Lianna Evans, Mark Jackson.
Speakers present themselves.  Really friendly and energetic bunch.
Li Evans is up First:  Yes!  She is assuming we know what Twitter is.  Good start! Doh! now she is explaining how it works. :/ snooze off for 2-3 minutes. .. and we’re back!
Images of [...]

Moderator: Jake Baillie
Speakers:
Justin Sanger, Founder & President, LocalLaunch!
Michael Dorausch, President & Founder, Planet Chiropractic
Eric Bramlett, Mover/Shaker, EricBramlett.com
Google Representative, decided to skip out actually
Eric Bramlett – a local Austin SEO
Eric starts off by talking about the heart of it, the keyword “Area Industry”, like Austin dentist, Austin chiropractor.
SEO 101 says, keyword = “area business”, so get [...]

Guillaume (our CEO, woot) is up first in this presentation.
He’s just settling into it now, going over the basic introduction of the different major social sites/platforms out there.
Apparently it takes 150 votes to hit the Digg home-page these days, the Digg police are omnipresent. With the recommendation engine it’s become much harder to ‘push’ a [...]