ASR – San Deigo Convention Center
San Diego, CA
Sep 11, 2009 – 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM

TWITTER, SOCIAL MEDIA, SEO, PPC: WHO HAS TIME FOR ALL THIS GEEK STUFF?
Location: Meeting Room 5A
Just think if you could do market research, organize focus groups and build your customer base all without spending a dime? Thanks to social media and great internet tools, you can. Small businesses are acquiring loyal customers, gaining valuable insight and boosting their business by harnessing these tools. Learn the top tricks and tools in a changing internet environment to boost sales and your brand without needing an army.

Surf Expo – Orange County Convention Center
Orlando, Florida
Sat, August 22 at 2:00

LEVERAGING SOCIAL TOOLS
Blogs, Facebook and Twitter – Learn the best ways to use the latest social marketing tools to communicate and connect with customers, get instant feedback on ideas, listen to what’s being said about your brand and more.  With real world examples, this seminar will help and help make sense of the tools, and help you make them work effectively for your business.

Surf Expo – Orange County Convention Center
Orlando, Florida
Friday, August 21 at 2:00

ECOMMERCE STRATEGIES FOR MULTI-CHANNEL SUCCESS
In this seminar you will learn everything from the state of retailing online to driving web traffic, search engine marketing and POS integration. The digital channel is retail’s new growth engine and you must master this domain in order to be a successful retailer. Learn ten things that you can do to improve your ecommerce website.

Surf Expo – Orange County Convention Center
Orlando, Florida
Wednesday, August 19 @1:45

TECH TOOLS: 10 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO IMPROVE YOUR WEBSITE
This seminar will give you tips to improve your website’s promotional strategy, social marketing, blogging and Web 2.0 results. This may be the most valuable time you spend as you will learn specific tactics to get your hands dirty and improve your online sales, and the overall bottom line. The seminar will present top tools and marketing strategies that can strengthen your website online marketing efforts at little to no cost. You will leave the seminar with actionable tactics you can use to make money NOW.

The Internet is the major source for attracting businesses and providing millions of users with unlimited amounts of useful information through multiple media channels. The skyrocketing growth statistics for specific social media and blogging sites have become a valuable resource for the already millions logged in while also being surged with new users daily.

Social media giants such as MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and  blog sites (WordPress) have captured a large percentage of these Internet users while allowing them to dictate the direction of the user provided content. Today, Internet users are dedicating much of their day finding, befriending, fanning and following once they discover how easy it is to use these sites. The online social media and blogging communities continue to thrive while each user is exposed to more and more information through friends, colleagues and business web pages.

As Internet users continually post an increasing amount of information on blogs and websites, it seems as though it has become diluted in an endless sea of content. This is why businesses are constantly driven to find new, witty tactics and visually stimulating marketing solutions to gain greater exposure for their products and services.

Businesses are turning to video marketing on YouTube to quickly capture users that watch videos from their home and business computers, as well as the ubiquitous mobile devices that can now support video streaming.

YouTube users select videos that are characterized to them as educational, entertaining or informational, but not commercially-driven. Think of this interactive channel as an alternative and effective source in providing useful, and in some cases humorous, information to capture your audience’s attention. The benefit of displaying these videos provides businesses with another valuable capability of directing and driving qualified users to their website.

This traffic driven to websites ultimately offers valuable leads and potential sales! The advantage of submitting these videos through YouTube (since YouTube is owned by Google) is that once they are uploaded, they automatically go into Google’s search engine and can result in rising awareness for your company throughout the Web.

Keep in mind that many of the same policies and guidelines apply to videos as they would with your website’s content on Google’s search network. Finally, remember it is important to include your company name, web address and a good combination of relevant keywords to attract the right consumers to your offerings.

Interested in joining the latest YouTube craze?

To do this, you simply click the YouTube upload button on the homepage and sign in. Immediately upload, tag, and share your videos with the YouTube community. For the best results, embed your uploaded video from YouTube onto your website in order to spare your own website’s bandwidth while providing maximum brand exposure. Who knows, you may enjoy benefits that you were only dreaming of! Remember to speak to the point and always keep it clean, clear, and concise!