When it comes to sem training there’s an abudance of seminars and conferences available today. Elite Retreat however sets itself apart by the number of instructors (or “leaders” as they are called) to student ratio. They also “screen” the applicants to make sure they are a good fit for the program. I have an idea [...]

Many bloggers looked back at 2007 with “best of” posts or are looking forward to the new year of 2008 with predictions and resolutions. No predictions or resolutions for me. That way I can look back at 2008 and say, yeah I figured that would happen or look what I’ve achieved and didn’t even [...]

The new year has just started and the search marketing conferences are ready to roll. The first one out of the gate is Search Marketing Expo, SMX West, to be held in Santa Clara, California February 26-28, 2008. Others SMX events to follow include; Munich, Sydney, Madrid and New York with special events in Seattle, [...]

SEMPO Institute, the online sem training program, was launched a year ago by the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO). They now have had 350 enrollees of their search engine marketing training courses, Fundamentals of Search Marketing, Advanced SEO and Advanced Search Advertising.
Enrollment during November reached peak levels as a broad spectrum of [...]

Search Marketing Now is offering a webcast entitled “Search Marketing - The Basics” to air Thursday, December 13 at 1:00 PM EST. Detlev Johnson, “a top technical search-marketing expert and industry leader” will host the program. He will discuss the basics, and how it fits into toay’s marketing efforts. The program will include a [...]

My friends, Cindy Turietta, Brooke Schumacher and Todd Sarouhan over at eMarketing Talkshow put on some great programs and this should be no exception. Pradeep Chopra wil provide his insights on careers in online marketing and the search marketing industry more specifically. This is a fast growing industry (according to SEMPO it is expected to [...]

The Search Expo (Search Engine Marketing Conference & Expo) will be held in Beijing on September 5th and 6th. Search Expo is the China based conference put on by Timev Media. Timev held the first two Search Engine Strategies conferences in China and also hold their own conferences. Inway Ni is the conference chair and [...]

Just got an email from Katie Donovan, Business Development Manager at SEMPO Institute, announcing the open enrollment for the Advanced Search Advertising program. This advanced program is the most recent search engine marketing training program released this year by SEMPO. The first two were Fundamentals of Search Marketing and Advanced Search Engine Marketing. Fundamentals of [...]

Marketing Pilgrim has announced the finalists in their second search engine marketing scholarship contest. Now the five finalists will go before the judges who will determine who is the most deserving of the $10,000 prize package. There were a total of 20 articles submitted for the contest. Good luck to the finalists and [...]

SEM training courses will be offered by Search Engine Strategies in New York prior to the SES conference. The courses will be held on Monday April 9th and the SES conference will start on Tuesday. The sem training will be led by Shari Thurow, Matt Bailey, Jennifer Laycock, Debra Mastaler, Amanda Watlington, Greg Jarboe, Nan [...]

If you didn’t get a chance to follow last year’s SEM Scholarship contest, then you don’t want to miss this. Andy Beal’s pulling out all the stops and offering a scholarship worth more than $10,000. That includes a full conference pass to Search Engine Strategies in San Jose, and the winner will have their [...]

Another search engine marketing training course, SEO Class, announced they are launching with an inaugrual one day event in New York. This one day event is open only to non profit organizations. The first commercial class will be a two day session and will also be held in New York on May 17 - 18. Cost for [...]

If you haven’t heard about the Elite Retreat then you’ve most certainly have heard about the people involved. And the Elite Retreat may be playing in your town. The original Elite Retreat was held in San Antonio,Texas and included Aaron Wall, Lee Dodd, Jeremy Schoemaker and Dave Taylor. Jeremy Schoemaker, Cofounder says in [...]

A list’s are a hot topic these days so I decided to ante up with my sem seo A list. I’m only a D lister,  make that D- lister!   This A list is of the people I look up to. Let’s call them my sem seo look up to’s but please don’t call them my heroes.   Sorry if you didn’t [...]

This is a repost from earlier and no, I don’t think search engines are going the way of the dinosaur. This is more of a rant in the form of an anti ode and a way to call out search engines.  Change is in the air and search engines have to change.  Is Wikiseek the answer? I [...]